Pete Kostcl An Ensign In Navy Among the 777 enlisted men receiving ensigns' commissions here today at the Navy's only Officer Candidate School was Peter Kostcl < Hampden-Sydncy 195a graduate >. Rear Admiral C. E. Olsen. USN. Commander of the Newport Naval Base, presented diplomas before an audience estimated at 1100. Former graduates oi this school arc already serving uooard every conceivable type navai craft from ice breakers and mine sweepers to destroyers and submarines. And they are serving, too, as jet. pilots, beach masters, "frog men", and demolition experts. There arc even OCS graduates in Korean fox holes acting as gunnery hasion officers for the Marines. In four rigorous months, mem bers of this class—the eighth and largest since the school opened in June. 1951—covered the same naval- subjects that college NROTC students do in four years. Foremost in their naming was tii? i.tliCi'” C* liiiViiJ'ltiOil,

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