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

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Boots Worfe, Sing, Study . . . Free a Ma i to h igh t li’s nol all work in the Navy—at 16:30 each weekday. avcs swarm to the stores on the corner for an hour's liberty. On Saturday anil Sundays, they pack the buses and head for Cedar Falls and aterloo to enjoy shopping, a movie or howling, and dinner out. Each class has written and produced its own Seaman's show. Sports lovers participate in volleyball and basketball tournaments and swimming meets. There are also I SO shows, free movies and, since the arrival of the air corps, army-navy dances. For those few free minutes during the day. seamen enjoy relaxing in Bartlett's lounges, and the ship's store and naval post- ollice add to their convenience and enjoyment. It is quite natural that these seamen should have certain outstanding incidents which they will remember, hut some incidents are probably somewhat different from the way we would picture them. The seamen themselves gave these as their happenings to he remembered — coveted day of going into uniform and the proud lirst salutes: shots for tetanus and typhoid, given, they say. for two reasons -—to prevent disease and to give the girls something to talk about: lire drills in zero weather, with a blanket wrapped around to keep a seaman warm: singing while marching to regimental lecture each platoon has it own original song; standing for hours (it seems) for inspection. Trainees at the indoctrination center for the If'omen's Reserve of the f . S. Navy fall to that lioinl old Navy fowl.

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Familiar Tutor Nara Activity Scenes Become Site of i’rohaldy no person has gone more than one term at T. C. without becoming quite well aequainteil with contemporary affairs (contemp to list or without com plaining about it tin aves have it for an hour a «lay ami can «Io nothing about it. They also learn the navy its administration, law. history, traditions, ships, aircraft, and language. Seamanship, navigation, and identification of ships and planes help thoughts. Tradition means something like this: an officer never curries her coat: rank determines position in a photograph. Language is -till another different problem: tin floor is tin deck while stairs are ladders, and isilors to the ship Bartlett log in instead of cheeking in: ports are windows, and no good seaman goes 1«» the hospital it - si«‘k hay. trip through Bartlett Mali might reveal a few more interesting sight . For example, tin Yellow kitchen where the co-eds had council meetings and hall parties is the sick hay: the rcc« ption room is a recreation room, while our Green Living Room is now called the Green Lounge ami i- presided over by' the officer of the day. There are no rugs on the floors now and hunks f«»r four women to a room is the style. Drapes arc no longer selected for a room by thinking green looks heat in a west room and so on: there are no scarfs on the dressers, and no pictures on the wall. Ml in all. some changes have been made in Bartlett! Ia. William II. Fetridge discusses navigation tciih a class nf apprentice seamen. Fm 12 £r

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 Air creto student hit the Itooks before lights out. Home of Esquire, Vetty Pin-Ups Resounds to Call-to-Arms Something new lias been added to Baker and Seerlcy halls. W lien once Inquire and Petty girl reigned supreme a» wall deroralions, drah unattractive class schedules hang: where the hoys once got together behind closed doors for that late hull session or weekly poker game, aircrew students now retire promptly at nine-fifteen. W hen the 80th College Training Detachment chose T. C. as its -ite. we students voluntarily gave to the army the use of these dormitories as barracks making the air crew students say. “The army was never like this.’ The soldier in uniform uses the same rooms and studies at the same desk, hut as all things must certainly change during a war. so too did Baker and Seerlcy. busy staff of non-commissioncd ofliecrs maintains the office of the 80th Training Detachment in the lounge, and the officers have their “inner sanctum behind the glass doors of the solarium in Seerlcy. In tin basement, the familiar click of pool halls or the sound of pingpong paddles t i 11 resounds in the recreation room, and if you step across the hall to the door marked “kitchen, you will (ind a candy shop where air crew students can buy that in-between-meals snack. The numerous forms and papers that all go to make up the so-called army bureaucracy may he found in tin trunk room, which now also houses supplies and is a receiving room for laundry. W andering to the other end of Seerlcy basement, we lind the pressing room turned into a hospital ward even air crew students become ill occasionally, in the Commons basement, the familiar Mast “line is now an army mess line where the men of the army air corps dim in a manner to which all army men would like to become accustomed. I - 11 it