US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Capstan Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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ulala g an io birding A-tm: . , . LT. AMBROSE M. BABICH, fS.C.j U.S.N.R. lNhCn thc U. S. S. Kearny was torpcdocd Nlr. Babich, supply ofhccr here, was aboard hcr. HC rcccivcd a lcttcr of Commendation from thc Commander-in-Chief of thc Atlantic Fleet for meritorious conduct during and aftcr thc torpcdoing. Limit. Balxich was Commis- sioncd in 1935. Hr attvnclcd St. Patrick's Col- lvgv, YVQ-llington, New Zcaland. Ho scrvccl two years with thc Royal Nc-w Zn-alancl lficlcl Artil- lc-ry hc'fori' Corning to that L'nitc-cl Status. r-.Mr LT. Cj.g.l F. C. Rt'THriRFoR1J, fS.C.l U.S.N.R. lN1r. Rutherford, Clisbursing officer for the LT. S. S. Notre Dame, was graduated in 1939 from lf. C. L. A. with a Bachelor of Science dcgrvc in accounting. Ho was employed as an accountant in the Sheriffs ofhcc of Los Angclrs County hvforc receiving his commis- sion in thc Naval Rvsvrvc on Slay 26, 1941. Limit, Riitlicrforcl is a rncinbc-r of Alpha Kappa Psi. busincss fraternity. X NHY vom THEY Jusr 5 Movz THE ossns To- , Q GETHER INSTEAD OF ' rf ff! HAvmo Us PASS IT? NEA . Mix WMM' L - Ev N' 41' ,t , .ff ll - - My if V fi KN t A Q G 0 Ic, .-,X 2 H ,f 4 , . f- -it ft wa- I m m J? Srila X .,.: J 4 . t X H fa I' if A 'it' X . it . W 0'l :o2o ...Watt is . f 9 L 'W M5 Q Q. a ..,, x l .. l if ' fi 1 if' 'S , 11 A' if S X 1 WAj,k..4.- 1 7 f ,. 2 ttr tt R' y if Qi L lf N sf f' f' .,w- i 5 0 X I ..' r J gp

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and HEN Seaman NV. T. Door went on active duty October 5, several months after having taken oath as a member of the United States Naval Reserve, he found himself completely at sea, though by no stretch of the imagination can Notre Dame, Ind., be considered a port. The Navy, he discovered to his swift befuddle- ment, lives in a world of its own. Even common- place objects have diHerent names. Anything you put your feet on, for instance Cwith the possible ex- ception of a deskj is Hthe deckf' Food is chow,,, stairs are Hladdersf, walls, Ubulkheadsf, and any kind of equipment is Hgearf' One of the first les- sons Seaman Door acquired along this line was that the compartment marked ffheadn is not the com- manding oHicer's headquarters. In the Navy, everything runs like clockwork, he found. In less time than it takes to run up BAKER, bewildered Seaman Door had filled out a boat load l36l eff-'ri .II aww? , of forms in triplicate, marched to thc storeroom where he was loaded up with a complete set of uni- forms and bedding, and stumbled back to his room, groaning silently under the weight. Perhaps the second thing Seaman Door learned was the meaning of the term, seuttlebutt,,' which he concluded closely resembles what is referred to among civilians as plain ordinary fbulll. One of the strangest things about scuttlebutt, he learned fur- ther, is that the more far-fetched it is, the readier and wider acceptance it finds. After a little more experience, however, Seaman Door decided that this was not so unreasonable, at that. Life in the quarters revolved around pronounce- ments, generally unintelligible, by the mates of the deck, who rent the air at short intervals with orders to fall in, announcements ofthe uniform of the day, and sundry other ultimatums, followed in two min- utes by contradictions, followed in turn by restora-