St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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SOUTHARD PARKER OLIPHANT Born: October 26, 1927, Wasbington, D. C. Entered: Fall, 1937. Activities: Al- banianv. Collegiez Princeton. Hobbies: pbilately, coins, gara'ening. rrouyil CC 0T TIME for another quick game?,, This familiar phrase, spoken in a tone of eagerness and confidence, identifies Parker Oliphant in the act of slapping a Victim- ized senior on the back in quest of another ping-pong victory before the beginning of athletics. Parker is a born Washingtonian, the fifth generation of his family to have been born here, which in these days is quite unusual in a city which has probably doubled its population in the last four years. He is also one of the long-standing members of the class, for he entered St. Albans back in 1937 in Form B. Olly has never been active in athletics, although he likes to play tennis, and supports every athletic contest. His sense of responsibility and Willingness to tackle unpleasant jobs came to the fore While the 1945 Albanian was being prepared for the printer, for no arduous typing task was too long and tiresome for him, and he plunged willingly into suddenly-assigned biography and sports stories Which required a great deal of routine research. Great credit is due s Q ..e.e. af ig to him for enabling the yearbook to appear on I time. -Q J When Parker leaves St. Albans for Prince- L ton to follow in the footsteps of his older 41.5 9 is ff-Y 5 fi .ifi ll brother, his Willingness and pleasant smile will f i Q 5' 'Lei be missed by all St. Albans. his f f SENIORS194S

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LEROY TUTTLE MORGAN Born: Mareb 20, 1928, Washington, D. C. Entered: Fall, 1937. Activities: STA Ten- nis, '42, '43, '44, '45, Captain '44, '45, Class Treasurer, '43, News , '41, '42, '43, '44, '45 fEditor-in-Cbiefj, Glee Club, '43, Pinafore, Camera Club, '41, '42, '43, '44, '45, Prefeet, Government Club '43, '44, '45 fLiberal Leaclerj, Awards: Glover Cup, '43, jerusalem Cross '44, Gold Tennis Ball, '42, Silver News Key, '43. College: Yale. Hobbies: photography, poetry, writing, tennis, ebess, music, clogs. S.T. , L.T. , Rabbit , rrR0y::, rrLcCJ5 T IS PRACTICALLY an axiom to say that whenever one goes into the News Room or down to the tennis courts one will see Roy Morgan. And remembering the im- portant offices he holds in most of the School organizations, one requires little im- agination to visualize him, after his graduation and subsequent entrance into the Ma- rine Corps, as a general dictating peace terms to the Japs. Come on, fellas , says LeRoy to some malevolent heelers who, feigning terror and playing upon their Editor's good humour, scuttle in all directions in the News Room. It is this even-temperedness and his effervescing wit which have made him one of the most popular seniors on the Close. Roy's perfectionism and his interest in photography met one evening after Gov- ernment Club when he assisted a News reporter in taking a photograph of eX-Sen- ator Watson. Having failed the first time because the flash bulb burned out, the ama- teur photographers took a second picture, which was apparently successful, and Roy 'iv-' N-WMS-i XL 0 4 QW 52 f EY.: 5 Sf a3 5' ,,f2?fM' X J w A' fn f ' , 9,595 ef Q! 1 qfl' qlfkq wy gs , hw, l l, 51.10 went home thinking happily of the large space the picture would occupy in the next issue of the News Then suddenly the awful thought struck him that, although the shutter had clicked the bulb had flashed, and the lighting on the camera, firm and forgotten. I V ff W ' l . 'Q if n f is it 4' 0- Goff-A' - 1 ig' i. TT. ., J Q 'gl X ze az. Q, ali'-X K 1 flw, ' QL 47 ,. 'F ig' - A 3- fi 1: -'-., 'f s - '- ,. -2 .511 , ,fr - 53 V f1g,g.,gf..'I,, ai had been erfect, the lens cover had remained ,.,+:,- -, , , , ,ggfo-by .'w.,5.aJU.,-g.i.:.i .gr 'Hi -I4 J 1 J. 1 of 1 2 1 Q-'6 . ' f e 0 N N H T H L A E A BANI N s

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1 i GEOFFREY DORSETT OWEN, JR. Born: May 28, 1927, London, England. Entered: May, 1941. Aefivities: Govern- ment Club, '43, ,445 News , '43, '44, Cathedral Server, STA-2 Soccer, '42. Awards: Harvard Award, '44, Silver News Key, ,44. College: undecided. Hobbies: drawing, chess, poetry. Lord Geojn, Geoff OTUND and cheerful, not always conservative, delightfully naive, and somewhat indefinite,-that's Geoffrey Owen, whose qualities we have come to associate with Great Britain in general. Although we welcomed him into our midst as far back as 1941, we have been unable, in all the intervening years, to make him lose his British accent, on the contrary, he has influenced us to the degree that such strongly un- American expressions as Hello, old man , and Jolly goodv are now common on the Cathedral Close. It is paradoxical that Geoffrey Owen, the Ellesmere QShropshirej lad, should have been voted Most All-around Boy at last year's Commencement Exercises, but there could hardly have been a more appropriate choice. Geoff has filled his niche as a tennis and soccer player, as a class leader scholastically, and has been the chief contributor of delightfully-fanciful Midways to the News . In bed at ten, he has a strict taboo of wine, women, and tobacco. K, ww Q f Occasionally to Geoff an.American joke will 5 -, be as pointless as some of his Punch humour 4, E y ' j N , is to us. Once he was told the story of the trav- 4 7 .1 ,J V..f eller who came to a road sign which, indicat- 9 ld ing the way to the next town, added as an after- thought, If you cannot read, ask the black- , il .1 . , f fl ty ' smith inside the shop . After some thought, iiwka , i - 1 wx A ,Z Geoff suddenly began to shake with laughter. ' ffli ' i ' ' Oh, I see! Suppose the blacksmith isn't there! THE ALBANIAN