BOBBY AND LIBBY
NAVAL ACADEMY – JUNE WEEK 1950
Top photo: Bobby and Libby.
Bottom photo: Fred Mann, Libby, and Bobby.Bobby, a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, and his roommate, Fred Mann, invited Bobby’s cousin, Ruth, to Annapolis for the Naval Academy’s June Week celebration. This is graduation time and the first time that 4th Classmen can have dates. Ruth invited her good friend and classmate at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, Elizabeth “Libby’ Patterson, to go as Bobby’s date for June Week. These photographs were taken on Bobby and Libby’s first date that June Week, 1950.
RING DANCE AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY
JUNE WEEK 1952June Week, the year before graduation, the 2nd Classmen get their class rings. Then, the rings are christened in the Waters of the Seven Seas, which they bring in for the occasion. The Waters of the Seven Seas truly are from the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean. And they put water from the the Severn River in the basin also. I also got my miniature with a diamond in it. It is my engagement ring and I still wear it. My ring was also christened.
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