Adams Calls On NROTC Officers To Serve Navy With Enthusiasm

A prominent industrialist and member of the Board of Overseers yesterday told 65 graduating NROTC seniors that "your loyalty must go beyond your own service and include the other members of the defense team," at the 26th annual commissioning ceremonies in Paine Hall.

Charles F. Adams, Jr. '32, president of Raytheon Manufacturing Company and a wartime Navy Commander told the white-garbed seniors of the sacrifices and satisfactions of the three-year service ahead of them. An NROTC graduate 24 years ago, Adams told the commissioned officers that "even in 1932... I found it hard to determine of which I was most proud, my Harvard degree or my commission in the Naval Reserve."

The 1956 class included 27 Ensigns commissioned in the U.S. Navy, 34 in the U.S.N.R., two Second Leutenants in the Marine Corps, and two in the USMCR.

Adams was introduced by Dean Delmar Leighton. The Invocation and Benediction were given by Commander Robert F. McComas, Navy chaplain. Captain John F. Gallagher, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science, administered the Oath of Office to the graduates.

Recalling the world conditions at the time of his graduation in 1932, Adams told the graduates that "the condition of the world is indeed a complicated and confused one compared with the serenity of the scene as we contemplated it twentyfour years ago!"

Today's Navy officers will not only perceive the extreme difficulty of decision making in such a world but will be "living day to day with technological developments which are equipping the Navy with ever more complex weapons systems."