FRANK B. HILLHOUSE, LT, USN
Frank Hillhouse '18
Lucky Bag
From the 1918 Lucky Bag:
FRANK BROADUS HILLHOUSE
Sylvester, Georgia
"Olaf" "Stoney" "Cecelia"
OLAF is always ready for anything; whether it's a constitutional sprint around the field, or a liberty, or a drowning party in a cat-boat. Most of Olaf's pastimes do not savor of the parlor. To Olaf, the king of outdoor sports is cross-country walking; he is our foremost advocate of stretching one's legs out across ten or twelve miles of Maryland clay, as the Fountain of Youth is the cure for all pains. And he surely does stretch out; woe be unto the tenderfoot who is beguiled into accompanying him!
Although the tide of battle between Olaf and the Board has been a shifting one, he has never become rhino, nor has he developed into a knocker, but instead, through determination and perseverance, he has come out on the "top side," and we're quite sure he'll be with us when the day comes to "draw them without requisition."
Olaf isn't a Mexican athlete; he doesn't say much as a rule. One thing you can bank on; if Olaf hasn't something good to say about a person he keeps his jaws battened down. But when it comes to asking questions—Just let him corner a C. P. O., and the rest can stand by to find out the answers to all the questions that have been bothering them from time immemorial. "And where does this pipe go? Oh, it does, hey? Well, who turns it on? What happens after that?"
Olaf's initials have never been seen on a hop liberty list but we have a hunch that it was entirely his desire that it should be so. How do we guess it? Well, "those who know" tell us that Olaf went to a ball on the West Coast, and came away with the city belle in her limousine, and with a string of dinner bids in his engagement book.
"Well now, it's like this———"
"Those floating mines—they're anchored, ain't they?"
Buzzard.
The Class of 1918 was graduated on June 28, 1917 due to World War I.
FRANK BROADUS HILLHOUSE
Sylvester, Georgia
"Olaf" "Stoney" "Cecelia"
OLAF is always ready for anything; whether it's a constitutional sprint around the field, or a liberty, or a drowning party in a cat-boat. Most of Olaf's pastimes do not savor of the parlor. To Olaf, the king of outdoor sports is cross-country walking; he is our foremost advocate of stretching one's legs out across ten or twelve miles of Maryland clay, as the Fountain of Youth is the cure for all pains. And he surely does stretch out; woe be unto the tenderfoot who is beguiled into accompanying him!
Although the tide of battle between Olaf and the Board has been a shifting one, he has never become rhino, nor has he developed into a knocker, but instead, through determination and perseverance, he has come out on the "top side," and we're quite sure he'll be with us when the day comes to "draw them without requisition."
Olaf isn't a Mexican athlete; he doesn't say much as a rule. One thing you can bank on; if Olaf hasn't something good to say about a person he keeps his jaws battened down. But when it comes to asking questions—Just let him corner a C. P. O., and the rest can stand by to find out the answers to all the questions that have been bothering them from time immemorial. "And where does this pipe go? Oh, it does, hey? Well, who turns it on? What happens after that?"
Olaf's initials have never been seen on a hop liberty list but we have a hunch that it was entirely his desire that it should be so. How do we guess it? Well, "those who know" tell us that Olaf went to a ball on the West Coast, and came away with the city belle in her limousine, and with a string of dinner bids in his engagement book.
"Well now, it's like this———"
"Those floating mines—they're anchored, ain't they?"
Buzzard.
The Class of 1918 was graduated on June 28, 1917 due to World War I.
Loss
Frank drowned while swimming at a party near Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the 14th Naval District's morale officer.
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
After dancing at the Moana, Frank and his friends went to the beach off Kahala. Frank was caught in the current 200 yards off shore. Naval Academy classmate Lt. Bronson P. Vosbury tried to reach him, but the current was too strong. Classmate Roy Busbey was also there.
In ill health, Frank’ brother Charlie died by suicide six weeks after him at their parents’ house. Their father was a traffic manager on the railroad.
He has a memory marker in Georgia.
Photographs
From the 1918 Lucky Bag
Memorial Hall Error
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