US Navy Officer Candidate School - Sea Chest Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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Sb Sa ckeaf JA, 1953 ' THE FOUR MONTHS AT O.C.S. WILL INDEED BE LONG REMEMBERED BY THE MEMBERS OF CLASS XI, AND THUS IT SEEMS APPRO- PRIATE TO MEMORIALIZE THEM TO SOME EXTENT. -THE ACCENT, OF COURSE, IS ON PICTURES, AS IT IS A PROVEN FACT THAT PICTURES TELL THE STORY . IN THE YEARS TO COME, WE HOPE THAT MANY A REMINISCENT CHUCKLE WILL BE EVOKED BY THE PAGES OF THE SEA CHEST . Classes XI fr XI-A 3

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One hundred and twenty days. Gloomy days for many when trees were publishedg jovial days of liberty with its luxury of non-conformityg bitter days of departure to Bainbridge and points unknown for our less fortunate brethreng wet days in ponchoes and that seemingly endless Newport ra-in ----- all leading up to the ultimate jubilant graduation day with its coveted stars and bars. All were busy days and in retrospect all seemed to fall behind us quite rapidly. WVe smile now as we remember the various ways many kept their careful accounts of those daysg some sub- tracting from the grand total of one hundred and twenty, others counting from liberty to liberty, and the less original people marking off dates on a calendar. In the Hnal weeks, more mathematical compatriots were talking in terms of hours and minutes remaining of their term in Newport College by the Sea. It seems appropriate that the Sea Chest should be dedicated to those days at OCS, for certainly none of its students will ever forget them. Tihough it is perhaps improper to compare the OCS work with a College curriculum, still there are many similarities between the four months at Newport and the four years at various Alma Maters. Each of the four units of time were sharply divided as to curriculum and even sharper final exams. And the weekends after monthly tests at OCS were a capsule edition of college summer vacations because, to coin a most common cliche, The pressure was off, if only for two days. And strange as it may seem, most will look back on the heartbreaks and happiness of OCS with somewhat the same nostalgia reserved for those golden college days.