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

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. . . AND THERE WERE FLOWERS T00 . . . Pipe-Major Stoddard, who invited Joe Fen- ton and me out to the Dregorn Barracks to witness a Retreat. The result of that was a hingo party several nights later, a party Wagner, Lucci, and McHugh won't forget. Especially Wagner, who was fouliy done hy a Gurkha. Something everyone will remember, however, was the Retreat at Edinburgh Castle during which the drill platoon, re- inforced to company strength, drilled for the crowd assemhied and in so doing had the honor of hecoming the first foreign detach- ment ever to do so upon request. it seems the English had heat us to it, hut they were uninvited and therefore insignificant. Thus ends the tale of our odyssies, com- plete except for the mention of that which has heen reserved for last'-The Ship. Also known as crate, hucicet, h scow, Empty State'-our Empire State II was also described hy affectionate sohriquets H hit too explicit and colorful to aiiow further mention. However, she was ours, and for many our first ship. Despite preceding evi- dence to the contrary, there was more work than play. Any deckhand will recall the days that started with 0400-0800 Watches and ended, perhaps when the extra duty squad knocked off at 20503 and any engineer wiii recall Htryingn to keep Salty smiling. In our mug year we iahored, suhject to inspections designed not so much to insure cleanliness of person andciothing as to pro: eaP,IOarge, .vide extra duty squads to do the chores dreamed up hy the First Lieutenant and Chief Engineer. Remember the luxurious Roman baths-once every four days or so? And the forward head, with twelve head- howis for one hundred twenty men? Recall how we tried to appear in clean dungarees each morning after a session in the hiiges and rose hoxesg and the scruh parties in the forward wash room during spare time when free of extra duty. Recall the weight we lost and how we became aware of the grim significance of 'await till the cruise. The second class cruise and Midkiff. No longer consigned to the hottom sacks, per- mitted to sit on benches instead of the deck. No more cadet masts whose dialogue reads thus: 4th Class Representative: Mast, hand salute! Two! treads off muster of sixteen deiinquentsi. RETREAT, HELL, WE JUST GOT HEREl A Y ig Ciassmii C 'gif ffpon ' -'sfeas HHH ,gli ive rj Ng! iH0l ifiass Rf Two! Dis :tai Iiiin :ire inlere We iaeca Fiiididtfi ' 'e tour s ext esconcexi inc .img mugg iii prospe - I :gal we I0 'QM Ffar. E iiligalion, lrifigx 9? 'Nm 7 Vim

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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

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S H I' OI' Ji- rk he CS Ilty lier to ire rol' :res ,nd ous so? ad- :all ees ges tlie lien we rim No per- eclc. ads and :een CADETS AND NATIVE FRIEND lst Classman in cbarge of Mast floolc- ing over report slaeets quiclclyl: VVell, all tl1ese seem pretty straiglat forward to me. Cant see as any plausible excuse is possible. 'lliat will be five demerits apiece. Any com- ment? New fnods to 4tl1 Class Repj. 4th Class Representative: Mast, band salutel Twol Dismissed. lnstead, tlaings loolced up. Watches grew more interesting, tlie labor not so menial. We became objects of potential value, rewarded witla some responsibility and one l1our's extra liberty. Tlae engineers, safely ensconced between a llarried first class and laboring mugs, did notliing and Waxed Plump and prosperous. Declclaands, recall the Weight We lost And after stud ing . , ' Y piloting all year, llow snowed we were by celestial navigation, X RAY os'rc D First Class cruise and lcings of tlie lleap. Recall tlie saclc sieges, and tlie successful tliougla desperate efforts to salvage a worlc- able toaster. Recall tlie weiglit we gained. All this under tlie direction of our Cap- tain, a man of exceptional as well as exten- sive ability. A seaman, an artist,.I1is capa- bilities include tliat of jurisprudence, being the possessor of a unique and imaginative legal mind. And close by, somewliere along tlie line on any trip, could be found Artlaur Tode wlio is to NYSMU and tlie Propellor Club what tlie Great Vvliite Fatlier was to tlle Indian. He lilies to give speeclmes and tlmrow coclctail parties and on tliat score llis exist- ence is a blessing. There is mucli more to remember: tlie niglits at sea on a midwatcla-tlie sibilant Q I W fan