Saturday, January 4, 2014
Shorpy Photo: USNA Class of '92 (As in 1892)
The Dec. 22, 2013, Shorpy had an interesting picture of the United States Naval Academy's Class of 1892, including one midshipman who later became Commandant of the USMC from 1934-1936, Major-General John R. Russell.
These men served in the Spanish-American War as junior officers and were involved with the rise of the Dreadnaught battleships as well as submarines and aviation. Quite a change to naval technology. They served as senior officers in World War I.
--Cooter
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I don't see the picture you are referring to, but I know all the Shorpy USNA photos quite well. There is one with a large group, posed at a gazebo, with their class number spelled out in their caps. There are also two that were evidentally mislabled as being the class of 1894, but a comparison of the men in the first picture with the other two, shows that they were from the class of 1892. It's very interesting to see that, as graduates, they were allowed to wear facial hair, when there isn't a single whisker among them, in the earlier picture. It's also interesting that being clean shaven throughout their time as the USNA became a requirement very soon. There was no yearbook, that year, but the first yearbook came, just around the corner, in 1894. None of the graduates that year, or any year since, have had facial hair. I think a picture is often worth MORE than a thousand words, and all of the USNA pictures from Shorpy are great examples of that!
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