United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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Frank JtuphiMol Buess€Bler From out of the Northwoods of Minnesota one warm July day, came Frannie to make his mark in the world of sea-faring men. Barring the fact that Frank comes from a densely populated area, hometown population of thirteen, including dogs and stock, he seemed to have led a quiet normal life. As we got to know him however, with his ever-present stock of timely and poignant witticisms and classic descriptions, we began to realize that here was no ordinary man. In spite of radiator club lean- ings, Frank has found time to become senior baseball manager (from chasing kids who were stealing foul balls to pocketing foul balls himself in only four years! ). An imperturbable cuss, nothing phases him, and we will long remember the good nature he displayed every time we ribbed him for being the most typical hayseed east of the Mississippi. ' j , f HlSm HiLLMAN, MINN. Onamia High School Baseball Manager, Classboai Crew, Platoon Commander 21

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r % QUINCY, MASS. Quincy High School Cheeileading. Baseball Manager, Swimming, Tide flips. Class Boat Crew, Monogram Club, Publicity Comm., Sguad Leader 2, Company Executive Officer Take six feet of kinetic energy, sheepish grin, and constant wilhngness to help out, top it with a vermilion thatch, and you have New England ' s own Bill Bleakley. In his wake of activities and accomplishments you can find almost everything from soup to nuts. Cheerleading ( Wilfieee!!! ) varsity swimming, manag- ing the baseball team, taking the pictures you see in this book . . . these just mention a few. The Bleak always does OK with the books, too, and many ' s the time he has been seen tutoring some of us more unfortunates. And the best part of it is that success doesn ' t phase him a bit. He ' s still the same old easy- going, hard-working, friend-in-need fellow that everybody likes. Wilfred Robert Bleakley, Jr. t C

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UTri ji r Dottald Preston Courtsat Dippy exhibits all of the tendencies of business tycoon, for his ability to forage methods for a trip to the other end of Long Island Sound would place even the shrewd into the senseless- ness of naivity. His byword was, Home, or bilge in the attempt. This Connecticut lark, as mainstay of the choir and glee clubs and a staunch tenor, can pour on enough expression to put the rest of the club into sidesplitting laughter. A near miss in electro- physics jolted Dippy into using all his sound thinking and re- serve to prove them wrong and it resulted in high grades during the rest of his cadet training. It was just such drive that made him such a fine long distance swimmer on the newly started swimming team, when he was cajoled away from the sailing team, being at the time, an ace in that sport. From submariner to the intercollegiate level is quite a mark of progress for any man. BRANFORD, CONNECTICUT Branford High School Swimming, Choir and Glee Club, Surf N ' Storm, Boxing, Sailing, Pla- toon Petty Officer 22