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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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Page 2 NOW AND THEN Marr are Ghent George Anderegg Edrtor Jonathan Niorgan Assoc Fdrtor Peter Vaughan Sports Edrtor Art Partridge Busrness Peter Townsend Roger Countryman I Advertrsrng Jack Parrsh 1 Sr Ford Crrculatron Roger Countryman Fred Sprlhaus I Photography FDITORIAL STAFF Joel lXash Tom Mrlton Bruce Plowmarr Trm Rrtchre A Nlrte John Frohllcher Edltorlal Another school year has begun Weary Jurnors Senrors now once agarn tramp about the town seek rng ads to finance the lNow and Then Edrtor Assocrate Fdrtor and Sports Edrtor coerce and threaten rn order to get artrcles The Busr ness Manager takes a qurck look at the papers books UD groans unhapprly and consrders gorng on an extended trrp to Peru Gradu allv the floor of the Now and Then room cleaned so enthusrrstlcrllv last ye rr by the new st rff becomes cluttered wrth rn assortment of old geometry prpers gum wr 1ppers rnd other sorts of trash Serrously how ey er the staff feels that last year S Now and Then rlong wrth the Senror Issue formed a good prcture of last year s actryrtrcs as 1 matter of fact we feel th rt thesc rssucs whtn bound to other grye 1 fulltr yrew of a school ye rr s rctryrtres th rn 1ye1r book lt rs true th rt the old Spars werc mort glamorous th 1n the bound edrtron 1nd proyrded an en trre ly nt w r rft of prctures and artr cles but the Senror Issue rs not seen except rn the bound edrtron so that there rs some novelty rn rt Last vear there were fourteen rssues publrshed rncludrng the final edrtron Thrs year the staff hopes to follow a careful schedule f fifteen rssues about three weeks apart We belreve that these rssues when vrewed at a later date wrll provrde a good runnrng record of the school eyents yet to come thrs year In memory of The Wild One The Scene of Gore From 6D1lemma By Brooks Henderson Hale drdnt feel the slrghtest brt of anger now only a longrng cr rung for what he was about to do He walked rn a fiendrsh man ner head bent and harr hangrng rbout hrs glazed eyes There he stood frcrng hrs mortal enemy The pale lrttle deficient stood sur yeyrng the premrses never suspect rng that he Frgaro had reached the end of hrs lusty lrfe Hale level ed the newly sharpened rnstrument He grrtted hrs teeth squared off and released a stamrna packed round house blow It connected accordrng to hrs rntent drrectly be hrnd the left err Frgaro drdnt seem to react for a moment, and H rle felt the hatchet strck He ap plied 1 brt of pressure and felt rt srnk brtrrrg deep rnto the neck of Irgaro Whrte whose gurglrng cry w rs completelv drowned out by the snapprng of the tendons and Jugu 111 vern 'Ihe handy lrttle tool now rn to the hrlt recerved from hrm a tremulous Jerk whrch not only tore open the low er portrorr of the head drsclosrm, hrs pulsatrng medula but scyrred the neck and sprne bone utterly shredded and lacer ated the tongue and hacked off the Jawbone so that rt dangled rn a rn 1nner whrch resembled a blood soaked pendulum suspended by a thread The gore cloaked hatchet now extracted from the entangled pulpy Jungle protrudrng wrth bones rnd drrpprng w rth yerns and hither or thrther a segment of brain hoycred oy er the corpse whrch h1d crumpled to the grass H 1le ftlt nothrng, only 1 numbness of the soul yet IH unconscrous smirk rested on hrs face Hale watched Whrtes anemrc blood slrther along the damp ground lrke 1 crrrrrson serpent seek rng rts prey and seep rnto the crevrces rn the earth lrke mouths of x 1mprres feeding off therr food llld nourrshment Hales eyes gl rnced down to the sweaty whrte h llld that held the murder weapon on 1 ghoulrsh grrsp rnd then to the source of the seemrngly end less sc rrlet flow It lay prone now 1nd then gryrng a slrght shudder As he stood there under the moon lrght settrng a ghostly mood of macabre Hale murmured Post mortem Jrtterbug pretty clever eh? he snrckered Gradually hrs stunned mrnd began to thaw out He sat down on the edge of the w ell ind broke rnto peals of con xulsrye hysterra It seemed a farce to hlm gore blood and gore strewn oyer the entrre drmensrons of hrs y 1rd He arose strll grrpprng the hatchet and sank rt rnto Frgaros brck between hrs protrudrng shoulder blades By thrs means, he dragged hrs defaced deceased to the rrm of the well and peered down rnto the forty foot abyss He next tore from Frg rro s sprnal area the rmplement whrch had served hrm so w cll placed rt upon the soft wet earth and prtched hrs tremely unfortunate vrctrm head long rnto hrs cylrnderlrke tomb He had well planned thrs murder out act for on the end of the rope lrtched to the wells pulley there w as attached a large, cumbersome rock of approxrrnately seventy to one hundred pounds rn w erght QH1s hrwkeye grrpped rt rn rts srght rmmedrately J On the opposrte end of the thrck twrne lrke cable he pl 1ced hrs fevercd hands He pulled wrth eyerv morsel of hrs ever w rnrng strength dangled the boulder oyer the edge of the well and let rt fall Hrs ear w as prerced by the soothrng sound of pulver rzed bones For r second trme he eleyated the masher clothed rn rt mn 1r1ts of bonu pulps rnd let rt frll for a second trme Thrs trme lrt herrd but 1 soft squrshy vrbra tron comp 1rable to a wet sponge berng flung, lg1lIlSlZ the wall For 1 thrrd 1nd fin rl time the nauseous rrturl was rtpeated the heavy stone porsed oyer rts decadent ob yect but the str rrn oyerwhelmrng the assailant Jolted rt from hrs grrp and cat rpulted rt rnto the dark depths The sound that registered on Hales br nn thrs 'ast trme was nt rrcr to a spl rsh th rn anythrng else All w IS srlent now all but 1 curdlrng resembling that of a frrrly w erghty object srnkrng down ward rnto a semr lrqurd mass of protoplasm The End Mr Van Crse Flrst Impressrons To rnvrte a freshman faculty member to wrrte of hrs first rm pressrorrs of SPA durrng the early weeks of absorbrng the exactrng demands of hrs new posrtron rs cer tarnly rnvrtrng mayhem Every thrng had promrsed to be so pleas ant and comfortable A new gym' Beautrful new classrooms wrth the most up to date equrpment And rbove all wonderfully clear dry clrmatc These were among some of the glowrng possrbrlrtres for 1 te rcher enterrng the h 1llow ed halls of the Sarnt Paul Ac1denry Then came reality Who extends the hand of welcomel Why none other than that famous gentleman Jupe Pluvrus who proyrdes a most extended demonstratron of hrs thoroughly drenchrng business As rn rrdent rdmrrer of th rt cheerful chap Apollo you can rmagrne how gracefully I received thrs hospr talrty Who wrll ever forget that first week of rarn'7 In keeprng wrth thrs and hand rn hand wrth old Jupe the head master escorts me to the seat of learning from whrch I am to at tempt to rmpart the loye and lore of our beloved Anglo S 1xon tongue Vrsualrzlng the aforementroned classrooms you c1n rmagrne my consternation as Mr Read stops rn front of Room 8 a nrche from whrch Mr Chapman has cleverly be rten a retreat rn favor of hrs sp1crous rccommodatrons rn the new rddrtlon and calmly states Thrs rs your room Mr Van Crse What would you think? As for that edrfice berng erected for the physrcrl development of the rrsrng m1le populatron I find rt rs nearly rmpossrble to approach rt After wrdrng through a sea of mud clrmbrng over a maze of scatfoldrng shovrng asrde mon strous boxes of equrpment and be mg pushed here and there by a most deternnncd and lCtlV9 crew of workmen I give up Thus my thoughts on the potent11l value of the gym must be waved untrl tCont d on page 4 col D o G 99 60:15, q 4 A . 1 ' V 1 . , . . H C v ' 24411-nr' v v . .. r va ' , .if V rv - - ' . '1 ' 4 , l , L ,K L I . .... .g . A , ' , l ' 1 A L 1 . ,1 - V . , g , ' A 1 L -D L V ........... . L ' 1 y V V . , , V . l N , , jr . . , . V. . . - , , , , ' 1 . , 2 , ' r . 5 . . , , , an H . ' , 1 . ,1 g 1 v ' v ' ' - . 1 . i . , . I , . 1 . 1 1 . J A . 4 V v I 1 . - . 'x . . ' ' - v 9 . . . 1 , ' 1 , BX- . n K , - .1 P. ' V ' - - V- ,' , Y ' 'z. , ' ' - ' - ' a 1 1 . . 1- ' ' ' , v 7 L - 7 1 a y VV 1 . s . . ' 7 ' 1 L, y , . . . . 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