Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
REV. ALBERT LUCAS
WILL DIRECT SCHOOL
New Headmaster Will Be in
Charge as st. Adams Opens
21St Year.
st. Adams, the National Cathedral

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st. Adams, the National Cathedra
School for Boys, will enter its twenty.
first year September IS under the
leadership of new headmaster anc
school building, which was completed
recently at cost of s164,OOO.
Rev. Albert H. Lucas, former assis-
tant headmaster at the Episcopal Acad-
envy in Overlook, Philadelphia is the
new headmaster, who succeeds William
Howell Church, head of the school fo1
IA years, who resigned last Spring. The
career Of Rev. Mr.. Lucas is one of par
ticular appeal to boys, since he saw
active service in the World War prior
to becoming a minister. His first duty
was that of athletic director of the
Philadelphia Navy Yard during five
months of 1917, after which he enlisted
as private in the Marine Corps, in
which he served for IA months.
Following the war, Mr.. Lucas studied
for holy orders. Graduated from the
Berkley Divinity School in 1920, he
subsequently was ordained deacon and
priest by the Right Rev. Philip M
Rhinelander, former Bishop of Penn
Sylvania and now warden of the Col
lege of Preachers at the Washington
Cathedral. Rev. Mr.. Lucas became
chaplain of the Episcopal Academy in
Overlook In 1921 and in 1923 he was
made assistant headmaster In charge
Of the lower school of that institution
It Is from that position that he comes
TO st. Adams as headmaster.
% New Building Is Three Story.
The new lower school building. which
will be occupied for the first time with
the opening of the l929-l930 school
years, is three-story structure con-
tanning six classrooms, masters living
quarters an office, conference rooms and
q manual training room The third
floor provides a large indoor playroom
which will be used for gymnasium pur-
poses until the new gymnasium, in
cluded in the future plans of the
school, can be built.
Besides the induction of a new head
master, st. Adams faculty changes in
clude:
In carrying out her expressed wish, the
will succeed Carl Hartzell in the French
department, and c. w. OConnor will
take the work in English and Latin
formerly handled by A. T. Knapton.
In the lower school-George D. Hard
men will have charge of the section
presided over last year by Richard B
Greenman, and Edward E. Smith will
succeed Harrison p. Magruder.
Inc history of st. Adams School is
the story Of mothers love for her
sons who died in their youth A be-
quest to found the school was made to
the Cathedral Foundation by Mrs. Har-
net Lane Johnston, niece of President
Buchanan, In 1904, in memory of her
sons, James Buchanan Johnston and
Henry Elliott Johnston. During Pres
tdent Buchanan's administration Mrs.
Johnston acted as mistress of the
White House.
Her Wishes Carried Out.
In carrying out her expressed wish
Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee. the
nrst Bishop Of Washington, sent a COM
m1ttee to visit the leading schools for
boys, both in this country and in Eng
land, for the purpose of studying their
buildings, equipment and administra-
ton. The specifications for the orig
maj building Of st. Adams were based
on this committees research.
The main building of the school.
known as the Lane-Johnston Building.
In memory Of the founder is the result.
1tS corner stone was laid by the Right
Rev. William Paret, then Bishop of Mary
land. on Ascension day, 1905. The
building was dedicated by Bishop Sat-
terlee on Ascension day, May 9, 1907.
That day also was the anniversary of
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston's birth.
The school formally was opened by the
Eignt Rev. Alfred Harding, second Bishop
OF washington, October Z, 1909. Since
that time hundreds Of boys who have
been graduated from its halls have
achieved success In college work and
civilian life.
st. Adams today has an enrolment
Of nearly ITO boys, while its faculty
numbers l6. To meet the special needs
OF its younger students, those from
8 to IL, st. Adams has inaugurated the
horizontal method of teaching; that is,
the boys have the same teacher in the
majority of their studies,
st. Adams School is an integral part
OF the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
Foundation Of the District of Columbia
and Is administered by the Cathedral
Chapter as a board of trustees, of
which the Bishop of Washington is
president. His associates on the board
OF trustees are: Very Rev. G. C. F.
Bratenahl, dean Of the cathedral; Rev.
William L. De Vries, canon and chancel-
Tor lof the cathedral; Right Rev. James
De Wolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode
Island; Right Rev. Philip Mercer Rhine
lander, warden Of the College of
Preachers at Washington Cathedral;
Rev. Robert Johnston, rector of st.
Johns Church here; Charles C. Glover,
chairman Of the Riggs National Bank:
Charles J. Bell, chairman Of the Amer
lean Security & Trust Co.; DR.. William
G. Rives, Corcoran Thorn, president of
the American Security & Trust Co.:
James Parmelee, trustee of the Carnegie
Institution and Corcoran Gallery of
Art; DR.. William Holland Wilmer, head
Of the Wilmer Eye Institute In Balti-
more; former Senator George Wharton
Pepper of Philadelphia, and Gen. John
PerShin u s