Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Immediately, my emergency training took over.

I attended Mass Maritime Academy, and countless emergency drills flashed through my head.

My first thought wasn't, "I'm seeing a ghost," it was, "We have a vessel on fire.

There could be people in the water.

So yeah, we ha- still have 35 undefeated teams, which is, uh, 11 more than we had at this time last year, which is interesting.

Um, and there's some teams out there like Mass Maritime, um, Brevard, Roanoke, Dickinson, Calvin, uh, Concordia-Moorhead and-

Allegany

... you, yeah, Allegany, the Gators, you know? And then, uh, Wenec, uh, or is that how you say it? W- uh, W Eau Claire, Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Barnstable Revival of a great Cape Cod tradition is taking place in Hyannis Village.

in olden days new england's great clipper ships had a world reputation fortunes of the american merchant marine were at the crest in the eighteen fifties when also cape cod's memorable pageant of clippers and stalwart shipmasters were in full lustre notably the famous red jacket which made the record crossing of the atlantic on her maiden voyage in thirteen days and one hour today the spirit of this great tradition is revived here with a new even more widespread sort of drama the historic massachusetts maritime academy has established a permanent shore base at hyannis cape cod to school officers for war-time duty in our merchant marine and navy and after the war to train young men for technical jobs at sea or ashore this is definitely the most newsworthy and promising war-time development in cape cod affairs old seafarer gives advice the one hundredth class of this old school which had its beginning in the era of wooden ships and iron men was graduated in nineteen forty four with colorful and impressive ceremonies a full dress drill by a battalion of midshipmen on the academy parade grounds provided a stirring scene for some five hundred fathers and mothers and relatives the graduating class was the largest in the fifty-one years of the institution governor saltonstall rear admiral robert a theobald u s n commandant of the first naval district and other notables bid god-speed and counseled the new officers who were to join the academy comrades scattered all over the world in all theatres of the war particularly interesting was the meaty advice admiral theobald offered the new officers out of his own forty odd years of seafaring experience he said you're going to have to spend endless days and months in the sameness of only a cloudless sky above you and a smooth sea beneath you don't get in a sea-going rut get an avocation as soon as you can i would suggest that you develop the habit of doing heavy reading on international relations your nation is in the middle of world politics now and will never recede again from world relationships we as a nation have been too prone to accept the notion that other nations have the same psychological reactions as ours you will find it a very interesting avocation to get books and study other people of the world you must go back to find out what makes them tick and also this reading will enable you to determine whether your own statesmen are doing a good job he made a point of impressing the graduates that a man in war never gets over fear in a crisis of danger they would be afraid the first time and the hundredth time although each time they would learn more of what to expect governor sees future governor saltonstall spoke of america's plans for a great merchant marine fleet and said i congratulate you on the opportunities that lie ahead of you captain walter k queen u s n r retired chairman of the academy's board of commissioners announced that the total number of massachusetts lads trained for officer duty since the academy was founded now was two thousand two hundred seventy seven in keeping with a long-time custom the boston marine society established in seventeen forty two and the oldest marine society in the world presented its prize to vincent francis leahy of brookline as the graduate excelling in those qualities making for the best shipmaster the prizes were presented also to other outstanding students by the society of the war of eighteen twelve and the massachusetts state society cape cod pioneered by men of the sea is an appropriate setting for a modern school of shipmasters the future looks extremely promising and the academy hardly established on the new site is steadily expanding its erstwhile students are in the thick of action in this war and many of them saw the worst of it while delivering the goods to some have been killed some wounded and some decorated for valor cape cod and new england at large will hear much about the massachusetts maritime academy as time goes on for the signs point to increasing heights of achievement by the american merchant marine after peace is won Captain Claude O. Bassett, U.S.N.R., is the Academy Superintendent, a mild and good-humored veteran, and thoroughly schooled and seasoned in the profession of the sea.

yarmouth port ichabod paddock whaling instructor and wes baker guadalcanal hero tom baker is mail carrier for the yarmouth port cape cod post office an elderly man wiry with quick-moving gait he makes his appointed rounds in fair weather and foul a younger man who held the job is in a war plant when guadalcanal was taken tom baker's son nineteen year old private first class thomas wesley baker raced up the beach in the first invading wave of marines i talked with him when he came home an invalid with jungle malaria in his system his guadalcanal experience had cost him forty pounds it was three o'clock in the morning when the japs advanced up the beach wes baker was taut and scared because this was to be his first experience in actual combat we saw them first they came in columns of four the highest ranking officers were right out in front later we found that none of the japs was less than corporal and in their clothing was a lot of american and english money they were picked troops and the biggest japs i ever saw all of them close to six feet tall they came through a little lagoon waist high in water there wasn't any barbed wire up so they kept coming on they were no more than two hundred yards away when we opened fire there were fifteen hundred of them and they were all killed we lost twenty-nine and eighty were wounded we'd charge and they'd go into the water trying to swim out of range we picked them off like ducks when their officers were killed they didn't know what they were doing home front charm more advanced in years than mail carrier tom baker are miss sadie m swift and her sister mrs caroline burr of the home front they are in the candy-making business a large and pleasant old house stands at the bend of the road just as you enter upon the beautiful vista of great elms in yarmouthport a weather-worn sign sadie swift's candies is on a tree out in front for twenty years sadie swift has turned out fine candies and travellers from all parts of the nation have knocked at her door her chocolates have gone to china governor saltonstall is one of her best customers her trade has included judges society folk artists writers and countless prominent individuals who have visited the cape each christmas she makes about two hundred pounds of candy for faithful customers in distant parts sadie swift's technique includes a close watch on the weather and sometimes she waits four or five days for just the right temperature she says in a northeast storm i can dip splendidly the whaling captains lived in the great houses facing the yarmouth port elms in sixteen ninety one a paddock was engaged to go to nantucket to instruct men in the art of killing whales by the employment of boats from the shore not far from sadie swift's is the former domicile of asa eldridge commander of the famous clipper red jacket who made a record voyage from new york to liverpool in thirteen days regular packet service to boston contributed to the naming of yarmouthport there is still an old-timer or two who can recall the fierce competition between the yarmouthport and barnstaple sailing packets and the frequent races to boston Women Molded Bullets Yarmouthport is a part of the township of Yarmouth which is considerably spread out from shore to shore across the Cape.

Not so many years ago some stray bullets were found under the bricks of the hearthstone of an old house that was being demolished.

That was my pick, your pick, Pat, and Riley's pick as well.

Logan picked Massachusetts Maritime, but Buzzards Bay was not hosting a game this weekend.

The weather was a little nasty there.

They're going to make that game up on October 10.

I could have just asked you.

Where'd you go to college? Mass Maritime.

Okay.

Mass Maritime.

On the

Cape.

That was published in tw- 2021.

Also, Dr. Samantha Montano is associate professor of Emergency Management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and you've taught courses on a range of disaster subjects, including disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation, vulnerable populations, and the political and legal foundations of emergency management, disaster communications, disaster film, and disaster nonprofits.

There's a lot we, I really wanna unpack here.

Also, you're co-founder of Disaster Researchers for Justice and the Center for Climate Adaption or Adaptation Research, Bachelor's in Science in Psychology from Loyola University, New Orleans, and Master's and PhD in Emergency Management from North Dakota State University.

Um, I, it should be...

I, I'm glad we don't have Mass Maritime on the schedule next week, 'cause we'd probably lose to them, too.

Um, it should be Rutgers, but I won't be able to quit them.

I won't.

Um, well, I don't know if they all went through the end zone or how that happened, but yeah, either way.

All right, so let's move on to, uh, Massachusetts Maritime.

They are-

How did you, did you just end up going to, like, the Colonial Athletic or something?

Oh, okay.

And the Bulldogs go to 0 and 2 on the season.

Um, Massachusetts Maritime gets to 2 and 0 with a 70 to 0 win-

Whoo

It feels more so I wonder how I'd measure up.

I went to Mass Maritime Academy a few years back and spoke to the cadets in the field across from the statue of you and mom, dad, Nana, everyone was there.

I shared a few lessons you taught me when I was younger.

I did the same thing to a room full of state police in Idaho.