Horatio Alger

FROM STUDENT OFFICER to Commanding Officer in ten months may sound like the dream of a Navy recruit but it has happened. Capt. H. M. Briggs, USN, turned over his command of the Naval Training School at Dartmouth to Lt. Paul B. Hudder, USNR, on May 20. Last July 15 Lt. Hudder was one of a thousand student officers who reported here for Indoctrination training. Today he is in charge of the entire Naval establishment in Hanover although his command will be short-lived, for the present Navy School closes June 7 to make way for Dartmouth's large V-12 Unit, to begin July 1 under the Navy's College Training Program. Capt. Briggs is transferred to Brown University where he will command a variety of Naval activities including R.O.T.C. and V-12.

Lt. Hudder, of Gloucester, Mass., served under sail for an apprentice period before embarking on a decade of world-wide service in the Merchant Marine. He was also assistant manager of the Gloucester office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

He joined the Naval Reserve last year, was provisionally commissioned Lieutenant, trained at Dartmouth and was retained as an instructor in Seamanship. He was advanced this spring to head of the Seamanship Department and more recently to the post of Executive Officer when Commander Stubbs was detached from the Dartmouth Station to command the WAVES School, Milledgeville, Ga. Now Lt. Hudder is Commanding Officer, after ten months in the Navy.