St Louis Country Day School - Codasco Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Aslrby 7 Harper HFADN1 ASTER Mr Ashby T Harper headmaster of the St Louls Coun try Day School was graduated ln l939 from Prlnc ton Unrxcrslty where he recelved Honors ln Modern Lan guages and varslty letters IH baseball football and swrm mlng Mr Harper preparcd for Prlnceton at Bl'11r Acad emy from whlch he vsas graduated as class xaledlctormn 1n l935 After serxlng one ycar as Asslstant Dlrector or Athletlcs at Prlnceton Mr Harper accepted a pos1t1on at the Mount Hermon School as maste of French and Spanlsh Havlng enllsted 1n the Naxy 1n une of 1941 he b came a fighter pllot and took part 1n the Oklnawa campalgn and ln ralds on the apanesc malnland For h1s SCIXICCS to hls country Mr Harper vsas avsardcd four alr mcdals and thc Dlstlngulshed Flylng Cross After bc1ng dlschargcd from the Naxy lVlr Harper studled lnterna tlonal Relatlons and Latin Amerlcan affairs for two years at the Graduate School of Princeton ln the sprlng of 1947 'Vlr Harper was appolnted Headmaster of the American School of u1to an lndependent day school Here he re malned for four years untll he became Headmaster of the Amcrlcan School of Llma from vthtch hc came IH 1953 to assume the headmastershlp of Country Day To +he Class of I956 I cannot help but begin this message by repeating part of a News edltorlal whlch was wrlttcn last October Ex ery boy ln the Senlor Class shares equally 1n the uphold n or posslbly the destructlon of hls cla ss rcputatlon by how xxcll he sees to If that he acts as bcflts 1 Country Day senlor The vxrlter of that edltorlal obxlously knevx that the tone of exery school vear 19 lnexltably set by the senlors those to whom thc rcst of the student body pcrhaps with out thelr bemg entirely au are of It turns for lts example He also knew that a selfish or careless attltude on the part of even tvso or three senlors can qulckly destroy the morale and esprzt de corps of the entlre class and thus of the whole student body The confidence expressed rn the edltorlal that th1s was golng to be a good year at Country Day was fully justified and to thc Class of 1956 belongs most of the credit Your succ ss 1n college and IH later l1fe IS goxng to depend not on your ab1l1ty alone but 1n a xery large measure upon the de gree of responslblllty and lntegrlty vuth whlch you face the problems and opportunl tles whlch Wlll confront you the rcst of your nes If you are wllllng to follow the example you have set for yourselxes durlng your last year at Country Day the future holds brlght promlse for each and exery O God peed' Ashby T Harper l O I l . . . . ' c - . as , - ' . . ' ' ' l fl. . . . I F , , I 9 J. . A ' yi K I X ' 9? . 1 . , K . , x , , , K l 4, I '- - ' 3 - - , A C . . . 3 s - 9 - . f -- 0 . . I., l ' . u . . A.B., Prmceton Unzversity , - . . , , ' , . . Q 1 1 , c 'V ' ' ' - ne. 3 . , 9 . . . . 7. n 9 3 . I . . x - u Q C , ' - 'C r r - I . V. . . , g t , . . . Y . I , 0 . . . Q c -' ' ' ' 7 1 x ' . . , . - , . . - C 1 x l . ' Q , . - X .W I 1 'w 1 l , .

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