John Everett, Jr. '32
Date of birth: March 17, 1911
Date of death: January 10, 1943
Age: 31
Lucky Bag
From the 1932 Lucky Bag:
JOHN LEAK EVERETT, JR.
Rockingham, North Carolina
"John L."
"And Marse Jim beat that [n------] [edited by VMH] 'til he was daid." Thus our first introduction to the rebel-born, mammy-reared, and plantation-bred John L. The story is of no importance—but he's got all the ideas in his head that the quotation implies, such as Legree-esque overseers and rolling fields of cotton and pickaninnies playing around the barns and the coach rolling up to the door with the "marstuh back from the woe." Our John is a real Southern gentleman.
But he's a tea houn'. Doggone his soul, he is. With his other Tarheel companions in crime, he makes the rounds of the Annapolitan parlors of a Sunday afternoon. Thus has he earned himself entree into all the back parlors and salons which, to the common chaff standing on the outside looking in, have assumed the proportions of a mystic shrine.
He dabbles here and there in athletics. His chief claim to fame is as a swimmer, but he has, at various times, touched lightly, as becomes a Southerner, football, lacrosse, water polo, and the faintest suggestion of soccer.
Swimming; 2 P.O.
Loss
John was lost when USS Argonaut (APS 1) was sunk by a Japanese surface forces near Rabaul on January 10, 1943.
His wife was listed as next of kin.
Memorial Hall Error
John's memory marker, the September 1946 issue of Shipmate, and the June 1943 All Hands Bulletin all identify him as a LT, USNR; he is listed as "LCDR, USN" in Memorial Hall.
Class of 1932
John is one of 52 members of the Class of 1932 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
