Berkshire Community College - Falconer Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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It ues good to be paeltring those books away after a sfizu mmztlzs' grind. was now in prosspeena for all lldllldls YEA FURLOUGHH - what sweet - sounding words! Leave, second only in importance to graduation itself, more than lived up to expectationsg it could hardly be otherwise with our newly-won stripes and shiny gold rings. True, the old gangv was gone and the old It was a long wait at the bus station but ihe results were well worth the ejforts. 1 5 ima: 1 1 . wi, , i 1 st ' Z -1. ,feng V, Lg,-,.L -QS-L? is 5.2,-. ,. I. 'gag its ,, -'..,, - gr.. ,W V 4- hw, 4, .WYFQW 1 ' '-25 'VL . Some of us could not make good con'nect'i0ns returning from leave and had to come back: in the middle of the night. places were hardly recognizable in their war-atmos- phere, but there was more than enough to keep us busy until the very last minute. Late trains and missed connections meant the commando course for a few, but on the whole we came back well rested and ready for our irst c'Navy year and a last crack at the aca- demic departments. It was a tough job getting down to work after a month of loaling, but good to think that less than a year now separated us from that beautiful half-inch stripe.

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it e ' in llllll . Daily sessions with scrubbers kept the ship as well as ourselves in shape. stolidly suffered yet another practice cruise YES, the ship was the Arkansas all right, and before the summer was over we were all able to call her many other names than 'cArkansasf' As salty sailors of the Chesapeake on the good ship Arky,', most of us got our first taste of the wartime navy at sea, even though we never left the sheltered waters of the Bay. General quarters, condition watches, long hours of drill, and one liberty in Norfolk all added that extra dash of Hsaltn to our makeup as a class, and made us all realize just how easy life within those ucold grey walls really was. W W. On board the Arlcy we mavmecl almost all the guns and most of us smelled powder for the first lime. - ' ,rjl'l ' N , Y ' I x V. 1 my ' . ,,e,,..e ' 'ey' Yi gi ' .f l ., -Q' iff-1. ,:,.,,, 1, . 1 ..w1,:,i -. . ., -' - ...L 4:1-fi4f4i1AJo!-ni'.t.sg,9q -- - ,- 'g,.:: '11 -i.1 :-'P ' if Ivlf i- he ,- ' - V -Zell, LJ., M - - , ,L.'g,1-,.f Twilight happy hours took our minds of the cla-ily rouime