Vincent Tumeo:
CLASS OF 1942
Holy Rosary SchoolClass of 1942
Columbus, OH
Ohio State UniversityClass of 1945
Columbus, OH
Sacred Heart Grade SchoolClass of 1938
Columbus, OH
Vincent's Story
College
Took administrtative business courses and tried out for the football team as a left end. Left the university at the end of the 3rd quarter for personal reasons.
I lived in Columbus Ohio all my life and always wanted to go to the university, especially to play football and take a course that I could make a living at since I wasn't sure what I wanted to be in.
Workplace
After spending almost three years in the Marine Corps before entering OSU I was successful in obtaining a job in t he Dept of Highways as an administrative assistant, and after ten years there I secured a position with City of Columbus
as a Budget Analyst in the Dept of Finance under Mayor Sensenbrenner and later moved to the City Council and served there as Assistant City Clerk until I retired to Florida in 1984.
Military
I joined the US Marine corps in May1942 before graduating high school June 4, 1942.
During those thirteen weeks I think the funniest thing that happened to me was when I was taken to a swimming pool with a full pack on my back and asked if I could swim and before I said I couldn't was pushed in and had to swim the length of the pool which was probably 80-100 yards and about five feet deep. Various things that I had witnessed, were recrui...Expand for more
ts that couldn't march or couldn't do things just right were subjected to various things. For Example: If you dropped your rifle into the sand while attempting to stack them during a drill; you had to sleep with all of them. Our rifle was known as our wife. Another thing was people who couldn't walk straight during a marching exercise, their pockets in their Dungarees were filled with sand to keep them weighted down so they wouldn't stray. We had to walk with our rifle (which weighed nine pounds) holding the rifle out with our arms outstretched; and duck walk fifty to a hundred feet. I was assigned to Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island which was near Providence. Quonset Point was a training facility for ten thousand Navy Air Cadets. and I was assigned there for guard duty. Later that year which was around November 1942. I was chosen along with twenty-three others to be a rifle instructor for the US Navy Seabees. My main job was to teach 'dry-firing'. Which is how to use your rifle how to clean how to fire it, etc. there was a priest that was there was a Jesuit from Holy Cross College by the name of Father Frederich Gallegher, (an officer probably in his late thirties or early forties) a true irishman. More later.
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