NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE: Captain Joseph Beard, USNR (Ret)., was recently elected to Battleship Cove's board of directors. Captain Beard, a graduate of Tufts University, earned a law degree from Suffolk University. He later received an MBA (with highest distinction) from Babson College and a Doctorate of Juridical Science from Harvard University. The author of numerous published articles and treatises, he is active in several professional organizations and has lectured extensively on a variety of topics. Captain Beard, who once commanded Naval Reserve Submarine Division 1-41 (which trained on USS Lionfish), is a professor at St. John’s University School of Law.