St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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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

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88 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Class Prophecy fC071fi71M6d from Page 863 Also active on the staff is Lieutenant Niel Platter, whose three-year course in French CP-2 at Saint Albans supplied him with the knowledge he needed to become liaison officer for the Allies. Prior to the war, while he was managing a Lincoln-Zephyr automobile sales agency in Dallas, Texas, Niel had never dreamed that he would ever have to look at another French verb. Lieutenants Myers and Platter, I learned, both spend a great deal of their time at the headquarters of Major-General Carl Luebben, whose quiet efhciency has elevated him to the highest rank held by any officer as young as he in the entire army. When Carl went to war, he gave up a large-salaried position as Circulation Manager for Breezy Stories magazine. Another Saint Albanite in Captain Schoenfeld's company is Ellsworth Alvord, who created a major scandal in June, 1940, by finding and cor- recting several mistakes on the College Board's Gamma examination form. When war broke out, Ellsworth was devoting all his energies to a search for the missing roots of unity, which he believes he can find by means of a new four-dimensional geometry he invented especially for that pur- pose. Ellsworth's knowledge of mathematics is now instrumental in the Commissary Department, where, when not busy peeling potatoes, he keeps the books. Far out on the edge of no man,s land I ran across Privates Hannon and LeEevre, occupying a strategic foxhole they had just captured from the enemy. Known far and wide among the armed forces, I am told, are the exploits of these two stalwarts, who, together and unassisted have overcome whole enemy platoons by sheer physical prowess. It is said they use the same tactics once so painfully familiar to Saint Albans's foot- ball opponents when LeFevre was at halfback and Hannon at guard. Prior to the war, the two chums had been separated for several years, during which time Hannon had been appointed head coach of the Wash- ington Redskins and LeFevre, ace saxophonist and self-styled successor to Charlie Barnet, had organized a talented swing band that swept the country on the 1952 Metronome poll. Among the outposts I also found Private Courtney Sunday, almost obscpred from View in the bottom of a partially completed trench, where he was working with a pick and shovel. Formerly president of the Atlas Excavations Corporation, Private Sunday is one of the most skillful trench-diggers in the regiment. He told me that he has specialized in construction work ever since he successfully completed a cellar for his garage in the spring of 1940. I looked in vain for Jack Hare and George Trible, both of whom were on duty in other sectors, Hare in the Medical Corps and Trible in the fC071fil17l6Lf on Page 902