CHARACTER SKETCH

 

NAME TOLLIVER KOWALSKI

 

NICKNAME SKI

 

APPEARANCE WAS WITHIN REGS ABOARD SEAVIEW, CURRENTLY AS PRIVATE CITIZEN, HAS LET HIMSELF GROW A MUSTACHE.

 

HAIR –STYLE-COLOR-TYPE-TEXTURE, BAD HAIRCUT BECAME A TALKING POINT WITH GIRLS, DECIDED TO KEEP IT.

 

 

EYES –GLASSES-CONTACTS- BROWN NO GLASSES

 

WEIGHT UNKNOWN

 

COLORING MEDIUM

 

HEIGHT ABOUT 6’3”

 

BUILD TALL, MUSCULAR

 

FACTIAL FEATURES –LIPS, EYEBROWS, LASHES, JAW LINE, NOSE

ANGULAR JAWLINE, CURRENTLY HAS MUSTACHE. SAYS IT DRAWS BABES.

 

 

VOICE –ACCENT – WAY OF TALKING NO ACCENT I’M AWARE OF

 

FAMILY PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, BROTHER (STAN)

 

CONNECTION TO ME FORMER EMPLOYEE, SHIPMATE

 

BEST FRIENDS/ENEMIES CONGENIAL

 

ETHNIC/CULTURAL BACKGROUND POLISH ON FATHER’S SIDE, RUSSIAN ON MOTHER’S.

 

SCHOOLING HIGH SCHOOL

 

OCUPATIONS PRESENT-PREVIOUS  U.S. NAVAL ATING. FORMER EMPLOYEE WITH NIMR ASSIGNED TO SEAVIEW, CURRENTLY PART OWNER OF SHARKEY’S GRILLE

 

HOBBIES ENJOYS COLLECTING ANTIQUE MINIATURE TRAINS. PLAYS SANTA’S ELF AT DEPT. STORES.

 

 

POLITICAL PREFERENCES NEVER DISCUSSED POLITICS WTH ME

 

LIKES GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS (HEALTHY AMERICAN BOY!)

 

 

DISLIKES. MOST OFFICERS (FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF IT) BUT DOES RESPECT THEIR AUTHORITY. DISLIKED LEE INTENSLEY AT FIRST BUT WHO COULD BLAME HIM. LEE HAD SNUCK ABOARD AND PUNCHED HIM!

 

HOWEVER, WITHIN A FEW WEEKS, ESP. AFTER LEE HAD SAVED OUR HIDES, AND THE WORLD’S AS A MATTER OF FACT,  SKI WAS PRACTICALLY LICKING HIS BOOTS, LIKE MOST OF THE CREW. KOWALSKI BECAME VERY PROTECTIVE OF ‘THE SKIPPER’ MUCH TO LEE’S CHAGRIN AT TIMES.

 

RESPECTS PERHAPS EVEN LIKES ME AS I GAVE HIM THE JOB ABOARD SEAVIEW, WHEN THE NAVY WOULDN’T LET HIM RE-UP. SOMETHING ABOUT TOO MANY ALTERCATIONS (ALWAYS SAID HE WAS DEFENDING THE GIRLS’ HONOR) BUT THE NAVY DIDN’T BUY IT. WAS ON REPORT A NUMBER OF TIMES. BUT HE’S WAS A GOOD  SUBMARINER AND I COULDN’T ARGUE WITH THAT SO I HIRED HIM.

HE NEVER LET ME DOWN.

 

WAS USUALLY SELECTED BY LEE FOR THE MORE DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENTS REQUIRING A ‘BUDDY’. KNEW HE COULD DEPEND ON SKI.

 

MOVIES/BOOKS/PLAYS ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW.

 

 

FOODS UNKNOWN. HE NEVER COMPLAINED ABOARD SEAVIEW. DOES LIKE ‘ORDINARY CHOW’, (NONE OF THAT ‘FANCY STUFF’ THEY SERVE AT PARTIES  (OYSTERS, CRAB DIP AND THE LIKE). KNOWN TO EAT AN ENTIRE PINT OF ICE CREAM AT ONE SITTING.

 

SPORTS HOCKEY

 

FEARS/PHOBIAS GHOSTS. HAD HIS OWN UINQUE EXPERIENCE WTHI KRUGER THAT  GAVE HIM A TEMPORARY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

 

QUIRKS` I’M SURE HE HAS SOME, CAN’T THINK OF THEM NOW.

 

CHARACTER FLAWS A BIT OPINONATED ABOUT OFFICERS IN GENERAL, BUT WOE BETIDE ANYONE BADMOUTHING ME, OR ESPECIALLY HIS BELOVED SKIPPER (LEE)

 

FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS/ TYPICAL GESTURES DIDN’T WORK WITH HIM CLOSELY ENOUGH TO NOTICE.

 

CHILDHOOD/TEEN MEMORY NONE

 

ROLE  MODEL SOMETIMES, SOMETIMES NOT

 

TEN WORDS TO SUM UP WHAT I THINK OF THIS PERSON

DEPENDABLE. NOT LIKELY TO PANIC (UNLESS IT’S A GHOST)

 

TEN WORDS HOW THIS PERSON AFFECTED MY LIFE

I COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON HIM TO DO HIS JOB.

 

WHAT I’D SAY TO THIS PERSON IF WE MET TODAY

I’M GLAD YOU’RE DOING WELL IN YOUR NEW LIFE AT SHARKEY’S GRILL.

 

WHAT I WISH I HADN’T SAID /DONE TO THIS PERSON

YOU WORRY ABOUT THE SKIPPER TOO MUCH.