Episcopal High School - Whispers Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Kfadrieti The most challenging part of life at school is without uestion the academic. Because man realizes that ucation is the only armor which will equip him to say the mastery ofthe manifold challenges presented y his complex life, he has ever been greatly concerned ith the communication to his posterity of the vast, ccumulated.Knowleclge of his forebears. To this end e Board of Trustees of E.H.S. has thrown economy o the winds- sometimes agreeing to pay masters as uch as 35200 a year-in assembling a faculty which s certainly well prepared to make a totally unique ontribution to the lives of those students whose inds are entrusted to their care. Scien ce First let us consider the Science Department. Here, assembled in one mighty group, are a man who once found a worm and named it-with remarkable originality-for the creek in which he was swimming at the timeg a man who not only knows what the meaning of serendyngz is, but has even used it in a sentence, and the best chalk pitcher in the majors. At the hands of our physics master hundreds have Studying supper. Waiting to be programmed. learned the breath-taking secret of the innards of a Servel gas refrigerator, one of which he bought on sale in 1927. The play days in the Physics Lab, in addition, are bright spots in every old boy's memories. Nor have many hearts failed to thrill atthe numerous full-color photographs of the Great Disasters of History. Who does not recall with a quiet inward chuckle the expression on theface oftheman who had just fallen forty flights down an empty elevator shaft? But the Chemistry Lab has been no laggard in pro- viding fond memories. Between the suspense of won- dering when someone would blow up the lab and the hilarious amusement of the simple little problems, have been sandwiched witty sallies at thejohn Birch Society and its chief adherent, and practical experi- ments to determine which end of the cigarette has the filter. Finally, there is that beloved interlude in the day known as Biology. This fun-filled class is re- membered for its film strips, with their highly original narrations, its cat dissection, and most of all for its High price of learning. was , it . ' .5 ff' M! 5... Qlsai...

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.Spf A X ,nr ln ,-. , '4 szwiflifik .M H w nw, pn t. I s '1lVlRS. VIRGINIA NIISS ANNIE R. GIASCOCK CLEMENT ARTHUR JOHN EDMUND . OIYIPKINSI BELL School Nurse LONG, JR. ROBERTS, M.D Llbrflnang-Chou MO'-her 105164 Slfljf-1941 School Superintendent School Physician lomgd Pacu!ly'1941 joined Staff-1945 famed Staff-1952 MRS. BETTY MRS. RAYMOND S. HAMMOND M. BLAIR MRS. MARJORIE ROSS MRS. E. CRAIG YVILTON Head DiEliCi3I1 Bookkeeper School Secretary Academic Secretary foineflsltzfj-11956 joined SMH-1959 joined Slaf-1961 joined Slajf- 1961 TO MILDRED N. HOOVER A Secretary of the Episcopal High School 1945 - 1961 f From the Board of Trustees in grateful appreciation of f V her devoted and valuable services ll.. - We J H r 'ww- .... . ' 1 M... tt. tt tu ell e - . t T

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master's handkerchief. Success in biology has only mixed with lCCtUI'CS 011 the drama and slightly off . it +v---I Cariline and CiCCf0- Um Gottes Willen! A bas la Russel two requisites-a phenomenal memory for twelve- syllable words direct from the Greek with little trans- lation, and a strong stomach. It also helps if you hate cats. ollallguagdj Next we turn to the Language Department, which offers 'courses in no less than five areas. Most popu- lous of the classes is Latin, a language dedicated to the perpetuation of hatred for Catiline and the Nervii. While one's admiration for Cicero grows Qunder pressure from the chairman of the departmentj, one's boredom lessens. Finally, one finds oneselfin Virgil class dashing off translations in heroic couplets. The modern languages are well represented. Firstly, French, therornanticlanguage of the Congo Republic and the O.A.S., is introduced to eager young minds, The sun will also rise in the West. key, but suitably emotional, renditions ofthe Mar seillaise, by a master who, without question, has ap certain Gallic flavor about him. One also partakes o the classical French authors, from Racine to Victo Hugo, and occasionally of the more modern forml of a'iver!z'ssement, such as Brigitte Bardot. Spanish. with the usual logic of the High School, is taught by Welshman. Here one has bits of the language inter spersed regularly throughout an exploration ol Spanish history, literature, art, geography, culture and anything else irmately Hispanic. In short, on emerges from three years of Spanish as thoroughl indoctrinated with a British view of Spain as i possible. German has the distinction of having beeii taught for fifty-one years by the same master, an of being the last safe hiding place for former Bun members and supporters of George Lincoln Rockwellc Wl1at's he doing in study hall? .a:nm.,.a QF 1.44 or Q5 4 5.1-f- A