St Paul Academy - Review Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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aN 'V - PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE ST PAUL ACADEMY ST PAUL MINN Vol XLVIII OCTOBER 1 1954 No 1 FACUL7 Y PROFILES Mr Van CISG Mr Van Crse has Jorned the faculty thrs year He teaches En glrsh to the three lower forms coaches the Acorns rn the rntra mural football progranr and wrll coach varsrty tennrs thrs sprrng Born rn Summrt New Jersey and havrng attended hrgh school there, Mr Van Crse went to Maryvrlle College rn Tennessee QABD He acqurred hrs Mrsters Degree rn New York Before teachrng h worked w rth the YMCA After that he Jorned the faculty of Peddre School rn Iwew Jersey a prrvate school for boys where he was head of the lower school md also a coach of tenrrrs soccer rnd basket ball Irom there he went to East Aurora Hrgh School There he was charrman of the Englrsh depart ment He h rs been charrman of the Mr Van Crse Englrsh Examrnatron Commrttee of the Secondary Educatron Board Durrng the summer too he has been teachrng only rn a drfferent sense For seven years he was pro gram drrector at a boys' camp rn the Adrrondacks and the next seven he spent at a grrls camp One now finds Mr Van Crse lrv rng at 748 Goodrrch Ave wrth hrs wrfe and three chrldren Sally, Kenny and Carol He rs enthusras trc over the tennrs court whrch can be set up rn the gym and whrch wrll proxrde some early practrce for hrs tennrs team He certarnly must hive hrs hands full rn teach rn Englrsh to the throngs of lower formers From hrs past record rt IS evrdent that he wrll be a rrch ad drtron to the Academy We are very happy to have hrm wrth us S A GETS EXCHANGE Senrors Gam Advanced Credlts As well as realrzrng the goal of becornrng Senrors the Class of 55 has recerved the honor of becomrng the first class at the Academy to be allowed to take courses whrch w1ll lead to advanced credits upon therr arrrval at college These courses are offered rn Englrsh German French Physrcs and Hrs tory and are grven rn addrtron to the regular subJects Thrs IS perhaps the srmplest way of explarnrng the so called Ken yon Plan Kenyon College of Gambler Ohro was the orrgrnator of thrs radrcally drfferent plan whereby a more capable student mrght find trme for more studres rn college Thrs also prevents sard student from berng requrred to take what mrght almost be consrdered remedral work Thus far some twenty odd secondary schools, scattered across the natron and about a dozen colleges and unrver srtres mostly on the East Coast are partrcrpatrng rn the program Several more colleges and many more hrgh schools are carefully consrderrng enterrng thrs group The Academy rs the first school rn Mrnnesota to enter the program and hopes that many more schools both publrc and rndependent wrll Jorn rn the future The Academy s oflicral attrtude toward the pro gram IS that even rf a partrcrpant enters a college where the credrts are not accepted the work he has done wrll not be detrrmental to hrs success rn college Glee Club Under Way The Glee Club season rs now under way full trlt and the srxteen members of the A Cappella have been selected along wrth the four part leaders Mr Wrlkrnson has scheduled the usual five or srx con certs rncludrng the Summit Acade my concert and the League con cert Thrs years A Cappella con tarns Frrst Tenors Crosby Hoff Hubbs Second Tenors Morgan Pedersen Ward and Frohlrcher Barrtones Trerney Earl Klern and Brackett and Basses Countryman French Blacque and Parrsh The part leaders are Countryman Mor gan Hoff and Crosby New Addrtron Ready Almost As school opened thrs year the students were greeted by a host of rnnovatrons and rmprovements notably among them the new class rooms These were finrshed rn the proverbial nrck of trme on Sep tember 10th and 11th the Frrday and Saturday before school opened Illustratrve of thrs haste rs the fact that Mr Read hrmself to ge-ther wrth a select group of stu dents spent many hours sweeprng and cleanrng the new rooms rn preparatron to w axrng the floors These new classrooms are truly a thrng of be ruty and a Joy for ever featurrng burlt rn closets for storage and specral sound proofing materral on the walls and cerlrngs rn order to muffle the roar comrng from a class Thrs Sound proofing board rs festooned wrth an ornate pattern of small holes a feature whrch may rnsprre many Prep Formers to rndulge, knrfe rn hand therr artrstrc abrlrtres rn an effort to rmprove and beautrfy the walls Along wrth thrs sound proofing CCont d on page 4 col 25 Councrl Notes By Trm Rrtchre The first meetrng of the Student Councrl was held on September 16 Many problems rre facrng thrs year s councrl members whrch they are already begrnnrng to solve For several years the questron of a school hand book has been contemplated and thrs year the councrl plans to realrze thrs rdea Many schools have such a hand book and letters have been sent to these schools askrng for copres From these varrous hand books the councrl plans to recerve rdeas as to what our school hand book should contarn It has been sug gested that the school song the name of the class presrdents faculty members team captains and other facts about the school should be rncluded The councrl discussed the stu dent run study halls Thrs rs the first trme that thrs system h rs been trred at SPA and rt has been for the most part a success Although only a few study hrlls rre now under the supervrsron of students rt rs hoped that rn the future more CCont d on page 'Z col 41 STUDE T The Senror Class of SPA has one new member thrs year a boy whose home rs somewhat farther from school th rn those of most students Hrs name rs Srbel Tanberk and hrs home rs Istanbul Turkey He has been sent to thrs country by the Amerrc rn Freld Servrce rn organ rzrtron whrch thrs year sent erght other Turkrsh students besrdes Srbel to the Unrted States Ahmet Srbel Trnberk thrs full namel w rs born rn Zanguldak sm rll town on the Black Sea on March '78 1938 Hrs farnrly later moxed to Istrrrbul where Srbels father works for the government rs 1 mrnrng engrneer Srbel has one brother twelve Whrle rn Turkey Srbel rttended Robert College rn Arnerrcan spon sored cornbrrratron of hrgh school and college where he studred ten subjects some of them under Amerrcan rnstructors Havrng studred Englrsh for five yerrs he has 1 good grasp of the lrngu rg rnd rs rt the present trme wadrng through Narrrty Farr wrth the rest of the Senror Class fEngl1sh rs compulsory at the school where Srbel studredl Hrs grades 1n the Ist rnbul school were between 75 and 80 he was chosen by the stu dents and faculty of hrs school and the Freld Servrce p rrtly bec ruse of hrs populrrrty He wrll remarn here for the duratron of the school ye rr rnd then return to Turkey Next frll he wrll return to hrs old school rs 1 college sophomore he has rlrerdv finrshed hrs Turkrsh hrgh school yerrs and thrs yerr wrll trke the place of a Freshman vear rn college He wrll have five wears vet rhead of hrm however srnce 1 Turkrsh engrneerrng degree thrs professronal desrrej requrres srx serrs of study Srbel says that the studies rt SPA are easrer than those at hrs old school Srbel came to the Unrted St rtes wrth about two hundred other stu dents some of whom were Amerr crns returnrng from Furopean va catrorrs on the steamshrp Seven Seas He apparentlv had a fine xox rge smce the grrls on the shrp outnumbered the boys Before borrdrng the Seven Seas he and hrs fellow students tr rveled from Istrrrbul to Athens Greece from Athens to Rome then to Parrs rnd Le Hrvre Srbel srys that many Amerrcan students vrsrt Turkey and fContd on prge 4 col 41 ' if I 8,8 . , . , . . , , 1 c . . 0 0 0 o ' ' . . . - -, A V .u - , ' 1 . 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