St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Walter Booker, trumpeter for the Rockin' Nomads plays at Mr. Stambaugh's dance. l l Mr. Ruge concentrating on his spelling list at the annual St. Albans-Holton Arms Spelling Bee. 66 UNDERCLASSMEN1963

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The Academic Year in Review HERE,S NOTHING quite like the first day back at School. Floors polished to a slippery sheen, blackboards blacker than they ever were or will be all year, a pungent odor of wax and furniture polish, screeching bells bringing one back from the laziness of summer. Handshakes and greet- ings for old friends and new ones, stiff, shiny new textbooks, desks that are always too small. These are all part of the first day at St. Albans. Things will be easy for the first few days and everybody knows it and everybody wonders how long it will take the teacher to wise up.', The teacher wants to be a nice guy, and he won- ders how long it will be before he gives his first zero or kicks the obnoxious back-row student out of class. The mood is one of anticipation, and an air of good will pervades the community. Without anyoneis really noticing it, the grind sets in. For some, it starts almost immediately -they are the dull, studious types who ask plenty of questions and turn in their homework neatly on standard paper and sweat. For others, the grind doesn't start until much later, if it ever starts at all. This second group is comprised of varied elements-the athletes, who give themselves fully on the football field and have little left to give in the classroom, the men about campus, who are so eternally busy with the newspaper or the Drama Club or the Student Council that they just Cum Laude Left to Right: A. Day, Kreuttner, Steele, Muller, Wilcox, Bible, Kitzinger, Whitehead 68 ACADEMICS 1963