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WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
19/12/94
Dear Bob:
This morning I called for Directory Assistance and located your phone number and had a nice talk with Betty as she will have already told you. I hear from Fred Allner that there is some kind of Hyde Bay reunion in Baltimore with Cooper Walker as host and wondered if you had heard of it and Betty said you had.
Enclosed you will be pleased to find a list of nicknames from Hyde Bay Days in the 1930's and a clipping about WHAM BAM who is now . . . in New England, probably in the new Bedford-Fall River area. He comes down here every so often and I saw him in 1991. Has gained a lot of weight and is in poor health.
I have lived here about 25 years now and have been married 24 years. While we have no children we are happy. I became a security analyst about 40 years ago and we just manage our own affairs.
I was back in Cooperstown in Oct. 1984 and also 10 years earlier. Saw Jim Dresser and his wife before they died the next year. I sure hope to go back again next year, as I have wonderful memories of the place.
With all good wishes,
Sincerely,
Bill
HYDE BAY CAMP NICKNAMES OF THE 1930's (from Chubby to Stinky in 1994)
| NICKNAME | REAL NAME |
| Alice the Goon | J. Frank Supplee, Jr, |
| All Toots | Freddie Allner |
| Arf Arf | Francis M. (for Meserve) Barker |
| Austonia | Austin McLane Taliaferro,Jr, |
| Beer Belly(also "Hally" Beardsley) | Billy Beardsley |
| Bertie | Herbert E. Pickett,Jr, |
| Beezer (The Beezer) | Leslie Basil Exshaw, Jr. |
| Brother Nule | John Nule Classen |
| Bucky | Charles Thelin Turner |
| Bull | Lawrence Kimball Pickett |
| Butterball | J. (for John) Kemp Bartlett, Jr. |
| Cap'n | Prof. Carl Hartzell |
| Cesspool | J. Frank Supplee, Jr |
| Cesspool Charlie | Albert K. Wampole,Jrt |
| Chang Lee( invented in 1936 by Howdy Bubert) | George Chandlee |
| Chicken | Chuck Callery |
| Chubby | Bill Hudson, Jr. |
| Clem Toots | J. L. Clemmitt |
| Commodore | J. (for John ) Walter (Wally) Lord(He dropped the J in a democratic gesture!) |
| Crawfish | Wm. C. Crawford, Jr, |
| Dawson | Billy Lynn (Willaim Dawson Lynn) |
| Dice(also Pawnee) | Theodore Cook Waters, Jr. |
| Duck (also Wee Duck and Duck Pot) | John H. (Jack) Young) |
| Eagle Beak (also Hawkeye) | Prentice Talnmadge |
| Eddie Bey (Not Bay) -- EDDIE BEY was a nickname invented in 1933 by the late Stanley Woodward -From an Eddie Cantor movie in which Eddie was known as "Eddie Bey" (not because he went to Hyde Bay!) | Edward A. (for Arthurs) (not Arthur) Supplee |
| F. A. | Frederick Abels (not Abel) Allner, Jr. |
| Finamint | Lawrence B. Fenniman, Jr. |
| Garbage | Affectionate name for Garbo, the Pickett's dog |
| Hambones(also Haveford because he went there) | E. Hamilton Welbourne, Jr, |
| Heidi(or also Huidi) | Prescott Huidekooper, Jr. |
| HEIMER, THE | J.William (Billy) Middendorf |
| Herbie | Herbert E. (for Elmer) Pickett, Jr. |
| HERCULES | MALE OFFSPRI NG OF "GARBO" |
| Horseface | George Hyde Clarke,Jr. |
| Jake | John Nule Classen |
| Koppy | Walter Koppleman ,Jr. |
| Leedy in Red (after the song "Lady in Red") | Ed Leedy -- Yale 1931 |
| Monk | Frank Lynn |
| Money Bags (also Crommedy Kenwell) | William Kenendy Cromwell |
| Munger Toots (also Munger Babe) | Eddie Munger Of Merchantville, N.J |
| Piggy | Garnett Morgan Prentice |
| Pinks | Hugh Jenkins O'Donovan |
| Prof | Prof. Carl Hartzell |
| Pudsey | Charles Henry (Charlie) Classen (How he hated it! ) |
| Sewickley (Also, Sewickley Toots) | Julian Kennedy of Sewickly, Pa. |
| Slim Jim( also Slob) | Walter Edwards Dandy, Jr. |
| Soupy | J. Frank Supplee, Jr. |
| Sparky | Francis Meserve Barker |
| Stinky | Robert A. (for Ames) Pickett |
| Stooges, The Three | 1936 summer campers -- Ted Higginbotham (Called HIGGAMBOGGAM by Wham Bam); Johnny Richmond and Dean Morris -- All from Buffalo's Nichols School |
| Sunshine(Sunny) | Herbert Elmer Pickett, Jr. |
| Tiger (also Tuggles) (Tiger was acceptable to Donald Tag, but NEVER NEVER "Donald Duck" or "Donny Baine the Bird Main" ( visitor to Hyde Bay with bird calls) | Donald Tag |
| Undertaker | John Van Cortlandt Koppleman |
| Wham Bam (also Wink Bink) (also Whammy and even Swampy) | Albert K.Wampole, Jr. |
| Zoogie Boogie | Robert K.Zeugner,Jr. |
| SUPPLEMENT | |
| NICKNAME | REAL NAME |
| BUMPO (NAMED AFTER NATTY BUMPO) | THE CAMP GOAT |
| NANNY (BUMPO) | COMPAN ION TO "BUMPO" |
| FLIBBERTY GIBBETS | HAL ROBERTSON |
| PEPPER | PEP NEAD - HORSE COUNSELOR |
| MINET ("MINET" MEANS "CAT" IN FRENCH OF WHICH PROF. WAS A PROFESSOR) | PROF HARTZELL'S CAT |
New York Times, February 26, 1944 |
| PHILADELPIA, Feb 25 -- A drive against imposters wearing the uniforms of the maritime service has been opened in Philadelphia after a similar drive in netted 900 men on suspicion of impersonating officers of the service, J. Barton Rettew, Jr., assistant United States attorney, disclosed today. |
| The drive here will be concentrated in the hotel and night club areas. Of the 900 men rounded up in New York fifty-three already have been prosecuted, Mr. Rettew said. A similar campaign has been completed in Boston. |
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As part of the campaign, Albert K. Wampole Jr., 22, of Baltimore,
was held in $1,000 bail by Commissioner Norman J. Griffin on
a charge of illegally wearing a maritime service warrant officer's
uniform.
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