Navy Shots

GRADUATION EXERCISES in Webster Hallended the first indoctrination sessionof the Naval Training School at Dartmouthon September 8. Rear Admiral WilsonBrown, Commandant of the First NavalDistrict, gave the graduation address. Captain Briggs, Commanding Officer of theSchool, presided. There were 969 graduatesin the class who have now scattered to allparts of the globe.

The full page illustration at the leftshows Dartmouth undergraduates andNavy officers sharing a class room building,symbolical of close and friendly relationships during the summer between Dartmouth and Navy students.

At the right, top, are two pictures of theCaptain's Review on the campus, August15, when "whites" were the order of theday and a crowd gathered from the town,College, and surrounding communities towatch the spectacle of a thousand welldrilled men parade on the campus.

At right, below, is shown the reviewingline headed by Captain Briggs, Commanding Officer of the School, and PresidentHopkins receiving a company commander's salute during the August dress review. (Photos by Ralph Brown, Safier, George Higgins, Dorothy Cleaveland, Dick Smith '44.)

SECOND NAVY CLASS

On September 27 and 18 newly commissioned Naval officers poured into Hanover,reporting for the second session of the Indoctrination School. An augmented stafftotaling 75 officers will handle executiveand teaching duties. About 25% of thestaff may, however, be away from Hanoveron short periods of sea duty. A total of 984students moved into the S.S. Topliff, NewHampshire, Smith, Woodward, and Ripley. College Hall is the staff and mess headquarters. Floors in the dorms are decks,stairs are ladders, and you're either"aboard" or "ashore" in Hanover now.