Department of Residential Life
Trick's End Yearbook
2011 Yearbook Information for Students:
2011 Yearbooks are available for purchase as a limited quantity remains. Please contact Lauren Garret for more information. Books should be available for pick-up the last week of classes and during finals.
Senior Half-Pages are required in order to be included in the 2011 Yearbook - regardless of whether your Senior Portrait is taken. Senior Half-Pages were due Friday, December 3, 2010. Instructions can be downloaded HERE and will be distributed via student mailboxes. View two Senior Half-Page Examples HERE!
Senior Portraits have concluded. Taking a senior portrait does not guarantee inclusion in the 2011 Yearbook. Students wishing to be included must submit a Senior Half-Page (see below).
2011 Yearbook Information for Families:
2011 Yearbooks and Public Displays of Affection (PDA) are no longer available for purchase; the deadline was January 7, 2011. Public Displays of Affection Instructions can be downloaded HERE. Order forms and instructions were also mailed to each undergraduate senior's home address.
Background:
Back at the turn of the 20th century, there were sailing ships that serviced the world over. These ships were manned by a crew who were obtained by the Captain. Some signed on as cabin boys, some were duped on board to serve the Captain until the end of the voyage, earning their keep if they lived that long. The end of their voyage was known to these men as "Trick's End".
Later, during the World Wars to follow, men who served their country fro the navy picked up the terminology and applied it to their deployment. Upon returning to their home base, they would call it "Trick's End".
Today, the Merchant Mariner calls his daily watch a "Trick" and at the end of watch he is at his "Trick's End". This has carried over to the men and women who serve in the state and federal Maritime Academy systems.
The "Trick's End" is the MMA yearbook and it traditionally comes to us at the end of our tour of duty as students. For when we leave our station at Maine Maritime Academy, we will have reached our Trick's End.