Birmingham University School - Equestria Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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WILLIAM EDMOND PRINCE WARNOCK ‘The Porfiro Rubirosa of B.U.S. —Prince Wamock has spent a good portion of his life at the Birmingham University School. He came here from Highlands I)ay School and joined Mr. Morring’s sixth grade. Princes bag is travel; Europe, twice: Canada, twice; all over the United States. Next summer he plans to spend in and around Paris where he will play his knowledge of the French language and customs on the fair damsels of the City of Light. Early in his career he got mixed up in the fraternity crowd and he has ended up president of his fraternity, although he is not captain of their football team. Prince is a lover of beautiful things, both animate and inanimate. He drives that jazzy red car and already has a collection of paintings of his own. Have we described the “playboy of the B.U.S. world? The answer is no; Prince is a serious person with it all, intent on a career in medicine. Any school that gets War-nock as a student will be lucky. 12

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DAVID HATTON MAR BURY, IV Dave is the Simon Stimson of B.U.S. lie is the idol of our music lovers and the prized student of our teachers. If vou wake up one morning and look out to sec your mail box down, you will know it was only Dave returning from a wild night on the town. Being the chaplain of his fraternity, he is a full-fledged member of the Mountain Brook social establishment. In English Dave is definitley teacher’s pet because of his extensive vocabulary and his great ability in writing poetry. Being one of the major contributors to the Roundtable, his poem “Life” is held to be his best so far. His abilities in Math are only surpassed by those of Albert Einstein. In closing, Dave is a Student well liked by teachers as well as the pupils. Dave also shows great ability in athletics with basketball being his best. Good luck, Dave, in college—and college, good luck! JONES CHARLES DUNIIAM Chuck is sweet and kind and lovable—so he says, anyway. Having roamed the halls of B.U.S. since the seventh grade, he has never been far away from the thick of things. Chuck, the Valedictorian of the Class of '71. gradually progressed from the rigors of the lower school to the aesthetic joys of Analysis and Logic, leaving his distinctive footprints upon the sands of time so deligently spread about each and every classroom and corridor of B.U.S. every morning. Never ceasing to rest in his seemingly endless struggle to escape the confines of B.U.S. and leap into the world. Chuck not only kept his grades high above average, but also swept progressively from activity to activity as his years of high school rapidly swept by. Now Vanderbilt University is beckoning, and Chuck will undoubtedly answer the call with the same intensity and forcefulness that were trademarks of his high school career. So it went! 11

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STEPHEN LEON PALMER Old Steve Palmer—Old before his time, that is—is quite an achiever; in fact, he is one of the moving forces in the local ijunior Achievement activities of this area. Me has even ad national awards for his work in JL. In JCL the Junior Classical League, he has no national awards yet. but he is the state treasurer of the group, having alaready held a gamut of offices in the local chapter. He has represented B.U.S. at Boys State and has been on the Math Team for three years; he won the top math award at graduation ’67. Never very modest, Palmer has sent his ego before the footlights quite successfully at school and about the town. His Professor Kokintz in THE MOUSE THAT ROARED will long be remembered. He was the student director of the fall play, ’70 at B.U.S. as well as playing Knowledge in same. This shy retiring ego represents B.U.S. on the Birmingham Beautification Board and in the '70-71 Heading Seminar with Brooke Hill. He is nominated for Outstanding Teenager of America citation which will probably come as no surprise to anyone. Presently he is basking in the light of 750 average board scores and 99th percentile on the national Merit Qualifying Exams, and all await anxiously to see which school—Yale, Harvard, or Princeton—will be lucky enough to get our shy retiring fellow. HARVEY ERNEST RAGLAND, III Sometimes laughing, sometimes grave, sometimes hardworking (Homecoming, 1970), sometimes easy-going: Who? Each characteristic describes Harvey Ragland, a transfer from Anniston Academy in his junior year. In the short period that he has been back at B.U.S. Harvey has been appointed Chairman of Homecoming (1970) and a representative to the Presidential Classroom for Young Americans (1971). His position as an outstanding student in the Class of ’71 is strengthened with these achievements. However, we have just touched his surface, the spirit goes deeper. 13