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

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Dedication This century will take note that one man above all others stands most nearly alone for the distinction of having instilled the American citizenry with the con- fidence and conviction that an adequate merchant marine is imperative for the strength of this nation, both in peacetime and in time of war. It has been a fortunate privilege of the United States Merchant Marine Academy to have gained from the vision and the wisdom of the late Schuyler Otis Bland. The Congressional Board of Visitors to the Academy was established in 1944 and from that date until his untimely death in February 1950, Schuyler Otis Bland was a member of that Board. This association of Judge Bland with the Cadet Corps has been an inspiration, an opportunity offered by the most respected Congressional authority on maritime affairs for over thirty years. For his relentless spirit as a scholar, for his sympathetic interest as a counsellor, for his eminent service as a congressman, for his outstanding .accomplishments as a champion of the merchant marine, for his profound sincerity, his wide and wise influence as a friend of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, this, MIDSHIPS 1951, is presented in the memory of Schuyler Otis Bland. [No. 55) IBcomSI Congressman Schuyler Otis Bland was bom in Gloucester County, Virginia, 4 May 1872. The son of Schuyler and Olivia Anderson Bland, he attended William and Mary College and studied law during the summer at the University of Vir- ginia, being admitted to the Virginia bar in 1900. He was elected to the 65th Congress in July, 1918, and served continuously as a representative of the First Virginia District until his death in 1950. He was a member of the Virginia State Bar As- sociation, the Newport News Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Kappa Alpha (Southern). His wife was the former Mary Crawford Putzel. MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1936 Revised to August 15, 1946 MERCHANT SHIP SALES ACT OF 1946 and SUPPLEMENTARY ENACTMENTS OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS (January 3, 1945 to August 2, 1946) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1946