St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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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.: , , ,

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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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I Sealed I to r Mlss Newbold Mxss Scott B MacDougall Mlss Raushenbush A Walker Lynn lPfESld2l'lll Mlss Gibbs lVlCE Presxdenll Mr Eder Carr Delorla lbehlndl J Wllner Muller lbehmdl Miss Glass Mlss Coyne Xlandmg I to r Mlss Oliver Miss Charles Miss Graybxel Mlss Mitchell Miss Goodbody Miss Mmlener M Gore Mass Lamb Merchant Paige Wheeler RCl1g1OUS Club HE PURPOSE of the Rel1g1ous Club 15 not to try to change peoples thmkmg on rellgxon but to discuss xt m an open mmded manner At the concluslon of a meetmg each member usually has had the satxsfactxon of expressing h1s own thoughts and hearing others on a partlcular subject If people s opmlons should dxffer, as IS usually the case, an argument follows and the meet1ng proves to be qu1te thought provokmg Thls year the Club was composed of twelve Cathedral gxrls and twelve St Albans boys, w1th Tommy Lynn and Angela GlbbS as Presldent and Vxce Presxdent, respectxvely The meetmgs were moderated by Canon Robert George, who helped greatly by lceeplng the dlscusslon gomg m the nght d1rect1on and by summmg up the meetmgs at the end The d1scuss1on of thls year s Club was hlghllghted by such toplcs as What rlght do Chf1S mans have to set thelr relxglon above hers, and what rlght do Chnstxans have to convert? Why do we seek revenge? Should a true Chr1st1an go to war? What IS our purpose m lxfe'7 , and a dlscusslon of the phrase God created man m hls own lmage Recallmg speakers, the Club Wlll remember an lI1SP1I'lI1g talk by the Reverend Cra1g Eder the VIEWS on PACIHSID of Peter Hxll 46, and compar1son of Russlan educatlon and Amerxcan lxb eral educatlon made by Dr Charles Lowry 78 ACTIVITIES 1959 . , I - -:- ' D , ' , . h , U' . , .I , h . ' , , - , . h , - , , , - , . . , - C U , . . . . . . . . , . . . ,, . . Ot . , Q! 77 R ' ' 77 QQ ' ' . , . , . . . ,, . . . ,, 7