Kings Point Acta Non Verba - The Book

Photography and text compilation by Mary Jane Fuschetto
Forward by Vice Admiral Joseph D. Stewart
Copyright 2003 Mary Jane Fuschetto
Printed in color by Diversified Graphics, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
10.25" x 10.25" hard back book /w beautiful jacket; 111 pages; 129 photographs
Price - $39.00 plus shipping charges

    Since 1943 the United States Merchant Marine Academy has successfully fulfilled its mission of educating our country's brightest leaders, instilling in them the belief that actions speak louder than words.
    Plato stated that credence as, "Be direct in your speech, still more in your actions. Words are evanescent, but deeds will endure forever."
    True to the United States Merchant Marine Academy motto, "Acta non verba," the words in this text are few. The 129 photographs of academy life and experiences speak more memorably than words.
    Much of this book shows Kings Point as the insiders know it. From indoc training to lunch muster outside the mess hall, from recognition night to the engineering machine shop, the reader gets a brief glimpse of life inside the academy gates.  For the family and friends it is a chance to see what they may not have experienced. For midshipmen and alumni, it is an opportunity to remember past challenges, successes and memories.
    Academy life is a collage of action, movement, color and shadow, that need not be explained with words. May this book serve as a way to "Tell America" about the academy where Kings Pointers daily learn and live the "acta non verba" ethic.

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About the author...

Mary Jane Wiley Fuschetto is an award-winning journalist and photo-journalist, with 10 Hoosier State Press Association awards for excellence in such diverse categories as:

  • Best Photography Series of the Year 2000,
  • Best In-depth Profile,
  • Best Sports Feature,
  • Best Feature Story,
  • Best News Coverage,
  • Best On-going News Coverage, and
  • Best Editorial Commentary Regarding Sept. 11, 2001.

Since graduating from the University of Dayton in 1971, Fuschetto has had careers as a high school English teacher, interior designer, Performing Arts and Theatre Director in five Indiana school districts, and has earned acclaim as a playwright.  Fluent in Spanish, she served as a translator for the 1987 Pan-American games.  She is NCIDQ certified as an interior designer and is a former vice-president of the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).

Since 1997 Fuschetto has worked on USMMA projects such as "Project Acta" and "Tell America," served as Midwest Regional Vice-President of the USMMA Parents Association, President of the Indiana/Kentucky Chapter of the USMMA Club, is an Admissions Representative for Indiana, and has served on nomination boards for Senator Richard Lugar, Congressman David McIntosh, and Congressman Mike Pence.

Fuschetto currently resides in Alexandria, Indiana, where she is assistant editor and weekly columnist for the Alexandria Times-Tribune.  Married to Rocco Fuschetto since 1971, they are the parents of five children: 

  • Janie Fuschetto-Jenkins, (wife of USCG Lt. Randy Jenkins, USMMA, '98);
  • James (wife Laura) Fuschetto;
  • Angelina (USMMA, '01)
  • Joseph, and
  • Ana;

and grandparents to future Kings Pointer Andrew Wiley Jenkins.