Shipmate: US Naval Academy Alumni - December 1947

Front Cover, Shipmate: The Eyes and the Ears of the Navy, Vol. 10, No. 12, December 1947. GGA Image ID # 1cfd7a2fba

Our cover this month shows a winter scene at the Naval Academy. Bancroft Hall is in the background. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

The December 1947 Issue features articles on The Navy on Capitol Hill, The U. S. Frigate Constitution, George Dewey, Admiral of the Fleet, Gold Wings for their Thoughts, USNA Alumni News, and More.

Table of Contents

• Miscellaneous Cargo—By LeRoy W. Vance
• The Navy on Capitol Hill—By Fred Lardner
• The U. S. Frigate Constitution—By Commander Louis J. Gulliver, U. S. Navy, Retired
• George Dewey, Admiral of the Fleet—By A. Farenholt. Rear Admiral, M. C., U. S. Navy, Retired
• The United States Naval Academy
• Gold Wings for their Thoughts—By F. E. Biadasz, Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.
• The Hydrographic Office
• Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
• Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
• Bureau of Naval Personnel
• Bachelor of Science Degree—By Commander Ricard S. Craighill, U. S. Navy
• Bureau of Yards and Docks
• Alumni News

United States Naval Academy Alumni Association

• On the Bulletin Board at the Alumni House—By Oretha Swartz
• The President's Page
• Navy Athletics
• Spindrift—By Lee Shores
• What's the Dope
• "Admiral" Eugene Carroll
• Washington Notes—By Ralph Sentman, '25
• USNA Alumni Association Branches
• The Last Call
• Local Association News

Published monthly on the twenty-fifth of the month preceding the dare of issue, at twenty cents a copy. Annual subscription, $2.00. Canadian and foreign subscription, $3.00. Published by the Alumni Association of the United States Naval Academy; D. S. Walker, President; Samuel D. Foster, A. Arnold Brand, Fred W. Pierce, Vice-Presidents; C. E. Coney, Executive Director. Printed at Fleet-McGinley, Inc., 109 Market Place, Baltimore (2), Maryland. Editorial office. Alumni House, Annapolis, Maryland. Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Annapolis, Maryland. Copyright, 1947, by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc.