United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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IT was while he was going to Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, that Harry got his start for the Academy. The start was so good that he put a star on his full dress Plebe year. Living in Brooklyn, he learned a couple of the languages used extensively in New York City. This ability as a linguist made Spanish fruit for him so that he was able to talk to the Profs as if he knew what he was saying. After the first year, Harry put more time on athletics, and devoted some of his study hours to refreshing his body instead of his brain. He divided his efforts between soccer and lacrosse, working so hard that some of the big men found that his speed, dash and accuracy had left them without a job. He was never a real Snake at the Academy, but dragged enough to keep his interest up. When he is home on leave, though, try and get hold of him. The answer you receive when you ask for him is generally: He has just gone out for a ride or No, he has gone to a dance tonight. Say, when do we get paid? I owe five dollars now. Class Soccer Q4), Numerals; Soccer Squad Q}, 2, ), Navy Numerals (j), N ( 2); Class Lacrosse ( 4), Numerals; Lacrosse Squad (5, 2, ), Navy Numerals (5); Sfar Q4), Glee Club Q4, y); Class Crest Committee. Harry Hathaway Pottle, Jr. brooklyn, new york Harry Cleveland Forsyth Pratt, Jr. new york city Ophelia ATTACHED is a representation of what we believe a ■L - remarkable likeness to the Rock of Gibraltar, both in bulk and in possible characteristics. The bulk is natural; the characteristics acquired somehow or other. The famous rock impresses one as possessing a sort of quiet stubbornness, a passive resistance to any persuasion, once it is resolved. Out of justice to our fat boy we must admit that he has been well educated during his residence at the Academy, although during Plebe year he missed some of the refining touches in the art of handling knife and fork, by dining with the uncouth of the football and crew tables. He has been a Red Mike to those who do not know him, but his intimates secretly believe that he ruined all his chances of becoming the most heart-breaking of all Snakes by saying I do before he became a midship- man. We suspect this because he has several times addressed his letters to a Mrs. C. F. Pratt, Jr. However, this may have been pure absent-mindedness. Now, Mr. Pratt; there are just two verses to Second Class Juice. The foist is: look for the toiminals; and the second is: E equals IR. Football, B-Squad Q4, 5, 2, i). Navy Numerals (5, 2 ,7); Plebe Crew ( 2, 7); Wrestling Squad (2, ); Class Wrestling ( j), Numerals. 367

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Anderson Offutt new orleans, louisiana Andy ANDERSON comes from New Orleans, the home of -LX. beautiful women and good whiskey. Since the day he entered, he has been a strong advocate of the old Navv when Duty Officers were not so abundant. He was on the morning orders from the time he spent his first week-end on the ship, and kept the Academic Depart- ments guessing. Not a savoir, Andy has decorated his share of the trees, but his ability to hit in a pinch has kept him with us. There are few Midshipmen who have had so many one-party love affairs as this youth. Rarely a month passes that he isn ' t sighing over a new love, for fortunately they have all been short-lived. During the past two years he has been forced to give up the girls in order to devote his Sparc time on week-ends to tinkering with the Ford he purchased on Second Class leave. As a result, the famed One Hoss Shay has nothing on this chariot. The Navy ' s shot to Hell is his chi ef lament, for he never has recuperated from the shock of having to sew on a complete set of woven red numerals. But in spite of his seemingly Bolshevistic traits, Andy is a strong Navy man. There is no city in the country like New Orleans. Wrestling Squad Q4, j. Juice Gang { 4); Black N. 0; CASSIUS breezed into our midst from the plains of Texas, wild and untamed. The four years of mess- hall diet, extra-duty, and Academics did nothing but put a thin veneer of officer and gentleman on this frontiersman. Perhaps you are deceived by the placid countenance and the well-groomed hair. But examine those eyes. Notice the revelation of character — the indomitable courage, the inflexible honor, and the imperishable spirit of the Alamo. What! No mail? Well, I guess I ' ll write a letter. Thereupon Cassius grabs the last skag and pulls sat in correspondence. His smile is more noticeable than his intellectual prowess. Although Cassius comes from the land of the wooden nutmeg, he has, from the first, proved an exception to the rule, being a master in the art of getting the maxi- mum results with minimum efl ort. Doyle has been fortun- ate or unfortunate enough to have had several love affairs, violent ones, since he has been among us. They haven ' t affected him, though, and Boy, wait till Sep leave and I ' ll give the girls in Tejas a treat. Just what will happen to Cassius after Graduation we don ' t know. A good guess would be that he goes back to the Big State and settles down to raising little long horns. Doyle Cassius Warren sherman, texas Cassius Gymkhana Qy); Black N . 366

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William Kilian Romoser baltimore, maryland ■■BUI SKAG? No thanks, old man, I ' ve knocked off smok- ing. Dragging? No, I ' m off that sort of thing — for the present at least. But he doesn ' t really mean it; for he ' s perfectly normal and is imbued with all the tendencies, desires and aspirations that are characteristic of the majority of us. Bill has a gift of conversation and a knack at injecting romance into the most trivial of incidents — two qualities that have awarded him with a deserved popularity. Those tendencies started years ago when Bill was se- curely established in the life of that old college on the hill — Lehigh — and since then the ports of midshipmen cruises have served as a constant inspiration. Always there was some wild tale of a European port, a baron ' s reception, a glorious night, a moon, a , but why rehearse ancient history? And always he ' s immediately off on an insatiable longing for another cruise — to Europe, to the Mediterranean, anywhere rather than behind a mountain of textbooks. Bill ' s big ambition is to sail the seven seas of the air in a little bought plane, with a joy stick in one hand and the speedometer hitting 2.00 knots. Atta boy. Bill; a pair of gold wings will go well with that million dollar smile. Track Squad ( 4, }, 2, ), Numerals (2, ); Class Soccer ( 4, }, 2, ), Numerals ( j, 2, i); Expert Kifleman. MISTER SCHANZE! What type of boilers does a submarine carry? B. and W., sir. So it was that our fair young aspirant de marine precipitated himself into the hands of those Plebe-eating First Classmen. At all times, he was the pride and joy of the Academic Department, especially when he defined a wale shore as an apparatus used for hauling whales aboard a whaler! Eddie first bid fair for fame behind the portals of Johns Hopkins University. It was amidst such environment that the maternal care and steadying influences of a certain Goucher College first made themselves evident. Experience, however, is the world ' s greatest teacher and it was in such a setting that he developed the conversa- tional charm and versatile personality that makes him a much sought after person in any gathering of ladies — or gentlemen. But as Eddie was in the old days so is he today — and ever will be. Always there was that saving sense of humor and that infectious smile, which even the cruises, with all their discomforts, could not wipe out. The lack of fresh water at 5:30 reveilles was a cloud over his soul, but even such an adversity was never adverse enough to steal away the Eddie that we had always pleasantly known. Edwin Stansbury Schanze baltimore, maryland Eddie ' Class Lacrosse ( 4, }, 2, 7), Numerals Q, 2, ); Class Soccer 2, z). 368