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

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Con- t were Jroad- espon- with if Iiie hat oi rat on stern- vv our chan- ay we 1 har- .ishon me to r of a main th the raving of tile Lng on ght be ed to ssihle- g din- :o Cat' eIflPtY 1Iy he J SOUP rd Put that, I OCCH' 3 Once eslllts' BRAIN TRUST The second cruise was to he the warm orutiress whites cruise: for tvvo odd months we were to revei in the hasin of civiiizations, the Mediterranean. Unfortunateiy, We had to do so in dress whites. I've aiways thought that this rig must have Ioeen designed hy a toga ciad Free Thinker, or eIse someone who just didnt Iiice peopie. Whatever, the resuit is the same. For centuries, denizens of desert regions have advocated Ioose and iight cioth- ing tor nomadic marauding, for good cause and with exceiient resuIt. They hounce hap- Pily from mosque to hasheesh pit to seragiio with scarceiy a care for the sociai impiica- tions of excessive perspiration. Not so Vvest- ern Man who crusaded in armor and who stiii wanders punchiiy ahout heneath pith helmets and in gear that hinders circulation, thus acceierating his demise. We were no eiception. At sociai functions We stood H OHL Iooicing starched and stuffed, Wishing to God the ear hanging hiddy tthere's one Flhiveryipartyi Who feit ohiigated to enter- ing 11 tm hroicen Engiishi Wouid quit Hick- by Wavffs OR US and emphasizing her point And Ofmg ef QIHSS, periiousiy, to and fro. pair1JFvsEtITSC, hy the time we d hroIcen in a the Ites to a state resemhiing comfort. dei gifdnodlongeroacceptahie hy quarter- that year af S. So It Went. In Iower One, dungareesitwel had the change from dirty Our meth TIC ean whites down to a science. haverevols ds may have heen crude, may Us ashore Haha Et-:au Brummei, hut they got First S1 T e 1650 Iiherty party. town, full OFF, :as Lishon, a duII, sad Xvas glad to lun appy peopie and hiIIs. I Alle 5 f3f1V6 the Oceania and the ycream- The suhurhs, where the more monied Portuguesed I I I4 th. I.Ic I. . Wet oo ed some- lflg I 6 Ca lfornla as seen through hung- Over CYCS- Ehere were severai things that were somew at impressive: the casino at Es- tori, for lone. There I thinI-1 I Iearned how to eat t e house at rouiette and shouid I ever accumuiate any spare cash I shaII en- deavor to suhstantiate my theory. My tutor, in this instance, Was a sour-faced personiiication of Bond Street who Iimped among the three taIoIes Working, Hipping thousand ,scute chips ahout with gay ahan- don. Aiso in the casino were what I Iay ciaim to heing the taIIest har-stooIs in the Worid. I got to the top of one once, hut found myseif hieeding from the nose. I fear I couid never hecome a paratrooper, for I Hfrozen trying to come down, and did so on Dutch courage aione. Perhaps thatis the idea. Qnce up, youire trapped. Then there Was the Royai Coach Mu- seum where the hot rods of past centuries were exhihited, and another which dispiayed the martiai impiements hy which the Portu- guese had carved their Iost empire. Inciuded in this were many suits of armor worn hy the Iocai muscie merchants in their conquests. Personaiiy, I don't see how they got away with itg they were such Iittie guys. hut suave PRACA DOS RESTAURADORES . . . WHA'7 r ul?

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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

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Three occurrences are noteworthY- First- a ubeachpartyu at Estoril marked by COQHHC that had lain in the sun all afternoon. If tarved for thrills try it. After ' e ever s ' svsdlhad, someone, lVlacRae, l think, t00l4 8 picture which he showed to his mother upon our return. She delivered a few rather ' t d remarks about Uthe natives. l dont tlfihlkehe ever had the heart to tell lxr it WHS one other than a few red hlooded merican I1 There th somewhat the worse for wear. You S - .1 1, ti. was another sea side party SPOUSOTC V e Portuguese and attended lay a good? H1151- luer of cadets. It took place on the ot er-S1 6 of the river and was memorable forthe clilovsil the good swimming, and the loeach W IC extended as far as the eye could see. Lastly, there was the dance thrown hy the ship. My section had the duty and We'd knocked ourselves out setting up for it. At the end 'of the arduous day l yearned for nothing more than hed and hook. Such was not to loe. A first classman bounced down into lower Une and extended uinvit-ations to all underclassmen, informing us that our presence, in dress whites, on deck was ex- pected in ten minutes. The word had gone around that some American girls, from the Embassy, were tb he present. l didn't feel like talking to any- one, so l waited, cleverly l thought, so as to he one of the last topside, hy which time they would have been claimed. On the fore- deck l looked around and picked out the most Latin looking jolo l could find: she was small, slight, creamy complexioned, black haired, dark, and animated of eye. When the loand mutilated a rhumloa she registered appropriate distaste. Just the ticket. A dance or two, a few moments of painful no C Om prendon and l could slink away, aut d ' l went over and introduced myself gnd0IE:. did likewise: she was from Bosto S e chusetts. It was a pleasant evening, U- Massa. Italy, Israel, Spain . . . Enroute to Naples, we learned of Korea The terse hulletins delivered over the PA system left much to the imagination, and imaginations supplied much. Rumors were rampant, you had your choice at any given time-we were returning home, our class was to he accelerated and commissioned early etc., etc. lVlacRae started a highly plausible rumor just to see how fast it would return to him and in what shape. He dimly recog- nized it an hour later. Matters weren't helped much hy a note that appeared on one of the Plans of the Day, just prior to our arrival in Naples. It stated that should we ever return from lily erty to find the ship gone we were to check in at the nearest American consulate. Alter some thought, the prospect loegan to appeal to me. l entertained visions of spending the next war on the Riviera, a memher of a ma- quis, perhaps, dutifully slaying a few of our more radical friends from amhush as oppor- tunity and inclination afforded. This for stimulation in times of imaginative drought though industrial sabotage would prohalaly prove more interesting, more laeneficial to the cause, and more my forte since l can louse up a perfectly good machine faster than anyone. It seemed a highly sensible. RED BLOODED AMERICAN BOYS wird, a one's o :ie comp :lem-gn llt luss Howew fmlhep nllmy, their lflaris e ttfflolfl A ha all and th Ftnon E it . tl