St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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S6 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Seated, l. tn r.: Mr. Henderson, Platter, Piyrgott, Alexander. Standing. l. to r.: Stephenson, Schoenfeld, Cochrane. The Vestry EMBERS1-HP in the School vestry is one of the oldest and most coveted honors that Saint Albans can confer on one of its boys. The vestrymen have traditionally come from not lower than the Fourth Form, and serve from the day of their election until they leave the School. Their duties include opening and closing chapel for both the morning and evening services, arranging the seating of the different forms, ushering at the Cathedral for the Confirmation and Commencement services, electing the Cathedral servers, and appropriating funds from the Weekly offerings. The three officers of the vestry are the Senior and Junior Wardens and the Clerk, each of Whom has a special duty. The Senior and Junior Wardens are the executive officers and are responsible for the successful functioning of the organization. It is the duty of the clerk to keep a continual record of the School services, recording such data as the offici- ating ministers, the attendance, and the location of the service, and of the appropriations to various organizations during the year. The only veterans were Schoenfeld and Senior Warden Piggott, who began their service in the spring of 1938. Alexander, Holmes, and Platter were elected to serve for their Sixth Form years, While Cochrane and Stephenson joined the vestry as Fifth Formers and will carry on next year.

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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.

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL 57 Seated, l. to r.: Schoenfeld. Platter, Piggott, Hare. Standing, l. to r.: Walker, Philip, Alexander, Hamm The Cathedral Servers UNE of the most apparent relationships of our School with the Cathe- dral lies in the fact that each morning a Saint Albans boy assists at the early celebration of Holy Communion. The Servers, as they are known, are traditionally Fifth and Sixth Formers and are selected by their retiring predecessors toward the end of the School year. Other than the choir, they are the only regular School participants in the functions of the Cathedral services, and in later years will, no doubt, come to regard their early morning duties as a most impressive memory of their School career. This year each of the seven servers was a Sixth Former, and to all but one, the cassocks of the Cathedral were unfamiliar garments. Derek Schoenfeld, the only two year server, was appointed ex ojfcio for this year. It was decided early in the year that hereafter only Sixth Formers would be elected to the staff, since the responsibility, effort, and punctu- ality required are such that it was felt wiser to place them only on the older boys. When new servers are selected near the end of the year, they are assisted in their duties by the retiring staff during a period of appren- ticeship for taking over their regular duties in the coming fall.