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

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McNULTY STRIVES FOR PROFESSIONAL STATUS Initially, Congress authorized the pur- chase, writing, and publication of course material for cadet training, solving the problems of standardizing instruction and providing a means of contact between cadets and the administrators of the program. It was the Supervisor’s policy to make periodic trips aboard U.S. merchant vessels to observe first- hand the atmosphere of training for cadets, and it was on these cruises that McNulty gathered much of his informa- tion about foreign training programs and the faults of the U.S. system. Following his inspection voyage of April May 1939, he recommended a system that combined the best features of the British, Dutch and Japanese systems, all or some of which included time in college, on a sailing vessel, on a commercial vessel, and time in a shipyard. OPPOSITE: T V KING POINTER Returns to Hague Basin After Cruise to South America. LEFT: War Memorial Services. Graduation June 1949. ABOVE: Training Vessels VEMA, left, and EMER Y RICE, in Hague Basin.

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GULF AND WEST COAST SCHOOLS SPRING FROM WAR PRESSURE A n June of 1939 the Maritime Com- mission and Congress responded to the need for ashore training before shipping out by providing independent federal training at the state maritime schools in New York and California, and again in 1940 at the Naval Air Sta- tion in Biloxi, Mississippi. The pro- grams carried out at these facilities were subject to a lot of interruptions and irregularities, mostly because they were being conducted on borrowed space and in conflict with the state pro- grams, and also because the nation was starting to feel the pressure of the war atmosphere, expanding its military training, and reclaiming needed sites for those functions. At this point, it was hoped that Cadets would receive a full year of pre-sailing instruction and then finish with their training at sea. OPPOSITE: Proverbial Fid Aids Cadet in Eye Splice. ABOVE LEFT: Armaments Class Behind O’Hara Hall. April 1948. ABOVE CENTER: Equator Crossing. August 1944. ABOVE RIGHT: Pistol Packin’ Cadet Don Blanc. 44’. in New Guinea. 1943. LEFT: T V EMERY RICE Under Full Sail.