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OPPOSITE, TOP: Jones Hall Construction, December, 1942. OPPOSITE, LOWER LEFT: Dedication Ball, Sept. 30, 1943. OPPOSITE, MIDDLE RIGHT: Cadet George Chase, '44, Ashore With Ship’s Officers in Buena Ventura, Columbia. Sept. 1944. OPPOSITE, LOWER RIGHT: “Beer Ball, circa July 1945, in Instructor Cadet Softball Game. ABOVE: SS PRESI- DENT COOLIDGE after striking a mine and being run aground. New Hebrides. 1943. 13
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T) y Presidential order on the eleventh of July, 1942, the training of mer- chant marine officers and seamen was transferred to the new War Shipping Administration. Additionally, the origi- nal contract for building at Kings Point was amended, and work on that project was resumed. Acquisition of additional land brought the ground area to approxi- mately forty-five acres. In late July, the Massachusetts State Schoolship. BAY- STATE, arrived to supplement three training vessels already in use, the FELIX REISENBERG. the ROBERT FORBES, and the WILLIAM WEBB. The BAYSTATE was renamed the EMERY RICE in honor of one of her own celebrated graduates. Captain Emery Rice, who was Master of the SS MONGOLIA when that vessel fired the first shot at an enemy submarine in the first World War. July of 1942 produced another signifi- cant event when the Chief of Naval Per- sonnel announced that subsequent to 8 August 1942, all Cadets in the War Ship- ping Administration program would be appointed Midshipmen in the Merchant Marine Reserve of the U.S. Navy, and would be commissioned Ensign, USNR, upon graduation. The Navy realized at this point that these well-trained profes- sional seafarers would be the nucleus of the Naval Reserve of the future, and this decision has proven to be the basis for a continued reliance by the Navy upon Kings Point as its single largest source of reserve officers. The rapid expansion at Kings Point and of the war was paralleled at the Gulf and West coast Cadet Schools, too. The lack of stable and permanent facilities both in California and Mississippi contin- ued, and the Cadet Corps was feeling the needs of its own expansion as well as those of the other services needing train- ing bases. Accordingly, a search was begun for permanent sites for the Cadet schools, too, now that a permanent Acad- emy existed. On the Pacific coast, numer- ous locations were investigated and finally a site at San Mateo was recommended. On January 20, 1942, the Maritime Com- mission approved acceptance of ten acres at San Mateo, offered as a gift by county authorities. Also authorized was the pur- chase of an additional nine acres and the construction of permanent and temporary buildings to house three hundred and fifty Cadets. San Mateo Point, on which the school was located, was part of a huge rock outcrop originally claimed by an early settler and improved by him with the planting of eucalyptus trees. Skillful plan- ning by the architect, William Dailey, resulted in the school being declared as one of five outstanding examples of American architecture at the Fifteenth Anniversary celebration exhibition at the American Museum of Modern Art. The school moved from Treasure Island to the new location at San Mateo on 15 August 1942. In the Gulf, plans were being made to expand the existing Cadet school at Bayou St. John by way of “quonset hut” type buildings. While a shortage of funds precluded the start of this expansion, a preferable, alternative site was discov- ered by a school staff member on an afternoon training cruise with a number of Cadets aboard the T V NORTH STAR. Bad weather had forced them into Bay St. Louis, where they requested and received permission to use the boat landing of the “Inn by the Sea.” Greatly impressed by the Cadets who were accompanying the officer, the owners of the shoreside hotel proposed a possible transfer, under favorable terms, of the hotel, its pier, about forty acres of land, and two vessels, one a one hundred foot yacht, to the federal government for use as a Cadet school. Commodore McNulty drew up terms for the facility purchase, and secured the title for about $145,000 with the two vessels going for one dollar apiece. Thus, the new Cadet Basic School of the U.S. Merchant Marine
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