Episcopal High School - Whispers Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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E v r 1 It .AAQPWOP May 16. 1953 At this juncture. as far as lim concerned. WIIISPERS has gone to press: and you. the reader. have presumably finished scanning the preceding 123 pages of this 51st edition. It seems appropriate to me. during this pause at the close of our work and before the beginning of exams. that two rather vital questions might be probed: First. What is WIIIIS-PERS? and second. What does WHISPERS mean? Personally. as l review my final year at E.H.S.. which has been absorbed almost wholly with the many and varied tasks necessary to give birth to a TWHIS- PERS worthy of a tradition set generally by fifty outstanding annuals and specifically by the an- nual of 1952. two questions strike me as most significant: What am I doing? and What, if any. is the meaning of my work? First. What is WIIISPERS? The answer to this question depends very much upon ones viewpoint. To a few. WHISI'ERS is not unlike any other picture book except that their names and pictures appear once or twice. To many it is a convenient repository for inane auto- graphs. To our very accommodating photographer. Mr. Turner. XVHISPERS is the job of arranging from 6 to 60 boys lthe majority of whom are temporarily intoxicated with their own good looks? in an orderly group whose collective eyes are open. whose mouths are shut. To Mr. Coleman. our invaluable advocate at the Lynchburg Engraving Co.. WHISPERS is a continual stream of photographs to be engraved. at least half of which are labeled with a peremptory HRUSHIU To Mr. Newell. our Job-like printer. WliISPERS is five frenzied weeks of sheer. unadulterated hell-in-a-printing-shop. To Mr. Deeble. our unsung advisor tthey usually aret. WHISPERS is a group of wrangling and procrastinating editors who have ab- solutely no consideration for the milkrnen of Omaha or the canons of the Little Grey Book. To Mr. Daniel. WIIlSl'ERS is a vague. three-digit figure on his ledger in blatant red ink. And to all those who have had a part in molding it into its present shape. WHISPERS is synomous with sacrifice-sacrifice of varying sorts and degrees-of a good breakfast disposition. of a night or more of sleep. of a Saturday night movie in Fairlington. or an afternoon in the li- brary or on the half-rubber field. andfor considerable peace of mind. Hence. as you can see. WHISPERS is a trifle more than a glorified scrapbook. It is the product of the collective efforts of a group of students. masters. and businessmen. who otherwise would never have gotten to know each other as intimately as they have. But what does WIIISPERS mean? Is it merely a collection of words and pictures sufii- cient unto itself. or does it stand for something more significant? Would WHISPI-IRS convey anything about HHS. to one not acquainted with the school. or does the book depend for its fullest meaning upon a familiarity with life as lived on the Holy Hill? That is to say. is WlIISI'ERS an entity. or is it a symbol for something larger and less readily printed? To any student who has had occasion to collide with the l'i.H.S. English department. the term sym- boli' carries the connotation of something obscure thrown into some sonnet or other by some joe like Shakespeare. to stand for something utterly foreign to the original and thus to becloud the picture hopelessly. But symbols are more a part of our existence than we might realize. The ll itself a piece of dreary but inexpensive felt. represents possibly three months of superior head-knockingon a cold muddy gridiron. ls not TVHISPI-IRS much like that Does it not stand not only for a great many hours of concentrated labor. but also. like the for the governing spirit of the Holy Hill. or if you prefer. for simply the prevailing atmosphere of E.H.5.? The lf ultimately stands for the spirit of competition and sportsmanship on the athletic fiPlflfWllISl'ERS for the more general and more intangible spirit that makes E.H.5. unique among prep schools. The fact that WIIlSI'ERS is one of the most evident and more en- during manifestations of that singular part of li.H.S. is. l believe. answer enough to the ques- tion. 'What does XVIIISPI-IRS mean to me? . . .What does XVIIISPERS mean to you? -SPEED lilI.L. Edilor in Chief. 124