Evening star., 1946-06-09


coach of athletic activities for the
last "a years, he has signally served
the Cathedral school under three
headmasters, Earl M. Gregg, Will
liam Howell Church and Canon Al
bert Hawley Lucas.
The corridors at st. Albans are
lined with pictures of the school pre-
feet who was also dubbed Speed
BALI Todd because of the athletic
feats he and such chums as Hal
Rust, Herbert Schoenfeld, Eddie
Mertz, King Stone and the Lock-
wood boys performed. During the
baseball season he pitched most of
the games. as many as three in four
DAYS. He was on the great foot
ball team led by ''Tuffy'' Crane. and
played in the game against Eastern
High which drew crowd of 5000
at Washington's baseball park.
Honors Student Athletes.
But after his college days at the
University of Virginia and his
graduation from George Washing
ton University. when he'd face the
other way in the schoolroom at st,
Adams, Mr.. Todd proved that the
successful student leader could be
an outstanding teacher, Christian
gentleman and contest winning
athletic coach. Many times have
his students led the Nation in their
college board examinations in
physics and chemistry. The renown-
ed coaching team of Henderson and
Todd also proved that the same
honor students could be just as
successful on the st. Adams playing
fields.
1t was natural for Augustine Todd
to enter the teaching profession in
church school. His maternal
grandfather, Augustine Jaqueline
Smith, was president of the Mary
land Agricultural College, now the
University of Maryland. His pa
ternal grandfather, John Mallory
Todd. was an Episcopal clergyman
who declined such posts as Epiphany
Church here to serve country
parish in Charles County, Md, for
more than so years.
Linked to Cathedral.
His father, Everard Robinson
Todo, was a vestryman at st. Alhan's
Church when it was still a frame
structure. Young Augustine Todd
was the crucifier who led the pro-
cessional the day the cornerstone
was laid for the Bethlehem Chapel!
first portion of the Cathedral to be
completed for the use of the public.
His mother is a kinswoman of the
Nourse family, whose former hold
lngS form large portion OF the
Cathedral grounds. AS little girl
she visited frequently in the Nourse
home, upon whose site the Ca
thedral stands. When Mr.. Todd was
child, he and his mother lived
after his fathers death, in the
James Nourse homestead known as
the Highlands, later to become the
home of Admiral Cary T. Grayson
and his family.
He remembers when there was
nothing but pasture land from
Mount st. Alban, where the Ca
thedral now stands, to the Naval
Observatory on Massachusetts ave-
nue. and the Industrial Home School
on Wisconsin avenue. The Massa-
chusetts and Wisconsin avenues in
tersection, at present the bottle
neck through which the major por-
ton of the motor traffic of our
Northwest suburbs flows. daily, was
then as safe as a backWoods -four
corners"
Now Retiring.
On the Cathedral grounds there
was no cathedral. The cornerstone
had been laid, but the majestic edi-
flee did not begin to take shape until
the summer of 1911, the year Mr.
Todd was graduated from st. Alban's
School. The Girls Cathedral School
had been founded by Phoebe Ap-
person Hearst, but there had been
no expansion across Woodley road
then Woodley lane The bishops
house, in which Bishop and Mrs
Dun now live. had not been built
The baptistry, though, stood out
boldly in field of wire grass ano
timothy.
Immediately after his graduation
from George washington University
Mr.. Todd engaged in research work
with the Public Health Service
During the World War he worked
with President Conant of Harvard
in the Chemical Warfare Service.
AT the end of the years school
term at st. Adams School he is re-
tlrlng from teaching for other pur-