SUNY Maritime College - Eight Bells Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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p AT vm. Y Another incident that will long be re- membered by many first classmen was the Governor's reception in the City Hall. in Bilbao. Except for perhaps an occasional Contact with the Limey Navy, it was tlle first time many of us had ever been piped aboard anything. However, our Spanish friends gave us the worlcs with a loudly trumpeting, but tuneless, band concealed behind the draperies or some such. You couldnlt hear yourself thinlc. As if this weren't enough, there were innumerable little men present. clad in colorfully drab uniforms, who continually presented arms at every turn. Working on the old axiom of stowing it when in doubt, painting it when you can't stow it, and saluting it when you can't do either, we soon grew arm weary. A masochist and a student of the coclc- tail party, being much interested in the dif- ferent.speciesiwl1ich afflict this world, l got me into a Spanish variety. It is basically the same only with a Latin beat and a few inno- vations. First there doesn't seem to be any host or hostess. Everyone arrives, and while most Sfffi' on the patio to malce polite conver- sation, 'the boys get the still going. Re- tiring if1fO the garage they brealc forth many bottles and pour the contents of each into a tremendous tureen. They do this regardless ofh ccintent, color, or quality. Then they W ee in a hamper full of very ripe fruit Efhiclh is also consigned into the murliy ept s. Stirring violently they let it age a llundffffil YCHFS ten minutes. Chill and iirlig' the BOYS usually getting first craclc. .fa an hour later, someone loolcs in to see 1 a ' - nyone is left alive. If so, the patio is cleared and the party swings into high mt arage Vvhen the need for air and le me um is felt proceedings are adjourned t he patio where everyone attempts to recove doing the samba or conga Personally Id sooner strcl4 to blaclc coffee tomato juice and bitters It was a good port There were things lo see and do a good bottle of wm be had for thirty cents American For the most part the girls were pretty VIVHCIOHS though chaperoned their charms augmented by the fact that most couldn t spealc English Vvouldnlt recommend slapping a marital brand on one however After twenty-five they fade fast, broadening considerably m the sternsheets and sprouting mustaclies, And if the sound of sporadic gunfire shattered the still night it was nothing more than the Spanish constabulary seeliing out the despicable EI Fugitivon-Bob MC. Cormaclc. But it was good to get out to sea again. We needed the rest. The only reasons l can thinlc of for go- ing to Rotterdam were the desires for un- garliclced chow, some good beer, and the chance to feed substantially on wholesome and unimaginative vittles before starving in austere Edinburgh. Qther than a dutiful visit to the Peace Palace in the Hague and a few encounters with Heinilcens we were famished for thrills. The quay alongside which the ship was secured was novel, however. It will be re- membered as being the best, scenicly spealc- ing, we ever encountered, and probably the best most of us ever will see again. Along it ran a boulevard, bounded, on the inshore side, by a parlc full of shady wallcs and ge6SC infested ponds. Directly opposite the ship was a sprawling, patioed cafe, where, as in e could YES R, SHE WAS ALL WOMAN' w. I UIIE pf A , I 1 I I ,I l . r 1 IH! BEER W. -Ifrp Iwo 1 fall flirty c All IIICII' I , .I flllns. Ilinlurgl 'igl Ile Sf :Hill ag IIIIIEE I0 i3IEnIIy al flionwaj I Willem. P -Iligfy it fl III I IIUFIIIQ f Filled IIIIII1rneni flIIfIII an I

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s l F J I' E t 3, X it d .f h t- 'E -Y f. al p- id rl. :d it- er an rn il- H2 he m. ire an Ley ol di- ro- hes ke. ery git- irlY ln res- lrr1S 3 ' . WE ARE LOOK-ENG FOR JUAN SMEETH. YOU HAVE HEEM NOIH 1 and moved south. BOIJ Bercilc. a native Miamian, threw a Whale of 3 Party, an open house affair that was so good a taxi driver hired hy a few late afrrivals called it a night, picked up his girl flellfl and came also. It was a mernorahle evenigff eSPCCIally the ride haclc to the ship. th So worthy of honorahle mention was ie transgushed PT0ViClCfltlY placed upon the E55 ti W Itch the ihip was tied. Local legend D C D ace as t e scene of some gruesome tlinfamyi a massacre Perhaps. In any to It 0 Supernatural phenomena attrihuted divl PT0VICled the quarterdeclc watch with one 'g'61610t entirely appreciated. More than and sh ICD came off WatCl1, ashen faced numeraihlmg lifter having Sworn Seeing ill' In e ite clad forms Hitting ahout. anyone gifs Eng OI-Ii departure l douht if by Sl I Orget t C Sendoff accorded. us Convierillflollar Jalce, his parrot, his maroon lm I e fun of m0delS, and the streamin V, Y U8 Ore and aft. fry. ociiciiiilllithe heart of the Basque Coun- Wha Texans Y 5 PC0ple who are to Spain luctantpartictafe to the United States,-re- hold the go Ipants. Most of them appear to there is H0 ftilernnfent in low esteem, and inasmuch as tire In owning a line of hacks, Vent to th . e apffpulace are prone to give homing their fllspleasure hy occasionally the Basqufmkm the streets. Despite this, enough to :ec f10Clced off the rioting long ewe IIS warmly. There were numerous invitations to cocl-:tail parties, din- ners, dances, and one musicale that I Imovo Of, in Bilhao alone: in Portugulete, where we tied up, the townspeople threw a fiesta in our honor. Not too many of us showed up the first night, hut this didn't faze them in the least. They had such a good time they lcept it going during the remainder of our stay. Originally scheduled for what l pre- sumed was the town hall, it continually over- llowed each night into the adjoining square, as scores of Basques, cadets, and the more monied from Las Arenas across the river were attracted to the scene hy the sounds of h k' k d joyful revelry. The day we left, t ey IC e ff nother one this time commemorating o a , the day of the town's patron saint, someone h loolced after fishermen. W o In addition to the ahove, there were tours throughout the heautiful and rugged countryside. Several things stand forth vividly. One is the leisurely regard for time. Wl1iCl'1 the more Anglicized consider money. There was a dance scheduled in Las Arenas for the un- godly hour of eleven. All those cadets de- siring to attend were granted extensions of liberty until two. Shortly hefore the ap- pointed llbur they started to drift in, hut our hosts were slow in coming. At midnight. only the vulgarly eager were present. It seems they had siestaed late and were there only hecause they had eaten on the run and dressed in a hurrY-

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18 .s- to 'er fd ce, gs rld he us ed sh. tat ive in tire ore out fic- llI'l. 90' un- the 'me 5 in ifut md 'ere Nas re- .ale the g it lore :ese :hip 5 in yi fl THE BEER WAS GOOD Antwerp two years previous, turnto found hot and dirty cadets watching the citizenry stating their thirsts over huge steins of Heinitcens. Edinhurgh was another goodie, and though the Scotties had some disquieting hahits, such as shutting everything down tf0m three to five in the afternoon, and Permanently at ten each night, the consensus ofopinion was that they were glad to see us, and We them. A college town with a histori- cal twist, it featured a university which lgitid, like H poor man's NYU, the royal CISSHZVS nirthern residence, a formidahte man PSYC ed high on a rock, and many. menywltflonfllllientsito many, many dead Scots- ing moro E their homeland desiring noth- somesuli LHR t0 get warm and mayhe see were for S Cine. Because they were poor they the d Ce t0 sotdrer, and hecause of this .y ied Sotdiers' deaths in far Hung Em- p e Outnosrs. The go . intliifpr 9XP0rt onty, and American imports cottegi orm of H multitude of Yankee female mer sean? Who had immigrated for the sum- quit SSIOU at the University. It must he Sons a school- I even met a few who had to Classes, U there were stores stocked with Four things stand forth in memory, a by Ede- two ex d. ?e Ccinsu' r' Hayes: Mr' , pe rtrons into the George Hotel: and mY personal experiences with some army hagpipers from a Scottish regiment. A word ahout each. The cocktail party was not anything out of T. S. Ettiot. It started in a smatt garden, moved into the house, and ended in the kitchen with the Piper Paddy Mulligan try- ing to teach a vice-consut, somewhat the worse for wear, how ta htaw tha' pipsa, white Pipe-Major Stoddard charmed some of the hetp into fitching a few iugs of Scotch, Before this, we had conversed with people, mostly American girls studying at the Uni- versity, watched some Scottish dancing girls perform, and in turn, teamed the Eightsome Reel, which was marked hy a sparkling performance hy Wild Bill. In the end, a crew of cadets picked up the pipers, the Scottish dancing girls, the kitchen help and their toot, and adjourned to an NCO's ctuh where we took up where we had teft off. tt was quite an, evening. Mr. Ede was a genial man we had met somewhere. Engaged in some sort of tiaison wort: for Standard Gil, he was the proud possessor of an apparently inexhaustahte ex- pense account. Forever humping int0 him we found him tavish in his hospitality. The two forays into the George are simply dealt with. The first time, Nh. Edt? escorted us in. We were seated at a TIYIQSICIC tahte on the dance floor. Qur last flight ashore we were shown to a tahte in an oh- scure corner. Later we noticed that a screen separated us from the rest of those present- MY experiences with the Scottish agmyi . ' t 0 were, perhaPS, Smgutar- They C0n,SIS 6 d further encounters with Piper Mulligan an N Tl