US Navy Officer Candidate School - Sea Chest Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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LCDR GEORGE W. WAGENHORST Of course, by far the most popular topic was taken up in the second month when we touched upon those empyrean subjects liberty, leave and discharge. Many a more imaginative O. C. was seen to lean dreamily back in his chair and Count on his fingers the days of leave he had already acquired. As a matter of fact, many had already decided how they were going to Spend them by the time the class had ended. Of course, such reveries were always conducted at the expense of a military aptitude mark. But now we are Ensigns and wish we had paid more attention to thevpart that concerned the proper procedure on going aboard ship. Let's see - shall I ask the C. O. out to supper 01' not? Might as well, maybe he'll pick up the tab. 1 X

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N 1 ,As I Standing: R. LT R. F. Seated: LT 5 we .in . my-1 ,V l. V, W W - I , ,i .i1i.X':y' 't nz., rind 1' 4 . ' lii.5 t,Jii1 ' Q Boucher, YN3p LTJG R. H. Nelsonp LTJG S. Hontzesp LT J. H. Towne: W00dC0Cki LT J. B. Whittemoreg A. Fuderer, YNSN R. C. Coney: LT C. E. Toolep LT N. A. Rheubon These are the Laws of the Navy, and how strange they were to the very green civilians who matriculated to Newport way back on the 8th and 9th of March. Here we took a quick tour ol' the .Naval Establishment from CNO right down to the rawest recruit and the humlblest O. C. It seemed that we in Newport had been forgotten, but when acquainted with the fabulous administrative chain of command of USN, we were reassured that we too would someday get orders to duty assign- ments and Newport was only a transient phase of our Naval endeavors. Standing: LT W. E. Rummelhoffg LTJG J. R. Alleng LTJG H. L. Ross, Jr.g LT J. Finngan Seated: LT K. 0. Honksg LT F. E. Weltep LT N. W. Byer . x .1 .J -..J lPs'f' 'J' 't 1 ,.'. ' -Q .mann-U-m -Q ll i , 9 1 pa. - U

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X-. ---.---f-f--'FI' L 5. A, Standing: R. W. lsert, BMC, LTJG R. L. Marshall: LT W. B. Jones, Jr., LT P. B. Davis: LT H. F. Kane: C. E. Bailey, BMC Seated: LT C. F. Faas, LCDR A. H. Waldo, Jr.: LT R. S. Watson Down Lo the sea in ships, we shall go and as we clanrber up our lirsL ladders Quo! we shall never say USL2lll'SH agaiuj there is no doubt Lhal the minds of each of us will be groping for the nomenczlalure and principles gathered in seamanship class. May we all remember our newly acquired 'vocabulary and may none of us ever fall so low as to use those horrible words which would mark us as landlubbers to the crew Qligadsl what a fatej. Although a rose by any obher name might smell as sweet, slill rope is nol rope, but line and walls are not walls, but bulkheads. Standing: G. E. Stomper, BMC, LT J. D. Singer: LTJG R. A. Walling LTJG R. J. Carey, LT J. K. Lawrence, LT W. E. Reed, LTJG R. E. Hersmang H. J. Stack, YN3 Seated: LT D. E. Hihng LT F. S. Handler: LT J. N. Echternach 4'-1.- -44