St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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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

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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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Fon! ro left to ight l: Wamer Marriott Hollingsworth Abell lBusmess Manager! Thomas lEdll0IllI Chnefl Gervasn Rnll Brown Back row left lo ugh! Galloway Coleman Kingsbury Bohart Stsson Thornton McCabe Pagter Pnce Schoen Stenhouse Albaman HE ALBANIAN thls year had a very mformal staff, and unul the early part of February, ll put sued its bllssful way at a very lexsurely pace Very few btographles were wrltten, and only a hand ful of ads had been collected Meettngs of the edltortal board Thomas, Gervasx, Eddie Warner, and any one else who hap pened along produced very httle The fxrst meetmg a s1x hour sesslon resulted ln the de structxon of several sandwxches and a quart of 1ce cream, and the production of one blography However, after exams, Edxtor Thomas and Business Manager Abell decxded that lf they wanted to go to Florxda during vacatton, the ALBANIAN would have to be ready to go to press before vacatton Therefore, by constant proddmg, productxon was stepped up to a snalls pace, and the begmmng of March enough ads had been sold to send the yearbook to press The ALBANIAN thls year, as ln every other year, was supposed to embody many new features However, wlth the struggle between the Busmess Manager and the Edltor over how the money should be spent, and wlth the great dtfhculty of extractlng labor from the Senlors, most of the 1111 provements have vantshed At best, mere vestlges remaln of the proposed changes However, ln sptte of all tts complaints, the Board ts grateful to every one who has put hls tlme mto the yearbook We want to thank partlcularly Tom Carson and Eddie Warner for their wxll xngness to wrxte d1H:lCUlf bxographles, B111 Marrlott and B111 Holltngsworth for all the ads they have collected Don Hand and Nick Donnelly for many of the pictures, and Douglas Stenhousc for most of the cartoons Above all, we thank Heaven that the ALBANIAN IS publlshed THE ALBANIA . X ' , el V T 1 'v X i i F lf f i I. , 1. , t if v 1 ' , . fe' Y W, , 1' I W. . ' , ' . I , A , ' -' - Absenl: Broome. Cearson. Clagett, Dittmar: Donnelly, Forster. briedlander, Hahd, Hubbell. Libby: Mitchell. O . . . . , 9