This Month’s Cover Picture
On the cover this month is a photograph of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, U. S. Navy (Retired), who has just retired as Chief of Naval Operations, a position in which he has served since 1955. The Board of Control, at its July meeting, accepted with regret Admiral Burke’s resignation as President of the Naval Institute. He served in this office from 1956 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1961.
Three New Staff Members
The Board of Control is pleased the appointment of three new members to the editorial staff. Appearing on the Proceedings masthead (page 2) for the first time are the names of Chief Warrant Officer Earl E. Smith, U. S. Navy (Retired), Chief Warrant Officer Fred Stolley, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired), and Miss Joyce Atwood.
Mr. Smith, who will be Assistant Editor—Proceedings, has edited a number of Navy newspapers and magazines, and has had several years’ service on the staff of All Hands. He is a prolific free lance writer.
Mr. Stolley will be an Assistant Editor on the Proceedings staff. He comes to the Naval Institute from the staff of the Marine Corps Gazette where he has done editorial and promotion work for the last seven years. Mr. Stolley also has had many articles published under his name.
Miss Atwood, who will join the Naval Institute’s book department as an Editorial Assistant is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and of the University of Oklahoma Press fellowship program. She has had six years’ service in the Waves.
New Staff Department
The Board of Control, at its May meeting, voted to establish a new editorial department for the publication of an annual United States Naval Institute Review and also a series of pamphlets to be called the United States Naval Institute Seapower Series.
The first Review, “The U. S. Navy and Marine Corps in 1961,” will be published as early as practicable in 1962. With pictures and words, it will cover the year’s developments and achievements in the Navy and Marine Corps. New, modified, and converted ships will be described, as well as aircraft, weapons, and technical innovations. In addition, the review will contain essays by leading strategic thinkers in the various phases of naval warfare. The format of this annual publication will be identical to that of the Proceedings except that the binding will be hard-cover.
The Seapower Series, to be paper-bound pamphlets also in Proceedings format, will allow the dissemination of naval writings not well suited to publication either in the Proceedings or in book form. Early numbers in this series will be a pictorial survey of U. S. naval aviation, an illustrated history of U. S. four-stack, flush-deck destroyers, and a study of the design of the Japanese Tamato-class battleships.
The new department is to be headed by Frank Uhlig, Jr., present Assistant Editor—Books. Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, U. S. Navy (Retired), currently Assistant Editor on the Proceedings staff, will relieve Mr. Uhlig as Book Editor.
An organization chart of the Naval Institute staff will appear opposite the Secretary’s Notes page in the September Proceedings.
Manuscript Format
Manuscripts submitted to the Naval Institute should be typed, double spaced, on plain, white, 8-by-11-inch paper. Only the original need be sent. Never send a carbon only. A single carbon is a red flag to an editor, warning him that the writer may be sending his manuscript to more than one publication simultaneously. (When this happens, the editor sounds General Quarters and fires the manuscript back at the offending author.)