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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86 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Class Prophecy QC011tinz4ed from Page 841 Deeply interested in this experiment is mechanical-minded Scott Morrill, whose love for speed led him to secure a job as fireman on the Peoria Night Express soon after graduating from Saint Albans. When war came, he joined the mechanized units, and now drives a super- charged CC-10 tank, which has earned him a reputation as the fastest tank driver in A. E. F. I had a long talk with Alex Walker, the fighting chaplain of the 99th, who had given up his post as Canon Precentor of the Washington Cathedral in order to join the army. Chaplain Walker was apparently oppressed by many worries, the greatest of which was private John Winant, who had recently been up for court-martial on the charge of smuggling large quantities of champagne into the trenches. Private Winant's acquittal was a stroke of good fortune, for the presiding officer of the court that was trying him turned out to be his old classmate, Colonel Forrest Holmes, whose knowledge of legal proceedings came from eight years' experience as Justice of the Peace at I-Iyattsville, Maryland. When I talked to Private Winant, I found him thoroughly fed up with the war, and anxious to resume his political career by running for re- election as Governor of New Hampshire. I caught only a glimpse of Staff-Lieutenant Jack Myers, who before the war had made such a brilliant name for himself as the foremost New- Deal brain truster of President Roosevelt's fourth term. When I saw the Lieutenant, he was scurrying off somewhere in a great hurry, deeply engrossed all the while in scribbling notations on scraps of paper and stufhng them into his pockets. According to Captain Schoenfeld, he was probably in the act of drawing up another of his routine reports, which he always handed in late or at the last minute, much to the annoy- ance of the General Staff, who wanted to know why President Roosevelt hadn't taught him to plan his time. fC0ntinucel 011 Page 885 -71.661 Wm :we Za QM' MELVERN ICE CREAM Deuclous md! WI-loLEsoME At Your Nearest Dealer, or Phone HObart 1200