Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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BIO-X-RAY Ralph Alexander Born: December 21, 1927. Home: Marion, North Carolina. Customary Expression : Straight- en up and Hy right? Spare Time Occupation: Receiv- ing injuries in football. Usually Seen: Goldbricking at the inflrmary. Greatest Concern: A red-head at Meredith. Ambition in Life: To pole vault over Mereditlfs walls. Favorite Sport: Parlor games at Randolph-Macon. Pet Dislike: Waiting on Jo Jo's table. iiAlazander, as he is known to the students, has spent a year and two months at V. E. S. Last year he made a letter in football. He is on the shelf this year because of a knee injury. He also was runner-up in the tennis tournament last spring. He is Associate Editor of THE ME- TEOR. Chiles Larson Home: Norfolk, Virginia. Birthday: He,s old enough to know better. Customary Expression: amuses me immensely. Ambition: To hnd'his way to Alice Acreeis. Pet Hate: Those wonderful c01- umns of Mr. Follettis. Spare Time Occupation: Visiting hospitals. Usually Seen: Shoveling his way out of the recreation room. Greatest Concern: Alice ! ! ! Favorite Drink: Nitric acid. Favorite Food: Nails. Favorite Sport: Track theis a great hurdleri. Greatest Pleasure: Laughing at those poor guys who have to walk demerits. iiGuts, as he is favorably known to most of the boys, is a third year boy who has made quite a name for himself and shows promise of de- veloping into one of the better athe letes in school. Although he has not earned a varsity letter yet, it has not been entirely his fault because of several injuries which he has suf- fered in one way 01' another. For the first two years of Guts, stay at V. E. 8. he lived under the reign of Mr. Follett on Third Main, but now he's in heaven on Second West. That Perrin W. Gower Born: September 9, 1928. Home: Raleigh, N orth Carolina. Customary Expression: itSay HUMP? Spare Time Occupation: Beating on his little brother. Favorite Drink: Concentrated on- ion juice. Usually Seen: Firing salvos from his large gunboats. Ambition in Life: To be promoted to Field Marshal von V ogel Rider. Hobby: Indulging in the finer things of life. ' Favorite Sport: Playing iicom- mandos with ttthe Mighty Mid- gets? Pet Hate: People who say 1165 in love with Martha Dillard. ttFootsy has spent two years at V. E. S. He hails from Raleigh, where he is famous for his co-ordi- nation. On the football team he is second string quarterback. T. H. Maddux Born: t'Well. he can't help it? Home: Marshall,Virginia. HThe Free State? Customary Expression: iiAiift that right, huh P Spare Time Occupation: Run- ning his own cleaning business in the attic of West Dorm. Favorite Drink: Chanel No. 5. USually Seen: W'riting to his un- known lover. Ambition in Life: To make a touchdown for Hunter. Favorite Sport: Football. Pet Dislike: His brother getting all the mail. iiTuck is a second year boy. He is quarterback on the varsity squad. Last year he made two letters, one in football and one in track. Mad- dux has a little girl trouble'now and then, but hes OK otherwise. SOUTHERN CAB COMPANY Phone 2-9-4 mqurgzio J. C. WILLIAMS, Agent ART BARBER SHOP Under Hotel Carroll V. E. S. WELCOME Patronize Those Who Patronize You PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS They Make , The Meteor Possible REYNOLDS DRUG CO.. Inc. Prescription Work Our Specialty 12l Main Street Phono ll43 LYNCHBURG. VI RGINIA zm-Hnsz 75c Evermonl' ' Dry Cleaning Company mszbmrn

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ALUMNI 1930 Second Lieutenant Spotswood Allen, pilot of a Flying Fortress. is reported to be a prisoner of war in Germany. He has been awarded the air medal. 1 935 Eugene Rountree and his wife visited school recently. Their ad- dress is 3008 Collier Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina. 1936 First Lieutenant Henry A. Car- rington is now living at 1002 Franklin Road, Tampa 6, Florida. 1937 Gray Carrington visited school recently, also Paul Edmunds and Andrew Slaze. Hall Partrick, III, is now at Brown University. Second Lieutenant Clessen H. Tenney, IL, was killed in an air- plane accident in Birkinhead, England. Herbert B. Thomson of Forest, Virginia, has been promoted to Private First Class at the head- quarters of a troop carrier wing in the Twelfth Air Force some- where in the Mediterranean area. 1938 Lieutenant William Eley, a pilot, was shot down over Ru- mania. He was later rescued from a prisoner of war camp when the country was liberated. Mott Ramson, a tail gunner in a Flying Fortress, was killed recently. Robert Strange, who has been working in a shipyard at Wilm- ington, North Carolina, is now in the service. 1939 Preston Bellamy is reported missing over Saipan. 1940 Robert Calder is now an ensign in the Navy. John D. Wood is flying a Corsair. 1942 Phillip Hines is now overseas. Private L. S. Nottingham is in the intelligence and recon- naissance service of the Seventh Army. He spent two days behind the German lines without food or supplies but escaped unhurtt He took part in the Salerno and 10 Anzio landings. He received the Pnrple Heart for wounds re- ceived at Anziou 1943 Sergeant VVaIter 0. Gibson died October 8 of wounds re- ceived in combat in France. He was an infantryman with General Patton's Third Army. Robert Magill recently visited school. He is at the University of Virginia. Charles Penick is at a pre-mid- shipman's school. 1 944 Richard Claytor, Charles Bugg, Gene Peele, and Kern Armistead visited the school recently. Alan Magill came back to school last month tO' show off his brand new V. P. I. uniform. His father reports that he has been too busy dodging old cadets to have much time for study. H Sons of Alumni There are five boys at school whose fathers attended V. E. S. The father of ttTuck and XVeb Maddux attended V. E. S. from 1917 to 1924. Both of his sons seem to be filling his shoes in athletics, 9Tuck is the quarterback of the Bishops, and Web is a promising guard of the Baby Bishops. Frank Smith, III, is the step- son of Dr. Robert Daniel, 31. Frank plays end for the Baby Bishops. Albert Kemperis father was here from 1916-1918. Albert plays second string tackle for the varsity. . Dale Terryys father was here from 1919-23. He ran 86 yards on the kick-Off tor the team that smothered Woodberry 51-7. Big things are expected of Dale, who has to fill the shoes left by his The LYNCHBURG TRUST and SAVINGS BANK MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMPLIMENTS OF- BIBEE'S SUPER MARKETS Lynchburg. Va. - Danville, Va. Roanoke, Va. - Altavista. Va. HARRlS-WOODSON CO.. Incorporated Manufacturing and Jobbing Confectioners WE SUPPLY V. E. S. STORE QUALITY Dairy Products PHONE l063 C.H.BEASLEY 8i BRO. CORPORATION WHOLESALE GROCERS LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA Mutual Press. Inc. 58-60 Ninth Street father. PHONE 3005 PARAMOUNT T H E - NOVEMBER 26-28 4 PEOPLES NATIONAL OUR HEARTS WERE BANK YOUNG AND GAY .- NOV. 29 - DEC. 2 - RAINBOW ISLAND in Technicolor EIGHTH AND MAIN STS. LYNCHBURG. VA. Member F. D. l. C. THE METEOR

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