United States Merchant Marine Academy - Midships Yearbook (Kings Point, NY)

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VICE ADMIRAL EMORY SCOTT LAND, USN, (Ret ' d) eV Y Midships II in the years to come bring to the minds of the Cadet-Mid- shipmen, whose stories are in these pages, a personal sense of satisfaction of a great service rendered to the cause of freedom. Our Country will be forever grateful to the Merchant Marine officers who an- swered the call to man the thousands of United States Merchant vessels now in ser- vice throughout the world. History will record the role the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and its graduates have filled to assure total victory. But, more important than the historian ' s notes, these pages will serve to spark the treasured memories of graduates in recalling hard work and study, the vicissitudes of securing an education while engaged in combat with the enemy, and yet with all, the related joys and pleasures shared with shipmates. To Midships II and the Cadet-Midshipmen who have contributed to its publi- cation, my heartiest best wishes. . ' r t-O ' i ' yc-t - c ' VICE ADMIRAL, USN, (Ret ' d) Administrator, War Shipping Administration Chairman, United States Maritime Commission

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HARRY S. TRUMAN Jri : T is with sincere pleasure that I accept this opportunity to extend my congrat- ulations to the Cadet-Midshipmen of the United States Merchant Marine Academy who are graduating in this eventful year, nineteen hundred and forty-five. Seven years ago the founding of the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps forged the binding link in a long range plan for the improvement of the nation ' s foreign trade in time of peace, and national security in time of war. These plans were a normal culmination of the hard-earned lessons of many trying years of our liistory, when we saw a once great American Merchant Marine diminish almost to extinction, then rise in the heat of war only to diminisli again. ]Now in the stress of another great war, from which we are sure to emerge victorious, we find ourselves the owners of the largest Merchant Marine in the history of the nation. It seems to me particularly fitting that Midships II, the second yearbook of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, is to be dedicated to the everlasting mem- ory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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CAPTAIN EDWARD MACAULEY, USN, (Ret ' d) TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS c D MIDSHIPS II is your book and each o£ you has contributed something to its making. I know that you will treasure it. May I extend to all Cadet-Midshipmen of the grad- uating classes hearty congratulations and sincere best wishes for many happy voyages at sea. You are leaving Kings Point and your wartime shortened education now will be put to test. But, as thousands of graduates before you have proved, a KiNCS Pointer, trained practically aboard ship in combat, and educated in theory under competent in- structors, embarks upon his profession with confiden ce. Leaders of our Armed Forces have been strong in their acclaim of the Merchant Marine ' s contribution to Vic- tory, and graduates of the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps have distinguished themselves in all theaters of war. Continue to display the spirit and will to succeed you have shown in completing a course of training that has not been easy, and your future is yours to make of it what you will. CAPTAIN, USN, (Ret ' d) Deputy Administrator in Charge of Training War Shipping Administration Commissioner, United States Maritime Commission COMMODORE TELFAIR KNIGHT, USMS Assistant Deputy Administrator for Training War Shipping Administration - ' mjt- - ' -jtt, ' ' -