We are all just a little dazed by the good luck, or mere luck, which befell us in the Disbursing Course. Many feel that they slipped quite a way down in the final and others wonder how they can possibly have passed. The final grades, including as they did the results of two closed book "pop" quizzes, were all but impossible to ascertain in advance.

From what some of the instructors said, the final exams provided the correctors with excuses for laughter and tears; the closed book portion was particularly fertile in this regard. The number of marine rolls which some men would make up and their wide disposition augurs well for the imaginative faculties of the class--and if imagination will help in solving the practical disbursing problems which we will meet on permanent duty, then our class should really shine.

Sorry, Sir, Can't Do!

Prize boner on the final may well have been pulled by the man who said that he would give the C. O. the combination of the disbursing office safe if he looked honest! The correctors are reported to have learned many new facts of disbursing from reading exam answers pertaining to allotment procedure, copies made of Treasury checks, Treasury statements and payroll vouchers.

Apparently many men were working on the assumption that if you send everything in with your returns you will inevitably have the necessary payroll vouchers. It is a good system but somehow we do not think its merits would be fully appreciated by either Sand A or the GAO

Did someone try to make the introduction to Disbursing Ashore sound interesting? The title on the first page is as fine an example of forced humor as we have seen for some time: "Disbursing Ashore or a "Wave" Rocks the Ordnance Laboratory (with some mention of the accounting)." The real humor of the situation lies in the fact that many of us may get shore billets and run into the "Wave" situation.

The social season for the Juniors seems to be in full swing. Most of the classes either have held dances and or general get-togethers or are planning to do so in the very near future