St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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S4 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Front row, l. to r.: Chewning, Stephenson, J. Myers, V. N. Philip, Alvord, Luebben, Manger. Second row, l. to r.: Graves, Borden, Payne, Cocke, Cunningham, P. Gaillurd. Third row, l. to r.: Daisley, Houghteling, Barriger, Hustvcdt, H. Smith, Prettyman, Goodrich. Back row, 1. to r.: Birney, Alderman, Sasscer, Dickson, Quiggle. The News HE chief aim of the News Board has always been two-fold: first, to put out a paper that lives up to the high standards of its predecessors, and second, to train a competent staff to take over the following year. The success of this year,s Board is evidenced by the fact that the News took first place in the January Princetonian Contest and tied for first in the Annual Columbia Scholastic Press Contest. And, it is significant that Fourth and Fifth Formers have probably had a larger share in executive responsibilities during the past year than ever before in the paper,s history. Most valuable contributions to the News this year were those of Mr. Phillips, Editorial Advisor, who secured the first student cartoons ever to appear in the News and supervised the outdoor activities insert put out by the Lower School reporters. The last word in novel and attrac- tive layout, the Lower School insert will probably be the envy and model of News boards for years to come. The Board itself made one important contribution when it caused the headlines throughout to be changed from caps condensed to clc regu- lar. Suggested by last year's student extra, this general face-lifting has resulted in a more striking and better balanced page.

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL S 3 a, W W Front row, l. to r.: Manger, .l. Myers, Terry, V. N. Philip. Alvord, Hare. Alexander. Second row. l. to r.: Graves. Stephenson, J. McClure, Cocke, Cunningham, Payne. Back row, l. to r.: Hart, Holmes, Morrill, R. Myers. J. Winant. The Government Class ORDELL HULL and Thomas E. Dewey would be the two major nominees for the Presidency next November, if the Government Class had its way. Sitting in political conventions during its last six meetings, the government group voted overwhelmingly for Dewey as the Repub- lican choice, and in a surprise move repudiated President Roosevelt by voting 9 to 7 for Mr. Hull to represent the Democrats. Other results of this yearis session were bills providing for the settle- ment of European refugees, for joint neutrality action by the United States and Latin-America, and for the permanent establishment of Secre- tary Hull's reciprocity trade program. In the most spirited debate of the year, the committee decisively rejected a proposed Constitutional amendment outlawing so-called un-American political activities. Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld, leader of the Washington Hebrew Con- gregation, and Mr. Robert T. Pell, of the State Department, appeared as a Witness on the refugee problem. Representative Hamilton Fish testified on un-American activities. The tariff question was discussed by Dr. John L. Coulter, and Mr. Manuel Fox, tariff experts, and testimony on Presidential candidates was furnished by Mr. F. C. Waldrop, Editor of the Washington Tiilzes-Herald, and Mr. Paul Lentz, student of politics at American University.

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL S S Front row, l. to r.: Platter, Holmes, Alvord, Manger, Alexander. Back row. l. to r.: V. N. Philip, Piggott. J. Myers, Hare, Trible, J. W'inant, Morrill. Luebben. The Albanian o MANY, the appearance of this year's Albanian is a great shock, for when the News advertised its sister publication as the yearbook that's differentf, nearly everyone just smiled and thought that the only dif- ference Would be the number of days late it came out, or possibly its failure to come out at all. Yet here it is, on time, We hope, and a book that we feel is truly different. It has more pages, more pictures, more features, and, most important of all, more ads. Particularly significant is the introduction of color on the division pages, an expensive improvement made possible only by the untiring persuasiveness of the advertising staff and the ad- prize contestants from the student body at large, Who canvassed every- thing from barber shops to brick yards until they had accumulated S200 more in ads than any other staff in the history of the book. Much credit belongs to the photographic department, for its con- tributions to the first yearbook ever to appear with the Senior pictures taken exclusively by student photographers. This task required great patience on the part of photographers Manger and Morrill, who still hide from irate Seniors demanding retakes and denouncing the staff for trying to sabotage their good looks.