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

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CDR Smith, Department Head Mat elmzfias' During our first two years at the Academy we felt that we were being subjugated to some unnecessary mental gymnastics in an attempt to become accomplished mathematicians. During our last two years we felt that we had not applied ourselves studiously enough to the most important facet of our engineering back- ground. Without the perseverance of the Mathe- matics Department, few of us would have been able to plod our way through ship design, elec- trical engineering, or any of the other engineer- 20 if xl The Department Staff Department ing courses. We were the last class to complete all our mathematics in one year and two quarters. We managed to cover, in that time, all that was required, although we did so with a loss of some classmates, and the experience of Christmas trees. To Cdr. Smith and the Mathematics Depart- ment, we owe thanks for their undying efforts to give knowledge that we seemed to repel more than to understand.