ARMY & NAVY: Annapolis Changes

ARMY & NAVY

Biggest house on the Annapolis grounds, the white glazed-brick quarters of the U. S. Naval Academy’s Superintendent have been occupied since 1934 by onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet, David Foote Sellers. Rear Admiral Sellers reaches .the navy’s statutory retirement age of 64 next February. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson announced the name of his successor who will move in as Superintendent next Feb. i: Rear Admiral Wilson Brown Jr., now commander of the U. S. fleet’s training detachment.

Washington bigwigs who visit Annapolis under the new superintendent’s regime will be welcomed by an old friend. For Wilson Brown distinguished himself from 1926 to 1929 as naval aide to Calvin Coolidge and commanding officer of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, again from 1934 to 1936 as naval aide to Franklin Roosevelt. His career began in 1902 when he graduated from Annapolis as the youngest member of his class. He went back to teach at the Academy in 1907, commanded the U. S. S. Parker during the World War, later headed the U.. S. submarine base at New London, Conn.