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

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DON RICHARD RODGERS Omaha, Nebraska Tall, dark, and possessing a profile that made the first freshman reception he attended sound like a Frank Sinatra personal appearance, Don is not only the hest looking guy in the class, hut is also one of the best liked. With three years of chemical engineering under his belt, and a savoir by nature he still thinks a tree is something with leaves attached to it, and can afford to plan picnics and weekends without any escape clauses. Much to the chagrin of many a college girl, Don is definitely nailed — in fact he was one of the first in the class to disregard Hadley s good advice. Even three years at the Academy haven ' t soured him on engineering, and he plans to join the Black Gang at the first opportunity. For a man who rarely misses the 1300 liberty party, Don manages to get in an awful lot of outside work. He was goalie on tlie soccer team, a tennis shark, and one of the better shots in the class. He was elected class president our Swab Year and ever since has taken an active interest in class affairs. It was the masterpieces of extortion that he wrote as TIDE RIPS Ad- vertising Manager that enabled this one to survive the effects of inflation and shortage.

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RICARDO ALLEN RATTI New York, New York Ric ' s caustic analyses of what ' s wrong with everything are seldom mild and always to the point. Some deep urge for frankness won ' t allow him to let diplomacy supersede his conception of tlie cold, unflinching truth. He may not offer any suggestions for improvement, but at least we learn how things shouldn ' t be. The New Yorker is Ric ' s Koran and James Thurber his Moham- med. He is also a Damon Runyon and Tommy Dorscy fan. Ratti has some pretty definite ideas about girls and believes that they should live up to his standards regardless of their own ideas. Academy formals don ' t interest him, as he ' likes to have fun at a dance . He has attended schools scattered across the country because of Coast Geodetic Survey affiliations, but likes to con- sider himself a New Yorker. Ric is a pretty good hand with a movie camera and takes particular pride in some shots taken in Virginia. His love of the water has led him to the varsity swimming team, where he gives out with the breast stroke; during the spring he gets his sunsliine on the tennis court. Academically, Ricardo is right up tliere — one of the highest num])ers in the class. He runs into troulile in this matter of room ventilation; one of his wives tells us that he has absolutely no regard for fresh air.

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DONALD HENRY ROLLERT Kansas City, Missouri In every class there is a problem child, only we f;ot an overdose in Moose. A rough and tough individual, he is not even afraid to admit to anyone that he hails from Kansas City. Up until he became a Second Classman, Moose ' s life was one long crusade, but even he had to give ground after a year with Speck, and alas, he became a martyr. The origin of the name Moose ' is obvious, but Trellor sprang uj) due to a typographical error in a stencilling spree. The swabs at Moose ' s table are strict vegetarians — he likes his meat in enormous quantities, and to a point of rareness where it has to be hobbled. During Second Class Year, a long standing deficiency in correspondence vanished under a deluge of samples, advertisement, free booklets, an so forth, such as Charles Atlas ' course, dog l)iscuils, ' How to Become a Wet Nurse , Glover ' s Mange Cure, and the like. Although he ranted and raved about it, we know he got as big a kick out of it as the rest of us did in mailing the coupons. All right, you think it ' s funny — go ahead and laugh, lie shouts indignantly as his sack disappears out the window, but he always ends up laughing the loudest. And, man. whatta laugh! His transition from a tlieorelical to a practical genius was made manifest by his appointment as Cliief Swindler to see that this book pays for itself. All in all, Moose is quite a character, but four point oh with all of us.