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

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' A ' WALKER WESLEY HOLLER Anderson, South Carolina LL right, gangway through here! Here he comes, give him room. Stand aside, there. Who is coming, the King of Siam? Say, the King of Siam looks like the Right Ascension of the Mean Sun out horseback rid- ingcomparedtothishombre. Thisis ' Bun, ' the one and only man who received enough letters at one time to keep him reading from midnight until reveille. This was on First Class cruise and the day his ship coaled, too. It ' s been, Carolina in the Morning , afternoon and evening for him ever since December, 1922. Walker is a trifle sparse on avoirdupois but makes up for this in poise. To see his two-foot body perched on his four-foot limbs gliding about the deck is enough to make any physicist wonder how the power is developed. But still the waist line fades and new holes are bored in the belt. All right, ' Pinky ' , I ' ll drag blind for you, but remember, two hundred pounds is the limit! Class Track (4, 3, 2, 1); Numerals (2); Class Soccer {2, 1). T! Q THOMAS DOUGLAS NAPIER Kenilworth, Illinois HROUGH the transom came one sentence as I chanced to be passing room 1256. That was enough! Automatically and instinctively I turned in to gaze upon its author. My entrance was unnoticed, and he continued: Well, fellows, I was chatting with ' Bob ' Folwell this morning and he said to me, ' Tommy, old boy, I know there isn ' t a man on that team who can touch you when it comes to real football, but I want to give these inexper- ienced lads a chance to learn the game. ' I understood immediately. Tarzan was engaged in his most delightful occupation, Mexican athletics, and around him stood seven midshipmen, leaning forward eagerly, with mouths open, motionless lest some word be missed. Standing only five feet five in his white socks, he has been too small for a varsity sport but, since early Plebe year, his room has been a ren- dezvous for everyone who chanced to decorate the pap sheet and wanted a good flowery line to melt the stone heartof the authorities and call forth an official apology for their thoughtless blunder. ' Star (4); Log Staff {2,1): Lucky Bag Staff; Reef ' Points Staff; Class Wrestling (4); Class Soccer (3, 2); I Sub Squad {4, 3, 2). Bun . 87

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y JOSEPH HOWARD GIBBONS, Jr. Frankfort, Kentucky THICK, billowy mists writhe and turn slowly above an inert form upon a far- from-downy cot. Is he dead? Has the precious spark been forever extinguished ? No, not dead, merely caulking. That is Luke McLuke , the holder of all Academy caulking records, dash, middle distance, and endurance. He isn ' t dead, he ' s just doing a bit of road-work in training for the cruise. Epicyclic Luke , the only man from Ken- tucky who ever ate toast off the track table. You just know he is a sprinter, — where else could he develop that reciprocating neck mo- tion.? His spine becomes so agitated at tirnes that his head thinks its playing crack-the-whip. A simple lad of simple tastes, he is. We of sterner minds are really softened when we see the childish contentment registered by Gibby when he gets a chance to play trap drummer with a pair of pencils. Just start a Vic and give him two sticks, then leave the room. Track Squad (4, 3, 2, 1). HOWARD VANIMAN HOPKINS Denver, Colorado THE night is calm and still, like the Army- Navy football game, when suddenly the air is pierced by the harsh and discordant notes of the bray of a he-goat calling for his mate. Quickly it starts and then slowly dies in a stac- cato diminuendo. A lean face, modestly clothed in a beard of rusty wire, appears around the edge of the door and the bray is repeated. Pinky enters the room, lets out a couple of more links in his neck, warms up his Adam ' s Apple and opens up with an Excelsior laugh. Then he throws back his chest and is off in a solo. He is away up in G, diminuendoes, slides up over a Tangential and Normal Acceleration , catches his second wind in a Moment of Inertia , does some brilliant work on a Dangerous Section , grabs high C with ease, goes down into the base clef, climbs out again, takes a six-barrel triplet without turning a hair and then passes out. Silence, then the clear, mild but pathetic answer from Bill, down in the courtyard. Close the window, ' Pinky ' , he ' s homesick. ) Wrestling Squad {4, 3, 2, 1); , JVNAT(3,2); Expert Rifleman. y 9 ' Mike ' - 86 41k O Hoppy

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• A-: K JOHN DANIEL HAYES Brooklyn, New York THIS Celt with his expressive features and tremulous baritone was born in Green- wich Village and raised in Brooklyn. Such facts should make him sophisticated, but they don ' t. Gullibility is his middle name and no crack is too ancient to get a hearty laugh from J. D. He can get a thrill out of everything, even a tour of extra duty. When he was told the old standby about the President wearing red, white and blue suspenders because his shoes came untied, he became hysterical and everyone in the vicinity had to turn to, to calm him. Dragging is not his element but he has been a consistent member of the stag line. Youngster year his style was classed as eccentric, due to the disturbing influence of Prof Bell, but per- severance and practice have obliterated all the defects and he is now an accomplished per- former. No one is more contented with the service than J. D., who is an authority on its history. If to love one ' s work is to succeed in it, John will surely rise to the heights, and when we all meet below he will be fully qualified to relieve Charon for the trip across. Q JOHN ARTHUR MARSH Whitman, Massachusetts HAPPY am I, from care I am free, Why aren ' t they all content Hke me.? The destinies that shape our ends have been kind to John. Three meals a day without working for them is all he asks of life and if there is no cut in that part of the Navy, he ' ll eat his way to the top. He doesn ' t hate his sleep, either, but he has yet to miss a break- fast because of it. Coming from another, it would sound con- ceited, but when John told us that the best looking man at the table had never dragged, we could only realize that it was sad but true. In this respect, he has failed in his oath, for he owes it to the Acadeny and the Naval Ser- vice to better their reputations in the eyes of the fair sex. Though most of his finer qualities are still dormant, his loyalty has always asserted itself. He talks you blue in the face about Massa- chusetts, thinks the Navy is the only institu- tion that deserves the right to exist and will do anything for a friend, except drag. Life to John is one big joke and his humor will carry you over many of the rough spots. Those who know him, love him and those who don ' t, can ' t realize what they have missed. Don ' t judge a work of art by its defects. Sub Squad {4, 3, 2, J); Class Baseball (5, 2, 1); Class Soccer (2, 1). ' Sheenie 88 Beaver . t CTEfa