European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Or j5t Al trn a. It to of \ i Visby Bob Hoyer s&5 Munich Bureau the midshipman grasped the main Mast firmly and looked  rolling pitching seas a school of whales enemy boarders no on a Large Plaza and the Tow j Ellow Green shuttered buildings and High Green Hedges a which comprise the italian naval Academy at leghorn. The midshipman s mainmast and com Panion masts All fully rigged Are sunk into  Plaza and serve As a training Aid As Well As a punishment device. Minor offenders must climb  than goo men Are Bein trained Here this year 3to of them enrolled in the regular officer four year course and256 in the single year Reserve officer s course. Of the 370 regular trainees 50 Are iranian and one venezuelan. Faculty consists of 66 civilian and 157 military instructors one of whom a cmdr Gordon a Hogg or. T is an american teaching English. It s a Fine school Hogg says with i up to Date training methods and a faculty in touch with the latest  four year regular Navy students Are classified according to future duty line officers naval engineers or naval electrical engineering officers. They attend the first two years As cadets and the last two years As  the summer midshipmen train on three month cruises aboard the Square rigged sailing vessel Amerigo Vespucci or the Cruiser Halmond  line officers report directly to their  corps graduates spend two additional years of study at one of three universities Pisa Genoa or Naples the italian Navy postgraduate school is is photos by Merle Hunter situated on the grounds of the Academy and comes under the direction of acad commandant rear darn Guiseppe Lorenzini also located there is the it Navy War College but it is an i depend activity under rear adm Birgitta spin the leghorn Academy was founded of Tiv 1881 on the site of St. Jacopo and Leopoldo quarantine stations and resulted Effrom a merger of the naval colleges Genoa and Naples which existed prior italian unification. In july 1943 the heavily bombed Academy was moved to Venice where it scr a Short time before being transferred to Brindisi just three Jears later it returned1 leghorn. Hogg arrived at leghorn in Juneas part of an Exchange program Between the United states a Al Academy at Annapolis md., and the naval Keatien of four nations Italy Germany for and Mexico worked out by adm Arledg a. Burke when he was chief of i operations. An italian naval officer be teaching at Annapolis in August. Hogg s specific duties at the legs Academy Are to teach conversational Lish and to provide information on . Navy. A graduate of Annapolis. Hogg served with the 7th Fleet in the Kast and with the 6th Fleet in theuer Ranegan. He is also a graduate of . Navy War College and studied Ita at the Navy language school. Hogg s wife and three children Are Maing their Home with him in leghorn ing his assignment at the italian tomorrow Italy s West Point to. Petty officer explains torpedo mechanism to a class of midshipmen. The stars and stripes thursday i 196