October 1923 Proceedings—In “Fifty Years of Service,” Lieutenant Commander Roy C. Smith, U.S. Navy, wrote, “With this issue of the Proceedings, the United States Naval Institute celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. In the fall of 1873, a number of prominent officers of the Navy met at the Naval Academy to consider the organization of an association for the advancement and dissemination of scientific and professional knowledge throughout the Navy. . . . It seems probable that this idea, from which the Institute has grown, sprang from the brain of Commodore Foxhall A. Parker.”
October 1973 Proceedings—On the occasion of the Institute’s centennial, Vice Admiral Malcolm W. Cagle, U.S. Navy, asked, “How best can this century-old professional partnership between the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Institute continue to function in the coming decades? This observer suggests that the answers are contained in, respectively, the availability of suitable vehicles for presentation of naval thinking and writing, and the stimulation of good quality writing in sufficient quantity which will define and discuss naval and maritime problems that exist today and that will undoubtedly evolve in the future.”
October 1998 Proceedings—On the 125th anniversary, Captain Peter M. Swartz, U.S. Navy (Retired), wrote: “When it comes to Proceedings, I have a confession to make. I am a user—not a browser or a scanner or a leafer, but a user. For more than two decades I was a staff officer on Navy, joint, and interagency staffs. For the past five years, I have been a research analyst on Navy and Coast Guard issues. For me, Proceedings is mother’s milk. I use it for facts, for ideas, even for inspiration. Without Proceedings, it would be hard to think, to write, to recommend, to act—not impossible, but hard.”
A. Denis Clift
Golden Life Member
