St. Albans School

St. Albans School   (School)
Abbreviation	S-T-A
Formation	1909
Headquarters	Washington DC, USA
Upper class school for boys in Washington DC

St. Albans School (STA) is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in grades 4–12, located in Washington, D.C. Within the St. Albans community, the school is commonly referred to as "S-T-A." It enrolls approximately 545 day students and 30 boarding students, who are in grades 9-12, and is affiliated with the National Cathedral School and the co-ed Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School, all of which are located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral. St. Albans, along with the affiliated schools and the Washington National Cathedral, are members of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation.

The St. Albans motto, "Pro Ecclesia et Pro Patria," translates to "For Church and Country. St. Albans requires all students to attend Chapel twice a week in The Little Sanctuary. The school seeks to develop in its students a sense of moral responsibility through Chapel, its Honor Code, and a co-curricular social service program.

A 2004 article in the Wall Street Journal found that among U.S. schools, St. Albans had the 11th-highest success rate in placing graduates at 10 selective universities.

Almost 75% of the faculty at the school have advanced degrees. The school also maintains one writer-in-residence, who teaches English classes while developing his or her work. (A past writer-in-residence is Curtis Sittenfeld, who worked on her best-selling novel Prep while at St. Albans.)

History

The school was founded in 1909, with $300,000 ($7.2 million in 2015 dollars) in funding bequeathed by Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of President James Buchanan. Initially, it was a school for boy choristers to the Washington National Cathedral, a program that the school continues today.

School of Public Service

St. Albans established its School of Public Service ("SPS") in 2002. SPS is a residential public policy, politics, and public service program that takes place for a four-week period each summer, beginning in late June. Nearly 40 rising high school seniors are selected to participate in SPS, located at St. Albans School. SPS admits both male and female students who have already shown a great deal of interest in public service, as well as an ability to positively influence others. While in the program, students gain experiences designed to heighten not only an interest in public service but also their probability of entering into and succeeding in a career in civic leadership. SPS students are held to a high level of scholarship, using case studies (including some from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) that are more commonly used at the graduate level.

In addition to using the case study method—used for graduate study in law, business, and public policy—SPS students continue the dynamic learning experience outside the classroom through policy simulations, speakers, and visits and meetings with public servants from State Department Foreign Service Officers to serving Army and Marine officers. In the past several years, SPS students have (in simulation) run congressional campaigns, negotiated their way through a dangerous crisis with North Korea, taken steps to contain a flu pandemic sweeping the nation, and argued and decided Supreme Court cases on First Amendment and national security issues. In the "real" world, the SPS students have, among other things, visited the White House to talk with the White House Chief of Staff, had lunch with the Governor of Maryland, hosted a formal dinner for Ambassadors from around the world, attended screenings of "Meet the Press" and talked with host David Gregory, met with members of the U.S. Supreme Court, and chatted about fiscal policy with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
John Bellinger	1960		US	Spook Lawyer	A spook/lawyer representing the more patient and more PR-friendly approach to Empire
Neil Bush	22 January 1955			Businessperson	Son of George H. W. Bush, involved in the Savings and loan fraud.
Al Gore	31 March 1948		US		An American politician and Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmist who was made 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.
Donald Graham	22 April 1945		US	Businessperson	Son of Katharine Graham, TLC, Facebook, 10 Bilderbergs
David Ignatius	26 May 1950		US	Author Journalist Analyst	Attender of spooky "security" conferences
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr	5 July 1902	27 February 1985	US
Thomas Kean	21 April 1935		US	Deep state operative	Chair of the 9/11 Commission, deep state cover-up artist
Ted Kennedy	22 February 1932	25 August 2009		Politician Lawyer	US politician named in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book.
Tyler Kent	24 March 1911	20 November 1988		Diplomat Spook	Sentenced to 7 years for offences under the official secrets act
John Kerry	11 December 1943		US	Deep state operative	US Skull and Bones DSO, in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book ...
Gore Vidal	3 October 1925	31 July 2012	US	Author
Jeffrey Zients	12 November 1966		US	Deep state operative Businessperson	White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator

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