Scope and content

Color slides of Stephen and Griffith Gates and fellow midshipmen on the Cornell campus and elsewhere in Ithaca, New York. Also, manuscript captions for some of the slides; invitation to the midshipmen's graduation exercises, August 1944; and a pamphlet titled Waterville, New York: centennial history, 1871-1971.

Scope and content Items relating to the UNSR Midshipmen's School include an "Acceptance and Oath of Office" form, April 1944; a list of members of Company C, Section 3; a "yearbook" Hastily Yours --- for Company C, July 1944; Graduation Exercises programs, June 1944 and July 1944; completion certificate, July 1944; appointment form, and orders to report to the U.S. Naval Amphibious Traning Base, Coronado, California. August 1944. Also a group photograph taken in front of Baker Tower with midshipmen identified...