Thank You Jax

As a graduate of the institution, I'm glad someone finally got the
location close to correct. If you pull up the link,
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...t4bz4MoQ%3d%3d
(it will get wrapped, so past the whole thuing back into a WordPad page
and make it one line then paste it in the browser)
,which is not quite what came up from the Jax link.

The College is actually out on Throgs Neck - litteraly under the bridge.
(sse of the 295 label)

Though the actual name is still State University of New York (SUNY)
Maritme College at Fort Schuyler, and it had the distintion of
qualifiying as the largest urban campus in the country.

Matt Colie
Lifelong Waterman, Licensed Mariner and Congenital Sailor


Thom Stewart wrote:
Rick,

There are Merchant Marine Academies all over the country. There are TWO
on LI Sound. One is the United States Merchant Marine academy (Federal)
located a Kings Point, on Long Island, N.Y. On City Island at Fort
Schuylar is the New York State Merchant Marine Academy. It is a part of
SUNY.(STATE UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK)

I only mentioned it as another school that teachers Lunar Time

Jax came up with the question of the Location. I know in 1947 I played
baseball at the NYSMMA when I attended Long Island A&T, now called
Farmingdale State. It was on City Island at Fort Schuylar. Jax says it
isn't so. HE IS WRONG AGAIN

By the way, there is a great Rivalry between the two Academies. The
NYSMMA has a training ship, the EMPIRE STATE which takes Cadets to sea
every summer. Its departure is a rather large affair with families on
the dock to bid their boys farewell.

The EMPIRE STATE usually ties up Port side to the dock. When it leave it
makes 180 turn an heads out the Sound for the Summer Session. There was
this time when the Cadet from the US MMA, in the still of the nite,
painted "**** YOU MOM" on the Starboard side. When she left and made the
turn her Starboard side came into view to all the well wisher on the
Dock!

Ole Thom