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

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Clockwise from top right: Tranquility in the foreign seas -Pleasure sailing in its beginnings -Sailing at sunset -No Quarter in its prime ■ Bfc Kings Point has also afforded us all a chance ■ to enjoy the pleasures of the sea by providing the midshipmen with some of the finest water- WL front equipment available. Every year, scores of midshipmen are attracted to the academy’s power squadron and sailing teams. However the midshipmen are not the only lucky recipients of the fortune in this case. 1. ,e academy itself has been privileged to have some of the best stu- dent sailors in the country to bring our school a nationwide name in the art of sailing. The class of 1985 can proudly reflect on the aptitudes of our number-one-in-the-nation sailing team un- der the dynamic leadership of our own classmates. 9

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mfWPW Clockwise from top right: -Neried at night -Modern container terminal -No Quarter decorated for the occasion All through the life of plebedom we trudged, with our day-to-day chores making each minute seem an eternity. ’’Shine your shoes ’, ’’clean the head”, ’’set the reg table”, and ’’you’re on!”echoed inside our minds as we sat in ”Z wood’s class after ”Z”-burgers with our heads bobbing to Hamlet. During indoc we felt like persecuted POW’s, sub- jected to the bellowing commands of our pushers and the iron hands of our midshipmen officers, being constantly haunted by a stench of that similar to leprosy. Two weeks later, we laughed it all off. And why we ask ourselves? ”To become some of the nation’s foremost leaders in the mari- time industry,” the shadows in the White House reply. And on we trudge to third class year when we learn the ways of the sea and of the ways around the regimental system. Second class year breeds the search for gold via flames which claim the lives of the unsuspecting plebe class. Yet through the entirety of our first three years at Kings Point, we live by the words ”2.0 and go” and try to make our way through the demanding academics, whether the pony hits or not!