Dickinson State University - Prairie Smoke Yearbook (Dickinson, ND)

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Back Row: Emmett Dawson, Maurice Regansburger, Donald Griffeth, Ronald Sockolov, David Sweetman, Charles Johnson, Robert Rowlee, Lowell Smith, Robert Hyman. Center Row: Ronald Squires, Robert Murphy, George Duerr, George Shepherd, Paul Hedeen, Charles Hughes, Ross Alexander, Kenneth Smith. Front: Row: Thomas Giles, Thomas Ryan, Norman Staley, Vincent Sempronio, Donald Tooker, Leo Phillips, John Wilcox, Joseph Widney, Mario Peretti. — Not in picture: Harry Simonsen. FOURTH PLATOON Where’s my bed? Are the studies hard? What’s that for? Is North Dakota really as I’ve heard? And in what platoon am I? Thick and fast flew the questions as the new comers oriented themselves to their new billets — so rapidly, in fact that the “old timers” were barely able to gasp out answers to the most important ones—“Yes, Laddie, every word is true, and you are in the Fourth Platoon.” So started the cur- rent V-12 semester at DSTC. Now, for posterity, we record the illustrious Fourth. RPO Leo Phillips has brought the Fourth to the top and never never fails to beat taps, although there have been close shaves. Eleven months of reference to time tables has made Murry Regensberger our expert on “ How-to-get-to-California-in-two-days-on-twenty- bucks.” Just to show you how much we like Harry Simonsen, we won’t even mention prunes. Lowell Smith and Jack Wilcock sing about those “Swinging Doors,” and dream about Navy wings. Bob Murphy tells jokes about turtles and beer and sings sweet tenor in the shower. In this corner we have Tommy Giles, middle weight champ of DSTC. Fordham had her “Seven Blocks of Granite.” but Dickinson has “A Block of Petrified Wood” in footballer Ron Sockolov. George Duerr likes plays and George Shep- herd, his roomie, likes bananas. Both are more complex, but your writer, who rooms with them, doesn’t wish to take advantage of the situation. Paul Iledeen lives down a few doors and takes charge of the mail situation. The Deacon? Oh yes, he’s still here. Max Staley and Vince Sempronio both come from Nevada; thus both are card sharks. Ross Alexander also functions as mail man, and plays cello for Miss Schnoor’s orchestra. Ronald Squires magically produces giant oranges. Tom Ryan expects to be able to pre- sent a toothy smile once more. Selected on the “B” league all-star team as first string center is Bob Hyman. Night owl of the platoon is late-studying A1 Peretti, as his roomie Don Tooker can testify. Don Griffith held a rate of RM, second class, before entering V-12 last November. Bud Widney is an artist despite his muscles. Big Bob Rawlee eats, sometimes plays elec- tric guitar. Pen and ink work well for cartoonist Ken Smith. Sale Johnson runs the half mile for the track team while dreaming of beautiful Califor- nia springtimes. Dick Hughes spends his time developing mustaches, which brings us down to the point where, as Chuck Dawson says, “That’s all, brother.”

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Back Row: Center Row: Front Row: Earl Jacobsen, James Curtis, Lynne Johnston, Robert Frantz, Norval Latimer, Frank Connelly, Robert Brett, Russell Lear, L. Peterson, Stanley Halla. James Durham, Claude Rainey, William Phillips, Eugene Livingston, Wallace Freitag, Ladd Houdek, William Strehlow, Saul Larson, Richard Camp, Joseph Kmiec. Thomas Hunt, Kenneth Malan, Robert Reynolds, Alwyn Fox, Kenneth Higgins, Hale Haws, Samuel Zahnle, Donald Burkhart, Carl Decker, Sidney Brock. THIRD PLATOON With the passing of one year of Navy V-12, the Third platoon sailors have applied a fitting climax to an enviable record. New faces became quite prevalent in March. When 20 V-5’s were mustered in with the old hands, a complement of 30 men was reached. Bronzed Californians, fog-drenched Washington- ians, “Utes,” “Golden Gopherites,” and South Dakotans teamed together, cooperated, and made the Third worthy of the high esteem in which it is held. RPO Joe Kmiec, a Chicago lad, is leaving for midshipmen’s school this semester. Matching Joe’s studious virtues, and rooming in the same billet, is Earl Houdek, another “Illini.” Other men graduating at the end of this term include Sam Zahnle, all-conference football selection and boxing sensation; Monty Strehlow, whose other ideal besides the navy gold is a golden haired damsel from his native state of North Dakota; Kenny Higgins, a popular boy from South Dakota and later Fresno State Col- lege; and his roomie, Hale Haws, navigation wizard. Wallace Freitag, all around athlete, lives with the two Romeos of the Third, Alwyn Fox, scholar, and Bob Frantz, who gained a berth on the all- intramural basketball squad. Across the hall may be found Earl Jacobsen, Claude Rainey, and James Durham. Jake’s ability to slam a base- ball is paralleled by Rainey’s slugging power in the ring and Fox’s talent for batting the breeze. Conscientious students are Russel Lear and Norval Latimer. When not engaged in educa- tional pursuits they listen to Indian tales sin- cerely versed by Saul Larson, liberty loving “gob” from Wyoming. James Curtis, hailing from sunny California, was a mainstay on the basketball team. Carl Decker, “Red” to us all, admires his fellow billet- eer and plays a hot trombone for the dance band. Three Salt Lake City “Zoomies,” Eugene Livingstone, Lynne Johnston and Ken Malan, oc- cupying 205, uphold the old saying, “There’s no place like home.” A few steps aft is headquarters of Frank Connelly. Midnight oil is consumed as he and his roommate, Don Burkhart, patiently strive to stay far distant from the ever beckon- ing “tree.” Bob Reynolds, Bill Phillips and Bob Brett, from the evergreen state, live opposite friendly rival Californians Dick Camp, Tommy Hunt and Sid Brock. Leroy Peterson, of Rockford, Illinois, orchestra member and “shutterbug,” along with roomie Stan Halla, fleet man, baseballer par ex- cellence and boxer, complete the Third platoon.

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Back Row: Robert Cooney, James Barkley, Fred Bazlen, Alfred Adolph, Lawrence Pleasant, Douglas Middleton, William Branch. Center Row: Duane Wamsley, Ralph Blunt, Robert Porter, McKinley Bates, Alan Sanford, Harry Owens, Tom Hed- den, Vincent Bonora. Front Row: Jerry Child, D. Banks, Ernest Johnson, Donald Payton, Hugh Rinta, Robert Barger, John Elkins. — Not in picture, Wallace Rich. FIFTH PLATOON The fifth platoon has been active in many fields this past semester. Perhaps the most notable activity was basketball, where the Fifth came within one basket of tying the champs. We have three members of the dance band in our platoon. They are Wamsley, Adolph, and Blunt. Bill Branch, the cell-mate of Bedient, is ready, willing, and able to accept challenges for horseshoe games from any and all comers. We next take a look into 117. There we find Bob Porter, the star of many performances of the Cue Club, writing a play of his own. Porter has really turned in some good work on the stage, and we look forward to hearing of his further successes as an actor. Another oc- cupant of 117 is A1 “Sparks” Sanford. Blunt can be found in here any Saturday morning on his hands and knees waxing the deck. Across the hall in 116 we find Adolph and Bazlen. We have already heard about Adolph, so now we’ll hear about Bazlen. His favorite sports are hunting and fishing, and he is ex- pecting to give the pheasants a bad time. Vince Bonora is another fellow from the state of California. Everybody likes his swell personality, which is a part of the reason for his getting letters from a certain girl back home. Vince’s roommate in 116 is Duane Wamsley, who hails from Clovis, California. Everyone saw' his tumbling on Senior Day, and we really liked it. As we open the door to 114 w'e see Cooney, Child, and Elkins. Elkins led a sheltered life before being exposed to the hardships of this navy unit. By way of recuperation he spends 15 hours a day in his bunk sleeping or reading “Esquire.” Child works hard at his studies and concentrates on physics. Cooney is the boy who really likes to sleep. Across from 111 we find Hedden, Middleton, and Banks in room 112. Hedden likes to put out the effort when leading calisthenics, and we really enjoy (?) getting a good workout. The Fifth needs only one like him. Middleton comes and goes as usual, and is always finding his “full” pack of cigarettes empty. Banks is usually seen running around always trying to get nowhere fast and usually succeeding. The quietest room in the platoon is 108 where Larry Pleasant, Ernie Johnson, and Bob Barkley hang out. Barkley hails from Nevada where “the climate is better than in California.” Pleasant is another one of those quiet guys who w’ants to revisit Bismarck. Maybe that’s the place where they take a vacation from being so quiet. Johnson comes from Sacramento, and is very active in sports. Owens, Barger, and Rich are the devoted roommates in 105. Owens played a good game of basketball on our “B” team. Barger recently got a haircut that’s a honey. When he told the barber to cut it short, he didn’t think he would be taken so seriously. Boy! wras it short. He is happy because, as he says, “Now I won’t have to comb it.” Rich was an inmate of the sick bay for quite a while, and now says that he will have to make up for lost time. Rinta, Bates, and Payton are going strong in 106. Rinta is a good basketball player when he gets going. Bates, a prospective RPO for next term, was quite active on our basketball team and is now the captain of our unbeaten softball team. Payton is the man the whole platoon likes.