United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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Hops Charleston, Charleston . . . FIRST CLASS HOP COMMITTEE. Front row: Wandell, Hernandez, Hocker. Second row: Jaeger, Hemingway, Wiedemann, Goldberg. A Naval Academy hop . . . a unique being . . . to them we brought all sorts of drags . . . our OAO's . . . the blind date who earned you that brick Youngster Year . . . sister ,loanie and the hop you took her to . . . small girls . . . medium- sized girls . . . working girls . . . coeds . . . yard engines . . . girls deeply in love . . . girls not so deeply in love . . . girls sporting shiny new crests . . . mids with returned crests . . . arguments begun . . . arguments ended . . . dreams made . . . dreams shattered. Eyes uplifting and smiling . . . eyes downcast and despairing . . . guileless eyes . . . not so guile- less eyes . . . taunting eyes . . . provocative eyes . . . vibrant eyes . . . frivolous eyes . . . serious eyes . . . and inevitably, the sleepy eyes. Walls stacked with rifles . . . colored lights . . . the refreshment tables . . . punch and cookies. HlVlay I borrow a cigarette?', . . . This punch isn't too bad . . . UDO those guns actually work?', . . . My, this is a huge placeli' . . . Wfhose uniforms look awfully uncomfortahlei' . . . 'aWho's that man with the sword? . . . I must admit that this is different. . . . The danceable music of the Chiefs . . . of the NA-I0 . . . '4Coodnight, Sweetheart . . . I'l1 See You in lVly Dreams . . . Navy Blue and Gold . . . 6'Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light . . . '4The land of the free and the home of the brave . . . The rush for the door . . . the run for the drag house . . . l'll see you after Chapel tomorrow . . . three minutes to go . . . the goodnight kiss . . . the Flying Squadron. These and other random thoughts, each one integral to an Academy hop, blended to give us our final impression of a Saturday evening in Dahlgren Hall. l Alemande left, grand right and left . . . Nil Q 5 Z punk ' M055 -...., -C L 2 L --Q,

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i 'lark 'GAII stations report when manned and ready . . . Then we have to mention the military pre- cision required in the passageways of Ward Hall, enforced hy shouts of uLet's give a column movement, cowhoyln Ordnance and e+Q-sie G L MX 4 B' v- t EV VN t Ngxf F 53 53 Gunnery contributed more than its share to an already heavy academic load, and we all breathed more freely after those double- weight quizzes and exams. Now that it is ove1', we can take our hats oil' to the instructors who tried to give us such a good background in this important element of naval warfare. Gunnery . . . and when they match up . . . s 'K L Learning by doing. . . . fha y, . . .

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