St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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bthM pE MC SHn l He Rn Glee Club 1VE TENORSI Where IS everybody? Football PFHCIICCQ Wlth rehearsals under way ln September the combmecl Glee Clubs of StA and NCS prepared and sang Chapman s All Creatures of Our God and Klng for a serv1ce 1n the Cathedral Work also started early on the preparation of Haydn s The Creatzon which was presented later 1n the spring November drew to a close and the Glee Club was hard at It on a completely new and fresh Advent play There Standetln One Among You written by Rev ohn Suter ex Dean of the Cathedral w1th muslc by Rlchard Drrksen Returning from Christmas vacatlon rehearsals on the Sprmg Concert began ThlS years musrc presented on February 8th lncluded Handel s Psalm 112 and Franz Joseph Haydn s The Great Organ Mass portlons of whlch have been mcluded on th1s years recordmg The Glee Clubs were asslsted by four solo1sts all of who'n were graduates of erther StA or NCS and members of the Natxonal Symphony Orchestra As the first pleces of the Dlrksens new operetta The Rose and the Rmg came off the press concentrated efforts to learn dralogue and actlon as well as muslc were made A Hnlshed per formance was presented on May 8 9 wlth great success ust three weeks before the openmg of th operetta, the Glee Clubs w1th the Washlngton and Cathedral Choral Soc1et1es the National Symphony Orchestra and many well known solo1sts presented Haydn s C reatzon The Glee Clubs also partlclpated 1n che jornt schools Ascensron Day SCFVICC on May 7 The years work provided much warm fun and a lot of valuable experlence galned through the expert leadershlp of Mr Rlchard Dlrksen TI-IE ALBANIAN 79 F' l l Fronl row, I. to r.: Tren a , oser, Brooks, Beukenkam , . Wilson, c onnell, . a , Damon, Richman, Whee er, G. ar, Hawes, Bennett, J. Kline, he s, Kear Back row, I. to r.: Booth, McMillan, Terry, Robertson, D. While, Symington, Ruff, Dirksen, Hiss, Lyman, Monks, Sherwin, Meehan. Reese. Bass, Deloria, Nordlinger , - - n 9 9 te ' sa - - . , . . 5 9 a ' J 1 ' , . . . . . . , , . - - 9 ze 77 9 . . . . , . , . 9 ' a . . , . 9 J 9 s 9 - ' J . 8 . . 9 1 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

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'3 WE ,WGQSQSQ MC dl G D Dy H DI! DC ll PhIpR L T Wll Wh! Y M T Lf B Dy B hly B y S C ho1r HE THIRTY boys who compose the nucleus of the Cathedral Cholr have the most dlfhcult schedule 1n St Albans They practxce sxx days a week a total of about twenty hours Th1s m cludes an hour on Monday through Frxday m the mornmg and an evensong servxce 1n the after noon on Tuesday through Thursday On Frxday mght they assemble m the Cathedral for a two and a half hour rehearsal w1th the men of the Choxr Every Sunday they spend thelr day at the Cathedral smgmg at both the eleven o clock and four o clock servxces Under the marvelous dlrec non of Paul Callaway the choxr produces musxcal sounds whlch are surpassed by few choxrs m the world In addltlon to th1s strenuous outslde schedule the choxrboys must carry a demandmg scholastlc schedule and are frequently 1n fact contmually among the best athletes and scholars m thexr respectxve classes Thxs year the Choxr has parttclpated m many xmportant servxces Among them were the televlsed servtces on Chr1stmas Eve and Easter Sunday and the servnce for mstallatlon of the Pre sxdxng B1shop of the Eplscopal Church Arthur Inchtenberger On May 1 the Choir partlcl pated 1n the consecratxon of the Blshop Coadjutor of Washxngton the Rt Rev Wllllam Crelghton Thls year the Cholr made a record of hturglcal mustc ln connectlon wxth the Schools Fxftxeth Anmversary The record has been acclalmed by Washxngton cr1t1cs as an excellent example of choral sound The record typxhes the beautxful muslc produced at the Washlngton Cathedral The chotrboys of St Albans should be greatly thanked for thexr hne contrlbutxon to the School 80 ACTIVITIES 1959 , JE - , fa t Y V . X , 1 V ! x dv ug s ,X Q 5 Al 3 6 Y e A '- A Q 'I L 4 . if X .. - y s t Y l .wr Q 5 5 1 Frou! row. I. to r.: c an ess. Denney, . irksen. Tomlinson, Clement, Davidow, F. a , ack Second row, I. lo r.: a on, . orne , ii osenbaum, R. oftus. Dale, . i iams, L. le, Oung. 1. ason. . o tus ack row, I. to r.: Jackson, A. a . Kern, Peter Rosenbaum. J. Arterton, Forbes, lac , Kitzinger, . Da Absent: . Cornell. A. Miller, Rubino w a J g u y n - . . , , . . a - ' 7 7 T , 1 9 ' ' - , . . .