European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse T Academy 1942 yearbook shows George Bush front Center i group at student deacons of a wimp in my both. He s not the Typo to Dople. Bul he s Gol pm Only of Strong Jrade teacher Arthur grand Gol Thorn thinking some or you will go into business and be a go into politics. Who knows one of you it of the United a had no one in 89 he remembers Bush As a Good athlete. Is always had a real code of i Bush household began with Mother or father e from the Bible. Both parents stressed fairness modesty and service to others and i George s report card evaluation claims no share of a mention " Sedgewick who married Howard Sedgewick ate at country Day recalls the Strong ice of pres Coll 5r. When the dating game so boys " now Don l you think it s Limo Loidy Homo he would say and immediately the Alex would be called into pay had not Boon invented when 13-year-old to Phillips Academy in Andover mass., and " the Campus word for newcomer. He wore a Cap topped with a while Bulton carried the rely seniors to their dorms on the upper Hill y into any song they commanded could not hag stall where upperclassmen were allowed As nol to be seen an main Street until the at Evelor the hated Rodmen from the i Andover consciously Imil aled Iho English id Eton and Rugby so a mile hazing was in de English master Hart Loa Vilt. He remembers different scholar. In my class he was a l there and did t contribute much. A Nice Guy All. He looked like the cover on the Pippy lame Oul awhile ago. I did t have much i outside class but i mus say wimp is the last ply to or Fitl basketball coach Frank Dick Conli. Who Billerback Hen has different memories from in him i knew he was something special. To Nily Wilh the right priorities. Some kids Aren t ice. He was. I never saw him Down. Always Ood loser Ait Tough. You could l be Jony Abou x i i a thai is his trademark Doak As decades of old Gratis Call him sat on the porch of the Andover inn summoning up the past from the background shouts of the playing Fields. Poppy was Captain c baseball and soccer played every minute of every game but i had to talk him into going out far basketball. He was afraid of denying another kid a place on the team he was 3 Good Hacker As we called regular Fellows always thinking of others. There was a jewish kid nicknamed Ovio dead now who Lett school when to did t get tapped for any of the greek societies. They talked him into coming Back end poppy was the first to befriend him got him to come out Lor baseball. One Day a Fly Ball bounced off Ovie s head into the left fielder s Glove and poppy congratulated him on an George and his schoolmates trod the Lealy walks in fear of the righteous Wrath of the Bald one headmaster Claude Fuess. Who could ring Down the Thunder Lor violating 9 . Lights Oul curfew or Atler a Bun fight in the beanery As the dining rooms in the student commons were called. The boys Ollen had a Tough Lime keeping a straight face when Campus Culup John Uhler common Iii deftly mimicked he head s portentous Waddle Jack a year behind George later made a career of his comic Smajs on Broadway and in Hollywood coming Onaga in Andover the inmates boasted of making the most of the weekly Lea dance to Graily the old b.u.," defined in the 1942 pol pour i. George s yearbook As the biological the music is usually Lair but the girls so not the class social historian observed. By 8 . The couples Aro to be found mostly in the Bird Sanctuary or in the girls cars Whilo acuity wives attempt to police the As the decade of the 40s began the outside world intruded on the ovely wooded and landscaped Campus. Upper middles thud year Hoys like George huddled under blankets to listen to the War news irom Europe on contraband radios. Besides morning Chapel and nightly bed Check student activities included air raid drills and drawing Tho blackout curtains. Younger masters were leaving to join the Royal Canadian air Force and one Day at Assembly a refugee named Heinz Langerhans told in a thick accent about file in a nazi. Concentration Camp. By senior year Crew cuts were in fashion and Pelly girl pinups adorned the dorms of this Academy founded in 1789 Lor the virtuous pious education of on a recent visit to his Alma mater. Bush remembered Pearl Harbor Day 1941, slouching across Campus with my Roommate. We kept it on our minds that the germans wore invading Europe. We knew exactly whal we had to do. We had to Beal Evelor Al which they did 14-13, with Iho whole school singing and shouting through he snowy night on thai special train Back from now Hampshire. War was almost a curriculum elective by then. The boys sold War Bonds donated inert Dawn loin treats Money to the us gathered up magazines in the dorms every thursday for the soldiers Al nearby Forl Devens and pol pour i loss ils Slick cover to the wartime paper shortage. Tho class historian noted that the whole school thrilled to an address at morning Chapel by col. Henry l Stimson the Secretary of War and an Andover trustee. George As chairman of the sri Deal deacons Gollo Escol the Secretary to the podium in addition to his regular Dulios of checking attendance and taking up the collodion. Caught up in the patriotic Fervour George on his 18th birthday just a few Days after graduation look Iho Irain to Boston to Ecksl in the Navy. In the yearbook poll of 193 graduates he ranked third behind varsity quarterback Elli Oll Vose As most popular handsomest most respected and Best All around he rated second in most acuity drag and was Oul of the running As most intelligent most Likely to succeed and ladies his Namo was read Oul in Chapel on a september morning in 1944 when his Carrier based torpedo bomber was reported shot Down in flames in a raid on the japanese airstrips on chichi Jima and again when word came i hat he had been plucked from a rubber raft in the Pacific by a surfacing submarine. For George Herbert Walker Bush the preppy years wore essentially Over. When he entered Yale in november 1945, he was hardly your Peter Arno cartoon caricature of a Yale although typical of thai first postwar irm when three Oul of five were veterans and Gray flannels were beginning to replace officer Pink on the old Campus. Bush was already married and soon to Start a family. He and Barbara first lived in a quonset hut near the Payne Whitney gym then in a series of apartments the last one. As head ribbed alter a recent Campus speech so close to president Charles Seymour s House you could look in the window and see his Wile taking a Bath poppy As he was still called sailed though an accelerated economics program in 2vz years won the Francis Gordon Brown prize As the outstanding Junior and went on to earn Phi Bela Kappa. He also Lound time to burp baby George play three years of varsity baseball letter in soccer and take part in an occasional fraternity Beer bust at the Delia Kappa Epsilon House. Like his lather before him and such diverse luminaries As William Howard tall Averell Harriman. Henry Luce Archibald Macleish Potter Steward William f. Buckley and William sloans Cotta. George was one of 15 juniors tapped Lor Skull and Bones the oldest and most secret of the societies anchoring Yale s old boy network. He went through the rumoured Bondsmen never leh Ini a Ion of climbing Inlo a Collm to confess his sins preferably erotic in Tho the windowless Brown Sandstone club House. Although Bush went 3 Lor 5. The big disappointment in his senior year was the baseball team s loss to Iho University of California in the National collegial a finals. As one who knew him Well in the preppy Days has kept in touch since the College years and will be reeling for him in the electoral College old coach Zeke Oicle Menli has a Woirol caution for reporters on the Bush beat Don t say he s a Nice Guy. He really is a Nice Guy. That s what s killing k a Nice Guy 3ciobsr 2,1988 the stars and stripes Page 15
