St Johns School - Rebel Yearbook (Houston, TX)

Text from Pages 1 - 88 of the 1951 volume:

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GARDINER SYMONDS MR. LEWIS N. WHITE MR. JAMES O. WINSTON JR., Chairman Development Board MR. DONALD G. AUSTIN MRS. DUPUY BATEMAN JR. MRS. HERMAN BROWN MR. DUNBAR N. CHAMBERS MR. ALLERTON CUSHMAN MR. LAURENCE H. FAVROT, Chairman MRS. W. P. HOBBY MRS. GAYLORD JOHNSON MR. I. H. KEMPNER JR. MR. ALVIN S. MOODY MR. EDWARD ROTAN MR. A. B. SMITH, Vice Chairman DR. GEORGE W. WALDRON MR. HERBERT E. WILLIAMS Administration ALAN LAKE CHIDSEY. .. 'T .. F .Headmaster ELWOOD KIMBALL SALLS .............................. Dean of Students WALTER B. NELSON ....... ......... D ean of Studies ABBIE CLEAVER LEWIS .... ..... H ead of Lower School JOY NISSEN ............. ...... H ead of Pre-School ROBERT T. COLEMAN .... .... A dministrative Secretary CHARLES H. HIXSON .... ...... B usiness Manager D744 f 15' fm W! K Faculty PAULINE G. BOEHME, B.S.. . . . GLADYS BORDELON, Cert.. . . RITA WARD CANTINE, A.B.. . . VIRGINIA P. CHAMPION, B.A.. . . . ALAN LAKE CHIDSEY, A.B., M.A.. . . . CAROLYN L. CLARE, B.S. ................ . ROBERT T. COLEMAN, JR. B.B.A., M.B.A.. . JOAN A. M. COOKE ...................... DROTHY ECK, B.A.E. .................... . CHARLES A. ELLIOTT, s.T.B.. . 9 YN:-..l.o.5 JESSE B. FLANSBURG, B.S. ............... . JAMES D. GOODRICH, A.B., M.A. .,...... . QOn leave of absence with the U.S.M.C.j HELEN B. GREEN, B.A., M.A. .......... . . HARRY J. GROBLEWSKI, A.B.. . . . THOMAS T. HART, B.A. ......... . CHARLES H. HIXSON, Com. E.. . . . RUTH S. HUGHES, A.B., B.S.. . . . SUZANNE E. JONSSON, B.A. ...... . . . . .Lower School . . . .Lower School . . . .Lower School . . . .Mathematics . . . . . . .History . . . .Lower School . . . ......- ..... M athematics . . . .English and Geography .....................Science U ..s1:.iMn.lTIT ........ Religion .............Mathematics . . . .Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . .Foreign Language . . .Head of English Department ....................History . . . .Business Manager ..............Librarian . . . .History and Geography G. ALEX KEVAN, F.T.C.L., A.C.C.o. ............... ............. F ine Arts CONSTANCE ATHERTON KINGSBERY, B.A., M.A., Head of History and Geography Department JOYCE R. KRESSEN ..... ..........,........... P hysical Education DAVID P. KRESSEN, B.A. ........ ...... M athematics GERALDINE C. LEBLANC, B.A. .... .... P re-School ABBIE CLEAVER LEWIS, B.S., M.A. .... .... E nglish ELSIE McCONNELL LEWIS, A.B., M.Ed.. . . .... English :Sac Faculty MAYME C. LEWIS, B.S. .... ....... L ower School , AIMEE C. LOFTIN, B.S. .................................. Physical Education A ' WILLIAM L. LONGLEY QCol., U.S.A. retiredj B.S. ..... Science and Mathematics MARY JANE MALLARD, B.A. ......... ....... ........... M a thematics CLAXTON MONRO, B.S., S.T.B. ...................... .......... R eligion 4145 ANTOINETTE NELSO B . .... Foreign Language WALTER B. NELSON, . ., E . . ................ Head of Science Department EDNA S. MEREDITH, B.S. ................ .............. L ower School ETHEL M. NESBITT, B.S. .... .... L ower School WAYNE E. NESBITT, B.S. ............. ..... H istory fOn leave of Absence with U.S.A.F.j JOY NISSEN, B.S. ................... .... H ead of Pre-School Department FREEMAN G. NIXON, B.A., M.A. ..... ...................... H istory GRACE W. OSBORNE, B,A.E., M.Ed.. . , ............ English HENRY A. PASTOR, B.S. ........... ............ F oreign Language KATHRYN B. RAGAN, B.A. ........ ..... G eography and Mathematics MARGARET H. READ, B.A., D.Des. .... ..............,... F ine Arts THOMAS READ, A.B. ............. ............ S cience RICHARD REID, A.B. ...... ........................... F oreign Language PHILIP AW. RICHARDS, B.S. .... Head of Physical Education Department, Science MARGUERITE B. RISSER, A.B. .................................... English WILLIAM S. ROGERS, A.B.. . . ........................... English ELWOOD KIMBALL SALLS, . . . . . ead of Foreign Language Department TH lm. gUM .B., B.D. ..... ........ H ead of Religion Department CHI MSO , .... Head of Fine Arts Department, English G. RICHARD WHEATCROFT, A.B., B.D. ........................... Religion Lfzbfliv 11 V--4, L. -1:1135 iff' E IDRS I l 1 l Q I I X zlfzmwn lun' swf lf A + 'Wi xl!!! T1- N ul il G3 1 m lg If gl .llll W LT'Lf- ' I 1 Il F11-Li nil Prefects JESSE HAMILTON DICKSUN Head PETER JAY DEL VALLE WILLIAM BURRES HEAD ff ' ROY ADOLPH KIESLING, JR. ua, WILLISTON BRANDRETH SYMONDS BETTY ANN WEST Q JOAN ELIZABETH WILSON by cc E7 ALFRED BESSELL III Crip Fat Freddy Football '4799 - '4849 - '494' - '50 'g Basketball '494' - '50' - '5l5 Dramaticsg Honor Roll. Poker playerg Quite a man with the ladies- ya wanna hear the story of my life? - hve o'cloek shadow at 8:30 A.M. PETER ANDREW BOWERS Pete Peter the Greatv Football '484' - '4-9 - '50'kg Basketball '49 - '50 - 51g Dra- matics CStagingj 5 Big Game Hunter g Camper-Extraordi- naryg Boatman. Hi, where's Scotty? It was blue! a:141c ll! I 5 ff CECIL CANDLER CARNES, JR. Cecil the Silfnf' Dramatics CStagingj 5 Honor Rollg Photographyg Physi- Cistg Warriorg Big Game Hunterg Elertriciang Big Talker. Hi, honey, who'.v sweetie are you? Long drink of water. MARY SCOTT DAUGHERTY Si-airy Dramaticsg Honor Rollg Reviewg I9-L8 Service League Awardg Yearbook l95lg Prettiest Senior Girl. Native habitat-the stage. Little mother-what color was that kitchen? 7: 44 r' SUSAN EUSTIS DEARBORN Susie Basketball '495 - '50 ig Honor Rollg Dramaticsg Reviewg 1950 Math Awardg Yearbook 1951. Wittiest Senior Girlg Most Popular Senior Girl 5 Whiz at figures jimmy said . . . and we laughed . . . PETER JAY DEL VALLE Pedroi' Football V185 949+ 95053 Wrestling '50g Honor Rollg Reviewg Dramaticsg 1951 Prefect. First Collegiateg Life of All Stag Partiesg River-boat Gamblerg St. John's first gift to Korea-almost. uv cc Mww-dd-Nevlvll MARIE MADELINE DE MENIL Marian Dramatifsg Review, Marie from Pareegl' Our French Ambassador, Seniors' only poly-lingual student 5 modern house, Buick Convertible, tiny waistlineg back and forth over the bounding main-wheel JESSE HAMILTON DICKSON Big fern Fat Boyi' Football '47lt - '48l5 - ,49M - '50'leg Basketball '49 f - '5Olt '51ll5 Football Captain '47, ,48, '49, '50, Basketball Cap tain '48, '49, Athletic Award '48, '49, '50, Dramatics Head Prefect 1951. Most Popular Boy and Most Repre sentative Boy, Mr. Football. aw 1741 N J-'N , 1 GERALD THEODORE DREYER ferry, Mule Train Football '47 - '4899 - '50. Biggest Loafer 3 St. John's Plow- boyg Barney Olefield with a motorcycle. Love that song -lefs harmonize? Ya wanna jclghty, 'QL-.'kfl CLAUDE TA OR FUQUA III C. TY, Football '474 - '48li - 25999 - '50 g Basketball '49 - '50 - ,5lQ Honor Rollg 1949 English Awardg Reviewg Wittiest Senior Boyg Texas Rancherg Potential Admiral. Fil bite. O, yeah? wr 18 cc N J NOBLE CHARLES GINTHER, JR. Lover Boy Football '4849 - 4949 - '5O4g Basketball '49f - '5O99 - '51g Dramaticsg Review 5 Time Test Awardg Most Handsome Senior Boy g Gamblerg Mark Antony of St. John's- The night is beautiful and we are so youngf' y,,,q4'2:....4..'!7 ' 3, l Z-ff? N PAT GARET HARKINS KPatv Football '479f - '484 - '49lfg Wrestling ,515 1949 Scholas- tic Improvement Awardg 1949 Physical Science Award. Obstinacy supreme 5 camera shy g warrior boldg plate glass window puncher-more fun! 9194: yi' ,yr- BRUCE MICHAEL HARRINGTON Brucie-boy Football '47 - '48 - '495 Basketball '49 - '50g Football Manager '50 3 Basketball Manager '51 g Honor Roll g Dra- maticsg 1950 Scholastic Improvement Awardg Review. Biggest operator 3 most typical Texang biggest party boy, Fratty Harrington. 1 l l c. WI 'AM BURRES HEAD III rrBillyJ: Football '47 -'48 -'49 -'50 g Basketball '494 - '50 - '51 5 Honor Rollg Dramaticsg Headmaster's Award 194-7g Pre- fect 1951. Studies, curiosity killed the cat, well-liked by everyone. Tell me some gossip. av 20a ROY ADOLPH KIESLING, JR. Roy, the Boy Football '49 - '5092 Wrestling '50 - '51, Honor Roll, Dra- matics QLightingj 5 Review Editor, 1949 Chairman of Student Council, Prefect 19515 1951 Yearbook. Literary genius, photographer, careful gambler, yachtman, wonderful bay house. ' JOHN BRUCE LAUBACH Brucen Football '48 - '49 - '5O99g Basketball '50 - 151, 1949 Head Acolyteg41951 Yearbook, Review. German scholar, gam- bler, good contributor at stag party, young at heart, good Boy Scout. rr 2144 FRANK JAMES Low Big Frank Football '4-74 - '4899 - '49le - 'SON Wrestling '51g Honor Rollg Dramaticsg Reviewg Yearbook 1951. Biggest brag- gartg St. John's gift to the opera, physicist. Mario Lanza? Oh, my idolfn WM DONALD SPARKS MCGREGOR Donaldo Football '4-9g Basketball '50-'51, Iron grip, operator plus, Mexican tourist, lawn tennis star. How's every little thing in San Antonio? Where did you get those golf shorts? rv 44 42 2,11 T ,rvfi TH AS WILLIAM MOORE Tommy Dieting Thomasv Booster Club 19503515 Dramaticsg Time Test Award. Chemist, big game hunter, bicyclist, Casey jones. Moore, the more. Funny bear. When are you gonna take those pants up? THOMAS WILLIAM FOWLER OSBURN Fowler', T,W.F.O. Football ,48 i - ,494 - ,505 Wrestling '50 - '51g Honor Rollg Reviewg Dramaticsg 1950 Science Award. Most Naive Boy, light opera star, the egg and Fowler, chemist, Dr. Osburnw'LThat's a pun, sonf' ZWA4 0 JAMES EDWARD PETERSEN jolly fimmyn Football '47N - ,484 - '49le - 130993 Dramaticsg Reviewg 1948 Head Acolyte Award. Man with a gungmore darn fun Qpoemj, Who the heck ran of with my crutchesfng Well, up in Longview we . U ffl K JANE REYNoLDs 'fBrai11y fanief' Basketball '49+ - '504 - '5142 Basketball Captain 19515 Honor Rollg Dramaticsq Reviewg 1951 Yearbookg 1947 Altar Guild Award g Booster Club 1949-50. Most Naive Girl, Romping Reynolds. Senior Room waitress. 22444 JOE SHIMEK II foe the General Football '48 - '49 g Wrestling '50 - '5lg Honor Rollg Review. Field Marshal Shimek, His Majesty's Own Bag Piper, Potential General, burr hair Cut. Are you entering the Highland games this year? W JOSEPH STANLEY SLOTNICK ...lovin Foothall '48 - '49 ' - '50'eg Basketball '49 - '50 - '51 3 Honor Rollg 1950 Harvard University Book Award, Physicist. joker. Herman the German. Hi, foe: zwztcha 9 knozrz aw 44 far 1 WILLISTON BRAFIDRETH SYMONDS Willy Football U1-794 948+ -'494 950415 Wrestling '50-'51g Dramatirsg Reviewg Yearbook 1951g 1947, 1950 Head The Host with the Most? Wrestler, Bookkeeper. l x x ft kJ3!.l WILLIAM DITLEF VON VOSS Wee-Willglii Football '48g Wrestling '50 - '5lg Dramatics. Camp-fire boy, Fred Astaire of St. John'sehave you seen him wiggle those hips? Future engineer for Southern Pacific. X rw 26 44 Acolyte Awardsg Prefect 1951. Most Likely to Succeed, Head of Booster Club 1949-50, 1950-51g Honor Roll: Prefeet 19515 Review. Most Representative Senior Girl, . Biggest Party Girl, The Deb, wonderful parties, booster of the Booster Club. Ticket.v? Anybody want to buy some tickets? BETTY ANN WE.. Batty Betty' 0144-J JOAN ELIZABETH WILSON djoaniff' Dramaticsg Review, Yearbook 1951: 1950 History Career Girl. Ye olde grindef' 7: 44 f Award: Honor Roll: Prefect 1951 L Booster Club 1950-51. Most Likely to Suvveed, Most Typical Southern Girl, ?????--- ' February 12, 1961 DEAR CLASSMATE: Since our ten-year reunion is coming up in only a few months, Class Secretary Bill Symonds thought it would be a good idea for me to do some checking up beforehand, and mail this letter out to all of you fellow-grads of our old Alma Mater. Naturally, I felt unworthy of such a task, but you will all understand how hard it was to refuse that day up in his ofiice, with all four secretaries helping him to cajole me. So here is all of the news I could look up about our old chums, and we hope to see all of them next june. Of course, Bill has been keeping in touch with almost all of us, but for the benefit ofthe rest he is keeping pretty busy between New York and Houston, as well as holding positions on several Washington boards, in spite of his natural aversion to working for the Democrats. Bruce Harrington and Claude Fuqua both have offices in the new Cotton and Petroleum Building, and they are often seen playing golf together on Saturday afternoons, but their families keep them pretty well tied down on Sundays. Those of you who made the trip to Bruce's new ranch a few weeks back will remember how cute the twins were trying to ride horseback. Always a good host, Bruce has promised us some good deer hunting next season, and Pete Bowers expects to get away from his wife and come down from Canada, where he has been for almost a year engineering a new fish pipeline. It looks like Sue Dearborn won't be able to make it to the reunion by June, for she plans to stay on the Riviera through the summer with her husband, automobile racer and sportsman, Count Ivan Alexis. You probably all saw their picture in Life as she congratulated him at the finish line of the Paris-Marseille Grand Prix. She was planning to come back in time for the reunion on their eighty-nine foot sailing schooner, in which the couple has won several trans-atlantic cups, until the change in plans occurred. Most of the rest of the girls will be here, for as you know, Joan Wilson has been living on a luxurious ranch just outside Dallas and since her husband was called to Lake Maracaibo by some drilling problems, she has been flying to New York regularly to shop and visit with Marie de Menil, who has settled there for a little while to do some promotional work with the Metropolitan Opera. Neither of them should have much trouble getting away, and Betty Ann West writes from Paris that she is cutting short her annual trip in order to get back in time, though she is having to leave her husband in France. just last year. Joe Shimek was appointed to the post of Chief Strategic Coordinator by Presi- dent Truman. This keeps him very busy both in Washington and on inspection trips, for he is working on direct orders from the President to reduce efiiciency as much as possible not just in this country but all over the world. It is quite an honor to have one of our classmates become the first eight-star general in history. . Incidentally, Joe Slotnick has stayed relatively close to home since the publication of his paper on some discrepancies he found in the application of Planckls constant in the Unified Field formulas. In spite of the repercussions his work has caused in every Held from astronomy to nuclear physics, he has remained on the technical advisory board of the Houston-Amalgamated-United Geophysical Research Corporation, which has been working under some tremendous government contracts. Colonel del Valle has just been granted his retirement from the Marine Corps in view offthe revolutionary tactical methods he has helped to develop. As you know, he was one of the first induc- tees to be sent through college and graduate-school under plan V-13.14159, and his training seems to have really paid off in increasing the efficiency of the Marines from 11252 to l68W. Even in the short time he has been practicing, Dr. Jesse Dickson's name has spread far beyond the borders of our state. Not only has he been watching over our football team-undefeated now for seven years, or since the ninth grade we knew became seniors-but he has gained national pres- tige by his work with a variety of boy's organizations, including the Boy Scouts as well as several new and even more worthwhile bodies which he and a small group of public-spirited alumni helped to found. Among these, incidentally, is Jimmy Petersen, who has been very successful in his uprotection racket. Jimmy is still in Africa on his latest safari on which he hopes to bag some specimens of rare game which is said to abound in the country just north of the corner of Rhodes vw 28 44 Avenue and 17th Street in Johannesburg. Jimmy writes us that he was surprised, on arrival, to find Pat Harkins, who has spent the last few years casting about the world. We have all read his two stories in the SatEvePost, as well as many articles in the Geographic, while his poetry seems to be enjoying a great vogue in California, where he and Robinson Jeffers plan someday to have adjoining towers. ' Incidentally, don't miss Cecil Carnes' latest book of collected Texiana. Written from his ranch out near Bill Voss,' it is made up of the cream of the anecdotes and history that have been exchanged around the big fireplace of an evening. Already the ranch is becoming known as a Mecca for those eager to talk over the old days of the Southwest, and Cecil himself has been hailed by critics as a most promising successor to such folklorists as Carl Sandburg and J. Frank Dobie. Bill Voss himself has entered the promising new field of rocket navigation, and it was he who helped engineer the automatic calculator that guided the Hrst unmanned experimental rocket to Mars last year. At least that's where it was supposed to go. Right at the moment he is forming an independent company with Bruce Laubach to build a ship, with Bruce as pilot, to capture the half- million dollar prize for the first American to stake a claim on the red planet. They explain that they need the money partly because Bruce's four children are trying to eat him out of house and home, and partly because of the inflated prices of model railroad parts. Noble Ginther and Fred Bessell are both in Hollywood at the moment, Fred staying with some friends he met in Cannes as an exchange student, and who adopted him as a sort of protege while he works at his screen career, while Noble has left his oil-exploration company in the hands of his junior partners to write some very successful movie scripts as well as an adaptation of his novel, Destry Rides Again and Again and Again, for the screen. The latest news from Broadway indicates that Frank Low and Fowler Osburn can count on an unlimited run for their hit adaptation of 'fHappy Will Tomorrow Be, and scouts from the Met are reputed to be after at least one of them. They will probably both be able to retire as a result of this success, for it seems to be potentially a bigger hit than South PaciHc, for which tickets are still unavailable. Mary Scott Daugherty and Jane Reynolds seem to be the only girls to make their homes in Houston, and they are both very active in civic affairs. Jane may well be elected president of the Junior League next year, and Mary Scott has had several starring roles in Little Theatre produc- tions, notably a revival of the old Ibsen drama, 6'Hedda Gablerf' Mary Scott's husband, by the way, is a high executive in the dashing new advertising firm of Dreyer and McGregor, Inc., which has already opened offices in Chicago and San Francisco, and was written up in the last three issues of Fortune as one of the best examples of American combative ability in business to be seen since the days of Morgan's midget. Billy Head has been very busy as chairman of several Dartmouth Alumni committees, in addi- tion to movie and radio commitments which keep him out of town a great deal. In fact, it was to prevent this that M.G.M. opened its Houston Studios to be used for all of his pictures, so now he is with us much more than formerly. He is probably best known for his portrayal of Tony in a new movie version of You Can't Take It With You, though he was chosen by a nation-wide poll in Quicker magazine as the official pin-up of the Woman's Army Corps. Tommy Moore is now retired, though he still spends time at the offices of his railroad and shipping line. His favorite project is the extension of his model railroad, which now covers four acres of River Oaks property and is hailed internationally as a masterpiece of HO-gauge crafts- manship. He expects that before long his four children will make a good construction gang and he will be able to sit on his twenty-foot control tower and direct their operations by loudspeaker. Mrs. Moore is getting needlessly annoyed with the railroad, to the extent that she is plotting with Bill Voss to build a model dive-bomber to blow it to bits, but I doubt if she will carry the plan through. As for myself, well you can probably understand that it has taken the whole six years since college just to write this letter. So I'll see you at the reunion. Yours for the Alma Mater, QEd. Note: From Roy's quarters at the Yale Club of New York comes word of his Yale appointment as Sterling Professor of Anasazi. His best-seller, Basketmaking Among the Pueblos, has recently been translated into Latvian and Arama1c.J an cc last Will and Testament We, the Seniors of the class of 1951, being of sound body and effervescent mind, do hereby will and bequeath to our successors the following eFfects, edifices, traditions, and chattels, for any such use of derision as they may find for them. to wit. ITEM: The Senior Room, complete with all appurtenances, such as echoes, comic books, dart boards, rever- berating anecdotes, and the curtains which you will find in locker thirty-eight. Also, miscellaneous abandoned textbooks fthe road to Yale is paved with good intentionsj, and behind the wastebasket, one apple core. N.B.-Do not look behind the sofa. ITEM: The Patio, surrounded on the west by West Farish, on the east by East Farish, on the south by South Cloister, and on the north by the River Oaks Country Club. On this hallowed ground may you be happily supine among the foundling oak trees, and may your studying come easier under the caressing winds from the eighth grade math class. ITEM: The library, containing untold thousands of books, and a floor unsullied by Senior feet. Into this Sanctum you may retreat with honor when caught filching cookies in the Commons, and from it you will sally forth into a million unending book reports, which brings up the next- ITEM: Professor H. Groblewski, who almost single-handedly has kept alive the tradition of the portable smudge-pot, which was originated by citrus growers on the West Coast and spread like a grassfire to the centers of higher learning in the East, which subsequently were driven South. Which is just where we came in. ITEM: The ninth grade girls . . . Oh, come now! ITEM: A great and glorious theatrical tradition, in which you may revel and in which we who are gone may practically exult. May your hours spent treading the boards be pleasant and may no one apply the cork to you while it is still in Hames. QCome up and look at my scar, sometime . . ITEM: The physics lab, where you will be jolted by static electricity, frustrated by vacuums and magnets, and buffeted always by the elusive and all-important Concept,,' and where also, if you step over a storage battery, the acid will eat your cuffs off. ITEM: The Chapel loft, the only place left where it is possible to absorb spiritual erudition and German verbs at the same time. Enough for possibly too rnuchl said. ITEM: To those couples afilicted with the difficulty of finding suitable meeting places, we leave the edges of the patio, and may they never become involved in the eternal quadrangle. I ITEM: To those who are afraid of becoming slaves to the correct time, we leave those strange and wonderful clocks, which by the end of the day require so many correction factors that their use becomes totally impractical. ITEM: The auditorium, which has served in the past for such varied purposes as athletics, Iiendish exams, incomparable plays, and last but not least- ITEM: The College Board Exams, which surpass all uncomplimentary adjectives. May it come to pass that as many of you as possible escape them in their full impact, and may your Saturday of tribulation have at least as fitting a climax as had ours. Signed: Attest: H. GROBLEWSKI ROY KIESLING JR. BILL SYMONDS ra 304: PERSDIIIIL Most Representative Boy .... Most Representative Girl ..... Most Popular Boy ...... . Most Popular Girl .... Wittiest Boy ..... Wittiest Girl .............. Boy Most Likely to Succeed .... . . . Girl Most Likely to Succeed .... Prettiest Senior ........ Most Handsome Senior .... Most Beautiful Girl .... Most Handsome Boy .... Biggest Loafer ..... Biggest Operator,' ..... . . . Most Typical Southern Bell Most Typical Texan ....... Biggest Party Boy and Girl .... Biggest Braggart .... Most Naive Boy and Girl ..... ITIIES . . . .Jesse Hamilton Dickson . . . . . . . .Betty Ann West . . . . .Jesse Hamilton Dickson . . . . Susan Eustis Dearborn . . . .Claude Taylor Fuqua . . ........ Susan Eustis Dearborn .Williston Brandreth Symonds . . . . . .Joan Elizabeth Wilson . . . . Mary Scott Daugherty . . . . . . . .Noble Ginther ........Mimi White . . . .Henry Clay Adams . . . . . .Jerry Dreyer . . . . .Bruce Harrington . . . . . .Joan Wilson . . .Bruce Harrington Y Bruce Harrington i i Betty Ann West .......Frank Low Fowler Osburn .5 i U Jane Reynolds Q ww 114, ef wife ef. . ,fn - .LI L 1512151123-. 1 SCHOOLHWHTES gzadfy lgenzrreal jo .145 parfnera in EDITOR Gi me I l 7 JUHIORS Henry Clay Adams Benjamin Rice Aston Sally Bateman John Winchester Baugher III George R. liolin Charles Bradford Boyce Chapin Burks 1 ohn Edward Cogan David Michael Cox - f ' riouis Hopkins Durst jr. 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St. Marla's of Texas by 42 cc 0 SPURTS St. Johnis, entering a full-fledged athletic program for the first time this year, has shown that it can hold its own, athletically, among schools of comparable size. The varsity football team went through a tough schedule unde- feated and untied. The junior varsities had a regular schedule and performed creditably. The girls' varsity basketball team showed an almost miraculous improvement over the teams of past years. The boys, varsity almost equaled the record of the previous year's team by winning 13 out of 16 games. All in all it has been a profitable year for the athletic varsity squads, and what is perhaps more important, there is a promise of even better things to come. Varsity Football There is a story behind the great season of 1950-51 which showed a record of 7 wins and 0 losses. This story would have to begin with a description of a group of seven players called the line. Included in the story would be a hard-driving fullback, two or three fast, shifty tail-backs, and a smart, quick quarterback. This would not be the end of the story, however. The end, if there is an end, would be in the description of a staff of coaches which never let up in their relentless effort to make the players give their utmost to each and every game. It would be hard to describe the value of the line in the success of the 1950 Rebel team. The offensive forward wall of Jimmy Petersen, Fred Bessel, Fowler Osburn, Bill Symonds, and Keene Fergusen opened gaping holes for hard bucks by Captain Jesse Dickson, for the end runs, reverses, and off-tackle slants of Pete Bowers, Noble Ginther. and George Bolin. This, coupled with the brainy quarterbacking of Claude Fuqua and the pass catching of two glue- fingered ends, Billy Head and Chapin Burks showed up in the record of 199 points scored. Equally deserving are the boys on the defensive team, which allowed the opposition only 18 points. Included in this group are Symonds, Petersen, Head, Aston, Cogan, and del Valle. Fergusen and Dickson did stand-out jobs as linebackers. The backfield of Adams, Bolin, and Ginther stopped the opponents' passing attack. A great factor in the team's success was the coaching offered by Messrs. Richards, Coleman, and Read. Their spirit was contagious and their knowledge of fundamentals invaluable. ST. JOHN'S 12-SUGARLAND 6 The Rebels suffered a twinge of first-game-itis', but finally punched over the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter after a long drive downneld. Ginther put the ball across the double stripe on an 8-yard gallop. The game was a defensive one, with most of the action taking place around the mid-Held marker. Dickson scored the Hrst T.D. on a trap play in the center of the line that netted the necessary 30 yards. ST. JOHN'S 41--NORMANGEE 0 This game gave the regulars a chance to collect a few splinters while the substitutes got some needed experi- ence. Normangee, while not lacking in spirit, was badly outclassed by the larger and more experienced Rebels. ST. jOHN'S 41-ALLEN ACADEMY 0 In another runaway the Red and Black mowed down Allen Academy. Dickson scored on the fifth play of the game and the Rebels were never stopped after that. The longest run of the day was turned in by llolin on a 65-yard jaunt for a touchdown. It should be noticed that the Red and Black displayed an aerial attack to go with its vicious ground game. The Rebels racked up over 250 yards via the air route in this game. CAPTAINS IES fdflt? Keene faq-344 ST. JOHN'S 13-SPRING BRANCH 0 This was the big game of the year for St. John's. In 1948 Spring Branch had walloped the Rebels 44-7 and the Red and Black had never quite lived that licking down. As the two teams took the field, the Spring Branch team was conhdent and St. -Iohnis was determined. The Spring Branch confidence disappeared early in the game as Captain Jes Dickson, behind neat blocking, broke through the center of the line for a touchdown. The Red and Blacks' goal was never threatened, and the Rebels scored again later to put the game on ice. As the final gun sounded, there was great rejoicing in Rebel quartersg and the Baleful Bears of Spring Branch were fully aware that the little boys had grown up. This was shown from the opening whistle to the final gun by the vicious and crisp blocking of the line and the con- tinuous determination of the hard-running backs. ST. JOHN'S 26-CONCORDIA 6 St. John's was slightly outweighed in this game and Concordia had a group of experienced football players. In the end, though, it was the harder blocking of the line and great running of the backs that told the story of the victory. ST. JOHN'S 26-FOUNTAIN VALLEY 6 St. John's will play many more games, but it is doubted whether another will be played under such adverse weather conditions to a group of warm-blooded southern boys as the game with Fountain Valley at Colorado Springs. The Rebels were outweighed by as much as 15 pounds to the man in the line. The weather was far below freezing, and the players suffered from the high altitude of 7200 feet, but the Red and Black would not be stopped this late in the season. With Captain Dickson showing the way again, behind beautiful blocking, the Rebels triumphed. ST. JOHN'S 39-ST. MARK'S 0 This was a fitting climax to a wonderful season. As fifteen members of the squad played out their last game for the Red and Black, the Rebels scored six touchdowns and played an almost perfect game of football. As a result, the year 1950 will mean a little more than the year of the first Senior class. 1950 will mark the year of the first, and we know not the last, undefeated and untied football team in the history of St. Johnis. Junior Varsity This year the school's sports fans got a look at the stars of tomorrow in football. The members of the 8th and 9th grades were divided into two groups, the Lights and Heavies. Those who saw them play saw the reasons why we believe there are good things in store for the school athletically. The Heavies had a good season with two wins, two ties and one loss. The Lights lost all four of their games but gained a wealth of experience. Judging from these boys, the athletic fate of St. John's is in good hands. A vote of thanks is due Messrs. Chidsey, Groblewski, Rogers, Salls and Hixson for their work with the Junior Varsity. Girls' Varsity Volleyball Coached by Mrs. Kressen the girls' volleyball team, through the fault of no one, did not fare so well. Lack of experience may account for this. Qne thing is certain, however: hustle, enthusiasm, and good sportsmanship were not lacking. Betty Ann West was' Captain. Other stand-outs were Jane Reynolds, Anne Eastham, Joan Hohlt, Joan Wilson, Mary Neely, Mimi White, Susie Dearborn and Kristi Shipnes. Much experience was gained this year, and better times are undoubtedly on the way. Boys' Varsity Basketball Coached by Mr. Coleman the boys won 13 of their 16 games. The losses came at the hands of Sweeny, in the Wharton Tournament, La Rose Cleaners, and St. Thomas. It should be noted that the Rebels beat both of the latter by decisive scores later in the season. The team this year was an aggres- sive, high-scoring outfit. Chapin Burks, with his hook shots and tip-ins, Henry Adams and Captain Keene Fergusen with long set shots, Jes Dickson, with his drive-in shots, George Bolin on his jump shots, and Jack Cogan with a deadly hook shot were features of this 1950-51 Rebel crew. An encouraging note for next year is the fact that Five of the first six players are juniors and will be back next season. Space does not permit a description of each game, but we will try to give the highlights of this fine season. Continued on page 48 ar at CHEER LEADERS L ' AND VOLLEYBALL TEAM IIHIEIER LEHDERS Sally Bateman Kristi Shipnes Jean Fielder Mimi White V 0 l l If Y B Il l l Sally Bateman Barbara LauBach Fairfax Crow Mary Neely Nancy Crow Jane Reynolds Susie Dearborn Eleanor Russell Ann Eastham Kristi Shipnes Jean Fielder Betty Ann West Joan Hohlt Mimi White Sue Lykes Joan Wilson COACHES Joyce R. Kressen Aimee C. Loftin a:45x GIRLS BFISKETBIILL Sally Bateman Barbara LauBac'h Sally Binz Sue Lykes Fairfax Crow Marian MrEachern Nancy Crow Mary Neely Anne Eastham Jane Reynolds--Capt. Betty Faulkner Libby Sharp Nancy Fergusen Kristi Shipnes -Ioan Hohlt Louisa Stude Mimi Wfhite COACHES Philip W. Rivhards Joyce R. Kressen RECORD St, yf0l'L7li.Y Opponent St. fohnjs I8 ..., .. Deer Park ..,. ...... 2 9 22 .... Deer Park . .. 35 .... .. . St. Agnes ,... 37 21 .... . St. Agnes .. .. 23 .,., .... C onroe . .... 37 18 .... . Kinkaid . . . 32 .... . . . St. Agnes .,.. 22 48 .... Sugarland . . . 22 .,.. . . Tidehaven .... 39 23 .... . . Conroe . . . . 50 .... . .. Lutheran .... 16 25 .... Kinkaid B . 15... Kinkaid ....23 10.... sv -16 44 . Kinkaid Opponent .....27 18 11131 ...14 ...36 8 ..,29 l 1 1 l 1 l l i BUYSBHSKETBHLL SQUHD Henry Adams Keene F ergusen-Capt. Fred Bessell Claude Fuqua George Bolin Noble Ginther - Pete Bowers Billy Head Chapin Burks Eugene Jackson Jack Cogan Jes Dickson COACH Robert T. Coleman RECORD St. johnfv Opponent St. folmfv 30 ........... Sugarland f .......... 26 48. . . 41 ....... Lamar Consolidated ....... 39 24. . . 40 ............. Sweeny ....... .... 4 4 60 .... 43 ..... .... E 1 Campo .... .... 3 6 48 .... 37 ..... . . . Sugarland .... .... 1 9 43. . . . 35 .,... .... L a Rose .... 37 54.... 36 ..... .... L utheran ..... .... 2 0 48 .... 53 ..... . . . Tidehaven .... .... 4 l 58. . . . ww cc Brute LauBach joe Slotnick Opponent .Kinkaid .....20 St. Thomas . . ..... 33 .Lutheran... .....20 St. Mark's .. ..... 29 .Kinkaid .....2l . La Rose .... ..... 3 1 St. Thomas 26 St. Mark's A... .30 Continued from page 44 ST. JOHN'S 40-SWEENY 44 Strangely enough, one of the team's best games was a losing one. Sweeney had a fine ball club with a lot of height and experience. Sweeny was the pre-tournament favorite, but they had plenty of scares before they finally won this one. It was anybody's ball game until the final ten seconds, when Sweeny put the clincher through the hoop. Henry Adams was high point man in this game with 13 tallies. ST. JOHN'S 53--TIDEHAVEN 41 The Rebel's played nearly perfect ball in this one to gain a convincing victory over the strong Tidehaven team. Chapin Burks led all scorers with 19 points that night. ST. JOHN'S 544-LA ROSE 31 The Red and Black had added incentive to win this game, and they really went after it. La Rose has one of the best amateur teams in the city and were undefeated in the season up to that time. Stretch Burks tallied 17 points, and revenge was ours. ST. JOHN'S 48-ST. THOMAS 26 As they played the same brand of basketball that had carried them to victory the game before, the Rebels swamped St. Thomas on the St. John's court. Chapin Burks was the Chief Wing-Clipper of the high-flying Eagles as he added 20 points to his total. It was probably in these two games that the team reached the peak of co-ordinated and smooth playing. St. John's scored 698 points for an average of 43.6 per game to the opponents' 482 or an average of 30.1 per game. Girls' Varsity Basketball Those who had attended the girls' basketball games of past years had become accustomed to a style of play that was more enthusiastic than good. Those same people were probably very surprised to see these same girls change into a well-coordinated and smooth-working team. As far as the record goes, there does not seem to be too much to cheer about. The girls won five of fourteen games. When one considers, though, that the team consists largely of freshmen, who played against full high-school teams, the reason for rejoicing becomes clearer. There is no doubt that the energetic coaching of Mrs. Kressen and Mr. Richards was largely responsible for this transition. Turning in constantly good jobs at the forward posts were Mimi White, Mary Neely, Barbara Laubach, Anne Eastham and Marianne McEachern. Standouts at guard position were Captain jane Reynolds, Libby Sharp, Sally Bateman, Kristi Shipnes, and Sue Lykes. Other forwards were Betty Faulkner, Nancy Fergusen, Nancy Crow, and Fairfax Crow. Other guards were Louisa Stude, ,Ioan Hohlt, and Sally Binz. Some highlights of the season: ST. JOHN'S 32-ST. AGNES 22 This game was significant because it was the first win of the season and because St. Agnes had beaten the Rebels previously in the season. Mimi White scored 15 points as the long drouth ended. ST. JOHN'S 48-SUGARLAND 14 The girls scored almost at will to pocket this game. It was one of the best games the girls had ever played. They worked as a unit, and it payed off. Marianne McEachern got high point honors as she put seven Field goals and three free shots through the hoop. St. John's scored 362 for an average of 25.8 per game. Opponents scored 366 for an average of 26.1 per game. Individual Scoring White-1 12 Neely-35 F. Crow-7 Reynolds-4 McEachern-68 Laubach-27 N. Crow-5 Sharp-2 Eastham-65 Fergusen-10 F aulkner-5 I Wrestling Since wrestling in St. John's was started by Mr. Groblewski two years ago, its popularity has increased by leaps and bounds. Last year it was introduced as a time filler between basketball doubleheaders on Friday nights. This year this method was again used to exhibit the prowess of some of these grunt and groan boys. Certain that they would start a schoolwide scandal by appearing in their new tights, these boys had plenty of misgivings about wrest- ling before an audience. These fears were overcome, however, and much to the delight of the assembled gatherings, the boys put on several exhibitions. The wrestlers in the Upper School include Bill Symonds, Roy Kiesling, Bill Voss, Joe Shimek, Pat Harkins, Johnny Baugher, Frank Low, Louis Durst, and Fowler Osburn. All in all, the year has been an exciting and rewarding one for members of the various varsities. Their en- thusiasm was matched only by that of the student body as they watched their teams win over their opponents many, many times. Bruce LauBach S4844 DRHVUHTICS Qwkfiiiq -V0 e Wkkh G, LJ kk-Qmogg -B SBK pm ,I 0 if 6 0 x . 0 X Q00 i 'F a Qi:- xm Ha.,PP L 0... e gu.54-,.4e,u+C..s1- H+' 1 'rl , Y ua Runga A E 6 ofqfw 6 H+ gk ,TGV-,941 49 -6 Past Productions 1948 HAPPY WILL TOMORROW BE by ALAN L KE CHIDSEY and ALEX KEVAN A 1949 THERE COMETH EMANUEL by ALAN LAKE CHIDSEY and ALEX KEVAN YOU CAN,T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Moss HART and GEORGE KAUFMAN 1950 LIFE WITH FATHER by CLARENCE DAY HAPPY WILL TOMORROW BE by ALAN LAKE CHIDSEY and ALEX KEVAN 1951 BLITHE SPIRIT by NOEL COWARD YE GODS by ALAN LAKE CHIDSEY and ALEX KEVAN v5044 DRIIIIIHTICS At St. John's the most popular extra-curricular activity, excepting athletics, has been dramatics. In the past four years we have seen seven major productions-all highly successful. Of these only two have been in collaboration with non-student talent. In the four years of dramatics work a definite precedent has been set. This precedent is one of plays of high entertainment value. They were difficult plays, but done in a highly professional manner, achieving amazing results with our limited resources. The very existence and to a great extent the present position of the dramatics activity is due to one person- Mr. Chidsey. First of all, congratulations on a job well done, and thank you--we all appreciate it. It has become the custom to produce two shows each year: one comes near Christmas, the other in the spring. We call the spring production the Johnny Cake fthe definition of which is an occasion on which everybody has a heck of a good time j. The Johnny Cake is a big event and is usually a musical which takes the place of the traditional senior operettas. It affords an opportunity for the whole school to join in all the fun, work, and glamour of the theater. Enthusiasm mounts as opening night draws near and the results have always been well worth the time and efTort put into the show. Back in antiquity-in 1948 to be exact-Mr. Chidsey and Mr. Kevan collaborated on Relax, and Happy Will Tomorrow Be. A musical was born with Mr. Kevan responsible for the music and Mr. Chidsey for the book and lyrics. In the original production in 1948, our first Johnny Cake, we had adults' help. Mr. Allen played Mr. Bradford, and his wife was Mrs. Anning. The role of their son, Willie, was taken by Peter Chidsey one night and Lang Fuqua the other. It seems that little Willie has somehow come home with the ignominious shame of a bad report card. In his lament to F rothy, the colored butler played by Mr. Chidsey, we find that poor Willie is surmounted with worry and trouble and is contemplating running away from home. During the course of the night in this worried household several persons have several dreams. Willie dreams of The Jabberwock who loves to eat little immature males who run away from home. His parents dream of bridge clubs, board of directors' meetings, the Headmaster, and a Dr. Aptitude. They conclude that something is wrong somewhere and perhaps not so very far away. Meanwhile poor Willie, because of hobbly-goblins, kitchen witches, fiends, demons and such, has decided to take refuge under his parents' bed. F rothy discovers his absence and offers his cure for the affliction of the troubled Bradfords. This cure is administered by Parson Weems QRev. Sumnersj in the form of a song, Relax, and Happy Will Tomorrow ,A WMM... .,...., ., If, s 514: Be. The Bradfords promise to follow the Parson's good advice, and the situation is made complete when Frothy finds Willie hiding under the bed. In the dream sequences the following songs were sung: 'gDeep Down, Close Yo' Eyes Li'l Man, '6He,s an Angelf' 'iHe Is Good for Very Little, The Jabberwockls Jabberwocky Way,', and A Little Square Peg in a Little Round Hole. The show, produced and directed by Mr. Harley A. Smith with lNfIr. Kevan directing the music, was a big success and showed what could be done with hard work and patience. At Christmas the next year Mr. Chidsey and Mr. Kevan put their heads together and wrote S'There Cometh Imanuel, which was a new treatment of the Christmas story. We joined with the Houston Civic Theatre in producing it, and Miss Winnie Mae Crawford was the director. Mr. Harley Smith gave an excellent performance as a Jewish Priest during the time of Christ, and Mr. Chidsey portrayed King Herod. In the spring we proceeded to do it again, but this time with an all-student cast. You Can't Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George Kaufman, was the show. one that was a source of great pleasure. The principal actors in our production of this well known comedy were Pat Harkins as Martin Vanderhof CGrandfatherj, Mary Scott Daugherty as Mrs. Sycamore fPennyj, Malcolm McCorquodale as Paul Sycamore, Sally Bateman and Kristi Shipnes alternating as Alice, Rice Cshow-stopperl Aston as Mr. De Pinna, Star Anderson as Essie, Noble Ginther as Kolenkhov, Joan Wilson as Madame Olga, David Cox as Ed, Frank Low as Mr. Kirby, Marie de Menil as Mrs. Kirby, and Billy Head as Tony Kirby. This show, produced and directed by Mr. Chidsey, was evidence enough that in St. John's there is theatrical talent of an amazingly high quality. In this play Mary Scott Daugherty first showed herself an actress of remarkable ability. ConHdent of what we could do, we tackled Clarence Dayls wonderful comedy, Life With Father. It was scheduled for the early production and it was necessary Cin this case happily necessaryj for some intense work during the Christmas holidays. In order to accomplish this, the Chidseys invited the principals to spend part of the vacation with them in Hunt, Texas. where the agenda was work, work, work. Nevertheless, a tremendous lot of fun was had in the bargain. The curtain rose on an hilarious portrayal of Mr. Day and his family-but as he himself might say, It is none of your damned business to try to write about my family, you have to see them to appreciate them! I will take his fatherly advice, as everyone did. except his wife Vinnie. Opposite Fowler Osburn as Mr. Day was Mary Scott as Mrs. Dayg together they did a grand job. It is hard to say whether Mary Scott cried better than Fowler cursed or not. Their four red-headed boys in order of seniority were Fred Bessel III as Clarence II, Rebby Gregg as John, Charles Shartle as Whitney, and Fredric Harris as little Harlan. The visiting relatives, Cousin Cora and Mary Skinner, rm 52 44 were Sandy Hust and Clare Atwell. The pious Rev. Dr. Lloyd who seemed a little too interested in getting to the root of all evil was acted by Frank Low, and Dr. Humphreys by Pat Harkins. The only person besides his wife Vinnie who could weather the wrath of an indignant Mr. Day was the cook, portrayed by Elizabeth White. For the 1950 Johnny Cake Relax, and Happy Will Tomorrow Bei' was presented again, but this time with different staging, a new song, and an all-student cast. The leading roles were sung and acted by Bruce Harrington and Jean Fielder as Mr. and Mrs. Bradford, Peter Chidsey in his previous role of Willie, Noble Ginther as Froth- ingham the butler, Star Anderson as Conscience, Fowler Osburn as Parson Weems, Bill Symonds as The jabberwock, Frank Low as The Headmaster, and Tommy Moore as Dr. Aptitude. In order to make the dream sequences more realistic. ultraviolet lighting was used. This was only one of the features which made the production far above the high school level. The orchestra. which was under the direction of Mr. Kevan Qin spite of his broken armj, was composed of members of the local Youth Symphony. The importance of the many other nameless people-f-the dancers, the members of the chorus, and those backstage, to list a fewfcannot be over-emphasized in such a large production. It is because of the efforts of these people, from all the classes, that our record in dramatics is what it is. The quintessence of all this is Roy Kiesling and Cecil Carnes, who have contributed many hours of their time and their ability to the all-important job of lighting. This year Mr. Thomson undertook the job of bringing to the St. John's stage the delightfully improbable farce by Noel Coward, Blithe Spiritf' In it we saw two oldtimers, Fowler Osburn as Dr. Brodman, and Mary Scott as Ruth, the second wife of Charles Candomine, played very well by a newcomer, Howard Webb. jean Fielder drew a large ovation with her portrayal of the medium, Madame Arcati. Elvira, the ghost of Charles' first wife. was played by a blithe-spirited Susie Dearborn. Ye Gods -they've done it again! Mr. Chidsey and Mr. Kevan have a brand new, bigger and better musical cooked up. It is all about the Gods and a plot to take over the universe. There are numerous characters and sub- characters including such old-time favorites as Big Brother and the well known Senator from Alabama. It hasn't been produced yet and won't be until the Johnny Cake this spring, but I will tell you now that Peace tjack Coganj will be restored to Virtue fMarion Craigj, and that Jupiter tHenry Widemanj will send them to rebuild the earth. How all this happens is a long and harrowing tale not to be told by an idiot, but by Fowler Osborn as Mars, Betty Ann West and Bill Laubach as Venus and Cupid, and Fred Bessell and Jean Fielder as Apollo and Hebe, to name only a few. FRANK Low Thus we see that there is no hope of making a complete resume of our school's dramatic history so soon, but it is certainly not too soon to observe, in the face of our past successes and the almost assured triumph of Ye Gods, that the dramatic side of St. John's is here to stay. No one activity has contributed so much to the growth and spirit of our school as have our many dramatic works, and we hope that they will continue in the same manner and with the same universal enjoyment in the years to come. Pb cc ,, 3 fl-I A r,. Aff 'J 'R' ..,.,f,,. '1 IRC H' M51 .I Y ,ia , , fm-Nf-W A . , ,.g, 3 , if 3.,Tf.fm. 4 412-vzpia 'S - 311- .4 fi Mex, K.. ' .3 f' nMki's..1ZS5t2P!.Elc4- J ,rv nliih.-.ELQEX :HSM .Zi 44 Airgas-B52 QUE S HHN ,X Q REVIE IU PETE DEL VALLE. ROY KIESLING, JR... JANE REYNOLDS ..... JOAN WILSON .... KRISTI SHIPNES . .. Sally Bateman Review Staff EDITORS ...........SEPTEMBER . . .... NOVEMBER-JANUARY ...........DECEMBER . . . . .FEBRUARY CONTRIBUTORS Dorothy Carsey Jack Cogan Mary Scott Daugherty Jes Dickson Kate Farish J ean Fielder Claude Fuqua Nancy Greene Bruce Harrington Jessica Hobby Pat Kevan Margo Lamb Bruce LauBach Frank Low Fowler Osburn Herb Schaumburg Earnest Schaver Joe Shimek Bill Symonds Ann Taylor Howard Webb n564f MARCH -IUIJRIIIILISIII When the first St. john's Review was published on November 7, 1947, it was directed primarily to an adult reading audience. There was a section edited by faculty members dedicated to discussions of adult interest, and there was also a student page that presented items of interest to school students. The first student editor of this page was Anne Galloway, who was assisted by student staff writers Betty Ann West, Herb Schaumburg, and Sue Lykes. The student business manager, Bill Symonds, and his assistant, Jane Reynolds, were given the task of helping Mr. Salls address the Review on Saturday momings. All members of the staff, students and faculty alike, procured advertising for the new newspaper. In the December issue, the Student Page increased from one to two pages. Added to the usual chatter were five original contributions, poems, stories, or essays, chosen in a contest sponsored by the student editors of the Review. Contributors from outside the school added many excellent articles to our own eHorts. In january, 1948, Anne Galloway, our first student editor, moved to New York, and Kay Martin was elected to her position as editor-in-chief of the student page. Many new names appeared on the Student Staff-Joan Wilson, News Editor, Malcolm McCorquodale, Sports Editor, Betty Ann West, Feature Editor, Bill Symonds, Make-Up Editor, Jane Reynolds, Business Manager. In the Review of March 12, 1948, it was announced that a special Dedication Issue would be published on April 10. The Dedication Issue had a summary of the activities during 1947-48 with accompanying photographs. Also, a detailed history of the founding and development of St. John's appeared. Photographs and profiles of the principal speakers at the Dedication Ceremony were published, and a list of schools that paid tribute to St. ,Iohn's appeared. The following issue featured the principal addresses made at the ceremony. The last issue of the Review for the year 1947-48 appeared on June 2, and all members of the staff went off for their vacations, only to return to work again. . . In September of 1948, the Review got a new formathit became a magazine instead of a newspaper. joan Wilson was made an assistant editor of the Review staff. The Journalism Club, with Mrs. E. Lewis in an advisory capacity, took over the student pages, and in February Pete del Valle was chosen Editor, Bruce LauBach, Assistant Editor, and stafi' writers were Dorothy Carsey, Phyrne Youens, and Priscilla Thorpe. In February, the Journalism staff decided to publish a yearbook. The editor and assistant editor of the Review were chosen to serve in the same capacity on the yearbook. A contest was held to decide upon the name, and f'The Quadrangle won. After many months of hard work the first yearbook of St. John's School appeared in June of 1949. During 1949-50, there was very little journalistic activity on the part of the students. In April, 1950, it was announced that there would be no issue of The Quadrangle. All material was being concentrated on publication of the yearbook for our first graduating class. In September, 1950, the Review became a truly student publication. With the advice of Mr. Chidsey, the Hist student issue was a great success. Pete del Valle was appointed editor, Dorothy Carsey, Jean Fielder, Fowler Osburn. Roy Kiesling, Herb Schaumburg, and Joan Wilson were associate editors for the first issue. Members of the by cc I l I 1 freshman through senior classes contributed to the Review. Articles were written by Sally Bateman, Mary Scott Daugherty, Kate F arish, Nancy Greene, Jessica Hobby, Pat Kevan, Margo Lamb, Ernest Shauver, Anne Taylor, and Howard Webb. Jack Cogan's ability as an illustrator showed itself in his wonderful drawings. The editor of the October issue was Joan Wilson, who was assisted by Roy Kiesling. Added to the long list of contributors were Nancy Crow, Susie Dearborn, Jesse Dickson, Claude Fuqua, Bruce Harrington, Jane Reynolds, Bruce LauBach, Frank Low, Fowler Osburn, Herb Schaumburg, Joe Shimek, Kristi Shipnes, Bill Symonds, Priscilla Thorpe. The following issues featured a fast succession of editors: Roy Kiesling, November, Jane Reynolds, Decemberg Roy Kiesling, January, and Joan Wilson, February. In March the Review was handed over to the Juniors, and Kristi Shipnes was their first editor. The Review was not our only means of advertising our school. In January we found that we had acquired a press agent somewhere who was none other than Roy Kiesling. Every Thursday an article written by Roy about our school activities appeared in the Houston Chronicle. The yearbook staff was elected in December. Bill Symonds was elected Editor-in-Chief, Joan Wilson, Literary Editor, Susie Dearborn, Art Editor, Bruce LauBach, Sports Editor g and Jane Reynolds, Roy Kiesling, and Mary Scott Daugherty, Assistant Editors. Kristi Shipnes was appointed to manage the selling of the yearbooks. Bill made assign- ments for the yearbook in January, and everyone went right to work on the document that would preserve the Seniors' memories for posterity-the Yearbook of the first graduating class. .JANE REYNOLDS xr 44 Rebel Staff EDITOR IN CHIEF Bill Symonds SENIOR EDITORS Roy Kiesling, Jr. Joan Wilson ASSOCIATE EDITORS George Bolin ........... Mary Scott Daugherty .... Susie Dearborn ......... Bruce LauBach .... Frank Low ..... Jane Reynolds .... Kristi Shipnes ..... CONTRIBUTORS Sally Bateman Pete Bowers Jean Fielder Pete Koch BUSINESS MANAGER Bill Symonds ADVISOR H. J. Groblewski x59cc . . . . Mounting . . . . .Seniors . . . .Mounting . . . . .Sports . . . .Dramatics Journalism Circulation HISTQHY Z. XX Dl- 'HIJIHJ mmm IEE Twmrmmn UU U11 F -XL! nm -H ,. MMM-..l Umm ' m UMW m History of Senior Class 1947-1951 As june approaches and plans for commencement exercises take form, we suddenly realize that we are almost at the end of our high school careers. Only a few more last-minute races to classes through the cloisters remain, only a few more days in the wild and woolly Senior Room, and, if we are lucky, only a few more penalty halls are left. We are on the verge of a new and different existence. As we have our last class, our last exam, we will remem- ber the development of St. John's and the part, . sometimes good, sometimes bad, we played in its growth. We will recall our escapades, our mistakes, our blunders, and wonder how we ever made it this far. In this Yearbook we are leaving a record of our deeds-good and bad. Some things which will be mentioned will not mean much to those who are not Seniors, but to us there are songs, phrases, events, people that we will never forget. Way back in 1947 when we came to the Opening Exercises as Freshmen, we hardly realized that in four short years we would be leaving as alumni with brand-new diplomas in our hands. Billy Head had received the Headmaster,s Award and was already an outstanding member of our class. Jesse Dickson, though scarcely the prow he is today, was a star of our football team. Betty West had a column in the first issue of the Review called Tracking It Down With Westyf' Seven Seniors lettered on the football team. Scotty Daugherty started her dramatics career at St. John's as a member of Parson Weems, congregation in Happy Will Tomorrow Bef' On February 13, 1948, the first Father-Daughter Banquet was held. That same week Noble Cinther upheld the name of our class by winning the Time Current Events test for the whole school. He won a book-Did he ever read it? Jesse Dickson and Jimmy Petersen represented us at the Closing Exercises in June, '48, by Winning the Athletic Award and the Head Acolyte Award, respectively. It is doubted if anyone will ever forget the sawhorses and buckets of plaster which seemed so conveniently placed for everyone to fall over and in. The turmoil of the construction days was not all trouble, however. The falling of trees and the rat-tat-tat of pneumatic drills provided excellent opportunities for the interruption of classes. Of course, we were very eager to learn, but still . . . The many nooks and crannies in the partly constructed buildings inspired quite a number of our class to loud and raucous games of hide-and-go-seek at lunch periods. We can still see Susie Dearborn tearing down the hall hot on the trail of Jane Reynolds who was well concealed behind a maze of lumber and ladders. Probably the most vivid memory of our ninth grade year is that of the great flood. We were stranded over in Hoodwink Hall as the dear old boardwalks were cheerfully floating by. We all poured out into the rain, got wet, and much to our horror', were sent home. Again our eagerness for education was thwarted. Pat Harkins was the hero of the study hall with his now bass, now soprano voice. The poor teacher was driven to distraction by a voice fPat'sj which did not seem to belong to anybody. The Opening Exercises in 1948 were marked by the arrival of uniforms-the boys in khakis and the girls in their blue and white striped summer uniforms. The next Monday we again settled down to ye olde grind. On October 15, St. Johnis played its Hrst football game of the season with St. Thomas. Our next two games were with Spring Branch and Davy Crockett. The Hrst dance,' of the year was the Folk Festival. Everyone in all the girls, gym classes participated. Susie Dearborn, Joan Wilson, Scotty Daugherty, Jane Reynolds, Betty West, and Marie de Menil, dressed in checked gingham costumes, put on demonstrations worthy of any country Q D 6244 barn dance. We did about every square dance known and then went home and collapsed. We felt as though we had played ten football games. After the T.C.D. game the Candy-Stick Ball was held. Jesse Dickson presented the T.C.D. players with the game ball, autographed by the St. Johnis team. It was doubtful that the gesture was appreciated. The ink was still wet when the T.C.D. captain got it. He probably thought we were getting even for the 0-6 score in favor of T.C.D. In December the yo-yo craze hit. We dignif1ed', seniors were saved from complete annihilation only by Christmas vacation. On December 16, the football banquet was held at the River Oaks Country Club. Jesse Dickson, captain, presented letters to twelve Seniors and four Juniors. Basketball season started in January, and in February Pete del Valle started making plans for a yearbook for 1948-1949. Our second Johnny Cake had been cast and was scheduled for March 11 and 12. You Can't Take It With You was presented with much success. Scotty Daugherty, Noble Cinther, Joan Wilson, Marie de Menil, Susie Dearborn, Billy Head, Jimmy Petersen, and Frank Low all had roles in the amusing account of a zany family. Pete Bowers and Claude Fuqua contributed their part by providing sound effects. They set off firecrackers in a washtub!! The Juniors had a very successful dance, notably marked by the Truth or Consequences program that they put on. Frank Low, a contestant, paid the consequences with an apple pie in his face. Was it a good pie, Frank? Some of us were attempting to blow the school up in Mr. Nelsonls Chemistry class. Claude Fuqua really had a good explosion. jane Reynolds would be glad to tell you all about it. One of her uniforms had tiny little holes in it where acid splattered clear across the room. Claude Fuqua won the award for Excellence in English at the Closing Exercises, and Bruce LauBach was appointed Head Acolyte. Jesse Dickson got the Athletic Award and was elected -N?....m-......,, I i l .Te O o Q up cc next yearis football captain. Pat Harkins walked off with two honors-Scholastic Improvement and Excellence in Physical Sciences. At the end of these exercises we started our summer vacation with much relief. We had passed!! On September 16, we started our junior year. In October a committee from our class started looking around for designs for our class rings. We really felt like we were at last on our way to that exalted position of the Senior Class. The Rebels-the new name of our football team-had planned a trip to Tidehaven School for a game on October 12. Tidehaven's Coach phoned Mr. Richards that their Held was under water-so I was ours Qanother floodj . The senior girls had lassoed some parents into taking them to the game. So the cancellation greatly disappointed them-a sentiment doubtfully shared by the parents. On November 11, we had our annual football dance. We had a great time, but the Cathedral boys looked rather unhappy. They had lost, 27-7, to the Rebels that afternoon. We selected our class rings in December, and in January basketball season opened for the boys' and girls' varsity. Susie Dearborn and jane Reynolds made the girls' team from our class. This year honor study hall for the ones in our class with an honor average was started. It was a forerunner of the great and glorious Senior Room. On january 20 and 21, Life With Fatheri' was presented. Scotty Daugherty and Fowler Osburn had the leading roles of Mother and Father. Fred Bessell was one of the sons, and Frank Low was the minister. When Scotty really becomes a mother, she should be able to raise her children with great ease. In two of the plays which she has been in, she has played the mother! Bill Symonds, Joe Shimek, Fowler Osburn, Pete del Valle, and Roy Kiesling were members of the wrestling team-definitely headed for TV. 'cHappy Will Tomorrow Bei' was cast in March to be given in April. This presentation had an all-student cast. Tommy Moore, Pete del Valle, Bruce Harrington, Noble Ginther, Frank Low, Roy Kiesling, Bill Symonds, Pat Harkins, Jane Reynolds, Susie Dearborn, and Fowler Osburn had major parts. Cecil Carnes and Roy Kiesling were in charge of lighting, and joan Wilson was student director. On March 17, the annual Father-Daughter banquet was held. Once again the various classes presented skits. After that night the senior girls hold the record for the worst skit-givers in the world. Every time we hear the song Daddy's Little Girl we all turn a fiery red. It was a good dinner, but f'Oh, that skitli' At the suggestion, rather the demand, of the senior girls no skits were given at the 1951 banquet. Betty West was elected head of the Booster Club, and Jane Reynolds, Organization Chairman. On March 11 we got our first taste of College Boards. We took a trial run on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. About this time the diet craze hit the senior girls. We were rapidly turning into rabbits with all the carrots and lettuce we were eating. On May 5, the athletic dinner was held. Nineteen Seniors won awards. Pete del Valle got a special award from the Booster Club for selling the most tickets to the Johnny Cake. Prefects were elected, but the winners' names were kept secret until the end of school. ar cc At the Closing Exercises awards were given as usual. The Prefects for 1950-51 were: Jesse Dickson, Head Prefectg Pete del Valle, Billy Head, Roy Kiesling, Bill Symonds, Betty Ann West, and Joan Wilson. Bruce Harrington received the award for Scholastic Improvement, Susie Dearborn for Excellence in Mathematics, Jesse Dickson for Excellence in Athletics, Joan Wilson for Excellence in History, Fowler Osburn for Excellence in Science, and Bill Symonds was appointed Head Acolyte. Joe Slotnick received the Harvard University Book Award. This was also the year that Joe Shimek got his bagpipes. No Senior will ever forget that. At long last we were Seniors. Pete del Valle was doubling up on all his courses so that he could finish high school before the Marine Corps got him. The Senior Room was in full swing and homework was piling up. Don McGregor was battling to the death with Chemistry. Our undefeated football season began September 29. It ended with a victory over St. Markis on November 17 and a broken leg for Jimmy Petersen. For quite a while his crutches were a familiar Hxture in the Senior Room. In October the Booster Club sponsored a cake raffle which was a huge success. Betty West was again serving as president. Big Brother was the byword of the Senior Field Army. Led by Field Marshall von Shimek,', the Senior Room was carefully guarded by the fearsome legion of Big Brotherf, Hallowe'en rolled around, and so did the Senior boys. San Felipe has never been the same. St. John,s really made the headlines. Even though no names were mentioned, the superior skill of the Senior boys was very apparent in the waging of this third World War. ' Jalopies were appearing everywhere. Roy Kiesling, Claude Fuqua, and Jesse Dickson had what Scotty Daugherty termed personality carsf, Jerry Dreyer was in his element when the radio appeared in the Senior Room. He really could harmonize with it. Mule Train,', c'Hiroshima, and Blues Stay Away From Mei, were his specialties. A venerable member of the Association for Hill-Billy Moaners and Howling Groanersf, he kept us posted on the latest hit in the world of hayseed and atom-bombers. November was a month marked by the football team's trip for a game in Fountain Valley, Colorado. Their departure looked like a joint raid by the Texas Rangers and the Confederate Greys. This yearis football dance after the St. Mark's game was much fun and the gym certainly looked like a different place after the hard work of the Mothers' Guild. Bill Voss put on quite a demonstration with skillful dancing. Jane Reynolds, Susie Dearborn, Joan Wilson, and Betty West did their part in athletics by fearlessly playing the dangerous sport of vol- leyball. Betty was captain of the team. Pete del Valle was notified in February that he would not be called by the Marines. So he enrolled in Carleton College. Big league stuff !! The gold footballs awarded to the team were really appreciated-by certain girls! 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