HARLOW M. PINO, LT, USN
Harlow Pino '21
Lucky Bag
From the 1921 Lucky Bag:
Harlow Milton Pino
Saint Paul, Minnesota
"Piney" "Squirrel"
"START your orchestra, Mister." Piney must needs cease coaling, accompany the xylophone of glasses, and proceed to entertain a ring of First Classmen crouched about the table of properly trained Plebes by playing on the table as a piano.
Soulful sincerity is our Milton's personification illustrated by his "beg pardon, sir," as he gently but firmly stepped from the ladies' dressing room that he had absentmindedly entered after the one and only. His object of envy is a real bad man, but bad he can not be. The ladies have him sized up right, but daring as they are, none really know him and it's "give my love to all—especially 'Piney'" in your rare letters.
So far we have nothing on him. We know his thoughts and to hear such from his cherubic lips is a shock, but Piney shocking—impossible!
Steady, rational, tactful, square, good qualities are his from force of habit and when you need a hand you can't miss his.
"GOO-bye, 'Piney.'"
President Class 1921-B; Four Stripes; Basketball Numerals (4); Baseball N (4); Baseball N, 2 Stars (3, 2); Basketball Manager (2); Vice-President Y. M. C. A., 1920-1921; Captain Baseball (1); Hop Committee (2, 1).
The Class of 1921 was the last of the wartime-accelerated classes. "1921A" was graduated on June 3, 1920; the second half, "1921B", was graduated on June 2, 1921. Harlow was graduated with 1921B.
Harlow Milton Pino
Saint Paul, Minnesota
"Piney" "Squirrel"
"START your orchestra, Mister." Piney must needs cease coaling, accompany the xylophone of glasses, and proceed to entertain a ring of First Classmen crouched about the table of properly trained Plebes by playing on the table as a piano.
Soulful sincerity is our Milton's personification illustrated by his "beg pardon, sir," as he gently but firmly stepped from the ladies' dressing room that he had absentmindedly entered after the one and only. His object of envy is a real bad man, but bad he can not be. The ladies have him sized up right, but daring as they are, none really know him and it's "give my love to all—especially 'Piney'" in your rare letters.
So far we have nothing on him. We know his thoughts and to hear such from his cherubic lips is a shock, but Piney shocking—impossible!
Steady, rational, tactful, square, good qualities are his from force of habit and when you need a hand you can't miss his.
"GOO-bye, 'Piney.'"
President Class 1921-B; Four Stripes; Basketball Numerals (4); Baseball N (4); Baseball N, 2 Stars (3, 2); Basketball Manager (2); Vice-President Y. M. C. A., 1920-1921; Captain Baseball (1); Hop Committee (2, 1).
The Class of 1921 was the last of the wartime-accelerated classes. "1921A" was graduated on June 3, 1920; the second half, "1921B", was graduated on June 2, 1921. Harlow was graduated with 1921B.
Loss
Harlow was lost on September 25, 1925 when his submarine, USS S-51 (SS 162), was sunk immediately following a collision with the merchant ship SS City of Rome while operating on the surface south of Newport, Rhode Island.
Biography
From researcher Kathy Franz:
Harlow was a gifted violinist who often took his violin with him to sea. His parents had just built a house for him as a surprise, and he was engaged to be married. The family had moved from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Long Beach, California, three years ago. His father K. Harlow was a retired businessman. His mother was Henrietta. His brothers were John and James, and his sisters were Reine Dorthea and Josephine.
At the Naval Academy, Harlow was a regimental officer, president of his class, and captain of the baseball team. He recently wrote his parents that his “jinx” was finally over. He had been involved in a series of bad luck, but winning the baseball championship earlier that summer and getting an appointment to the Pacific had changed that.
News reports blamed the merchant ship City of Rome for the collision. The submarine was running on top of the water and had the right of way. The City of Rome rammed her on the port side. An S.O.S. call was not sent out, only a regular radio message. Also, she failed to flash searchlights on the water around the wreck or throw out buoys so that the spot where the submarine sank could be located. Because of the submarine’s slippery sides and its weight of 500 tons, she could not be raised immediately. She was finally raised on July 5, 1926.
His Find A Grave page is here.
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James Haselden, Jr. '20, Frederic Foster '22, and Edmund Egbert '23 were also lost when the submarine was sunk.
The "Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps" was published annually from 1815 through at least the 1970s; it provided rank, command or station, and occasionally billet until the beginning of World War II when command/station was no longer included. Scanned copies were reviewed and data entered from the mid-1840s through 1922, when more-frequent Navy Directories were available.
The Navy Directory was a publication that provided information on the command, billet, and rank of every active and retired naval officer. Single editions have been found online from January 1915 and March 1918, and then from three to six editions per year from 1923 through 1940; the final edition is from April 1941.
The entries in both series of documents are sometimes cryptic and confusing. They are often inconsistent, even within an edition, with the name of commands; this is especially true for aviation squadrons in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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