St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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volted from thelr party and caused to be strlclcen from the party blll the clause l1m1t1ng soclal securxty The Conservatlve b1ll was then passed With forelgn pollcy as the questlon the most controverslal and arouslng subject of the year to face the Club party lmes were merged and each member extolled hxs own parttcular theory for solvmg the forexgn pollcy cr1s1s A number of the theorxes were mcorporated mto bllls Tom S1 son presented a mxhtary program for armmg all natlons opposed to Commumst expanslon and was supported by a good many of the conservatlves I presented a resolutxon axmed at avoldlng war by lceepmg the United States strong morally and physlcally and was supported by a number of the llberals The xnterestlng and lxvely debate strayed from foreign pollcy morals to control of apan and Germany to recogmtlon of Spam to the hydrogen bomb PRCIHSII1 was kept ahve by Clagett, Don McKnew and left wxnger Stanley Forster but xts proponents put lxttle v1r1l1ty lnto their arguments and even less smcerlty Fatahsm was supported by arch pessxmlst Tom Carson and the mcoherent Charlxe Warner The final result was that the votmg was spllt wlth seven votes each for the Slsson and Warner b1lls Thus, no fore1gn polxcy was formulated for the Club One b1ll was passed one xrrelevant to foretgn pollcy that called for world conserva tlon and voluntary bxrth control The next two meetmgs were devoted to a subject that had already been postponed once umflcatnon of the armed servlces Tom Sns son was the one most anxtous to take up the sub ject and also the one most averse to UIIIHCHYIOU He gave convmcxng arguments to show the m justlce of xt oe Dxttmar, leadmg the opposl t1on retorted with equally convmcmg argu ments Agaxn the Club was d1V1dCd and nelther a b1ll for UHlfiC3IlOl'l nor one agamst lt was passed EDWIN WARNER rejected SOCl3ll2Cd medlclne and enacted far reachmg reforms ln the social securlty system m accordance wlth the general prmclples of clause one On votmg mght the Club took a confusmg and self contradictory actxon If passed the first and second clauses of the Conservative bnll, but through Darrah Thomas s amendment, rejected the th1rd and even rejected an amendment of Carsons to glve control of SOCIBISCCUIIIY to the states' Thus the Club was willing to ap prove broad general prlnclples but unwlllmg to pass a measure whlch slmply applxed these prmcxples to a SPCCIHC sltuatxon The long debate on forelgn REBITS was not able for nts mcoherence confuslon and the ab sence of any constructlve concluslon The Club was spllt 1nto four factlons none of whlch could command a major1ty Both leaders deserted the1r partles and became ardent pacxfists though when votmg time came GCFVSSI chlclced out and declmed to cast h1s ballot for the paclflst McKnew Forster Clagett blll which received only the votes of 1ts three sponsors Charlle Warner wxldly advocated complete wxthdrawal of Amerxcan money troops etc from Europe S1sson wanted an aggressxve m1l1tar1st1c pollcy and Eddle Warner put up a comparatively mod erate and thorough bnll deslgned to avoid war wxthout S3CI'lflC1l'lg our nat1onal fntegrlty All were defeated and the forexgn polxcy of the Government Club became a program of edu cation so1l conservatlon, and blrth control the DuBois Wmnaclcer Resolutxon Altogether the forelgn pollcy debates whxch mcluded an ab sorbmg talk by Herr Gunther Harlcort were the most entertamlng and rxdxculous of the en t1re year Tom Ssson finally persuaded us lnto dls cussmg umflcatxon for two meetlngs At the first of these Slsson dehvered a speech whxch was perhaps the best of the year he possessed an artlculateness and a knowledge of the facts that have been all too rare m the Club How ever he falled to convert a major1ty to his antx umficatnon bellefs and hrs resolutxon went down to defeat as dud Charlle Warners opposmg measure BRICE CLAGETT ORGAN , . , . , . , . . , . . , . ' s . . . , . . . . . .5 .. I .. - I u 9 9 3 . .. . . . 0 l . . , ., - . .. . , . , J . , , . . . , - ' ' 1 1 'QQ a ,, , -' s 4 1 , - - ., . . ' . . .. . D , , I 3 I g a 9 . - . ' , ' s 1 1 - l u. , - , . . . . 0 R - ' . . . . ,, . 9 9 - . . - . . , . . - ' a .J . . .- I .- , ' ' - . . . . . . , . . . , . .. . .- 5 . . , . 1 IZATIONS 1950

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1 ttgh MNIMA The Athletlc Assoclatlon VERY May the wmners of major letters meet and elect five athletes who are outstanding m abrllty and leadership to represent the student body on the Athletic Assoclatron This quintet, to gether wlth the Athletrc Dlrector and one or two other faculty members rn an advlsory capacity declde the general athletic pohcy of the school award letters and appomt managers The 1950 Athlenc Assocxatxon followed closely the standard P0llC1CS of the school ln regard to athletxcs and no serlous problems arose As always the football basketball and baseball teams were awarded major letters and the tenms soccer wrestllng track and golf teams were pre sented wlth mmor STA s However ln accord wlth the general prov1s1ons for awarclmg major let ters to outstandmg mmor Varslty sport players Conrad and Rooert Elwell were awarded major letters for w1nn1ng at least one match ln the Lehigh Invrtanonal Wrestling Tournament and David Redfield and Meredlth PFICC won major monograms rn recognltron of long and outstand 1ng play on the soccer squad The Athlenc Assocxanon nn pre season meetlngs elected Bruce Coleman football manager Tom Brown and B111 Marrxott as co-managers of the basketball team Darrah Thomas and Brxce Clagett soccer co-managers and Kenneth Haynes and Leroy Frledlander to manage the wrestlmg squad For the spnng term B1ll Fletcher was elected baseball manager and Don Mrnxhe chosen as tenms manager THE NIA 43 Y W . . Y I j . , s 'r 'YQ X x sa , ,K f 5 Q , .I GX f f if Q ,. iw A ' I 1 sf F' ,A-38 2 From row, lef o ri I: Conrad. r. o E, r. . Wagner. Back row, left to right: Leach, Somerville, Alvord, Kingsbury. O I I r 3 1 ' - 1 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 ' 1 , - . . . , . J 9 . . . . U. . . - sv ' 9 J 9