St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Dot GLAs Snvnvns STEM-rouse Actwxtxes Wrestling IV Wrestling Man ager V Tennx: IV V VI Soccer VI Albanian VI Glee Club V VI Octones VI Auards StA Wrestling Manager V Cheer I eader V VI Lane jolmston Clnrrac ter Award III Popular Award or Wa ter Colour V Special Interest: Art Muszc Saxlmg Tennis College Princeton Born june I6 1932 Waslnxnglon D Don g D011 gre F You wish to meet Douglas Stenhouse you will probably find him wielding an artistic brush and palette in his garret or rn a basement room of the Activities Building and meeting with great suc cess, as the illustrations of this book t stify Moreover the artist is athletically inclined He has served a goodly term as manager of the wrestling team Also it must be borne in mind that he was for two years a Cathedral choirboy and now serves as a crucifer a no less time consummg occupa tion And while we are on the subject of singing it needs to be mentioned that he IS a member in good standing of the Glee Club and sings first tenor 1n that organization whose jaunty toppers bushy mustachlos and di tmctive brand of har mony have become the sme qua non of the more brilliant social affairs of the season 18 the famous Octones But enough of Douglas s accomplishments for you will find in him not only a capable stu dent and an active partlclpator in the schools extra curricular 3.CflVlIl8S but also a boy filled with real artistic ability Both his paintings and his poetry mirror a real talent and depth of thought Moreover you will find him possessed of a genial patlent and frlendlv nature that has earned him a legion of friends at St Albans and will most surely stand him in good stead in future life nu. THE . .. : .. Q . . I , Y 5 I ff ' Y, J , I I l' A I 1 , 5 - : y . y . . v : , , ' , . C. , . . . E . i , . . . . . i played the position of right outside on the soccer team, is a mainstay on the tennis squad, and has . . , . . . , - - . . . . y . , .S . - 3 '- -, , . Y . . . . , - . . .. , . . ' I ' , . . 7 7 f . . D S E N I 0 R S 1 9 5 0

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1 ,.e! THOMAS UPTON S1ssoN, III Actnxtrev Catlvedral Sermer V VI Pre ect VI Gwernment Club V II AI lnaman V1 Football V V1 Soccer VI Clan Prestdent IV Oetones VI Awards Cum laude Socxetv V1 Prxnccton Anard IV erusalem Crow' V Stfl Football V VI Gold Football V All Prep Football VI Ftrs! Place News Lxterary Contest VI .Stfl .Soccer VI All Preparatory Soccer Special Interests Htantxrzg lumznung golf College U S Na1alAcaduny Born September 9 1937 San Dxego Cal: ornza Tom Bxg Tom T U 1550 E HATE to say tt, but Tom S1sson really 1: a well rounded boy So often the subjects on whom thls nauseattngly trxte phrase IS mfltcted have achieved a level of dead medxocrtty 1n every respect, but Tom wlth maddenxng ease, has attamed prominence and leadershlp 1n every Held tn whxch he has engaged, and the act1v1t1es 1n whlch he has had no part whatsover are few mdeed To begm with, Tom IS Senlor Prefect and IS second m the class tn scholarshlp-a pair of ac compltshments whxch would be qurte enough for any one else But It IS at the Government Club that Tom reaches hxs greatest helghts and betrays the depths of hrs nature On Friday evemngs the normally lacomc Tom dons his resplendent blue unlform and becomes Admlral Thomas U Srsson the U does not stand for UHIHCACIOD salt water Conservatxve champlon of the cause of super carrlers conscrlptton and general mlll tartsm When Hnally, after several dlsappomt ments Tom persuaded the Club to discuss Un1 IICSIIOD for two meetings he was tn h1s element Seriously he provlded the Club wlth some of the best reasoned, mformed and artxculate argu ments tt has heard all year The atmosphere of Q57 Ay practlcallty and reallsm which he created was CLN1 far removed from the Clubs more common ethereal Hlghts Darn tt we don t have to be I A practical' and hls dlsmxssal of pactflsm War y as may be rmmoral, but 1ts mterestmg' has be i nunuunuuna' lmmmnnm tl QQ 5 come a byword among the embryomc statesmen lllllllf YQ 7 flag Whether as a Commodore, a manufacturer of terse, torrid prose or chlef of the local fire de partment Tom wxll we know be heard of agam I U3 THE A ' 'I : I ' ! v w ' 4 I I a 5 p I, . .. .,, ., . t., .. I .,,, US. ,, 7 ' 9 ' 1 7 ' 3 . fl! I I , . . , . . . Lahti' W f X XXX ' in ' fx ,KN ' r - 1 , . - ' 1 X ,, VfX, 'XXQX ' . . . . ',, ' If V xl .V V ' 7 V' I I X! :iff . Y G: Z ,L . ' . fu - , 7 I I Q15 1: - I , - in, - - - ' qu 1 f fi f - - 1 - - rv, - . I , K-'Jil-' 4 I - ' ...,,. .,.. ,.,.. ,ax .,,,m,,,,.,..f. 'Ui x - - A , to I T f V 25 ff -T '- ' ' ,. . ff Y f, '-yffffu L . fffff - X A , A I 7-1 ff ' 9 1 y W, , K - A L B A N I N

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THOMAS DARRAH THOMAS Acuxtzes N ws Il Ill II I VI barnan VI Government Club IV I VI Cathedral Sener VI Comanager o Soccer VI Awards Cum Laude Key Szher Nens Kev V SIA Sorter Manager VI Sperzal Interests Clremxstry Readmg frm ellmg Music College Amherst Born Aprxl Y 1937 Montclaxr New ers Handsome DDT DTs ARRAH THOMAS IS that most fCllClIOUS and env1able combmatxon of ablhty and humour that most of us would hke to be ourselves Always ready to send any company mto Hts of mad laughter wxth some lrreslstlble bxt of whnmslcal drollery yet Darrah has one of the fmest mlnds ln the class and has contrlbuted more than hls share to the lastmg achxevements of the half century boys And whatever the detalls of hls future career may be we may safely predlct one thmg he wlll never be unhappx Blessed wtth an Ichabod Crane hgure and the greatest helght ln the class Darrah has gen erally ngnored the values of physlcal educatton escapmg to the News Room where he IS one of the stalwart pun exhumers and has authored every blt of wxt that has appeared ln the rxval rag thxs year and the entxre School was aston xshed when he and hrs fellow abstamer Brxce Clagett became co-managers of the soccer team last fall and sloshed falthfully about untll the end of the season One of the many little Llb- erals who werent there on votmg nights he cultlvates the eloquent art of Sllence m the Gov ernment Club ln the best Taplce Wood tradl ,X tlon 46 Darrah IS consistently at or near the head JL- of the School rn marks and IS most mterested ln SCICDCE and mathematics though If would be hard to hnd any Subject that bored h1m He should go far and doubtlessly wlll soon be one df of the most talented and uptoartous ornaments of the jolly old sc1ence of alchemy THE ALBANIA ' ' f 'ff 'F 7 ' Al is f .. : . ' 1 , -. ' , . V I ey ..Jeff.,, ., H H,.Du.. ,, . Q Q n - . . I , a 1 , I . . , I l , . - 6 I 'll 77 , . . - I J, . . a 1 . TL S WI- my 11 1 Q U , ,' ,, . . , .45 Y ' ' if . . . - V I 4 l Emmy u ' - '- M B3 ' . It I: -- an J f . . 11,3 X 4 ' . '. . ' A W fy z . y . I 474 lf sv , - 2 ' . 1 ff X . 4. el il , y M . thai, I V' ff ' 5 ' ,um ff 5 .., sl . . l . N