Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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Glhr Hhtrnr VOLUME XXX OCTOBER 5. I945 NUMBER I QLMSCIIQLU + TT H W T-YSAssocmP'i Issued by The sTudenTs of The Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monfhly during The school year of I943-'44 excepT holidays. SubscripTions, 25c per copy: 52.00 per year. EDITORIAL BOARD DONNELL VAN NOPPEN. Jr., EdiTor-in-Chief DAVIS L. RIANHARD ..,.,,..4..........,....,....,.,,...,,......,........,.. ,..,..,. M anaging EcliTor CHILES T. LAWSON ........ .....,. .......... ........... S p o rTs Edifor W. PRYOR PERRY ................ ,........................ ,......,4. E x change Edifor MR. JOHN D. EOLLETT ,...........,....,.................,....,.,.., ,..,. ..,..,...,. E a culTy Adviser REPORTERS ' HENRY TREVATHAN MACON HARDY JACK CARPENTER ANDREW RAMSEY ARTISTS BILL Ti-ioMAs PAUL TAYLOR PERRIN GOWER RICHARD GUNDRY CHARLES WEAVER FRANCIS ALDRED PHOTOGRAPHERS DR. G. L. BARTON, Jr. GENE GILMAN BUSINESS BOARD DAVIS L. RIANHARD ...,......,......................................................... Business Manager JAMES W. BALLOU ..,..... ........ A ssisfanf Business Manager EDWARD SENEEE .........,...... ................. ,... ........ A s s isTanT Business Manager L. RAY RICHARDSON ............,.,...,..........,..........V .................... C irculaTion Manager Enfered as second class maTTer Sepfember 28, I928, aT The PosToTfice aT Lynchburg, Virginia, under The AcT of March 3, I879. OPINIONS Common Sense IT's Time ThaT The childish ill-feeling befween The boys of V. E. S. and The boys oT Lynchburg ceased. Since V. E. S. was founded in I9I6, a sense- less and confinuous Teud has been raging, someTimes 'reaching vicious proporfions and somefimes dying down almosT To brofherly love. For The pasf few years The feud has been aT iTs worsT and mosT dangerous sfage. Now The oppor'TuniTy To break up This Tradifional nonsense has pre- senTed iTself. MosT of The Trouble- makers have gone from boTh V. E. S. and E. C. Glass H. S. We are aT The beginning of a new school year, and we have The chance To do somefhing before any serious incidenfs occur. Sfeps have already been Taken To bring abouT beTTer relafions befween 4 The Two groups oT boys. A ioinT meefing oT The V. E. S. V Club and The high school Monogram Club has been planned for The near fuTure. The V. E. S. Hop CommiTTee plans To inviTe groups of The ouTsTanding pu- pils of E. C. Glass To each oT iTs dances This year. A very good example of co-oper- aTion beTween The Two schools was shown lasT week aT The foofball game befween E. C. Glass and Hargrave Milifary Academy. Mr. Horner, di- recTor of aThIeTics aT The high school. supplied The V. E. S. varsiTy squad wiTh passes To The game. The V. E. S. boys cheered The local Team. Good feeling befween The Two groups was very evidenT. Why can'T we have more of This friendly aTmosphere? There is no real reason behind all The foolishness ThaT has been going on for over a quarfer of a cenfury. LeT's all do our besT To end The sfupid hosTiliTy befween neighbors. DeposiT Five Cenfs, Please Finally The sTudenTs aT V. E. S. have a Telephone which seems To be suiT- able To everyone. The phone, which is a pay sTaTion, was made possible by a peTiTion lasf year. The peTiTion sTaTed Thaf The sTudenT body needed a phone and would proTecT iT. The peTiTion did noT have immediaTe efTecT. buT iT goT Things moving. Dr. BarTon discussed IT wiTh The faculfy and This summer The phone was insfalled. IT is on The firsT Tloor of Main Building opposiTe The facuITy room. ' There are a few regulaTions which musf be obeyed if we are To keep The phone. Don'T Talk any longer Than is absolufely necessary: don'T crowd in- To The booTh: don'T puT The phone To any illegal use: and don'T give iT any rough TreaTmenT. EXCHANGES A Cusfom Revivecl The Time-honored cusTom of ex- changing publicaTions wiTh our con- Temporaries has been parTialIy dis- confinued for some years pasT. LasT year The MeTeor wenT regularly To several schools abroad: This year and wiTh This issue we resume mailings To our domesTic rivals, The following papers and maga- zines have been received during The summer and are graTefulIy acknowl- edged: The Beccehamianf' CounTy School for Boys, Beckenham and Penge, Eng- land. The Arsenal Cannon. Arsenal Technical Schools, Indianapolis, Incl. News LeTTer, UniversiTy of Vir- ginia, CharloTTesville, Va. Deerfield Alumni Journal, Deer- field Academy, Deerfield, Mass. The Monfhly ChronicIe. ,Episco- pal High School, Alexandria, Va. Quofe From The Beccehamianuz Rail- way Club . . . One of our acTiviTies is a series of 'spoTTers' meeTings aT which members came forward wiTh informafion on locomoTives Thaf They had seen on Their spoTTing expedi- Tions . . . T T'OuesTion: Can iT be possible ThaT our own Dr. Barfon is a Beccehamian aT hearT7 THE METEOR

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trim e -e meetseme VOLUME XXX OCTOBER 5, T945 NUMBER I THE SCHOOL Changes WiTh The opening of school many changes were seen abouT The place. The whole school has been repainTed inside, bofh walls and woodwork, which has given iT an aTTracTive ap- pearance. AnoTher big improvemenT has been The recovering of The floors wiTh asphalf Tile, which adds greaTly To The appearance of The dormiTories and To making Them easier To keep clean. ' The office has undergone changes also. Dr. BarTon's office has been changed To The Treasurer's office, and Mr. Dawson's old office has been made inTo The He-admasTer's sTudy and The secreTary's office. The famous EirsT WesT DormiTory has been converTed inTo aparTmenTs for Mr. MilTon and his Tamily, and The Library has been moved To The rear end of The dormiTory. ShorT DormiTory is again in opera- Ton, rechrisTened Second Main. Mr. FolleTT has handed his duTy as keeper of The demeriTs To Mr. Jar- rard and has assumed The posifions of Publicify AgenT for The school and also MasTer in Charge of The Li- brary. ' School DirecTory Honor CommiTTee John Morgan Page, presidenf Lewis Moore ArmisTead Charles Granville Weaver General AThleTic AssociaTion Donnell Van Noppen, Jr.. presidenf Davis Rianhard, vice-prosidenf James Ballou, Treasurer Edgar Befly, secrefary The V Club Davis Rianhard, presidenT Edgar BeTTy, vice-presidenT James Ballau, sacreTary Donnell Van Noppen, Jr., Treasurer Lewis Armisfead, sergeanT-aT-arms Hop CommiTTee Charles Weaver, presidenf Lewis ArmisTead William H. Thomas 'Mrs, Payne reporfs Thai' The infirmary shared in The irnprovemenfs-iTs windows were washed. THE METEOR They Give 'Em This year's counselor body consisfs of eleven members, Three of whom form The Honor CommiTTee. This goes back To The pracTice of Two years ago, before The commiTTee was increased To five members. The en- Tire sfaff is made up of new coun- selors. HereTofore There have been a few holdovers each year. The Honor Council is led by Head Counselor John Page, Brandon, Ver- monT, and Upper Marlboro, Mary- land. His assisTanTs are Lewis Armis- Tead. Churchland, Virginia, and Charles Weaver, Richmond, Virginia. The resT of The counselors are Fran- cis Aldred, Ivanhoe, Virginia: Rich- ard F. Gundry, Cafonsville, Mary- land: William P. Perry. Warsaw, Ken- Tucky: RoberT ScoTT, Lynchburg, Vir- ginia: Val H. STieoliTz. The Plains, Virginia: William H. Thomas, lll, Bluefield, WesT Virginia: Henry Tre- vaThan, FounTain, Norfh Carolina, and Donnell VanNoppen, Jr., Mor- ganfon, Norfh Carolina. Chinese Missions AT a special chapel service held during evening sTudy period Sepfem- ber I9, Rev. Andrew Allison spoke To The sTudenT body abouf missionary work in China. Mr. Allison, who lived in China for more Than 32 years, Told of American missionaries selling a young Chin- ese man on The ChrisTian way of liv- ing. AlThough The young man was in love wiTh a ChrisTian Chinese girl, he had refused To change his own way of life unTil he had been convinced ThaT his old ways were wrong, Mr. Allison poinTed ouT. He Took The high road, Mr. Allison added. Mr. Allison also relafed The sTory of a young Japanese officer of The secreT milifary police, which shares wiTh The German 6esTapo and The Russian OGPU Thename of being The mosT cruel group in The world. Af- Ter daily official conTacT wiTh 'Mr. Al- lison over a period of some monThs during The Japanese occupafion of The American mission properfy, This young man was Transferred by his superiors because he had been weakened by ChrisTian influence. Mr. Allison, a graduaTe of Tulane UniversiTy, wenT To China in l9l0. AfTer a year's sTudy, he was made principal of James Sprunf Academy near Shanghai. AlThough laTer dis- placed by a Chinese principal, Mr. Allison conTinued To serve The Chin- ese people and his church unTil he was inTerned by The Japanese and laTer senT back To The UniTed STaTes on The lasT Trip of The S. S. Gripsholm. V. E. S. and The ATomic Age Among The alumni who have visiTed The school recenfly are Mr. and Mrs. VicTor J. Kehrer of Oak Ridge. Tennessee. Mrs. Kehrer is The former Miss Margaref Banks, daugh- Ter of The senior masTer. Mr. Kehrer TaughT science aT The school from i940 To I943. The Kehrers were mar- ried in The V. E. S. chapel in January I944 l The MeTeor, Feb., I944-l. BoTh of The Kehrers are chemisTs. Mrs. Kehrer holds a degree from Randolph-Macon, Mr. Kehrer from Ohio Wesleyan. ln The broiling heaT of The summer of I944 Mr. Kehrer Toiled in The laboraTories aT Columbia UniversiTy wiTh many oTher chemisTs on whaT has come To be known as The ManhaTTan ProiecT, The gruel- ing research which laTer led To The perTecTinq of The aTomic bomb. ln The Tall of I944 The experimenTs were Transferred To The greaT secreT planT aT Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Here Mrs. Kehrer ioined her husband in The work. The resulT of The efforfs of These and hundreds of oTher Tech- nicians is now hisTory--Japanese his- Tory. Dances ' Chairman Weaver lasT monTh an- nounced To The STudenT Body a schedule of seven dances, The firsT of which will Take place on OcTober 6Th. The second dance is scheduled af- Ter The E. H. S. game, on November 9. A maioriTy of The sTudenT body has requesfed ThaT This be formal wiTh an orchesTra. The usual mid- winTer dance will be held in The rec- reaTion room, aT a daTe To be seT laTer. There are To be Two spring dances, followed by The cusTomary Two aT finals. 3

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8 ALUMNI Serving The UniTed NaTions On The Three big, gray boards on The chapel walls appear The names of over 600 sons oT V. E. S. who have served orare serving in The armed Torces oT The UniTed STaTes and her allies, who have helped To bring abouT V-E Day and Then V-J Day. 28 oT Those names are marked wiTh gold sTars. Here is The rosTer oT Those alumni who have given Their lives Tor Their counTry in World War II ArThur Barlow, '25 PresTon Bellamy, '40 William B. Blanchard, '42 Arnold Breckenridge, '33 Elmer I. CarruThers, '20 Churchill Chalkley, '35 Banks C. Clarke, '40 Don F. Cox, '37 4 -James G. CoxeTTer, '32 Richard P. Dillon, '4l PeyTon Fravel, '40 WalTer O. Gibson, '43 WaITer T. Green, '38 Izaac H. HanTT, '36 George P. HuTTon,- '37 James JarreTT, '30 Isham KeiTh, '25 Beniamin KearToTT, '38 Malcolm M. Lasher, '3I -William D. Langhorne, '39 Jack McManus, '4l Brooks Miller, '39 MaTT W. Ransom, '40 James R. Shaw, '38 Cleson H. Tenny, Jr., '38 Russell M. Thurmond, '22 Jack W. WesTon, '40 Frederick B. WebsTer, '35 May Their gold sTars never Tarnish T AnoTher Gold STar Word has been received of The deaTh ,oT PTC. William Garland Blan- chard, '42, HerTTord, N. C. Accord- ing To The inTormaTion received, The young man died in a Nazi prisoner OT war camp on March I oT This year. He was 20 years oT age aT The Time oT his deaTh. A graduaTe of Perqui- Tin The V. E. S. library hangs a picTure of one alumnus killed in World War I. This picTure does noT carry The name of The subiecT. Can some alumnus supply The miss- ing name? 'I'From a IeTTer by Mrs. J. C. Blanchard, moTher of William B. Blanchard. THE METEOR mans CounTy High School. he was acTive in boy scouT work while a sTu- denT aT local schools and was HerT- Tord's TirsT eagle scouT. ATTer com- pIeTing Perquimans High School, he aTTended Virginia Episcopal School and The School of Engineering, Duke UniversiTy. AT Duke he was a mem- ber oT The Pi Kappa Phi TraTerniTy. He enTered The armed Torces on June I6', I944, and aTTer receiving his basic Training aT Camp Blanding, Florida, he was TransTerred wiTh a re- pIacemenT group To The 35+h InTanTry Division oT The Third Army. .He wenT overseas on November 23, I944, and was capTured in Belgium by The Ger- mans on January 5, I945. Word was IaTer received by The parenTs ThaT Their son was a prisoner oT war aT STaIag I2-A. Besides his parenTs, he is survived by Two sisTers, Mrs. Marcus E. Hobbs oT Durham, N. C., and Mrs. C. W. Morgan, Jr., oT Cleveland, Ohio. And AnoTher i ProTessor M. S. Breckenridge of The UniversiTy oT NorTh Carolina and Mrs. Breckenridge received word re- cenfly ThaT Their only son, LT. Arnold Breckenridge, '33, was killed in an aircraTT accidenT in California. LieuTenanT Breckenridge was born in Chicago in November, I9I5, and came To Chapel Hill wiTh his Tamily in I926. ' He received his A. B. degree aT NorTh Carolina in I937, and wenT To The medical school wiTh a fellowship unTiI I940. He compIeTed The work Tor his M. D. degree aT McGill Uni- versiTy, MonTreaI, in I942. He Tin- ished his inTernship The Tollowing year aT ST. Mary's HospiTaI in San Fran- cisco and Then he enTered The Navy. being senT To Pensacola, Florida, To Train as a TIighT surgeon. AT The Time oT his deaTh LT. Breck- enridge was sTaTioned aT Camp Kear- ney, San Diego, wiTh The air combaT service uniT Tor commandos. AnoTher DecoraTion ' Award oT The Silver STar Tor gal- IanTry in acTion To PTC. Lucius S. NoT- Tingham, Jr., '42, HeadquarTers Com- pany, 30Th RegimenT, Third InTanTry Division, SevenTh Army, has been an- nounced in General Orders oT The division and The ciTaTion and medal have been conferred on The young soldier, son of Mr. and Mrs. NoTTing- ham, I08 Lee Circle, Lynchburg, Va. Holder of The Bronze STar, award- ed him early This year. PTC. NoTTing- ham wears among oTher insignia The Alf, f J ik' ' 6 . i 1 - . , cf 'Q U-9.1111 eff. . - , I Good QuaIiTy Value RighT MEN'S FURNISHINGS College Pharmacy RIVERMONT and NORFOLK AVENUES PHONE I046 A YOUNG STORE CATERING TO YOUNG MEN Knight-Sneed Co. BI7 MAIN STREET Fashions in Fashions A Young STore 'for Young Men See RIANHARD ' ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT MUSIC DEPARTMENT PHILLIP'S BROS. IncorporaTed 906 Main STreeT 'illissqnffarrgi , 805 Main STreeT DAVIS RIANHARD, AgenT The Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION JEWELERS Q 0 x OPTICIANS 5