St Stephens Episcopal School - Scroll Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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THOMAS ARGO SMITH Fourth Year ,, Football Letterman, ' 56 Baskelball Letterman, ' 56 Baseball Letterman. ' 56 WHITE . . . back as senior after absence of four years . . . the athlete supreme . . . superbly coordinated, beauti- fully built . . . especially proficient in football and baseball . . . can do just about anything in both of them . . . practical, down-to-earth fellow . . . applies the common sense approach to everything . . . logical ideas about foreign policy have one history professor locating his local psychoanalyst . . . despite independence and self reliance, is a real friend to those who know him . . . rather lazy in some respects . . . but can get things done when he wants to . . . the champion class bull shooter . . . advocates the sneak punch technique . . . can call on a large body of solid, valuable information . . . full of helpful how-to-do-it hints about al most every problem . . . scorns those cold Yankee institu- tions ( You won ' t find me freezing in any of those places ) . . . will take law in the warmer climes of Miami or Virginia . . . wants to become an F.B.I, man.

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THOMAS WALTON ROBY Ninth Year Literary an i Sports Kditor. The Scroll. ' 56 Sports Ediliir, Tht- Deacon, ' 56 Mtinher. Moiiopram Cliili, ' 55, ' 56 Football l.etlrrinan. ' 54, ' 55. ' 56 Most Valiialilf Linfiiian, ' 55 Mi ' inhir, AllPrep Foolliall Team, ' .55, ' 56 Basketball Li-ltrrman. ' 56 (!aptain. Hasrliall Train, 56 Baseball Leiterman, ' 55. .56 ROBUST . . . has had nine liirbnient years as a Saint . . . gifted with a knack for getting ont of any difficulty . . . was for years a major source of trouble here . . . has settled down now and made amends by adding much to the school life in general during the last two years . . . tries hard to get along witli eyerybody by seeing the other fellow ' s point of view; has succeeded admirably ... is a decided realist in viewing life . . . can draw on unexpectedly large sources iif knowleilge to support his own opinions . . . condemns homework as ridiculous ( no one does it at home anyway ) . . . leader of the agnostic and anti-ecumenical movement in senior Sacred Studies ... accomplished bullsbooler Ian art he mastered during three years in English class I . . . the man behind most of the scribbling in this book, includ- ing the absurdly unrealistic theme . . . keenly and ardently involved in all sports . . . favorite is football, but recently discovered basketball and won varsity letter in first year . . . likes most St. Stephen ' s quiet, inlelleclual atnH)spbere . . . will leave here for Colgate and decide later on career. 26

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KENDON LEE STUBBS Tenth Year ici-Prt-siilent, Junior Class. ' 55 Vice-President. Sophomore Class. ' 54 Editorin-Chiet. The Sckoi.l. ' 56 Assistant Editor. The .Scroll, ' 55 Member. The Scroll .Staff. ' 53 Advisory Editor. The Deacon, ' 56 Editor-in-Chief. The Deacon. ' 55 Assistant Editor. The Deacon, ' 53. ' 54 High School Scholastic Cup, ' 53. ' ,55 French Award. ' 54. ' .55 English Award. ' 55 History Award. ' 55 Scholastic Award, .lunior Class. ' 55 Scholastic Award. Freshman Class, ' 53 Sacred Studies Award. ' 53 KENDON . . . retiring, intellectual, and misanthropic . . . rather the most puzzling, unrational member of the class . . . says he likes nothing about St. Stephen ' s, yet has l)een for years one of the chief forces behind its publications . . . perhaps it ' s his way of getting back . . . did all the lavout for The Scroll (which involves a lot more work than you might think) . . . address all your complaints about the yearbook to him . . . describes as his pet peeve anything I am considering at the moment ... is an animated encyclopedia of facts . . . just about the best scholar in the school . . . has mastered the magic touch of working hard. but. he feels, too much . . . frankly admits himself to be an odd ball ... to prove it he lists as his interests Shakespeare (at last. Mr. Wills!) : all philosophy: mi.sic — especially Rachmaninoff .; Oriental literature: and a specific history class ... his hobbies are reading and listening to classical records on his homemade hi-fi set . . . dislikes intensely old. beat-up school buildings and hypocritical people ... an uncompromising self-critic and realist, he sometimes wonders how he lives with himself . . . receiving his higher e(lucati in at St. John ' s, though no one seems to know why.