St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Class History HE CLASS of 1945, perhaps the most heterogeneous in the history of the School, will long stand as an example of how well the atmosphere of St. Albans will unite students of diversified temperaments into a solid class. Since a third of the members were new to the class this year because of acceleration in the summer, many people were skeptical how strong the resulting unit would be. The results, however, were far better than the most optimistic had hoped. We cannot say that we are the most versatile class ever to have graduated from St. Albans, but we can say that our interests are varied and that we possess, probably to the same degree as the classes before us, our musicians and athletes, scholars and artists. The average age of the class is seventeen and one half, and of the twenty-nine members graduating this June, the average number of years of study spent at St. Al- bans is five and one half. Today there are six members who have been in the School the full eight years,-Adair, Jenks, Morgan, Oliphant, Perry, and Reeves. 1938 brought to St. Albans Reed and Birney, and the following autumn saw Beck, Harman, Monroney, and Schoenfeld enroll. In 1940, Byron, James, and de Wolf joined the group, and they were on hand to welcome our English cousin Owen the following year. Bill McCulloch was the sole recruit in 1942, and the next year Ericson and Kier were newcomers. 1944 was the biggest year in the history of the class, with eleven accelerated boys taking on the duties of seniors. This group included Birney, who had been at St. Albans since 1938, Hollerith, Lockwood, Plumb, and Powel, who had come in 1940, Blaisdell, who entered School in 19413 Miller, a new boy in 19425 and Austin, Collin, Lee, and West, who entered the following year. The Class of 1945 has not been a particularly athletic group, but it has C011- tributed outstanding members to the various other activities of the School. The stu- dent body and faculty will remember Bill McCulloch's rousing For He Is An Englishman in the Glee Club production of NH. M. S. Pinaforevg Morgan's faithful editing of the News,'g Harman's political strategy and skill in defeating opposing amendments in Government Club by the device of 'compromise resolutions'g Tom Perry,s hard work on the Vegtryg John Schoenfeldis guidance of the School as Senior Prefectg and Sid Collin's patience in putting over the Sponsor System. Outside of the Cathedral Close, members of the class have shown their willing- ness to make St. Albans a part of the community by wholeheartedly responding to Mr. Lucas's plea for volunteers to help at the Stage Door Canteen. Most of the class will enter service shortly after graduation, and a few will be able to attend college for perhaps a year before they j0in the Army or Navy. Two members of the Class, Hollerith and Lockwood, left during the course of the year,- the former to enter the Navy and the latter tO begin training at Ge0rgetOWH- Thus, for us as for other classes who have graduated during the war, St. Albans has filled and will H11 in the future the place of both SCl100l and college, anchor and memory. THE ALBANIAN

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Form VI President JOHN WILLIAM REEVES Treasurers WILLIAM ALEXANDER IVICCULLOCH, III THoMAs WATERS PERRY, JR. Top rozu,1r'fI fo rigbf: Geoffrey Dorsett Owen, Jr., Stuart Morgan Beck, LeRoy Tuttle Morgan, Ed- ward Ely Paxson Austin, Southard Parker Oliphant, John Michael Monroney, John Short Reid Schoenfeld, Porter Martin Kier. Ivliflrlfr' row, lcffz' to right: Ralph William Lee, III, Samuel Franklin Powel, III, Sidney Raymond Col- lin, Thomas Maltby Blaisdell, Shepherd Martin Jenks, James Booth Lockwood, III, James Edgar Byron, Eric Njordr Ericson, George Bruce West, James Lower Miller, Herbert Johnson Adair, Jr. I VUl7f row, Irff In rigfaf: Arthur Alexis Birney, Patrick Macgill James, Richard Mark Reed, Robert Jolmston Plumb, Jr., William Alexander McCulloch, III, John William Reeves, Thomas Waters Perry, Jr., Charles Hollerirh, Jr., Frank Pierce Harman, III, Bradford Colt de Wolf. SENIORS 1945

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HERBERT JOHNSON ADAIR Born: Ocfobcr' 20, 1927, Wusfaington, D. C. Erzfffrcdz Fall, 1937. AL1,'fL'jffL'X1 STA Foofbalf, 544. Cloiuzcs ringer, '43, ,44. College: lY!I1Shil1gf011 and Lee or Cornell. Hobbies: horses, gardening. Herbic',, 'rG7d1111:jl,,, Azalea NE EVENING at supper Papa Chasseaud said Pass the butter, Granny , and ever since that time the boarding students have reserved for themselves the right to call Herbie by this name, for they are the ones who see him eating at the dinner table, completely exhausted, with his glasses pulled down on his nose. This appearance of exhaustion is justified, for Herbie is a hard worker and is active in sports. At least once each year he arrived from the Activities Building with either a broken arm or water on the knee. Then it is that he enjoys complete luxury, for friends help him eat, make his bed, and dress him. When Herb is teased, a brilliant red glow comes over his face, the famous Adair blush. And never awaken him in the morning, for he usually keeps a knife by his bedside, and if disturbed too abruptly, he will be up in a second with the weapon at your throat. He groans, walks, and talks not very audibly in his sleep, and at times has been found sleeping peacefully on the floor next to his bed the following morning. Herbie is homespun. Wise in plow wisdom, ,. M he is willing to give free Cand goodj advice to 4 budding farmers, and his English compositions Q' XM are usually on such subjects as How to Kill ' 'mm . ,, . V., , arrzfman Mgr: V ,..- f' Pigs . Spending last summer as a hardwork- ff' ing student, he also proved that Summer A.. - . . . . - f -, ' ,Y f. f m bex, School has its enjoyable moments. Ask h1m,-- ,A s 'r - f ' ll A' Y I j . X, X and see the famous Adair blush. A ggi Q. . . 6.-,fa 'fsMi4iLg,+.f a . Ner f X.- in f ' 'LM X SENIORS194S