St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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yer S H z R l t b W Ss rr E WI Schol Be k Mc? ck McMlll n OW CFHIIICHK CONSERVATIVE NDER THE STRONG and forceful leadershlp of ames Dlclcey the Conservatlve Party of the Government Class found ltself easlly able to defeat the majorlty of the resolutions presented by the opposlng Llberals, led by Matthew Hawes Immediately after the opening It became apparent that the Conservatlve Party stood for the rights of the 1nd1v1dual, whereas the Liberals were almlng at contmumg the dangerous SOCl3llStlC trend whlch IS now sweepmg the natlon and tramplmg on the rlghts of the xndlvxdual The flrst major lssue on the agenda was the questlon of the recognmon of Red China The Conservatlves demanded a pollcy of non recogmtxon of the so called People s Republlc of China and 1ts non admlsslon to the U N a pollcy whlch the admxmstratlon has wlsely upheld, how ever, Mr Hawes, by rather dublous parllamentary tactlcs was able to pass hls b1ll whlch called for both recogmtlon and admlsslon to the U N The major triumph of the Conservative Party was the mtegratlon lssue Mr Dlclcey was able -desprte Dr Tansxll, one of the speakers who addressed the Class to pass hls blll calllng for no forced mtegratlon m splte of a noticeably hostlle Class The next lssue concerned US domestlc pollcy Mr Hawes fought wlthout success for the federallzatlon of practlcally every known Amer1can lndustry and the control of umons by the gov ernment However, the much more mtelllgent COHSCYVSIIVC resolutlon, although also defeated had three times as many assentmg votes as dld Mr Hawes s resolution AMES DICKEY 76 ACTIVITIES 1959 Scared I. In r.: Hill , . ar , . Jonas. Kirk and Seated behind desks, I. to r.: Gran , Coulter, Amory, Villmoare, Gore, Dusen ury, heeler, u evans, . ison, z, c er, e , ' 1 Standing: Dickey 1Leaderl Y J , . . - . . ,Q , . . ,, - a - 9 . . . , .

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Front mw l In Hawes Tnckett Vlllmoare Stuart Hlss Second row l In r Lynn Meehan Sturtevant Nordlmger Dusenbury Davison C Jonas Lyman Back row I to McPeck J Wllner Beale Bechhoefer Reston lon tlptoel Absenl Carr Ruge Gore T e Alblman HIS YEAR s ALBANIAN STAFF was a truly fasclnatmg one It was composed of the able and the not so able and the workers and the nonworkers People under any cxrcumstances are mterest mg but a group such as th1s could not help but draw and hold one s attentxon Those who, xt was assumed were dependable often as not faxled to l1ve up thexr promlses, on the other hand, many boys of unsuspected abllxty and of unexpected wnlllngness more than hlled the deficlt left by the undependable was Edd1e Trnckett He could turn out any arttcle upon a moments notlce, xt was thxs ab1l1ty whxch proved mvaluable to the yearbook Another boy who, m a dtfferent capacxty, helped form the backbone of the staff was George Stuart, buslness manager George set an all t1me record for ad procurlng, and he drd nt wxth marked determ1nat1on and CHTCICHCY Sandy lVlcPeck served falthfully as sports edltor and proofreader Charlte onas and erry Lyman were features edrtor and cartoons edttor, respectlvely, and both completed thenr tasks wlth remarkably llttle cajolmg from the edxtor Others from whom THE ALBANIAN has bCI1C6tCd are Don Dusenbury, Rrchard Ruge, Mlchael Gore, and 1m Wxlner, the Ftfth Form representat1ve who has contrlbuted more to the book than any of h1s predecessors As the book neared completlon and as the fun of productxon mcreased, If became more and more evldent that one person was largely responslble for 1ts success Thls man was Mr W1ll1S Very httle upset h1m and because of h1m, nothmg was ever left undone Indeed, whatever v1r tues thls year s book possesses must be attrxbuted to hmm EDWIN VILLMOARE TI-IE ALBANIAN 75 b . . r.: , ' l. A , . t , . .,: . gl: y ' . I 1 , ' y ' p J q .- 9 I c , . . . . , . . , . , . Undoubtedly the most talented and the most startlingly prompt contributor to THE ALBANIAN . . , , . , . , - .Q , . . -

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Sealed before desks I to r Symmgton Hoff Wllner Cheyfnz Sealed behmd desks I to r D WIIIIC Bowen Rhetts Bass Reston Ears Knot agam'l Merchant Hnss Barlow Rehbock Morganlhau Wtnnacker Standing Hawes ILeaderj Class LIBERAL WARE OF THE FACT that changmg t1mes requlre changmg pOllC1CS, the L1beral party mtro duced a serles of progresslve resolutxons thls year The mmal meetmg saw the presentatlon of the Llberal platform Among other thmgs, the platform called for the passage of the Kennedy Ives B111 of 1958 a step up ln the defense pro gram, Federal axd to schools, a lxberal C1Vll rxghts program, recogmtxon of Red Chma, and support of the Latm Amerlcan democracxes rather than the cllctatorshlps Topxcs conslclered by the Class clurmg 1958 1959 have lncluded integration, Unlted States do mestlc pohcles, and Unxted States mternatxonal pOllCl8S These produced heated and mterestmg debates The trend of the past few years ln Govern ment Class has been to dlsregard party lmes Th1S year has been no exception Grave results sprmg from thxs sltuatxon the leaders taste the fruxts of VICIOFY too seldom' MATTHEW HP-WE5 L fo D-:key Hawes Mr Beale TI-IE ALBANIAN 77 1 . - -5 1 Q - . . . .. ,, . . , - -- . . . v 1 , - . , 1 v y V 3 . r.: , , ,