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

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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.

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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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QuKury NtW USED TDEPfER S Pir L MART PURCWAStS V£ TRUST QuryJt CANTttT. r IN TV 1= CA V „ NO CREDIT EDWARD WILLIAM TOEPFER. Jr. Tenth Year Sports Editor, The Deacon, 56 Member, The Deacon Staff, ' 54, ' 55, 56 Patron Manager, Thk Scroll, 56 Member, Science Club, ' 53, ' 54 J.V. Football Letterman, ' 53 TOEFF . . . gentle and a little shy . . . infinitely polite to everyone ... a cheerful personality . . . endowed with real school spirit . . . always willing to help out in any way he can . . . works hard at everything he does . . . Mrs. Urqtihart will miss his handiness in the bookstore . ubiquitous member of The Deacon for three years . . . fol- lowed sports much while on the paper staff ... has come to conclusion that sportsmanship of teams is what he likes best about St. Stephen ' s . . . lists as hobbies nature study (mainly biology and astronomy), building models, and col- lecting records of classical pieces . . . especially digs science and sports, though his small size has shoved him into the unwilling role of spectator in the latter . . . quiet himself, he hates unnecessary noise . . . cares not a whit either for undergraduates who try to slip up the senior stairs by stealth or for notebooks - the biggest waste of time I ever heard of! . . . applauds, on the other hand, teachers who can see the students ' point of view . . . plans a college career aimed in the direction of medicine. 29