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Saturday, October 7, 1944 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three AROUND THE STATION . . . news from here, there, and everywhere . . . His name is Zgymunt M. Majewski, his rat ing seaman second class. He is an engineer ing college graduate and probably has more pilot hours than most men on the station. He holds a commercial license and instructor’s rating, and has served with both army and navy during the present war. Yet the vagaries of service circumstances and draft boards find him without a third class “crow”; and his con duct rating is 4.0. Right now he is a general assistant in the department of Aerology- Engines. Entering the army air corps in 1942, Ma jewski was “washed out” in the final stages of his training. He knew he could fly and kept battling his way from one air field to another, eventually reaching Hickory, N. C. as flight instructor for naval air cadets. Along came the draft board with its suggestions, and Ma jewski decided to enlist in the Navy. Boot camp at Bainbridge covered five months. This was followed by a transfer to Memphis and later to Chapel Hill. During his service career Majewski mar ried. While being photographed at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in the uniform of an army flying cadet, he noted and admired a picture of his present wife which was on exhibition. The photographer obligingly volunteered her ad dress. Majewski called her up and suggested a meeting. That granted, decision came quickly. Majewski is now awaiting the results of an application for commission which is in the files at BuPers. !jt * * * * The football team’s victory over the Naval Academy caused so much comment that nothing has been said about the cross country meet held between the two schools. The Cloudbusters lost, 15 to 47, but the Midshipmen have one of the finest teams in the nation. Cadet Wilson of the 59th and Cadet Knox of the 60th were outstanding for the Pre- Plighters, while Midshipmen Barry, Hall and Dempsey were best for the Naval Academy. This afternoon at Duke the cross coun try team will participate in a quadrangle meet composed of Virginia, Duke, North Carolina and Pre-Flight. The race will end in the Duke stadium during the half of the football game. * * ♦ * * Dr. Goebbels has ordered all German fu nerals simplified, printing of death notices banned, and allowances for mourning cloth reduced. Apparently, in the Reich, funerals ai'e becoming too commonplace for more than niere passing consideration. * ♦ * ♦ * One enlisted man reported aboard—CPhM Warren H. DeVere, USN, from USNAS, Glen view, 111. Clottdbttster Captain .WARREN ANDERSON, Cloudbuster left end who was captain at Colgate in 1942, will act as team captain for the Pre-Flighters against Duke this afternoon at Durham. A great offensive player, he was one of the stars in the game last Saturday with the Naval Academy. ^ ^ The names of the outstanding cadet in the 54th and 55th Battalions were recently placed on the Commanding Officer’s Trophy in Navy Hall. For the 54th, Cadet Albert Bassey, Jr., K-3, who hails from East Walpole, Mass., received the high honor. He attended the University of Illinois one year before be coming a V-5 cadet. In high school he served as captain of the varsity football and soccer team. Cadet Wesley Coleman, first string cen ter on the Cloudbuster football team, was selected from the 55th. He attended Dar lington Prep School and Georgia Tech. At the Colgate NFPS he served as Regimental Commissary Officer. He hails from Jackson ville, Florida. * * * 1(1 It’s a small world after all. A former neigh bor of Lieut. Lonnie Langston of the naviga tion department—who is now a Lieut. Comdr. participating in the European Theater of War —recently was invited to dinner in a French home in one of the occupied towns of France. There he met the mother of one of the French Cadets stationed here in Chapel Hill. She asked him if he knew where Chapel Hill was, and that her son was a Naval Air Cadet sta tioned there. She also told the Lieut. Comdr. she hadn’t heard from him in four months. The Lieut. Comdr,, who is C, C. Mansell by name, told her that he knew Lieut. Langston at Chapel Hill, and that she could enclose a letter to her son in the letter he was writing Lieut. Langston. Five days later the two let ters were received in Chapel Hill. 4= 4s >|t )|c Eleven officers received promotions dur ing the past week. From Ensign to Lt. (jg) went Thomas Henry Duffy, Harry James Grogan, Robert Edward Nugent, and James W. Glasford, while William Footrick, Clif ford Eiger Goerki, Howard Paul iveebler, George Thomas Mason, Branch McCracken, Glenn Emery Presnell, and Charles Albert Robinson were all promoted from Lt. (jg) to full Lieutenant. ***** Seven trips to Iceland, England, and Russia on convoy duty with the U. S. Navy highlights the career, thus far, of Cadet Robert C. Bishop, of the 59th Battalion. Before the invasion of Africa he served aboard the USS New York at the time she was engaged in the bombard ment of the African coast in preparation for Allied landings. At that time Bishop was a Signalman 2c, and upon reaching the States with the first group of Navy men returned from the African campaign was sent to a training school at Norfolk. Before entering the Navy in 1941, Bishop attended Syracuse University where he majored in electrical engineering. How ever, aviation is his selected postwar career. He ^ ^ There is no question but that the cadets on the football squad who made the trip to the Naval Academy last week end thoroughly en joyed themselves. Besides participating in a fast and hard-fought game, they had the op portunity to see the grounds of the Naval Academy and observe the Midshipmen at work and at leisure. The officers of the football coaching staff and the cadets particularly noted and were impressed by the sportsmanship shown by the Navy team and the spectators at the game. Despite the unexpected setback, there was no booing of referees’ decisions or cheering for penalties. Everything went off in the true Navy tradition of fair play. * * * * III Lieut. Charles H. Little, Jr., former Training Navigator for Operations Squad ron, Alameda, Calif., was attached to the station during the past week, and Lt. (jg) William Rotroff Hoover, platoon officer, was detached to Service School Command, ! NavTraCen, Sampson, N. Y.
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