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Saturday, July 22, 1944 ? — — CLOUDBUS T E R Fage Three AROUND THE STATION news from here, there, and everywhere . Thirty-second biography of Cadet Walter Suess, ace of the 51st Battalion’s great soccer team: He calls Jamaica, N. Y. his home on his cadet questionnaire, but in person he’ll tell you he’s from Brooklyn. Thinks there is nothing in the world like the Dodgers, even after they lose 14 straight games. Played three years of high school soccer and was captain of the team his senior year. Keeps the rest of the soccer team of the 51st laughing all the time with his chatter and comments. Talks and eats soccer, says there is no other sport like it. * * * * * Lieut. Comdr. R. C. Channel, USNR, Lieut. C. T. Ellis, USNR, and Lt. (jg) W. R. Lips comb, USNR, attached to the Naval Aviation Physical Training Office in Washington, were aboard for the Sports Program Championships on Wednesday evening. The three visitors re turned to Washington on Thursday afternoon. ***** A. K. Nelson, Sk2c, who works in the store room at Graham, was absent from work a couple of days this week scratching poison ivy. Some of the fellows with whom he works, asked him, upon his return, where he caught the stuff. He replied, seriously: “Picking Plums.” Now they’re calling him, “Poison Ivy Picking Plums Nelson.” ^ ^ ^ % Ensign Harris Everett, USNR, a member of the 10th Battalion, had a double reason for returning to Chapel Hill last week-end. Besides going through the Pre-Flight School here, he attended the University of North Carolina for four years. While at Carolina, Ensign Everett was captain of the tennis team during his sen ior year. He played three years of col lege tennis without the loss of a single match, and was rat ed among the bet ter players of the nation. Ensign Everett was commissioned in the Navy 15 months ago. For a year he served as an instructor at Miami, and for the past two months he underwent special instruction himself at Banana River, Florida. A tennis match between Lt. (jg) Barnard T. Welsh, USNR, of this station, and Ensign Everett was scheduled for last Saturday morning, but bad weather forced cancella tion. Leaving Chapel Hill, Ensign Everett went to New York to visit friends and play in one more tennis tournament prior to reporting at the Naval Air Station at Hutchinson, Kansas, the last of this month. Ensign Everett While practically everyone at the station participated in the recent war bond drive, the two cadets, pictured above, did more than their share. On the left is Cadet A. J. Brosseau of the 53rd Battalion who invested a total of $10,053.75 in cash in war bonds, and on the right is Cadet M. L. Sharaf who bought the cash total of $8,500. Cadet Bros seau hails from out Texas way. Before com ing into the V-5 program he spent a year and a half at Notre Dame. Cadet Sharaf’s home is in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and he at tended Harvard. ***** Lieut. Charles Hunter, USNR, a member of Admiral Murray’s staff, was aboard this week to interview cadets who wish to become combat aircrewmen. ***** Breaking down the local total in the recent War Bond Drive here it is noted that Series E Bonds sales totaled $99,966, Series G Bonds $29,700, and Series F Bonds $3,370.00. ***** In the changes-in-station-personnel depart ment, Lt. (jg) Charles M. Bowden, USNR, who served here as an assistant in Mass Exer cises, was detached to ComdrAirForce, Atlan tic Fleet, Norfolk, Va. Lieut. C. F. Carpenter, USNR, who has just returned to the Staies after spending a year in the South Pacific, re ported aboard. He will serve in the Academic Department. John P. Dunnigan, Sk2c, was transferred to the USNTS, Newport, R. I., for training and further assignment, and Raymond C. Tikey, S2c, was transferred to the NAS at Norfolk. Enlisted personnel received include Mary B. Fournier, Martha C. Cross and Claire P. Russell, all Hale, who reported aboard from the Navy Hospital, St. Albans, Long Island, N. Y.; Cecil Webber, Y2c, from the NAPT- CRO, Seattle, Washington, and Maurice E. Wright, Sp(W)3c, from the Navy Training School for Chaplains at Williamsburg, Va. ***** Three officers, who at one time or another were attached to this station, are among the group of 39 here for two weeks of instruc tion in the Survival Training Program. Lieut. Samuel C. Hammerstrom, USNR, at present stationed at Atlantic City; Lt. (jg) George E. Raab, USNR, now at the Naval Air Station at Glenview, and Ensign Clarence T. Weir, USNR, from the Naval Air Station at Mem phis, all started their Navy careers in Chapel Hill. Four officers from this station—Lt. (jg) Frank C. Craighead, Lt. (jg) John J. Craig head, Lt. (jg) Frederick R. Furlong, and Lt. (jg) William H. Grimberg—are also taking the two weeks’ course. Notes on the cuff at the Sports Program Championships: The professional way in which it was handled thanks to Lieut. Comdr. Quinn, Sports Program Director, and his able assistants: Lt. (jg) George D. Smith, Lt. (jg) Kifer, and Ensign McGuire. . . . Also congratulations to Lieut. Peterson for the swell announcing job. . . . Every place you turned you would find the 51st Bat talion. ... It had a team in all five com petitions. . . . The band (five pieces of it) after playing, “Take It And Get” had their announcer casually remark that the num ber you just heard was, “Take It And Get’” . • . The closeness of the boxing and track competition in which the 51st defeated the 53rd, 9 to 8, in boxing, and the 52nd won over the 51st in track, 44 to 43. . . . The surprising strength of the 51st in soccer, the score being 3 to 2 in favor of the 52nd. . . . The unusual amount of spectator interest. . . . The fellow who remarked on the way cut: “These things get better and better.” NEW MEMBERS of the cadet regimental staff chosen from members of the 52nd Battalion are pictured above, standing, left to right: C., William Taylor, regimental commissary offi cer; Walter Schumacher, regimental adjutant. Seated, left to right, David E. Powers, regi mental commander; Louis C. Anderson, Jr., regimental sub-commander.
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