United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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u I WILLIAM EMMET MURPHY Tuckahoe, New York Bill has always had his roommates ' love lives all figured out hut seems to occasion no end of troul)lc with liis own. With the exception of a certain swarthy skinned individual, Bill has more trouhlc than any one else in the class. He was labeled Moneybags after a certain leave spent in New York. It seems that his ideas aliout finance were a little astronomical. The plcasantest memories of his career are the cruises made to Greenport and the ensuing events. Bill ' s favorite occupations arc playing hockey and tennis. He has that form that goes well drajted over a pool table. His curly hair is a source of delight to his room- mates. They stoutly maintain that he has legs that would look well on a chorus girl, too, but we don ' t have to believe that. He was labeled Wee by a certain instructor to distinguisli him from another classmate of the same clan. Wee can and docs velicmcnily express his opinions aI)oiit tlie things that surround him. He has very definite ideas about the way underclassmen should lie handled and will give you a series of ten lectures about everytliing from the System to the alleged injustice of a certain (juiz sprung on him and resulting in his being treed.

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JAMES EDWARD MURPHY Manchester, Connecticut Jim came to the Academy laden with high school honors and confidence. The confidence has held up well for three years and Murphy never lets modesty or a close regard for the truth spoil a good story. He admits to being a genius, and his high grades-to-work ratio put him in the upper brackets scholastically. He can work like a beaver when he wants to, and has put out SURF N ' STORM practically single handed since he got out of his hair. The only other time he is known to work is during a juice-lab, when he relegates his partners to onlookers and single handed plunges into the maze of wires, usually ending up with smoking rheostats and some quick first aid by Mr. Woodruff. His love life is mostly confined to lurid accounts of liighly improbajjle goings-on during leaves and in his pre-Acadcmy days, and if they arc true he must be pretty precocious, since be rivals Ryan for tbe child prodigy prize. His athletic activi- ties are restricted to a violent dislike for the new P. E. program, some plain and fancy pistol firing which earned him a ribbon down at New River, and a peculiar style of dancing all bis own, known as the ' head down and push sciiool. Murph ' s face is as mick as his name, and bis prowess in a bull session, bis Raljclasian wit and bis unforgettable and often unrepeatable similes have made him popular in the class.

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EARL ASA PARKER, JR. Los Angeles, California Ace, a worried, rosy-clicekerl, transom-stcrnerl lad came to us from the land of no rain (California Chaml)er of Commerce lists him on the payroll) and tells us all ahout it. When that suliject is cold, as it sometimes is, he ' ll go into a fantastic recount of Iiis latest excursion to New York or the Clul), aijd all the 4.0 fcmmes involved. Too l)ad his eyes always tell you wliat he ' s jjcen doing . . . Tliey ' re always hloodsliot on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays. A hetter-tlian- average soccer player and our numher one softhall pitclier. Earl still hates exercise. He ' s a smooth dancer, hut still can ' t decide on any femme ... or mayhe it ' s the other way around. He gets a hig ])ang out of skating parties, although he hasn ' t gotten as far as the ice yet. To hear him singing over an approaching quiz, you ' d swear he was anchor man. His scholastic ahility is only limited hy the amount of studying he does. What really gets on Earl ' s nerves are the methods of transportation between here and the West Coast, especially the sleeping accommodations on tlie Fast Mail Express. We wonder yet how he managed to survive that ordeal. He loves to disagree, and will on any and every suhject. Nevertheless, he ' s a good man in a bull session, and will be a welcome member of a West Coast transport ' s wardroom.