United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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FOREWORD TF sometime in the years to come, these pages will assist one of us, just one, to drift back in memory to the precious days that we have en- joyed at the Academy — days about which, being human, we often whined and griped because our hands were cold or because military discipline did not permit breakfast in bed while, at the same time, we were serenely happy, unbelievably happy amid the unfaltering friend- ship and rollicking comradery of our classmates. If sometime in the future, this volume recalls to one of us, only one, some small kindness that a friend performed for us and if remem- bering this favor, we have a desire to reach out over distant seas or foreign shores to grasp his hand — If sometime while perusing this Tide Rips 1935, one of our number relives one fleeting second of the trials, tribulations, pranks or joyful frolics that have typified our cadet life and which are in some slight degree portrayed between these boards, then, this book will be a treasure and the staff will feel honored at their part in its inception.

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r V Copyright 1935 I. R. SCULLION Editor-in-Chiej RICHARD BAXTER Business Manager . • feS-

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DEDICATION To CAPTAIN RANDOLPH RIDGELY, Jr, pjjECAUSE, as Superintendent of the Academy, you have instilled in our characters a certain spirit, a cer- tain intangible influence that will render our lives more valuable to Mankind as well as to ourselves. Because you have taught us that it ' s not the verdict but the way that we fight that is of real importance and that Honor does not yield precedence to anyone or any- thing. Because you have shown us by your own example just what a man should be and because you have con- vinced us that we should place our trust in God, in Country, and in Sea, To you. Captain Ridgely, we dedicate this edition of the Tide Rips.