St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Front rmv 14-frm rrght Price Slenhoue Conrad Mitchell Back rms left to nghl Hand Snsson Donnelly Broome Octones HORTLY before the Football Prom last fall, 1 group of former Choxr boys and other members mf the Sxxth Form who were 1n proper votce got together and dectded to form a double quartet whlch would provtde entertalnment at the Prom The Octones, as they prefer to be known or Off tones or Bananabunch muslc wlth a peel, as they are often known, dtd very well at the Prom where they sang such songs as You Tell Me Your Dream and uamta In fact, they dtd so well that they decided to smg at partles during the Chrxstmas vacatlon Not only were they well recexved at these parttes, but they were mvtted to others At dances, whlle others pald the Oc tones, so to speak, sang for thetr supper Soon they were bemg muted to slng on the average of onte a week, and wlth the help of the va1n hope that they could be brxbed tnto sxlence they procured false mustaches and straw hats ln then' fxrst showmg wtth the new costumes, the Octones produced the deslred xmpressxon of th Gay Nxnetxes but ClLlI'lT1Q the Slnglng when the mustaches began fallmg off to the stralns of Now ls the Hour, the resultmg effect was nothlng short of hllarxous All took the scene tn good fun however, and the mustache droppmg has smce become standard practtce It is 1ndeed unfortunate that the Octones were not orqamzed a year sooner for now, almost before they have gotten up steam they are graduatmg, and leavmg for dlfferent colleges all over the Unlted States After a command performan e at the Graduauon Prom all e1ght Octones wtll probably never assemble at one txme agam If however enough of them do get together durxng a xacauon, they wlll smq short handed wtth the usual excuse that the other members are before the Met Metropohtan Pohce, that IS THE ALBAN A . ' S 1 . S . . . ' . K 1 . - . I l . VA - A ' , 7 YC ,Y ff-I ' ,' ' 'Q - vw voluntary contributions, usually in the form of pennies thrown at them by the audience loften in I ,.. R. l . . . . v - l 7 - v V 1. 7 . I I F . . Y. . , wx YI , ' V . . . g E , V. 'A ,, ,,- . . . l N

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C Ah ll Dance Commlttee His year s Dance Commxttee was faced by th drlemma of hndmg one degree hrgher than the superlatxve for there are three degrees of comparxson and four dances The hrst two dances were so good that the Dance Commlttee had to malce each dance even better than the last m order to hve up to the reputatlon II had made for Itself The first three dances fit the three degrees of comparxson for the unlor-Semor Prom ohnme Broome Tyler Abell Hans von Schoen and Charlxe Warner must mvent a fourth degree of excellence The dances of thls year have been extraordmary The First one the first St Albans dance at whxch Canon and Mrs Martm recelved was remarkably gay The Dance Commlttee gave the first hmt of 1ts outstandmg ab1l1ty at thxs dance by decoratlng the refectory 1n a footbalhsh manner Mustc was supplied by Howard Devron and entertaxnment was prov1ded by Mass Wash1ngton of 1950 and the Octones The second Prom of the year gxven by Phll Bohart no one w1ll forget All couples Lnclud mg Canon and Mrs Martin but exceptlng Mr Davls Pancho the Cat and Mr Stambaugh the Devll came costumed as famous lovers The sombre dmmg room was converted 1nto a bowl of gayety by mnumerable red and whlte rlbbons and red hearts each lnscrxbed wlth the names of a couple Chauncey Brown played some excellent Negro music The dance of February ll was one of the gavtst and most colourful St Albans has ever lcnown Durxng mtermlsslons Mrs Smlth served 1te cream and calce She deserves to be consxclered as one of the Dance Commlttee for she has always dlrected the strung of refreshments whlch art always a success because of her effort and lcxndness Canon and Mrs Martxn Mrs Smxth Ph1l Bohart and the Dance C0mmlIt6C deserve to be congratulated especxallv heartllv for malcmg the dances of th1s vear the great success that they hate been ORG OIN l 717 l l.1ll ru right: Schoen. Broome 4I'residenU. . Warner. e . I , . Y 6 . . . , . U Q J . l 9 ,I l 1 v 1 . , . . , . 9 . . 7 Y' ' 9 I ' - , - l - J, - l l, - , V I ' -s 1' Q v ' s , . . f . I . , ' 7 - I - A N I Z A T I l S l 9 5 0

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Front row left to rxght Fletcher Rlll Forster Thomas E Wamer Clagel! lEdltorln Chief! Carson lBun ness Manager! Broun Fnedlander Galloway Broome Pagter Second row left to nghl Kenz Cole Perry Mzrrhmson Towers Wlnnacker Fennga Nutnng Grimes Pryor Thnrd row left to rxgll! Young Conover Somary Hull Elliott Burton Moore Hardy Leary Fenclr Mayo Wells Smlth Pratt News HE News ts, generally,a rather mh1b1ted organ mhlbtted by a perfectxonxst Faculty Ad visor, by the obllgatxon whxch bemg a church school newspaper supposedly entalls, to be serious and occaslonally elevated, and, above all, by tradmon For the News has had a great and glorxous past, and, as IH so many cases, the stratn of lxvlng up to that past occupies most of the Board s time The hrghest and most frequent complrment pald to a News Edltor or Board IS However, thxs year s Board have found trme, between spasms of precedent followmg, a sort of journalnstlc ancestor worshlp, to set a few precedents of thexr own There have been a greater number of edltortals dealmg wlth subjects of natxonal or mternatlonal scope than ever before The most controvers1al mnovatlon, however has been the lmtlatxon of the practlce of wrttlng the Government Club storles as cr1t1cal revues Thxs, too, has aroused the xre of alumm but many more have approved tt, and tn general the revxews have been more wldely read than the dull factual accounts of the past One of the paper s finest features has been Eddie Warner s musxc revlews, whlch have provxdecl an ample rf lonely, attractton to the more culturally mmded of the School Tom Brown ha done an excellent job ln the sports department, and page 4 has come 1nto 1ts own as an excluslvels Lower School organ under the able dlrectlon of Mr Perlcms And certa1nly no part ofthe paper deserves more commendatlon than Darrah Thomass whxmstcally humorous contrxbutlons, whlch provide the comxc rellef wxth great success All tn all, the News has malntamed tts standards outsxde of a few flagrant typographxcal errors, and has gone far towards remedymg IIS most serious problem that of malc ng ltself mo e mterestmg and popular w1thout sacrlhcmg llterary quality ORGAN at . , . 1 . ' .In . , . .i . I , . . ,, ,, . . that the htgh standards of the paper were maintained? l Z A T l O N S l 9 5 0