Re: Schefer Schools-Does Anyone Remember?
Posted by:
CeeBee
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Date: January 22, 2011 11:25PM
Anton Schefer was my slumlord in Old Town for several years. During that time, he was verbally abusive to tenants, wrote illegal clauses into leases, failed to maintain his properties to a livable standard, and would periodically "stop by" at odd times, such as 11:30 on a Sunday night, just to "check in."
It surprises and pleases me to learn that he ever did any good for others in his life, considering the extent to which he made my own life miserable for several years. I'm glad that in his 66 years, he was able to make any impact other than a negative one, long ago though it was.
1201SLD Wrote:
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> I was a classmate of Anton Schefer at St. Andrew's
> School 1957-62 and at UVA 1962-1966. During those
> years I visited him and his parents many times at
> 610 Fulton Avenue, Falls Church, at the time the
> school's only location (and a bit like visiting
> Miss Havisham's house.) His parents, Ernest
> Edward Schefer (Harvard 1924) and Eileen
> Lennox-Conyngham (a Titanic survivor) met in Kuala
> Lumpur in the Malay raj early in WWII. I believe
> Mr Schefer was in the U. S. foreign service. At
> the Schefer School they ran a tutorial and
> catch-up program for students who didn't do well
> (whatever that means) in other schools. Mrs.
> Schefer was definitely the policy- and
> decision-maker. Parents and son were all a trifle
> eccentric and quite opinionated, also quite
> charming in an effete way. They were very serious
> about what they did at the school, and as far as I
> know, up through the mid-70's at least, never made
> much money from it, but then they were socially
> secure and were not spenders. To the extent there
> were grades at The Schefer School, it was to more
> to relate to other schools that to suggest any
> real academic level. They were not by nature great
> record-keepers, so if there are no directories of
> students, I am not surprised. Nella Mehlman of
> Washington may be able to tell you more about the
> school.
>
> Schefer School Alumni Wrote:
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> > I went to Schefer School briefly in the early
> > 1980's. It was a non-profit program for fuckups
> > and had branches in Falls Church and
> Fairlington.
> > It was weird, 10 to 12 kids per class and I
> think
> > they only went up to 11th grade because they
> > weren't certified to graduate anyone.
> >
> > There is nothing about Schefer Schools online
> > except the head of the school, Anton Schefer
> died
> > in 2010 and the school had been closed since
> 1988.
> > Nothing about it on classmates.com.