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

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Ulze ,Dramatic anal OMI' Thirteen days before graduation the entire regiment filed into the drill hall-not to train to be communications officers , but to take a good-natured crack at everything on the station with half-an-inch of 990-TZ, around sleeve, and quite a number who had two half-inches. That was the evening when all scores were evened, the one time in four months when midshipmen were bossg when ensigns didn't say a thing about Get shahp, mistah! Yes, that was a night that will be long remembered by no-longer-embryonic officers-a night of fun and frolic and good-natured jest. The Third Battalion led off with its Battle of the Brandywine , featuring its hazy quartette and professional blind-dates. The Fourthis From Badin to Worse paged Admiral Halsey between card games in the Ward Room. The Second Batt topped the night with a series of impersonations as Midshipman E. Colman took the audience on a tour of Morrissey Daze , featuring well- known persons like The Damage Control Department's gift to the Double-Bottoms , 4'All I want to know about my men is :How many of you played football'?,' and others. S. Siegel, emcee, kept things running smoothly all evening. Main contributors to the evening's entertainment, aside from the skits, were the Choir and the Dance Bandg the former rendering When Day is Donel' and 4'The Navy Hymni' and the latter giving out with plenty of hot swing. Bob Trotter tickled the ivories well enough to get two en- cores from the crowd, and Bob St. Mary pulled excellent tricks from among his embroidered handkerchiefs. The evening was closed by the cast and audience singing the National Anthem, led by the Choir and Dance Band. Other entertainment planned by the Dramatic Club was sacrificed to study-the concentrated program being too solid to permit hours of rehearsal necessary for presentation of any plays.

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he Caluian The scene? A charming one-Executive Drill-two to three hundred tired, grimy, and irritable young men march- ing in a slight drizzle-said drizzle coloring conversation very much. The command HALT rings out and Capstan men are politely asked one pace forward. This is the line that made the Pepsodent ads. Brighter smiles will be seen only at Grand Central when the satin and lace number is waiting for her favorite ensign. Although the Capstan staff escaped the athletic period which followed, featuring that well-known you-know who on the raised platform, it took much more than athletic periods to produce the juggling of material and mental gymnastics which brought forth this, the fourth, Capstan. More than one 4.0 was sacrificed to the rather slate grey god called Hdeadlineug more than one study period was interrupted by, Chuck, you know how I hate to bother you, but we've got to have this by 0800g and often times the boys with the night club tan from Compartment 440 Qwhere the Hoors always had half-an-inch of art guml broke up the little game of follow-the-leader, and though weary were cheered by the thought of morning calisthenics. f235l

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