From excerpt on back: Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (in Commander's uniform, right) on Battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin, July 1955, when he was a civilian guest of the Secretary of the Navy representing the President of Harvard University as an observer of NROTC midshipmen's summer training. Others in the picture include Rear Admiral William G. Ammon (also in uniform), Elliott B. Noyes, Dartmouth, extreme left; Dean Lloyd Chapin, Georgia Tech, second from left; and President A. Hollis Edens, of Duke, third from left.
