James Bryant
Interview Outline
- 00:00:36 What was your first impression of the school
- 00:01:05 How did you hear about the school?
- 00:01:59 What made you go with an engineering major?
- 00:02:55 Where did the cartoons come from?
- 00:05:14 What was the area around here like?
- 00:08:27 How much of the school do you see as changed since your graduation?
- 00:10:24 And what about the ship?
- 00:12:59 What was life like on the ship?
- 00:13:42 How often did you take the ship out?
- 00:14:04 Did you ever go to Mare Island?
- 00:15:04 What were some of the ports you had gone to on cruise and which did you enjoy most?
- 00:17:00 When you crossed the equator, I’d you do any ritual or initiation?
- 00:19:04 What was your role in the initiation?
- 00:19:46 What were some of the things you saw in various ports?
- 00:27:56 What other kinds of things were you involved with?
- 00:30:19 What were you looking for in terms of work once you graduated?
- 00:31:12 When you graduated and were put in active duty, where did they send you?
- 00:32:11 Can you talk about the dances back then?
- 00:32:58 When you graduated, were you required to do military service?
- 00:33:57 When did you start applying to engineering companies?
- 00:37:02 What about job placement back then?
- 00:38:55 What were some of the classes that you were required to take?
- 00:39:41 Were there any memorable teachers?
- 00:40:54 What about the staff houses?
- 00:41:55 What was the structure like around here?
- 00:44:12 Did you partake in the rifle club? What about band?
- 00:46:53 How was watch performed around the campus back then?
- 00:48:26 Where about uniforms at the time?
- 00:49:57 Were there on-campus jobs?
- 00:57:30 What were some standard watch performances while out on cruise?
- 01:05:58 How often did you perform evacuation drills?
- 01:07:28 Did anyone at any point utter the words “man overboard”?
- 01:09:43 After graduating, what were some of the names of the ships you served on?
- 01:13:36 Outside of class, how did faculty interact with students?
Interview Outline
- 00:38 Homecoming weekend at Cal Maritime: Then and Now
- 02:18 Deciding to enroll at Cal Maritime
- 03:22 What was your first impression when you arrived on campus?
- 05:27 Training Cruises
- 07:26 Naval Reserve Program
- 09:15 Early Career after Navy service
- 09:50 Origins of the California Maritime Academy Foundation
- 16:43 California Maritime Academy Foundation’s Yacht Donation Program
- 26:42 What do you think the future holds for seagoing jobs since there are few U.S.-flagged ships?
- 29:10 What advice do you have for current CMA cadets?
- 35:05 Planned enrollment growth at Cal Maritime
- 36:03 What do you think the future of the Foundation is?
- 37:02 Memories of early career and starting the Advanced Engineering Sales Company