Admiral Kinney Returns to the Naval Institute Board
Rear Admiral Sheldon H. Kinney, U. S. Navy, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Education and Training, has, for the third time, been elected to our Board of Control.
Admiral Kinney was Secretary-Treasurer from September 1954 to July 1956; served as a Director from July 1958 to June I960; was Professional Notes Editor for the Proceedings from July 1964 to October 1964, and was again a Director from October 1964 to August 1967. The Board of Control, staff, and membership welcome back Admiral Kinney and his wealth of Naval Institute experience.
The Naval Review Issue in May
Early in April the presses will roll to create 72,000 copies of the Naval Review 1970 issue of the Proceedings journal. Published until this year as a hard cover book, the Naval Review reached a relatively small audience, owing in part to its substantial cost.
Long-range planning involving the increased size of the Proceedings format and new printing techniques ®ade it feasible to include the Naval Review as a special issue of the Proceedings and to distribute it to all members. The Board of Control believes that the immediacy of these carefully commissioned articles which deal solely with contemporary naval and maritime matters in both depth and thoroughness of detail will now provide all Institute members with stimulating reading and with a valuable and permanent annual record of naval and maritime affairs.
More than a year is spent with the authors by the Naval Review staff in developing the finest possible analyses. In addition to these prime articles, a wealth of information in tabular and chronological form, important public documents such as recent reports of the Secretary of Defense, and a complete illustrated flag list indicating current commands will be included as appendix material.
This special issue will be approximately 500 pages in length.
A limited number of hard-cover copies of the May Naval Review issue of the Proceedings will be available to members at $8.00, to non-members at $10.00. Additional single soft-cover issues will be priced at $4.00 to members, $5.00 to non-members.
The New Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations
The Naval Institute has just published the first edition of an urgently needed reference book—the Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations, DICNAVAB. Compiled and edited by Bill Wedertz, Journalist First Class, U. S. Navy, this dictionary contains more than 16,000 official and unofficial abbreviations which have been collected over a period of six years. Our volume of requests over the past ten years to undertake this publishing project indicates that every office in the Navy needs a copy. Its modest price of $3.50 (member’s price, $2.80) should ensure its wide use throughout the naval establishment and in the many other activities and organizations which communicate with the Navy.
Old Photographs You Don’t Know What to Do With
Many members have photographs of naval events, people, ships, or aircraft which they value, but which they may no longer wish to keep.
The Naval Institute will be pleased to receive such photographs, along with as much information about each one as can be provided, for retention in our Photographic Library for possible use in future Naval Institute publications, including the Proceedings. In each case of use, an appropriate credit line will be used.
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R. T. E. Bowler Jr.
Commander, U. S. Navy (Retired)
Secretary-Treasurer and Publisher
U. S. Naval Institute