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

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, Mass., USA,-This is an ' cet0WH , ,prozionyn of some repute. If it can be artlstss the norm of American art, then it taken To be deeply immersed in its ettemi- 5661115 ' d. nate lgziinatelyy our stay was abbreviated what by the advent ot a hurricane mov- sogljlp from the Gulf. Yoo-hoo, swish, and in t. awaliffxi lgslhluyler, Bronx 61, N.Y., USA- We started from this place and little more need be said about it. Except tor a few ever lovings who had strayed in the interim, the same people were on the same pier when the dets on the same ship pulled in. Four weelcs later, after a Graduation the Hotel Astor, we unloaded an- other class upon society. Proudly we ordered our third class stripes and watched our re- placement class move into our place. Thus, safely ensconced in an intermediate position, we could quietly watch the unremitting How ot militant wrath worlc its inexorable way down hill. same ca dance at UNE STRIPIERS . . . HE Third Class year was notable in several ways: few can tail to recall the sense ot pride felt when we viewed our newly ac- quired stripe tor the first time. Most of us thought we had earned it. Secondly, we lound, upon our return from the cruise, that the days of community living in the form of twenty-six man compartments and bastion Studi' halls were no more, instead, like the animals in Noah's Arli, we were paired two by two in the newly constructed South Dor- mitory- P0lygamy ended, homework, when done- LCCHIIIC somewhat of a private attair Filler than a community project. Hereto- dofer Six to eight classmates had usually sat OWU at a top, divided the physics and math hatever, amongst themselves according to the ability to perform, and set slr. A night was called of it about the ta :fin the tinished article was passed around tam Copied' Now, however, with secluded es and chairs provided, the evening ti tiillirsbproved bleak, l1IlI'i0tOIlS HS had SOIHC- ,Hui gm the CHS6, and definitely devoid of wise Afwplration, constructive and other- ' H GPH had ended. rathghednew arrangement produced some 0 d Personality combinations, and several of ing miflwr Blaclc Marias as they worlced their WHY T rOugh one room-mate after another. Plglhose of more retiring natures reveled in t eir comparative privacy and were not seen until the next cruise, the boys earned reputations for be- . This was especially true ot the engineers, though not entirely for that reason. It was a tough year, academi- cally, tor them, and many was the night they could be heard screaming and swearing into the wee small hours of morning. The next event ot note was somewhat ignominious, and that occurred in the spring, when the class was restricted, en masse, for three weeks for what might be termed un- ethical practices in exam preparation. De- spite our optimistic declarations of they wouldn't dare the deed was done. Later, the consensus of opinion was that it hadn't been a bad deal at all. Fidelity was given the acid test, the women separated from the girls, and the consequently derived and un- otticial Sunday night banquets were unique in their sumptuousness and variety. Several of the more ambitious mendicants were ob- served to put on weight: for the first time in longer than they cared to remember, the in- structors were greeted by totally conscious classes on Monday mornings. Before the widespread feeling, in otticial quarters, could become popular that perhaps permanent con- tinement might be desirable, we were sprung and told to sin no more. GOODBYE MY SON l iss .r - 'hu

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U SHOULD HAVE SEEN TH FORWARD OF US NOTRE DAME E BABE WHO LIVED ON THE BARGE TIED UP Cathedral of Notre Dame: Joe 0,Donnell'S tive-minute disappearance and his suhse- quent Hight down a street lined with cars. Joe Fentonls raid on Trimhles and Wagi ner's wine cellar: the ordeal endured hy Bill Reichelt and Jerry Rooney as they heat their way down the Champs Elysees toward the Eiffel Tower. These and many more. By comparison, Rouen was dull. How- ever, the trip up the Seine alone, in my opin- ion, had loeen worth the journey across the Atlantic. Not violently verdant as had heen Ireland, its twisting path seemed composed of gentle hufis and amhers, and in the pale purple of twilight, it was particularly heauti- ful. We passed a small village lodged se- curely among the quarries that lined the river hanlcs. Some sort ol a festival was in progress, the music from the carousel in the town square drifted across the Water. The people lioclced to the river's edge, waving and cheering. Rouen lays claim to lame hy virtue Ol the fact that a gal named Joan was done dirt hy the British lol these many yeHrS 2120- The deed was perpetrated in the market place and the spot is appropriately fenced OH hy a brass hand railing. The marlcet itself is vastly more interesting. Rouen combines the old and the new: and a leisurelY Stfoll through the indescribable slums can Pfovfde upon reflection one hell of a lesson in SOCIOI' ogy. The Zone Sinistiere, bordering the riytg front, bore mute testimony to the VIE Paid it by the Eighth Air Force and, I 6' . i . h ec0Il IICVC, Patton s Third Army. W ere r J' d lose to ahorte i structed, the effort seeme C h except for the famed cathedral Wlliflhf fort e most part, had been restored. , A - Un the whole, the Rouenese werent 0 ing too well. Plot .1 mi5l5 Ci raid' as tems lo ale peno n Form Stlllfwllal in? HP lil Nay we i F04 1 We daft neil be SZ lgdntf Wl Same ptop :gmt Calle l Four time at l other class my ll1lItl plafemflll iilelyens we wlllfl tmilalaf lim 01 THE several we il primle lm mired str tlnuglxl i limi. up fleclays 4 Willy-sim tilt lnal ilflwls il li lW0 in Ellory, IF line, Im Elmer thi lt. si p W1 at 3 Lmhlems Iftltling li rt. u Iltn the if md to . k D14 ,mp tif Eyh . tg nl . Igtkn B

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It was during this year thcfit QEUEZ3 Stadium heer raclcets achieve t err IQ . degree ol popularity. The politics behind one of these affairs was simple although somewhat Machiavellian despite the fact that its purpose was none other than t0 FHISC funds-usually for a fraternal athletic Iprglani- t' n The hall would he rented, t e eer za IO . A . , , contracted for and one and all II1VI'fCd Via 7 . . d the grapevine and a iorief hut intense a ver- tising program. The night came, Hflfl at Elle appointed hour anyone with th6,PI'1Ce 0 a ticlcet-usually the organizations, eflnhljm ruhher-stamped on the hack of one s an '-4 Th h d la ed, the ioeer started to drift in. e an P Y . Howed, the noise of revelry swelled'1n vol- ume until suddenly,-the tight started. The police usually stationed in several squad cars in the driveway immediately outside, swarmed in, hrieliy helted a few of those near at hand around and informed one and all that the evenings festivities had ended. Later, we learned that the fisttights usually involved memhers of the host organization and, coincidentally, occurred at a time when word had heen received that the heer was running low, and more had to he purchased to meet the demand. The last one I attended was particularly usuccessfulf, as I was witness to four or five separate tisttights and two melees which just missed falling into the riot category. Around avvortex' of a few free swinging hel- ligerents the memhers of two rival organiza- tions pushed and pummeled ineffectually hut with great vigor. The police stood on the outslcirts and sought to confine the action rather than to eliminate itg one stood on a chair and hlew his whistle: the hand played long and loud, then solemnly hurst into the national anthem. The dozen or so cadets PTCSCIH St00d at rigid attention as the fold- ing chairs Hew ahout them to shatter on the stanchions and walls. It was a magnificent spectacle, hut, as some aged military charac- ter once put it, Hit wasn,t warlu In the midst of all this, the waiters Hitted ahout rescuing what glasses and Pitchers they could. Final- gi. vghen the dance Hoor was slippery with 00 and heer, the contestants appeared to lose interest and drifted off to handage their W0UHdS and slalce their thirst. Cruisxgxt ailg ljlpgt Eine snag-tlied ,time-for 'the Quickly the form..-Us ass g'asuah n' ' came. Shiphoardwlse, the second cruise was THE PAINTED sms vastly more interesting than the first. Con- sidered objects of potential value, we were treated as such, lcnowledge having hroad- ened our perceptive powers. Given respon- siloilities and compensated for same with additional liherty, certain aspects of life hrightened considerahly. Our leavetalcing was similar to that ol the previous .year except for the fact that on this occasion we sort of edged away, stern- wise, from the pier and did not show our unpainted portside until well into the chan- nel. After a hrief stay in Fort Pond Bay we nosed into the Atlantic and were soon har- reiing through the watery wastes to Lisbon and the Mediterranean. It was on our way over that l came to heware of Marty Maguire in any sort ol a sea. During our first few days out, the main deck aft of frame 59 was cluttered with the hodies of the dead and dying, all hHViI12 succumhed to the devastating effects of the sea on a landluhhens stomach. Working OH the theory that the whole thing might be psychologically communicative, l tried to talce as little notice' of them as Possible' Everything went well, until one evening din' ner when I sat down opposite Marty to eat- On his tray he had his food and an empty howl. As we ate, we tallied. Suddenly he coughed and when I loolced up. 1 Saw soup where none had been before. I was hard Put to it to retain what fd stowed. After that,l assiduously avoided him on all such OCCB' sions. However, he caught UP Wit? me 235: S . again on the last cruise with simi HT Te The s EI dress sw were to lf lltillll into so in lat this li iagaclarl l p1didn'r isle same regions las ig lor not anlvsillme ity lmm n lil scam tus ol ext tt v gl wands imfl5iiIl4 Mele Wfption ta