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

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Sincerely, Gordon McLintock Rear Admiral R On SUPERINTENDENT’S MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATING CLASS There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the passage of their life Is hound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures. Thus wrote Shakespeare and the words are true for you today as you are afloat, graduated after a rugged four years of study and discipline and now ready, willing and able to depart from your Alma Mater and make your own way. Your destination is in your own hands and each one of you has in his sea hag a potential Captain's or Chief Engineer's License. Keep to your course and he proud of your profession. Never let it down. You become now our extension of Kings Point and by you she is judged. How lucky can you be to be starting your careers in such an age, an age as historic as that in which sail changed to steam. Very soon automated ships will fly our flag on the sea-lanes of the world, hydrofoil ships will be following, new and better methods of cargo handling—all these and other wonders you will be a part of. Even this new sea as President Kennedy called outer space recently, belongs to you (and one of the Gemini Astronauts is Kings Point, Class of 1949) and offers new chal- lenges and new adventures. Go, therefore, with God, and always remember that however far you go you can never sail beyond our affection and concern. I salute you, newly commissioned officers in our new American Merchant Marine!

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 ain Victor E. Tyson, r., USMS ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT