St Christophers School - Raps and Taps Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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XC, 49 f Qpfx uv :LI Xl 1 I: 61' X BSXJ- ,AO udifatinn. . . WENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO THIS ESTIMABLE YOUNG MAN LET HIS COLLEGE CAMPUS AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY FOR ST. CHRISTOPHEPQS. THUS BEGAN THE QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF LOYAL SERVICE, UNSWERVING DEVOTIONQ TIRELESS APPLI- CATION IN BEHALF OF THE INSTITUTION WHICH ATHLETICALLY WAS THEN WRAPPED IN ITS SWAD- DLING CLOTHES. FLEDGLINGS THEMSELVES THE SAINTS HAD TO BR CONTENT WITH MEETING OTHER NEOPHYTES, EOR THE DAY WAS YET DISTANT WHEN OUR PRESENT OPPONENTS COULD BE MET ON EQUAL TERMS. TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO THE QUESTION WAS, LLQUO VADIS, SONS OF ST. CHRISTOPHERW' QUIETLY, METHODICALLY, IMPLACABLY HE BEGAN TO BUILD. SLIGHTLY CONSERVATIVE7 EXTREMELY AFFABLE, INTOLERANT EVER OF INDIFFERENCE AND CARE- LESSNESS, GAINING GOOD-WILL ON ALL SIDES, HE HAS SEEN HIS HANDIWORK COME T0 FULL STATURE. STERN YET KINDLY, ALWAYS ZEALOUS OF THE WEL- FARE OF HIS BOYS, WEARING HIS MANY HONORS LIGHTLY, IT IS WITH GENUINE AEEECTION THAT WE DEDICATE THIS RAPS AND TAPS TO COACH HUGH BRENAMAN.

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,-., urzmurdg . . OMR who see school annuals may say they are all alike. Year after year, they say, there is repetition of the same kind of section devoted to the Seniors, the same loyal accounts of school activities, the same snapshots of familiar figures, the same pleasant pictures of the sponsors. VVe who are part of the life portrayed, however, know that each year b-ook is different. Pictures and the writing are but the outer surface. Those who read through this book with knowledge will have their memories stirred and their minds led off to enjoy again those personal, truly human, experiences which made the session 194-6-47. The hard work, careful planning and skill which have gone into this book insure your satisfaction. As you lose yourself in the pages that follow, may you recall with pleasure those things which filled your life at St. Christo- pher's-successes and failures, likes and dislikes, friends and enemies, classes, games, dances, society meetings, bull sessions, demerits, romances, escapades, fights, examinations, the minor things which seemed important and the major things which seemed unimportant. In some areas 1946-47 has not been a year of great victories, but it has been a year marked by hard work and steady service to the School. The-Senior Class whose book this is have quit themselves like men and shown themselves worthy of the highest ideals of St. Christopher's. faerie, 1 A O XS .Cf f v-2 lr , I UT 2 . 9 ff sglggil

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