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

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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

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