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

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ROBERT CARLTON PHILLIPS Baltimore, Maryland All appearances to the contrary, Stupornian is nobody ' s fool, and his rather Mortimer Snerd-like exterior hides one of the better brains in the class ■ — He usually replies to any questions with his inimitable Hunh? — but he is the guy to have on a Steam Lab experiment if you want to go on liberty in the next month, and moreover, Bob is one of those rare cadets who enjoys doing the original manuscript — even when his plagiarists get better grades than he does. No one could be more good-natured tlian Bob; he endures every indignity with a grin, and even a wife who used to put shoes in his sack to keep him from snoring on his back failed to rile him. He does everything he tries well, and sails a dinghy, wrestles and smokes hookah like an adept. He dearly loves to relate his social trium[»hs, and his stories of ' ' the queens when I was at Pawly have become one of the class traditions. A phenomenal (to hear him tell it) high school engineering course and an addiction to machinery indicate that he ' ll put in for engineering duty, which should be right up his alley — if he doesn ' t dope off inside a steam drum like a fireman we once heard of. The only thing he hopes for is a cutter tiiat puts into Baltimore occasionally and some real rare queens .

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LILBOURN AMOS PHARRIS, JR. Medford, Massachusetts Egad — another character! An able substitute for a diaphone or an oc- cuhing buoy, L. A. is as potent on the gridiron as he is doped off in class. He has received worthy recognition on Ijotji of these achievements, i.e.. Little All- American Squad of ' 42 and the papsheet. His two main andiitions are to beat Parks to the punch line and to collect femmes like the Fox does, but he has no more chance of doing either than he has of knocking out The Flight of the Bumblebee on that ripe cornet of his. He just can ' t understand women — just when he begins to Ijelieve that he ' s on the inside track, she ' ll suddenly detect his resemblance to Jack Oakic, and another Able turns out to be a solid Fox. Nevertheless, there ' s not a bigger snake in the class — a veritable walking Conn College directory. That combined side-splitting guffaw and pained expression are also highly remindful of his Hollywood doulde. Tiie most puzzling mystery of all is how he maintains his academic standing. If he ' s not caulked off, he ' s arguing with the Fox (Ex: — Now Fox, let ' s not have any harsh words ) and studying is perpetually out of the question. Principal vices are snoring like an outboard motor, pizza eating, and contributing largely to the monthly rent installments of the Club K. He retired from the ring wlien the I.B.A. outlawed the cross-body block and the flying mare.

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VANCE KING RANDLE, JR. Gonzales, Texas Vance is as Texan as high-heeled boots, and will fight the civil war at the drop of a ten gallon hat. He came up to this damyankee institution with some misgiving, but during his first leave discovered New York City, and has never recovered. Despite his tender years, (he ' s one of the youngest in the class), King is one of the leading members of Cadet Cafe Society, and the glamorous models, actresses and debutantes that he squires about New York had his envious classmates wonder what he ' s got that they haven ' t. King whiles away the weary months between leaves by planning first nights in New York , read- ing everything he can lay his hands on, and trying to straighten out his love life. He studies in spasms, but not often and he figures that the difference be- tween a C and an A just isn ' t worth the many hours involved. He warmed the bench for a couple of seasons, but he ' s really one of the commando course boys and his rugged build came in handy when the whip started cracking. Vance ' s war-cry is let ' s have a party , and he ' s one of the staunchest supporters of the Big Name Band for Formal movement. The only thing that gets under his skin are cracks at the Deep South, and the inconstancy of women. His ambition is to graduate and get a ship out of New York, but not too uuuh out.