University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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1.1. Margaret C. Disert inspects the billet of four apprentice seamen in the Am a I Training School. Apprentice Seamen Learn a vy lion tine in Loot Training It has long been a haliit here to calLour class «chniiilce ami work periode routine work. So now let's take a general look at the routine for a seaman. They im- mediately begin “hupping their way from Bartlett to classes, drill, physical education, lectures and instructional movies and this way of going places is continuous, except for their free hour each day. until they leave T. (’.. When a seaman hits the deck at 06:00 sin «tarts another day of repeating the same routine of the previous «lay. By 06:30, a seaman is dressed, has her hunk made, with square corners, her room shipshape for inspection at any time, and is ready for breakfast. Exactly at 06:30. the platoons are mustered in and go through the line for breakfast. 07:30 limls the seamen in first «irk bay of the day for inspection. From 03:00 until 12:00 and from 13:00 until 16:30 seamen arc in classes or drill. Most of us appreciate what 16:30 means, for the Navy takes over the Hill then, and until 17:30 most of us just let them have the run of the hook stores, or Berg's and the IlilUidc - we ran have it during the rest of the day. After mess at 17:30 comes liberty aboard the ship hut even this is somewhat routine, for this time is allowed to press uniforms, write that letter, or any of the things that can he done while confined to a dormitory ship. 10:30 means study — and who around here studies at a routine time all the time well, the Waves do! p k i» it

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us Trainees The NAVY Hero we present the II ares . . . first of our trainees in uniform to arrive at T. C. . . . bunk- ing in the good ship Bartlett, these thousand women in blue arc commanded by Captain Davis . . . again we show you the life of the II ares as we see it . . . the show goes on with the II ares

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Apprentice Seamen receive the Vores uniform they have eager- ly anaitr i. Waves Don O fficial N a vy Blue Most people on this campus think of the uves in terms of a meiw line in the Commons or in platoon formation going to classe» in our former classrooms. W lien a seaman log.» in she i» only lieginning one of tin many thing» which go on unnoticeil hv most of us even if wo are getting our eye» full” with seamen. For some of those sleepy heails who make a heil only once a week we would like to report that a seaman » hod i» not only made every day. hut must he made with “square corner” and must pass inspection. What i» more, the top of her dresser isn’t a cologne liar and the window »ill doesn't serve as pantry or ice-box to various and sundry jars of cheese and boxes of crackers. The first day includes getting room assignments, receiving linen i»»ue». hunk making instruction, and a “conducted” tour of the campus. Other hits of routine we civilians hear about hut pay' little attention to are medical examinations, aptitude lest» and interviews. Some musicians on the campus were slightly startled when they first discovered that the south end of Gilchrist, third floor, was no longer the music haven of former year» that’s the interviewing post for seamen. The results most obvious are the change in their appearances when the Waves go into uniform: a whisper goes around the campus “The Waves have their uniforms.” and everyone gets sot to wait those few days before these W aves will go and new ones will come. It is almost a reciprocal interest affair between Waves and students during the seamen’s indoctrination period here at Iowa Teachers. ☆ r» » 11