Berkshire Community College - Falconer Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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l Rfioufxnou HY5 Our plcbes kept the range clocks set, but they turned all too slowly. us ' IN mH'6.HlMe:TRElflwm just around the corner. There were all sorts of athletic events, company, battalion and varsity, to keep us busy during the winter term, but the greatest sport of all was shopping for those graduation outfits. From the time we returned from Christmas leave the shops along Robber's Rown were packed with all shapes and sizes of Hrst class men trying on caps, raincoats, greys, and the like, and they stayed that way right up until time to graduate. The shops weren't the only indications of impending graduation. Never was there so much talk about the various types of ship, which coast was the best duty, whether we would have six or eight weeks in jacksonville, and so on into the night, Yes, graduation was just around the corner. Every door had its little calendar showing the days, even the hours, until the caps went up and we went out. The fleet meant long hours of hard work with little sleep, and we knew it-but every man had a case of the old hardly-can-waits. 73 Tlmso eleven dollars easecl jinancfial strain our lofticr station 'l:'l7'L1J0-S'6Cl. On weekday afternoons we went shopping for graduation outfits.

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., Q 'hp H5 is Wiuhjf weather made us loohforwarn' even more to the warmlh offline. 'lines social eeamlendanm' was well filled during the winter months. Such events as hops, in- formals, basketball games, wrestling matches, gym and swimming meets crowded the days. Our weekends started right after noon meal formation Saturday and rarely let up before chow time on Sunday. Trips to Baltimore, Washiiigton, Philadelphia, and even New York gave us enough to talk about until it was time to go again in the spring. Then, when there was an occasional letup in the entertainment schedule, we tried to find time to ccaccomplishn something, such as The lxnvuries of first class year were typdied by our existence in the Mess Hall correcting Navy Regs, indexing our Nautical Al- manacs, making out budgets for an ensign's pay, and myriads of minor items. These accomplishments urges were more often than not vetoed in favor of a bridge game, or a good book, or even a plain old bull session. We moaned continually about how much work we had to do, and how difhcult first class year was, while we did nothing to make it easier. Oh, well, it was lots more fun to write a letter to the O. A. O. than to study the next dayis juice assignment anyway. 97 Fred IVarirzg's show in Dahlgren Hall was one cy' the high points of the winter te-rm