St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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,. . as lj' 'lhi f g 1 Class Prophecy fl f 84 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Q Q li 5 3 4 ,mtg-Q2 lx J a 0 :llaf - 1 l 5 :M L2 1 5 7 P if r l Jil Special to the Saint Albans N ews, by our staff correspondent- Paris, France June 1, 195 S. IT WAS a quiet day in the northeast sector last Monday, and I had little trouble in chartering a plane to fly up to the front. By the sheerest co- incidence my pilot was an old classmate of mine at Saint Albans, the inimitable 'QWild Bill Manger, once a full-fledged Lieutenant in the R. A. F., but recently demoted to the rank of private because of an unfortunate misunderstanding which led him to drop propaganda leaf- lets on his own front lines instead of the enemy's. Lieutenant Manger, I learned, had also been valuable on reconnaissance duty for his ability to take pictures, until one day he dropped his camera overboard while trying for an unusual angle shot of the Eiffel Tower. We landed close up to the lines, where, according to my pilot, I would find several old Saint Albanites in Captain Derek Schoenfeld's company of the District of Columbia National Guard. First to greet us was Custis Hall, one-time model airplane magnate now serving as a mechanic in the air force, who had come out to the flying field to refuel our plane. Nearby, in a spacious dugout, 1 found Captain Schoenfeld himself, who happened to be at mess with a large group of officers. The Captain was in the act of making an announcement before the assembly, and I caught the words, There'll be regular artillery practice at 3:15. Please bring heavy equipmentf' Later, when the meal was over, Captain Schoenfeld told me how he had sold his sheep ranch in Montana and joined the army, at the same time that Dick Alexander had terminated a promising maritime career by resigning his commission as captain of a ferryboat on Narragansett Bay. Dick now spends most of his time in a deep, secluded dugout, where he is working on some plans he originated for a new-type field piece. The new gun, as he explained to me in some detail, is designed to fire backwards instead of forwards, thus deceiving the enemy and perhaps revolutionizing the entire process of warfare. 1 QCOnfinm'a' on Page 86j

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I+ EATURES AND ADVERTISEMENTS

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Lilze the A xg - ,. fi ttszfse2,-4f'fw,sfjs-,t Jr .s-,L-5 3' f, ,,,'.-W, f r,:,,iX28'v,fyis5,,'4 V pgs F6611 ay PCC HE YEARS have brought many changes to Saint Albans. The grounds, the huild- ings, the enrullrnent-ull these have altered. But one thing hss remained constant-the Sehuul's standards. Conceived as a fine school, Saint Albans has remained so to this day. As a result, its prestige has flourished und grown like the green hsy tree. what a strilzing parallel to Cadillac's prog- ress! Founded originally to maize the finest niotor cars that money can build or txuy, Cadil- lse has never swerved from that program. Time has brought changes to appearance, to engineer- ing practice, to xnanufacturing methods-but never to Cadillac's purpose. As a result, Cadillac -and its companion car, LaSalle-have become the Standard of time World. They are so deci- sively foremost in beauty, comfort, performance, and safety that approximately llUlf.0f0ll-1Zli1lG- car buyers clzoose Qaflfllac or cpu CIEIIIQ- We cordially invite you to talze time wheel of a Cadillac or LaSalle and discover for yourself the reasons for this great and growing prestige and preference. Why not today? CAPITOL CADILLAC COMPANY 1222 Twenty-Second Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Cll' Hll,Ja,1JtQl Will? SAM X 1 92