“A good character is a system of refined and reliable habits. You would not be in that uniform unless you had acquired these habits along the way,” Searles wrote in the 1955 edition of the Trojan Sea Horse, the NROTC program’s annual yearbook. “It is a great challenge to wear on your sleeve the evidence of the manner of man you have made of yourself. It is a great achievement to be worthy of the confidence and trust of those in authority who have chosen you for the high test of command.” David Hayutin served as a NROTC cadet at USC over sixty years ago, graduating in 1952 with a degree in physics. He later completed his law degree at the USC Gould School of Law. Now over six decades later, this gift serves as meaningful tribute to the lifelong connections formed in the NROTC program at the USC Price School of Public Policy. Background: USC Naval Reserve Officer Training Corp cadets Inset, above: Anna Hawley Searles, former academic coordinator of the Naval ROTC program at USC
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