Vanderbilt University Naval ROTC - Galleon Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Concerning the unit, COL Phillips is very pleased with its performance. COL Phillips does want to do several things. Initially, he hopes to improve the present overall grade point average from 1.65 to 2.0. He also hopes to increase the number of members in the battalion but says that the job of recruiting will fall mainly on the midshipmen. He does concede that it may be more difficult to increase the numbers at Vanderbilt because it is a private insititution. COL Phillips comments that outside views of the unit are very good, especially concerning personal appearance and service performed. Many people have noticed that COL Phillips sits in most of the naval science classes but, COL Phillips stresses that he sits in on the classes to see what is taught, to act as a second source,and to leam who the midshipmen are. He is very interested in the midshipmen. When asked to comment on the change to a university setting, COL Phillips says that one doesn't treat a midshipman as a sailor or as a marine but as an individual person. Also, at a university, the problems that the midshipmen encounter are different from those of the enlisted man and must be handled with different counseling. COL Phillips looks forward to his tour as CO of Vanderbilt NROTC, and we all warmly welcome him aboard. Ken Allen COLO EL PHILLIP At the beginning of last year, COL Robert Phillips, USMC, took over as commanding officer of NROTC, Vanderbilt University. COL Phillips was born in Pat- terson, New Jersey and attended Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, earning both a bachelor's and a master's degree. COL Phillips was commissioned in June 1957 through the Platoon Leader's Class program and has served in a variety of command and staff assignments. Since then his staff experience includes: adjutant of a squadron, infantry battalion, regiment and Force headquarters: staff officer on the staff of the Commander in Chief, Pacific, Aide to Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs, Headquarters, Marine Corps and as as- sistant Chief of Staff, G-1 of an infantry division. COL Phillips' command experience includes: command ofa Marine Detachment aboard an aircraft carrier, com- mand of a rifle company, infantry battalion, head- quarters battalion and most recently as the command- ing officer, Camp Fuji, Japan. Combat experience includes a tour as an advisor to a Vietnamese Army battalion and division. On a family note, COL Phillips married the former Paula Deubel. The Phillips' have four children, James, a graduate of Duke University, David, a junior at Virginia Military Institute, Cathleen, a sophomore at Vanderbilt University: and Robert, a graduate of Frank- lin High School, Franklin, Tennessee. X lip 5 'Z al

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C Commander Richard S. Peterson, a native of Michi- gan, has been executive officer of Vanderbilt NROTC since his arrival in 1979. After his graduation from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a B.S. in psy- chology, he has had a most varied and interesting CBYQCY. He was CIC officer aboard the USS O'Bannon lDD 4505 in Pearl Harbor, OPS officer aboard the USS William C. Favre lDD 763l, and XO of the PBR in Vietnam. After his duty in Vietnam, Commander Peterson earned a masters degree in oceanography from the Naval Post Graduate School. He then served time in Command and Control at the Pentagon and as XO aboard USS Fairfax County. Commander Peterson is highly respected in the unit for his professional knowledge concerning the naval service. He and his wife Judy presently have one son, Richard, LT HGEY 1 A 1 4 M DER PET ERSO Lt Jim Hoey, who served on the unit staff for slightly over two years as third class advisor and instructor, has now been reasssigned to Naval Intelligence Center for Europe and the Atlantic. Before coming to NROTC Vanderbilt, he was grad- uated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a bachelors degree in political science. He then received his commission through the Officers Can- didate School in Newport, RI. Prior duty included a short stint aboard USS William R. Rush KDD 7141 and as DCA and Gunnery Officer aboard USS Voge IFF 0147j. While at Vanderbilt, Lt Hoey not only taught Ameri- can Military History but also advised the unit publi- cati ons organizations, Crosscurrents, and Galleon. On his duty here, he comments that he is proud to have had the opportunity to have some impact, however SmT2:l, on the future leadership of the Navy. e battalion wishes Lt Hoey the best of luck in hiS new command.