St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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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

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