US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Side Boy Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Navigation Department Head LIEUTENANT COMMANDER A. C. DENISON, USNR Glendale, Ohio Navigation aboard ship is as essential as the turbines and diesel engines which propel it through the water, for without either the ship would be a helpless hulk. A thorough and complete knowledge of navigation and the use of navigational instru- ments is a prime requisite of every oflicer in the U. S. Navy, so a great deal of the midshipmen's classwork time was spent in the navigation building learning navigation from the inside out. The problem ship of the middies was the USS Skylark, guaranteed to be the only ship afloat today that has been run on the rocks a couple hundred times, maintained a speed of seventy knots or over for an extended length of time and been responsible for the growth of a tree. It has been cussed, manhandled, pricked with dividers and given other equally terrible treatment, but it still sails merrily f?j on, oblivious of the troubled world outside. Incidentally, the Skylark was christened by a former stall' ollicer, Lieut. Conlon, of the Navigation Department after six hours of work on the lesson sheets. All types of problems were given the middies, and at the completion of the four months training period, they were capable of everything from obtaining a fix on the sun at high noon to predicting the depth of water at Bronx Beach on the Sound at 0100. Due to the excellent instruction afforded the midshipmen by the navigation staff. the only major navigation problem defying all attempts at solution was navigating along Times Square on liberty night without running aground in the Crowd, 41

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LIEUI. S.l'Al0N J. Plulf.LE, JR., USNR lnvtruclor 314 East Mann Street Belhaven North Carolina LIEUT. LEROY C. POOL, USNR Invtruclor Agra, Oklahoma LIEUT. WALTER B. STOVALL, JR., USNR lnwzruczor 1l01 Elm Avenue ' Sanford, Florida LIEUT. CARL R. WESSELI-IOFT, USNR I nstruclor 1816 St. Andrews Road Greensboro, North Carolina ff' Kr sl !.,.-G-,rs-N ml ,6f' -1 :-..-.- Lsxw-if -Sgnn gs:- XT. Y X Ni ix N 7 40

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'FQ LIEUT. ijtzl ORRIN M. ERNST, USNR Instructor 5 Metropolitan Oval New York, New York LIEUT. ULRIC C. FOSTER, USNR Instructor 747 Bonnie Brue River Forest, Illinois LIEUT. fjtrl WILLIAM L. HARRISON, USNR Instructor 120 Second Street Newport, Rhode Island LIEUT. GEORGE T. HAVICAN, USNR Instructor 261 Blemhuber Avenue Marquette, MlClllgIlIl LIEUT. PAUL W. HESSEL, USNR Instructor 3840 Cypress Avenue Seagate, Brooklyn, New York LIEUT. JOSEPH R. HOLZINGER, USNR Instructor 120 Ruby Street Lancaster, Pennsylvania LIEUT. ALEXANDER HORWITZ, USNR Instructor 362 Euclid Avenue Elmira, New York LIEUT. JOHN C. HOSHAUER, USNR Instructor 718 Second Avenue Williamsport, Pennsylvania 42