Vol. 3—No. 15
U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
Friday, December 22, 1944
Varied Program Marks Pre-Flight Yuletide
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Good Tree Sighted!
'!adet axes were busy
Candelight Service
“Silent Night, Holy . .
Contact!
‘All right, pipe down”
Intermission
All girls weren’t home
Churches Feature
Christmas Services
Yuletide Candlelight Service
Catholic Midnight Mass will
^ature divine services as Pre
flight at Chapel Hill worships
all Christian faiths on this
fourth wartime Christmas.
, Hegular Sunday services will
held in the morning, to be
^llowed by the Protestant
^andlelight Service at 1900 in
"^ernorial Hall and by Midnight
^^ass in Hill Music Hall.
Chaplain George W. Cum-
5|^ings, Lieut., USNR will con-
^^^ct the Candlelight Service, at
^hich the male choir will sing
sveral Christmas numbers.
Extend Personal Invitations
, Ilev. Edward Sullivan, cele-
^ant, will sing the solemn High
at midnight. The deacon
and preacher will be the Rev.
yement Tackney, with Rev.
p^'^othy Fry as sub-deacon. The
^det Catholic choir will sing
arois preceding Mass, as well
during the service. The Rev.
^.^llivan announces that confes-
„^ons will be heard tomorrow
1500-1600 and 1900-2100 in
^errard Hall.
On Monday morning, Christ
inas, Catholic Masses again will
held at 0615 and at 1000,
^nile at 1030 there will be a
^I'vice in the Episcopal Church.
Between 1430 and 1630 on
j^i^day the churches of Chapel
will hold “open houses.”
j. ach cadet in the regiment has
®ceived a personal invitation.
Formal Officers^
Dances Scheduled
Two officers’ dances are sched
uled for the holiday season, the
first to be held tomorrow, Dec.
23, and the other on Saturday,
Dec. 30, both in the Pine Room
at Lenoir Hall.
Music will be furnished by the
Cloudbuster swing band and
dancing will be from 2100 to
0100. Again the Officers’ Mess
will provide soft-drink refresh
ments.
Ladeis’ dress will be formal at
these pre-Christmas and pre-
New Year events.
Holiday Fare Includes Extra Liberty,
Turkey And Entertainment For Cadets
Glee Club Carols
To Welcome Yule
The Cloudbuster Glee Club
will welcome Christmas start
ing at 2000 Sunday night by
singing carols throughout the
town.
Among the scheduled stops
will be the steps of the Meth
odist and Episcopal churches,
Carolina Inn, the Village Apart
ments, the quadrangle at Ral
eigh street and Navy Hall.
Informal singing will be held
n the Graham Memorial Lounge,
which will be open to cadets
from 2000 to 2400.
And Please Pass
The Bicarbonate
Here’s the way the starting
line-up reads for the big knife-
and-fork battle on tap for
cadets in Lenoir Hall on
Christmas Day;
Apple Cider
Iced Celery Olives Sweet Pickles
Roast Tom Turkey
Nut Dressing Giblet Gravy
Baked Ham
Hawaiian Sweet Potatoes
Broccoli, Mock Hollandaise Sauce
Cranberry Salad
Parker House Rolls Buttet
Fruit Cake with Hard Sauce
Assorted Fruit Hard Candy Mixed Nuts
Coffee Cigarettes
10,000 Discharges Monthly
Discharges from the Navy for
all causes average 10,000 month
ly-
Base Crew Dances^
Feasts On Dec. 26
A fried chicken feast, followed
by a dance to the music of the
Cloudbuster band, is on the holi
day schedule for the Pre-Flight
crew. The date will be Tuesday,
Dec. 26, in the Pine Room, Len
oir Hall.
For many of the enlisted per
sonnel it will be a farewell party
owing to transfers.
The attack on the chicken will
sart at 1900. Dancing will fol
low immediately after the din
ner and will continue until 2300.
There won’t be wings of gold
nor real, live pin-up girls in the
stockings of Pre-Flight cadets
this Christmas but a holiday pro
gram embracing extra liberty,
dances, stepped-up movie fare
and open houses will mark the
Yuletide at Chapel Hill.
And on the groaning board
there will be roast Tom turkey—
upward of 600 pounds of it—
and caroling, and two 0730 rev
eilles, and dining-out privileges.
Two battalions, 59 and 60, will
dance tomorrow, Dec. 23, in the
Women’s gymnasium to the
strains of the Cloudbuster band.
It has been estimated by the town
girls club of the University of
North Carolina that between 150
and 200 co-eds will remain in
Chapel Hill over the holidays.
The free movies on this day will
be “Miracle of Morgan Creek”
and “Step Lively.” For the regi
ment town liberty will start at
1300, temporarily end at 1800,
resume at 1830, and wind up at
0030.
Liberty Ends At 0130
Reveille on Sunday will be at
0730, with town liberty from
1330-1800 and from 1830-0130.
Open houses at the churches, the
movie, “The Impatient Years,”
and informal singing at Graham
Memorial Lounge will be among
the diversions.
Another 0730 reveille will
usher in Christmas morning,
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