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

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. 1 3 75 N Ebert -I' I' SIN PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE ST. PAUL ACADEMY, ST. PAUL, MINN. V01 XLVIV Friday October 21 1955 N 1 SPA RCCCIVCS Forewn Student T rs ye 11, as last year he Academy SPDIOI Class 1GC6lXCd a forergn student through the Amer rcan Freld Serwrce Hugo Ortner rs known to most of the students already as he ar rrr ed 1n thrs coun try rn trme for football camp and errly practrce Hugo Manfred Ortner was born on Aprrl 7, 1939, rn Graz Austrra, 1 town of about 130 000 about 100 mrles south of Vrenna He re cerxed four years of elementary school trarnrng 11nd, after passrng an e1cam1n1tron was admrtted to the Gymn rsrum the equrvalent of our prep schools The 1lternat1ve to thrs was to spend four addr tronal ye IIS 1n general school bas rcally a rocatronal or tr 1de school After erght years rn the Gymnasr um, he Wrll take 1n examrnatron for the Unrx ersrty of Graz SPA students wrll be more con tent wrth therr own lot when they learn that Hugo has been takrng fourteen subjects whrle attendrng the Gymnasrum Latrn Greek, Englrsh rehgron, chemrstrv, phys rcs hrstory mrth geography, b ology rnd physrcrl educatron cervmg grades rn behaxrour and neatness IS well However, Hugo hastens to add th It these courses are contmued for 11 number of years, rather than completed rn one specrflc xerr He took two years of Englrsh before commg to Amer rca 1nd has not had too much trouble w 1th the langu rge, al though he attrrbutes '1 great deal of hrs fluencv to the trme he spent at footb 1ll crmp M1nv of Hugos own reactrons to X IIIOUS f1cets of Amerrcan llfe wrll be renewed rn 1 later rssue He rs recerxrng a rather large mersure of responsrbrlrtv hurng been elected treasurer of the Senror class 1 notorrouslv trght fisted group lxewertheless he rs re rctrng well to the change rn hrs emron ment 1nd rs alreadv '1 well known 1nd well lrked figure around the school ATTEND The Football Dance FRIDAY. NOV 4TH 9 00 12 00 P M in Varney Laboratory Mr Drechsel FACULTY PROFILES Mr Drechsel By Donn Drew Mr Robert P Drechsel was born and r111sed rn the teemrng metrop olrs of Chrcago He tolled hrs way through that crtys publrc school svstem and thence enrolled rn the U of C Upon graduatrng he serxed hrs sentence rn the aquatrc branch of our armed serxrces, the Nary After a 31 year stay there, he went back to hrs 1lma mater for hrs degrees BA and BS rn mathematrcs Upon recerxrng rnformatron through unrxersrty channels as to the need for a teacher at SPA 11 small mrdwestern prep schoolj he accepted So when the mossy g1tes of thrs Xenerable rnstrtutron admrtted the glassy eyed sullen hordes of students thrs fall, a new m1ster w IS there to greet them wrth new 1nconce1x1bly cruel, rn explrcrble mental tortures In the rheumy rtmosphere f Room Three, 'VI1 Drechsel trres to penetrate the mushroom lrke growth between the e1rs of the Frrst and Second formers, and rm put the elementrl theorres 1nd processes of nr 1them1trcs 1nd to force the w ooly and 1bstr1ct theo rres of scrence upon the unrmpres sronable mrnd of the Prep former He hrs hrgh oprnron of the Ireps for he rs quoted IS sryrng Thex seem to be '1 brrght mtellrgent o But, he 11dded I wrll see rf ther reallv are Bew 1re Prep ers' In addrtron to teachrng these courses he co rches the Frrst form rn football We all hope that he w rll contrnue to see the school llld rts students 1n the same good lrght IS he does now New Lab a Success By Grddy Wrth the adx ent of the Autumnal equmox, llld the return of the prgskrn potentates to power the St Paul Academy once more swung w rde rts h 1llowed doors to rdmrt the teemrng hordes of pseudo scholars The latest adx rnce tow ard aca demrc perfectron was the remodel rng of thc old locker rooms rnto 1 mrmmoth modern screntrflc plant, yclept The Vrrney Iabora tory On Sunday Sept 11 the parents of the boys 1nd frrends of the school were muted to at tend the gr Illfl openrng Mr Bray was on hand for the great event, wearrng the rdyllrc expressron of a chrld w rth a new toy And why not The new lrb pcrmrts the use of more modern te1ch1ng tech nrques rs well IS rrlrexmg the crowded rtmosphere of the old lrb The entrre pl rrrt consrsts of '1 rn rm lrb housrng both the demon str rtron 1nd l1bor1tory frcrlrtres one screncc class room used mostly by the lower form sclerrces 1nd 1n extr1 clrss room whrch no doubt wrll be put to some func tronrl use Also rncluded rn the underground labor rs 1 dark room whrch rlthough rt mrw result rn 1l1ck of 1e1dy money for the Now and Then photogr 1ph1c dr p rrtment fthe srfe w1s prurously used for der eloprngj rt should produce bet ter prctures Upst lll s rn th It p 1rt of the burldmg referred to rs K rerchers k1stle new rmpr or enrents h IN e rnoud from Mr Schoflelds old room to '1cconrn1od1te more books crrd crtrlogue the exrst1nce of 1r1d 1 nc w check out counter The w hrch heretofore had been serrous lx doubted bv some w IS mored to 1 more rccessable and certarnly more xrsrble pl rce The new check out de sk rs hrndled bv students thus leaxmg Mrss Ixacrcher free to rummrge rround the pl rce rn 1 1 llll quqst for the Holt Gr ul or some other odd rtem usuallv 1 bool requrred bv the rbsent mmd ed twr llltS who try to rmpress upon the neo lrter rtes the 1 rlue of an 1duc1t1on Here then IS rnother step ln the forw 1rd progress of the St Paul -Xcrdenrx Let us hope rt wrll be followul bv mother 1nd 1nother untrl the go 1l of schol1strc perfec tron has been reached 1 Y 9 0' , lkl C 1 h' . 1 . t - 1 ' . . x rg ' . 1 1 1 1 1 ,11 1 - 2 , .1 , 1 1 1 '1 '1 - ' . 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