FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1044
Saturday Night Ai Fresco
.Sidrtookin
, 91 Daze; and a hit frightened-looking art these German prisoners,
taken. by Allied t! fifth Army troops in the smashing drive on Rome.
(Signal Corps Radio-Telephoto from NEA)
While herfather and a ,group of her friends watches, an American
medical corpsman tenderly dresses the leg of a little Italian girl,
- 'wounded during the fighting in Casteilinorato area. ,
Because Nazi shells have a nasty
way of interrupting his outdoor
bath, T/5 Simon Vosonski of
Hudson, Mass., wears his helmet
when scrubbing up in the sure..
enough bathtub he picked up in
a deserted Italian village. When
Nazis get 'Too nasty, he jumps
out of tub, clad in helmet and
layer of eosuds, retires to his
nearby shelter—a sunken bar-
rel, protected by . shrapnel;
resistant roof. The Fifth Army
MP is' pictured above, in the rub
and left,.. grinning from his `l:iat.
-for on Innocent Victim
rel-hd'use."
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THE COLLEGIAN
Front and
Center
By ENS.• L. T. CHERVENAK,
U.S.N.R.
Guest Columnist
My writing of this column is
entirely unpremeditated,• unau
•thoriaed,'and a high personal hon
or—and besides that the new edi
tor didn't have anyone else handy
to shove it off on.
The , only thing I can think of
at the moment to qualify me to
write a "military column is my
record at midshipmen's school,
where—out of the
.345,893 1 / 2 trou
ble-brewing regulations—l man
aged to find at least three I neither
broke nor wanted to break:
1) I didn't chew tobacco at any
time.
2) I didn't whistle at any time
3) I didn't throw any object out
of any port (window) at any time.
It is only fair .to add however,
that (1) I don't chew. tobacco, (2)
I can't whistle, and (3) there were
screens on all the windows.
It really has been fun, though,
and not, the least of the fun has
been several reuniohs with other
Penn State alums.
Hat-dogging it through officers'
training with me, for- example,
were Bruce Whorrel, Howie Lyon.
Al Letzler, George Hemingway.
and Ed Ilipps.
The seaman who relieved me on
my 'first roving night patrol was
"Dead Eye" Gutherie -- a long
"rnisSing" associate who had out
shot the pretty consistently on the
freshman Mlle team, but whom 1
„hadn't heard of since. Gutherie,
A eeirks, left. Ccillege shortly after
the Close of his freshman yeir,
joined the Navy as a seaman,
fotight it. out with the Japs from
Attu to the South Pacific, and had
finally won a right to officer 'train
ing via the V-12 program.
At the command ."Advance and
be recognized," he took a step for
ward, sounded off, announced that
he was "ready to relieve you,. sir"
--Lthen broke out with a very un
military "howinell are you and
how is Penn State?"
At the Naval Air Center at Phil.-
ly-4t was another . Penn Stater,
Ensign Bill McKinney. 'OB, who
traded information about my new
assignment for ,"any late • news"
about our mutual alma• mater. •
In Philadelphia we also met Li.
Don Kulp and Pfc. Bob Kaval,
both on furlough, Seaman Bob
- Lohse stopped by - on••his way back
to V-12 training at Cornell; and
Air .Cadet Bill Bayer passed
through while en route to a new
station.
' Frontline dispatches, mean
while, have come through recent
ly from former head-cheerleader
Walt Sotturrg, now a lieutenant
(jg) abroad the USS Bunker Hill;
Pfc. Al Orbell, one time frosh foot
ball player now in the Patific;
Bud Ganter, another Smith Pacific
traveler, Lt. (jg) Paul Halclentan.
former Collegian feature-editor
``somewhere at sea".; atid Lemoirke
Derrkk, first-class petty officer
aboard the new carrier York
town.
Probably the most 'touching
testimonial of what our College
means to the guys under fire,
though; came from the Pacific. It
consisted . of two carefully pre
served, but well worn Copies of
Collegian, sent to my home add
ress by Pfc. Allen Gray '45 with
this note attached:
"I don't know where you're sta
tioned nowadays, but I'm sure that
—wherever you are—you'll also
want to know what's happening
at Penn State. It's one of the
things Joe (Cologne) and I enjoy
hearing about mast, and it's .that
big reunion in Nittany Valley that
we plan• whenever there's a lull
in activity out here."
Although I still haven't reached
"over here," I sorta have the feel
ing -Joe and Al have .something
there. •
Collegictn. Picture Page •
RATIONED! And no wonder! This lately lady is Marie Wilson,
who played the role of "Bubbles" in 'the film comedy about
the campus manpower shortage, "You Can't Ration Love." The
picture tells what happens when the coeds put the boys on a
point basis for dates.
Graduates Grade School—at 65
Mrs. Joseph Mentone, right,' 69, will be graduated from, a Newark,
N. J., grade Scheol, which she has attended eight hours a week for
the past lg years, at the end of the current term. Mother of seven
children, of when, one is in the Navy, she's pictured with a fellow,
eighth-grader, Florence Resko, 13,
,
Sgt. William Fraser of Oshawa, Ontario, is not taking the bull by,
the hems. On the contrary. Texas-looking longhorn is cow from
Italian farm near Anzio beachhead, and she's being persuaded to
give by Sgt. Samuel Eros of Saskatchewan, who uses •versatile j
battle helmet for milk OaiL •
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