St Pauls School - Crusader Yearbook (Brooklandville, MD)

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Among the student service organizations ranks the Spirit Council. lts members are chosen by the previous year's representatives. The chief function is to stimulate spirit for the various school functions, cheer rallies, and the athletic events. The familiar cheer rallies are entirely staged by the Council, they have been a deciding factor in improving the attendance at games. The large scoreboard at the school entrance is being restored by the club at present. It was started by a former faculty member, Mr. Mclfntire, and has since fallen into disrepair. The Council leads the opening of the Monday morning assemblies and each week a different representative describes the athletic events of both the coming and previous weeks. This year the Council is comprised of Walt Toy, president, Bob Gore, vice-president, Ted Bossert, secretary-treasurerg Butch Darrell, Student Council representative, Jerry Schmidt, sixth form representativeg Skip Darrell, fourth form representativeg Mel Schultz, third form representative, John Boyce, second form representative, and Randy Walker, Monogram Club representative. To this youngest of the student service organizations, the staff wishes continued success in their constant striving for improved school spirit. Spirit Council . . . ,,,. ,. ... tr- t -1 is M r os .. I' j . . ' il Standing, left to right:-S. Darrell, Schultz, Walker, Schmidt. Sitting, left to right:-B. Darrell, Gore, Toy, Bossert, Boyce.

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D V., ...Q . ,.: 'jjj ' X3-L R f V f ' L 'FQSEQ Choir . . . Many of the school organizations have been in existence since the school's conception, but only one can claim the distinction of being older than the school. St. Paul's was founded as a school for the choir boys of St. Paul's Parish. Since that St. Paul's has grown greatly and so has the reputation of St. Paulis Choir. The personnel of the choir is taken from young boys of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades and businessmen from around the city. The boys supply the soprano section while the alto, tenor, and base sections are held down by the businessmen. Again under the direction of Mr. R. Donald McDorman the Choir enjoyed one of its finest and most productive years. In addition to the regular Sunday services the boys sang at the Baltimore Museum of Art during the Christmas Season and sang for the Diocese of Maryland during Lent. The climax came at the end of the year when the combined voices of the Choir and Clee Club joined in the most enjoyable and fruitful choir concerts ever performed. In addition to several choral selections by the Choir, and several pieces by the Clee Club, the two combined to sing the inspiring Testament of Freedom by Randell Thompson. The Choir's reputation is renowned over all the South as the best all male choir south of Philadelphia. 1

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u iris 31 'f ' . 'C 5 l Left to right:-Chapman, Fleury, Hasson, Hodgon, Coleman, Riden, Beale, von Lewinski, Huffman, Mr. McDorman. Miclclle School Council . . . To give the boys in the Middle School some experience in handling the problems of self-government which they will encounter in the Upper School, the Middle School Council handles its own problems. The Council is composed of nine boys, six elected by their own classmates and three appointed by the faculty. The Council is charged with the obliga- tion to support the school's Honor System, to foster school spirit, and to assist the faculty in many administrative duties. The Council boys preside at the Middle School assemblies, they correspond with and introduce assembly speakers, and they assist in the audio-visual program when it is incorporated in the assembly program. On a number of Saturdays, boys from the council have acted as hosts to incoming students who are taking their placement tests. A number of school activities-the magazine drive, the Community Chest, the Choir Concert ticket sales-have all been ably conducted by these boys. The Council is studying plans to help some orphaned or displaced children in Europe or the Far East, which may be undertaken next year. Many of the boys most active with the school bazaar and with the organized cheering at the games have been members of the Middle School Council. The officers of this year's club are: William Beale, president, John Riden, vice- presidentg Byron Huffman, secretary, and Carl von Lewinski, treasurer.