St Josephs Preparatory Seminary - Yearbook (Holy Trinity, AL)

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JUNIORS any ships traverse the seas, but none of them boast such a crew as the one described in the following lines. The captain and crew come from different ports, but theincongruity of backgrounds has a good ef- fect on the whole that is called the Junior Class of '59. Pete Krebs is the captain of this vessel. In fact, Pete has taken the helm three consecutive times. Pete is an old Southern gentleman from way back: that is why he spent all the Christmas holidays in bed. He did get out of the rack once though - for the class hike. That to- gether with the J.V. was this year's attempt at grandeur. His team ex- ploits were really amazing in retrospect. One of the captain'sfavorite pastimes is imitating Quasimodo. Since he has,naturally curly hair, a natural lope in his walk, and a natural drawl in his voice, he need only accentuate them slightly to produce a perfect Quasi - he leans so easily to the role. But, no matter what Pete is doing, whether it is shooting the breeze or ringing the bell, his favorite word is bound to appear. So, whenever one sees Pete, he just says 'hertzl' Next in rank is the first mate, Bruce Cummings. Bruce is a first class seaman because he swims so well. In fact, during the summer he swims for a regular team - so he tells us. He does his best when he is backstroking. Actually, one time at the beginning of the school year, he became soengrossed in his exhibition on backstroking that he passed out from sheer exhaustion and had tobe carried out of the shower room. Besides being such a terrific man in the water, he is the only man in the world who translates Cicero by inspiration. To hear him in Latin class makes onebelieve that Bruce should have been born a Roman. Since he has the quartermaster's duties as well as the first mate's and is in charge of thestore which is always chock full of candy and Coke not only speaks like aRoman but lives like one too. Bruce has one more Roman attribute. He is always on top. Three years and twelve quarters have seen his name shining bright under honor roll lights. Moving across the ship to the starboard rail of the poop deck, we find corporal in charge of the gunners crew. In landlubber's talk that means that Carl Seeba is sports captain, which job entitles him to get as many basketball games as possible with other ships' crews. Also, while not attending to his duties, Carl is a rebel and Southern Shin- toist through and through. He would cut his tongue out before he would lose his drawlg he still has his great grand-pappy's gray uniform coat with the blue pants, his great grand-pappyls dress sword and confed- erate play money. His Shintoism exists in honoring Robert E. Lee, Jef- ferson Davis, andthe last martyr of the cause, Jubilation T. Cornpone. In an occasional overly exhuberant mood, Carlwill stand up and stoutly declare all the good things that can be said about the Southg when those thirty seconds are up he sits down and returns to engross him- self in the finer qualities of one of the more recent recording stars. Checking over the ship's roster we find Jerry Thera, A.B. lthat means 'able-bodledm seamanl. lf this ship needed a navigator, Jerry would be sure to get the job, because, as he will tell you, he is the smartest person aboard in the means and extremes of math. Jerry is really the modest type: in fact, he is very quiet and rarely gets ex- cited. When something does upset his equilibrium, all he does is shake

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his head from side to side and states one of his famous philosophical cliches like 'Nice tryl' or 'lt sure ain't!' Out on the main deck, standing by the mizzen mast, isJim Heighorst. This boy is the original Happy Joe Lucky. Ho matter what he is doing, or whom he is with or where he is, Jim cannot - he just plain cannot - keep from telling a joke or saying something so ludicrous that anyone within hearing distance has to laugh in spite of himself. Jim is about six feet tall - lanky and devoted to his manual on how to grow coor- dinated. He is the living image of Washington lrvin9'S Ichabod crane. James W. is one of the finest A.B.'s on b08fdcin this ease A.B. stands for Always...Basketballi. Whether it is a Saturday afternoon or a day before a wicked Latin test, Jim always has time for 'a few shots'. As soon as the anchor is weighed and the sails furled, while othersmend nets or spin yarns, Jim dribbles up and down the deck, shooting at baskets nailed to the fore-mast and main-mast. Jim is the only person in theworld who can drive in, trip over his own feet,fumble the ball, sink the basket and then get a free shot for a technical foul called on the fella ten feet from him. The poor boy just could not keep from laughing. Moreover, Jim's luck is prevalent in other places than on the hardwood. lfhe ever tiresof the sea,he is bound to join the F.B.l, and become a spy. Jim has pulled fast ones and wormed his way out of squeezes that would make Herb Philbrick or Houdini himself blush with admiration. However, when it comes to turning red in the face in admiration no one out-does Roland Haag. Rol has been aboard for three years now, but each suceeding year only finds him wallowing deeper and deeper in- to the abyss of cornball puns. It seems that it was the self-same hor- rible pun that started him telling more horrible puns and at the same time set him rolling on his vocabulary enrichment tangent. This is an incongruous development, to say the least. On first meeting with Roi, one is bound to hear the 'talen. It all happened during the Second World War when the Americans moved into China and took over a very large field which was to be converted into an air-strip. It seems that a bull used to inhabit the entire field: so the soldiers were forced to give him at least a part of the field, which they did. Well, one day the Japs came over and bombed the field. The bull swallowed one of the bombs. That is to say - ABOMINABLE - of course the bomb exploded that is to say - NOBLE. But on the whole Roland Haag, A.P. lattrocious punsi is a real fine shipmate. To climb the main-mast would be too hard: so just stare up to the crow's nest and gaze upon Dave Lopata, A.B. Qarrows in quiver, bow in handj. Dave spends a lot of time up in the nesteither hunting for eggs or lying in wait for an unsuspecting sea gull. Dave hasn't found any eggs yet, but his archery could bring the crew extra sea gull fries, Oh, theadmiral of the fleet confiscated the weapon on the grounds that he was a nature lover. He did not want to see the nature of his fleet change into something which resembled the 'aftern picture of custeris Last Stand. Also, when the ship's company is suddenly upset by an un- announced conglomeration of noises ranging from a police whistle to the shrieks of a blood-thirsty vampire, everyone knows that Dave is practicing to keep in shape. Besides being a junior Robin Hood, Dave attempts to imitate any sound that comes along, preferring those which belong to such beings i.e., THEM, THE THING, DRACULA and the like. These sounds are accompained by lively bodily imitations which Q