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Rev. Albert Hawley Lucas
The Rev. Albert Hawley Lucas (familiarly known as “Chief”), served in the Marines during World War I before becoming vice principal of Philadelphia’s Episcopal Academy and, in 1929, headmaster of St. Albans.
At St. Albans, Lucas hired teachers with exceptional drive, intelligence, and, often, strong personalities, including John C. Davis, Ferdinand Ruge, Doc Arnds, Al Wagner, and Dean Stambaugh.
Lucas shepherded the school through the Depression (managing to build the Activities Building despite the recession) and World War II. In a September 1945 letter to the community, he wrote: “In all, 365 Albanians entered the Armed Forces of the United States and our Allies. Fourteen will not return ... Everything they touched as schoolboys on this peaceful hillside has died a little in their passing.”
When Lucas left St. Albans in 1949, the Saint Albans News paid tribute: “What Mr. Lucas means and will always mean to those of St. Albans is not a builder of buildings, or a guardian of scholarship, or a civic leader, but a warm, human personality—a priest of the Church, whose understanding, whose guidance, and whose loyalty have helped boys grow up into Christian manhood.”
Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.