Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

Text from Pages 1 - 88 of the 1945 volume:

1111 Q QCTOBERQQLI5 I '12 .E I 3- I - 17 it 91 - - - L : V VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL I I Capfain Van Noppen - ISee Sporfsj XXX N Blau 1 RIVERMONT Meat Market FINE MEATS - GROCERIES PHONE 5I00 Serving All Rivermonf COMPLETE OPTICAL DEPARTMENT ExperT Wafch Repairing BOWEN ,dandy 3 COMPLIMENTS OF A BIBEE'S SUPER MARKETS Lynchburg, Va. - Danville, Va. Roanoke, Va. - Alfavisia, Va. SKILLFUL CLEANING -is necessary if you wanT your CloThes To always look fresh and Tidy. 'lgrzllfcwc 612335.13411 See Our Agenf DAVIS RIANHARD TOHN P. HUGHES MOTOR CO. Dependable Tor Over 27 Years 800 COMMERCE ST. - PHONE 2304 PEARSON'S Drug Store STOP AT BELL SHOE STORE Feafuring SmarT Young Men's Shoes LETTERS V. E. S. aT Jap Surrender 9 Sepfember. l945. Dear Uncle: . . . l have iusf refurned To Guam fol- lowing my visiT To Japan Tor The formal surrender ceremonies. We flew To Tokyo in a seaplane on The 29Th and The Admiral broke his flag in The SOUTH DAKOTA, one of our big, new baTTleships. On The 3OTh we were ashore inspecTing The greaT Japanese naval base aT Yokosuka. On The 3lsT we Took a desTroyer and wenT up The Bay To Yokohama To visiT General Mac- Arfhur and To look over ThaT Town. On The firsT The weafher was Terrible, and we sfayed aboard ship wondering whaT we would do iT iT rained on The following day, Early on The morning of The second. which Turned ouT To be an overcasT day buT wiTh no rain, we wenl' aboard The MISSOURI and The Admiral shiTTed his Tlag To ThaT ship. I never saw such a disfinguished array of flag and general olificers. and The ship was loaded To The gunwales. ATTer all The guesTs were in Their proper places The Japanese delegaTes arrived, looking sad buT raTher sToical. The cere- mony wenl' off wiThouT incidenT, and you have probably seen The picTures of iT by now. Thar afTernoon we wenT ashore again wiTh Two of our STaff Officers, who had lived in Japan Tor many years and who spoke The language perTecTly, To visiT The rural disTricTs. We had a grand Tour, see- ing en rouTe The greaf Buddha image aT Kamakura. We also visifed The Temple oT The Japanese God OT War, Hachiman. His Temple was preTTy deserfed on The afTer- noon of The surrender day, buf The Ii+Tle Prior came ouT To greef us and was mosT cordial, wiTh much bowing and hissing Through The TeeTh, eTc. LaTer we drove down The coasf. To Hayama where we saw The Emperor's sum- mer palace. We wound up our Tour aboard The Mikasa, which was Admiral Toio's flag- ship in The Russo-Japanese War. IT now resTs in concreTe and was used as a Naval museum. The remaining careTakers on board were busy aT Thaf Time moving everyfhing away. - The nexT day afTer a low flighf over Tokyo. we reTurned To Guam where we are now geTTing ready Tor our move back To Pearl Harbor and for a Trip which I expecT will Take me To New York on Navy Day. I have many defails of my visiT in Japan which musT waiT unTil I see you personally again. ATfecTionaTely, ARTHUR. Comdr. H. A. Lamar. USNR, VES '29 UniTed STaTes Pacific Fleef STaTi of Commanderein-ChieT. The Mefeor is indebTed To Mr. G. B. Lamar for allowing The publicaTion of parT of an inTeresTing IeT+er from his nephew, a prominenT alumnus of This school.-Ed. Geography and Kisses Dear Mr. Gannaway, Well, here I am back in old CaserTa afTer spending Three very wonderful days on The Isle of Capri. Thaf place is Truly The garden spoT of lTaly. One can scarcely conceive ThaT such a beauTiTul island para- dise exisTs only a Tew miles from The Tilfh and dirT oT lTaly proper. A good friend and I hi+ upon The idea of going ouT Capri way when our branch announced ThaT we mighT have a few more days OTT in The near TuTure, since The so- called pressure was QTT and since The amounf of work ThaT we had To finish for The coming monfh was slighT. Well, finally The free days ThaT They had promised us did maTeriaIize. and believing ThaT Three days on Capri would be Three days well spenT, we decided To carry ouT our original plans and give Capri a Try. On Sunday morning we goT up early and caughT a ride as far as Garibaldi Square in Naples, which incidenTally wasn'T buT a couple oT miles from our sTarTing poinf, buf iT was a sTarT anyhow. From here we caughl' a ride in a BriTish lorry and Traveled in This open fob over one dusTy road afTer anoTher unTil we arrived in Pompeii lmodern Pompeiil. where The BriTish Truck broke down and we again had To seek TurTher TransporTaTion. OuTside Pompeii we caughT anoTher ride: buf This Time iT was in an American Truck-bus affair: and we were able To siT down for a change. This ride Took us high inTo The mounTains overlooking The coasT. From The greaT heighTs Thai' we ascended along This high- way, The whole world looked as Though iT was below us. The quilT-like paTTerns ThaT sTreTched ouT before us confained every color of The rainbow and more Too: This sighT plus The way The driver of The Truck was Taking Those sharp curves really Took my breaTh away. Why, even Naples had a cerfain beauTy abouT iT from This dis- Tance, and I don'T Think a sfranger would ever suspecT il' as being The den oT iniquify ThaT iT really is if he was iusf viewing iT from These dizzy heighTs. This beauTifuI ride along This mounfainous coasf, and IT was beauTiTul, was really impressive. IT gives one The concepT of how pFeTTy ITaly could be if iT were only in The hands oT a progressive people insTead of The lazy hulks ThaT inhabiT iT Today. Well, when we Tinally goT To SorrenTo, our secondary desTinaTion and our porT oT embarkaTion To Capri, we received some very disappoinTing news . . . Yep, no boaTs wenT To Capri on Sunday: so This leTT us sTranded in The quainl' and smelly IiTTle lfalian Town oT Sorrenfo. Realizing ThaT we would have To spend The nighT here if we wanTed To geT To Capri The TirsT Thing in The morning. we Took one oT The Dago kids up on his WanTa' room, Joe? greeTing. He Took us To a raTher nice place. Here he added anoTher Tour bucks To his already bulging roll. lThese IiTTIe kids ofTen carry a roll amounTing To Tive hundred To a Thousand dollars, which They make by rounding up Trade for prosTiTuTes and by Their various black markef acTivi- Tiesl. IT was sTill brighT and sunny when we arrived in SorrenTo, so afTer making The arrangemenTs for The nighT's lodging, we Thoughf ThaT we mighT as well go for a swim, since There wasn'T much else in lConTinued on Page Eleven.l 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 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 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 CombaT lnTanTryman's Badge and The ribbon designaTing The Purp,le,,,HearT l The MeTeor, Dec., I94-Tl Feceived Tor wounds susTained aT Anzio beach- head. In The reconnaissance deparTmenT OT service wiTh General PaTch's Sev- enTh Army, The Lynchburg soldier was aT Salerno and Anzio and was wiTh his uniT in France and Germany. having been cuT OTT behind The Ger- man lines aT one Time Tor Two days, reTurning unharmed To his regimenT l The MeTeor, Dec., I-944l. Bearing The signaTure oT Colonel' Charles E. Johnson, General STaTT ChieT, and LieuT. Col. S. J. Rogers, AdiuTanT General, The general order oT Brigadier General SexTon noTing The award oT The Silver STar To This Lynchburg soldier conTains The Tol- lowing ciTaTion: To Lucius S. NoTTingham, Jr., Tor gallanTry in acTion. On 26 January. l945, PTC. NoTTingham near Ried- wihr, France. direcTed TD lTank de- sTroyerl Tire upon Two Mark Vl Tanks, 400 yards away, killing Two enemy and Torcing Tanks To wiThdraw. ATTer enemy arTillery had knocked ouT his OP posiTion, PTC. NoTTingham crawled and ran 300 yards To locaTe anoTher OP. halTifng along The way To reTurn The small arms Tire oT enemy snipers 50 To IOO yards away. PTC. NoTTing- ham inTlicTed several casualTies upon The enemy and puT The new OP in operaTion in minimum Time. PTC. NoTTingham aTTended boTh E. C. Glass High School and Vir- ginia Episcopal School. He was on The TooTball squads aT boTh schools. AT V. E. S. he was a counselor, a member oT The V-Club, and a Hop commiTTeeman. He enlisTed in The service in i942 while a cadeT aT The Virginia MiliTary lnsTiTuTe, oT which his TaTher is an alumnus. He Trained aT ForT Meade, ForT Wheeler, and oTher inTanTry camps in This counTry. He wenT overseas in I943. I9I8 E. W. Cowling, oT Knoxville, Tenn., and ScoTTsboro, Ala., was wed during The monTh oT AugusT To Miss Gladys Johnson, oT Knoxville. ATTer leaving V. E. S. Mr. Cowling was graduaTed Trom The Unix4ersiTy oT Virginia. He is now associaTed wiTh The T. V. A. and has lived in Knoxville Tor a good many years. I9I9 B. H. SmiTh died recenTly. i924 ' Comdr. Harry D. ForsyTh, USNR, has reTurned To civilian liTe. and is 6 now in Lynchburg, Va. Comdr. For- syTh's laTesT assignmenT was wiTh The aircraTT carrier, USS Bunker Hill, wiTh which he expecTed To go To The combaT area in The PaciTic beTore The end OT hosTiliTies. I925 Edward S. Evans, Jr., has been elecTed presidenT oT The Evans Prod- ucTs Company, succeeding his TaTher, The laTe E. S. Evans. He has been chieT execuTive under his TaTher Tor I0 years. .l926 FirsT LieuT. Lee Hall Beasely, who has been wiTh a miliTary police de- TachmenT Tor Two years, arrived in This counTry recenTly Trom overseas service in Europe. He was wounded in combaT buT reTurned To his ouTTiT shorTly aTTer compleTion oT TreaT- menT. He saw service in lTaly, Ger- many, France, and oTher areas. LT. Beasely, who is The son oT RoberT P. Beasely oT Lynchburg, will reporT To ForT Bragg, N. C., beTore coming home. He is also an alumnus oT Ran- dolph-Macon College. . I932 CapT. Don PresTon PeTers, Jr., has received his honorable discharge, and and will make his home aT ATlanTa, Ga., serving on The sTaTT oT one oT The ciTy's hospiTals. i935 STuarT KeiTh EuTsler OT Goldsboro, N. C., is in The Tinance division oT The Army aT ForT Dix, N. J. I936 Reverend William J. Gordon, Jr., is a missionary aT PoinT Hope, Alaska. He recenTly moved an old sTore, added The lumber Trom iT To ThaT Trom a house, and builT a small chapel. Mr. Gordon has received many giTTs Trom people in The STaTes. An organ is being senT Trom a Triend in Tennessee. The people oT his parish have Taken a greaT inTeresT in his work. l938 SgT. WisTar M. Heald, Jr., son oT Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Heald, of Lynch- burg, reTurned recenTly To The UniTed STaTes Trom The Pacific TheaTre of operaTion, where he had been Tor Three and one-halT years. i939 LT. George Ambler Brown, Air Corps Reserve, has been TransTerred Trom Savannah, Ga., To WashingTon, D. C. AT V. E. S. he was a counselor, a member oT The G. A. A. and oT The V Club, and also of The TooTball and Track Teams, being capTain oT The laTTer. He aTTended V. P. l., where he received a B. S. degree in AeronauTical Engineering and en- Tered The service. LieuT. ArThur Heald, oT Lynchburg, is in Germany wiTh The Army gasoline supply deTachmenT. While aT V. E. S., LT. Heald was a counselor, leTTer- man in TooTball, baseball and Track, and class propheT oT The Class oT l939. I 940 Cpl. Dick Mahome visiTed The school during The pasT monTh. While aT V. E. S. he was a member of The V Club and a parTicipanT in each oT The maior spo,rTs. Cpl. Mahome enTered The service in I942 and is a graduaTe oT NorTh Carolina STaTe College, Class oT 1944. He was over- seas a year wiTh The 84+h lnTanTry Division and saw acTion in Two cam- paigns, serving in Belgium, Ho'land, and Germany. He was wounded in December, I944, beTore The BaTTle oT The Bulge and reTurned To The UniTed STaTes in SepTember OT This year. He is now awaiTing reassignmenT or pos- sible discharge. I94I The wedding oT Cullen C. Walker To Hilda Anne STevens oT Richmond. Va., has recenTly been announced. ATTer leaving V. E. S., where he was a counselor, a TooTball and Track leT- Terman, and winner oT The V. E. S. IN LYNCHBURG IT'S' l For All Your Shopping Needs lMillner Qualify Cosfs No Moral Come ln.and Look Over The NEW FALL STYLES Wills-Camp Co. BI9 Main STreeT See SCOTT THE METEOR AThleTic Cup, Mr. Walker aTTended Virginia PolyTechnic InsTiTuTe CapT. Clifford W. Peeler visiTed The school during The pasT monTh. He was a member oT The school's TooT- ball, baslceTball and baseball Teams and capTain oT The TirsT and lasT. Also he was head counselor and a member OT The German Club, V Club, and Hop CommiTTee. CapT. Peeler joined The air Torce in l94I and was com- missioned in I943. He wenT To The SouThwesT PaciTic in l944. and served as a member oT The Jolly Roger B-24 ouTTiT, in New Guinea, The Phil- ippine Islands, and Okinawa. He re- Turned To The UniTed STaTes, aTTer eighTeen monThs overseas, in AugusT l945, and is now waiTing To be re- assigned. Among alumni oT The school whom CapT. Peeler has seen during his air Torce service are: Mason BlanTord, '393 Roderick Perry, '4Op and Buck Thompson. AnoTher member oT The Class oT I94I who recenTly visiTed The school is LT. Charles R. W. Schoew, Army Air Forces. He was, while aT V. E. S., a prominenT aThleTe, being on The All-STaTe TooTbaII Team oT l94I, and co-capTain oT The All-STaTe baslceT- ball Team oT The same year. WiThin The school, he served as capTain oT The TooTball, baslceTball, and Tennis Teams, managing ediTor oT The Me- Teor, presidenT oT The General ATh- leTic AssociaTion, head counselor, and a member OT The Hop CommiTTee. He aHended The UniversiTy oT Vir- ginia. l942 A ZOO-mile Taxiing Trip across choppy PaciTic waTers by a Twin- engined Navy Dumbo seaplane was reporTed by The AssociaTed Press. The plane's righT wing Tip and verTi- cal sTabilizer were brolcen by a wave when iT seT down To rescue six crew members oT a MiTchell B-25 bomber in The waTer oTT Kyushu Island. Among Those rescued was LT. Arnold C. The Peoples National Bank EIGHTH AND MAIN STS. LYNCHBURG, VA. Member F. D. I. C. THE MEJTEOR , f x Z' ' . 'df' A' V? ' J.. .- is .f to 5 if -4-'36 N gi. rw . -: -'T- -X 32. 'i K A -,f .i K .X ,-I J If f if i Li-gitj -x...i A 2 f ,I - -1- H-' 7 -1- - T X., fl ' , W' V fi 43, . , E Q g . 'TBQTOTQ l1,:..!i T -1.7 . f'-'Q Z fy rf . ' fl! K P t ' 1 112211: Tlgfaireofj ii 3. ' 5 . A T' J - iii 4 'I . T T ' T I I - S 5' 7 7 A Qxrt-ev .A .1 l I T' 5, -1-I-LT-g iq-. ,,. if W.-we 4- .....X...-H -' - fest - - s-i f HQM-T T 71? T T SMASH! ' . . . his delicaTe I4-3E . . . Sayer, Jr., of Queens, N. Y. LT. Sayer leTT Virginia Episcopal School. where he had been assisTanT business manager oT The MeTeor, in I942 To enlisT in The Army. He received his wings in November I943, and is a member oT The 4-7Th Bomber Squad- ron, in which he is a piloT, He re- ceived The Air Medal in I944, and has been in The PaciTic TheaTre oT operaTion since receiving his com- mission. KenneTh LeiTh was discharged Trom The U. S. Navy in June, I945. Jack Reed, Tormer counselor, mem- ber oT The Honor CommiTTee, and Twice winner oT The Big BroTher Prize. visiTed school recenTly. He enTered The U. S. Navy in July I943, and is signalman, second class, in The Signal Corps oT ThaT branch OT service. DisasTera' We were all labouT 20 oT usl siT- Ting on ye ole bull and song bench running The regular ATTer Supper rouTine when Our FooTs comes run- ning up Trom The rear and slams his delicaTe I4-3E on The beloved Green Gopher made oT wood and decayed nails lbuT a symbol oT many a good sTory and equally as many lcnoclced ouT songsl. Then iT came,-crack,- crack,-and The boTTom Tell ouT oT everyThing. Boys came Tumbling down ouT oT The sky Tor The nexT I5 minuTes. Finally we heard a weak cry Trom up in The blue and glanced skyward To see Skinny Bowen lTor The beneTiT oT ouTsiders: Bowen, 4 TT. 62, l98 poundsl sTuclr in a limb oT a Tree. The only casualTy was The main parT oT apair oT panTs, uTTerly ruined. 'An eye wiTness accounf. 7 SPORTS From The Side Lines By Chiles T. Larson June comes around every year. and so does TooTball. Coach Bell prophesies a good season, wiTh Tive reTurning leTTermen and many new and able members. ' WiTh The war ending righT beTore The season opened, iT gives many colleges added power. STill, quiTe a Tew service Teams have The cream oT The crop in maTerial. Around This secTion, The A. T. B. aT NorTolk has pracTically an All-American squad. The SouTh-Georgia Tech will 'be Tops: and Alabama. Tennessee, L. S. U. will be doing The honors in The Deep SouTh. William and Mary.. led by smashing 220-lb. Nick ForkaviTch. will be a big ThreaT'To The SouThern ConTerence crown. Duke and Wake ForesT boTh havea hand on The TiTle. While Maryland picked up a. whole new squad Trom The disbandlng M. C. Pre-FlighT School. V. M. l. musT have been keeping an eye on Lynn Chewning and Bill Hawkins. Two ex- ST. ChrisTopher's sTars, Tor They are now holding down TirsT sTring posi- Tions aT The lnsTiTuTe. The EasT will be .iusT a carbon copy oT lasT year. wiTh Army and Navy head and shoulders above The resT oT The naTion's gridiron. Penn, Yale. PiTT, Cornell, and DarTmouTh should bear waTching. The WesT-Ohio STaTe and Minne- soTa should keep Things moving around There, buT NoTre Dame. ln- diana, Purdue, and Michigan will challenge Their leadership. Prep. Schools-Woodberry ForesT, drunk wiTh power, should produce a sTaTe champion Team This year. ST. ChrisTopher's, Tor The pasT Two years undeTeaTed and unTied. sho'uld be slighTly weaker wiTh several oT iTs All-SouTherners gone. Baby Bishops The Tiny ToTs, who are The de- Tending ciTy iunior champs, have once more begun To roll. This year, like The VarsiTy squad, They are using The T TormaTion insTead oT The single wing. IT is an experimenT wiTh The J. V.'s, buT Trom The looks oT Things now iT is going To work ouT well. Mr. MilTon is again coaching The Baby Bishops. Their capTain and sTarTing lineups are uncerTain. They open The season on The home Tield OcTober 3 againsT Guggenheirner. 8 LETTERMEN ' . . . only Tive leTTermen back . . . Va rsiTy Prospecfs The V. E. S. TooTbaII Team will open iTs I94-5 grid card on Friday, OcTober 5, in a game wiTh The Miller School eleven on The home field. WiTh only Tive leTTermen back This year The Bishops will be greaTly handi- capped by The loss oT Tour oT lasT year's players. Hedrick, All-SouThern guard: Koch. All-STaTe Tackle: Lee, All-STaTe Tailback: and Williams, cenTer, will be absenT Trom The V. E. S. lineup This year.- The leTTermen who are back are CapTain VanNop- pen, Ballou, BeTTy, Barge, and Gun- dry. According To Head Coach G. A. Bell, This year's Team will have Tough going, buT will give a good showing in all-oT iTs games. Bell has inTro- duced The T TormaTion This year Tor The TirsT Time, and, wiTh The aid oT Line Coach E. C. Crank. has been puTTing The squad Through hard workouTs ever since school opened. Newcomers Bullard and CorneTT will help Till The gaps in The line, and Allen will Take over duTies as righT halTback. The weakesT link in The Team is The very' liTTle' reserve sTrengTh, Coach Bell sTaTed. ArmisTead and Larson who were iniured aT The TirsT oT lasT year's soa- son, will alTernaTe wiTh Thomas and Gower in The lineup. BeTTy, aT quar- Terback, and Ballou, aT Tullback, are ouTsTanding in The T and will handle mosT oT The passing assignmenTs, wiTh Bullard and Ballou doing The kicking Tor The Bishops. According To Coach Bell, The ToughesT Toes oT The Bishops will be Woodberry- ForesT and ST. Chris- Topher's. T T ' FooTball Ups and Downs - ExcepT Tor The TirsT game played wiTh Miller School in TooTball com- peTiTion, V. E. S. has been vicTorious each Time. In The TirsT game, played in l935, The V. E. S. eleven wenT down To deTeaT I2-O. Since Then The Bishops have run The sTring oT vic- Tories To nine in a row. The boys Trom Miller School have repeaTedly shown gallanTry in Tacing a much heavier Team Than Their own year aTTer year. The record wiTh Woodberry is noT so pleasing as The one wiTh Miller School. V. E. S. won six games, and The Orange and Black has been The vicTor eighTeen Times. Two games have ended in Ties. A brighT spoT in The series came in I922, when The GarneT and WhiTe licked The Tigers 5l-7. In The same year R.-M. A. wenT down To deTeaT IO7-9, aT The hands oT The Bishops. The .series wiTh Hargrave has been nip and Tuck all The way. OT The seven games played beTween The Two Teams. sTarTing wiTh our I4-O vicTory in I925, -V. E. S.'has won Tour To The CadeTs Three, VarsiTy FooTball Schedule OcT. 5-Miller School ..............,. here OcT. I3-Hargrave MiliTary Academy .............,.................. There OcT. 20-Woodberry ForesT ., School ,......................,..,......... There OcT. 27-Fishburne MiliTary , lnsTiTuTe ........................,.......,... herie Nov. IO-Episcopal High School .,..........,.,............,.....,.... here Nov. I 7-Ra nidolph-Macon Academy ............,.......,........... There Nov. 24-ST. ChrisTopher's .......,.. here AT H E Nl E T E O R Junior Varsify Foofball Schedule? I 30-Pound Team OCT. 3-Guggenheimer .....,.... There OCT. IO-Rivermonf ...,.... ......... h ere OcT. I7-Fairview .,........ ......... h ere OcT. 24-Miller Park ............,..... There Nov 7--Guggenheimer ......,... here Nov I4-RivermonT .........,.A...,.. There Nov 2l-Fairview ...... aT Miller Park Nov 28-Miller Park ........,.....,... here I20-Pound Team OCT. 2-Miller Park .........,........ here OcT. 9--Orphanage .,.... ......... h ere OcT. IO-Fairview .,........,.,......... here OcT. 30-Guggenheimer ............ here Nov. 6-Miller Park ............,... There Nov I3-Orphanage ...,......,..... There Nov. 20-Fairview ..,... aT Miller Park Dec. 4-Guggenheirner ,......... There LONG AGO Foo+baII, Long, Long Agol The Monday following The opening of school Mr. Abbof issued The, call for Toofball candidaTes. The call was answered by abouT TwenTy husky lads. From all appearances They seemed To mean business, buT when They were given a chance To show whaT They really knew abouf The game iT could easily be seen ThaT They had never played before. Only abouT four ouT of The enfire TwenTy had played before, or knew anyThing abouT The game. The heaviesT eleven iT was pos- sible To geT Togefher averaged scarcely a hundred and ThirTy-five pounds. Thus iT may be seen ThaT we were severely handicapped by The lack of weighT. The firsT week was Taken up in Teaching The boys The TundamenTals of The game. When The firsT scrim- mage was over iT really seemed as if we mighf be able To puT ouT a Team ThaT would be a credif To The school. Hard work was gone Through wiTh every day, preparing for our firsT game wifh Salem. FirsT Game On Ocfober 20, I9l6, The enfire foofball squad of fiffeen men, ac- 'Since The closing daTe in boTh leagues is November 24. all games scheduled affer ThaT daTe will be played during The regular companied by MacFarland, The man- ager, Traveled To Salem To play The firsT game in The hisTory of Virginia Episcopal School. The boys TroTTed ouT on The field a few minuTes before The referee's whisTle, like old veTerans, buT iT could easily be seen when The opposing Team came ouT ThaT They ouTweighed our Team fifTeen or TwenTy pounds To The man. Alfhough playing againsf a more experienced Team, and ouT-weighed greaTly, The boys from The Ridge puT up a plucky fighT. Our lads lefT The field defeafed by The score of 53-O, buf by no means disgraced. The work of Johnson, who was lafer elecfed capTain, was su- perior in The game. Second Game On November 4Th Virginia Episco- pal School won iTs second game by defeafing New London Academy by a 22-O score on Episcopal's afhlefic field. The Episcopal lads were ouT- weighed fifTeen To TwenTy pounds To The man, buT wiTh This againsT Them They played rings around New Lon- don from The Time The firsT whisTle blew unTil The lasT. On The offense The Episcopal back- field was unusually sfrong, This being evidenced by The facf ThaT The school was never forced To punT, while The visiTing Team resorfed To This feafure of The game freguenTly, buf wiTh liT- Tle success. CapTain Heflin played The sTar game for The academy Team. while The work of Mead, Hinks. R. Hevd- enreich and Radford, The new Tackle, was a feafure for The winning Team. The line-up: N. L. A. lOl V. E. S. l22l ArThur ........... R.E. ...,......., Mead A. Falls .......... R.T. ...,...... Kemper Anfhony ......... R.G. ......,.. Baldock Hubbard ...,..... C. .....,...... Collins Lee .....,........ L.E. ..,....... Thomas Millner .......... L.T. ...,...... Radford W. McDaniel ,..... L.E. .......... Roberfs Heflin lCapT.l .... O.B. .... R. Heydenreich P. Falls ........... R.H. .... P. Heydenreich Hanel ........... L.H. ........... I-links Harvey ..,.....,. F.l3'.. . .Johnson lCapT.l Summary: Touchdowns-Mead, R. Hey- denreich Safefies. 2. Subsfifufions-T. McDaniel for Millner lN.l..A.l: Phelps for Baldock, Kinnier for P. Heydenreich TV. E. S.l. OY SCOUTS Juniors and Seniors Troop 7, The V. E. S. Troop, is geT- Ting under way wiTh new boys and new plans. A movemenT is under way To provide senior leadership To Troop 25 of The PresbyTerian Orphans Home, combining some of The acfiv- iTies of The Two Troops, in order To increase The efficiency of boTh. This plan was suggesTed as a resulf of The co-operafion of The Two groups of boys on The day of The 7Th War Loan parade in The spring. Under The leadership of Mr. Mil- Ton, Air Scouf Squadron 7-A is being organized in The school. The group has ordered books which will be used for ground school insTrucTion, To be held weekly on SaTurday afTernoons. LaTer iT is hoped ThaT acfual flying may be possible for Those boys who receive parenTal permission. Mr. MilTon will be assisfed by a V. E. S. boy, Lewis BrisTow, who holds a civilian piloT's license. He received his flighT insfrucfion aT The Municipal Airporf aT WesT PoinT, Virginia. A ioinT ceremony in The V. E. S. chapel is planned for The near fuTure by H. F. Cofey, local scouf execufive. AT This meeTing The Two uniTs will be formally inducfed, and an Eagle ScouT badge will be presenfed To Beverly Barge of Durham, NorTh Carolina. Q U A I. I T Y DAIRY PRODUCTS PHONE IO63 ART BARBER SHOP Under Hofel Carroll V. E. S. WELCOME Pafronize Those Who Pafronize You Esfablisl-red I859 I. P. Bell Company seasoyn. d STATIONERS, BOOKSELLERS, PRINTERS, 'TT e l945 METEOR oes noT accepf re- PH T sponsibilify for The ediforializing in This O OCTRAPHERS arficle from Volume I, Number I, wriTTen in BI5 MBU' Sifeef The deaf' deed dsvf before The Ns+',0'1sl CHILI CON CARNE sang Your KODAK womc To Us Scholasfic Press Associafion began wield- ing The big sfick. THE METEOR 9 METEORITES Through The Telescope By The AsTroIoger Looking Through The Telescope, we see many new sTars in The ascen- dency. The new boys are already Till- ing The shoes oT Those who leTT IasT year. Among The new cons+eIIa+ians we see such sTars as FreckIes Bul- lard. This Richmond, Va., boy ac- Tually slings more bull Than Windy Bill -and SIop Head puT TogeTher. He is also quiTe a hand wiTh The women. Grimes Thomas comes up Trom Siler CiTy, where he lived in a puddle wiTh The Tamous Duck, DimpIes, we hear, is Taking his broTher's'place on The piano sTooI. Big Boy CorneTT hails Trom Ezra- villej Va. lhome oT lnTernaTional, Dia- mond T, and Mack Trucksl. Bunky Cardwell asTounds ye old asTroIoger in ThaT he is so much like Ole Dawg Townes oT IasT year's Tame, even down To The walk and d-r-a-w-I. We also see a real esTaTe agenT in The Telescope lens. l:rosTy Coile owns The bridge, a Trash barrel, sev- eral radiaTors, proTecTion Trom Lar- son and Rianhard, The laundry chuTe, and several oTher arTicles. He's learn- ing TasT, Though. King is deTiniTeIy The sharpesT Thing we have seen since Old IvloTher-Duck leTT us, anoTher one oT Those Greens- boro boys wiTh The blond hair, zooT suiTs, and aTrocious Ties. OT course we can'T over'ook The old boys. LaTely we have observed Pinoccinose scooTing around Ha- waii fRivermonT AparTmenTsl, looking Tor a cerTain hula girl. There being noThing like love by mail, we have seen The mailman bring- ing in a separaTe bag Trom ST. Mary's To Acka, DuTchman, Cookie, Coach, FooTsie, and Windy Bill. The boys here have also been burning up The Telephone lines To Raleigh laTe aT nighT. The asTroIoger hopes To see The Bishops Take The Tield This season clad in new uniTorms Turnished by none oTher Than DusTy SpraguesTien. Well, day has dawned and we can see no more,Through The Telescope. O People in The Public Eye Alexander lzonderl-Trying hard To live up To The repuTaTion oT a True wonder. 10 Anninos lGusl-Lining up a silenT parTnership in The Guggenheimer Tirm. ArmisTead lCookiel -- Bidding a sad Tarewell To BaTTy BeTTy. Barge lcoachl-Once more Thrill- ing The Lee Jr. Hi girls. Bradsher lCIemI-Trying To locaTe a ieT-propelled mule Tor his covered wagon. BrisTow lWingsl-Trying To per- suade people To sTop calling him BRISK-ow. . Dawson iLil' Phill-Trying To con- vince people he is no relaTion To Uncle Phil. Duffey lArchiel-Keeping his Tav- ern open despiTe war Time shorTages. GriTTiTh lGrunTl-WaiTing paTienT- ly Tor The reTurn oT Li'I Isabelle. Hyre lJohnnyl-Sleeping Through HisTory V again This year. Kemper lBunnyl-Hopping around on his hind legs carrying a shoTgun in one paw and a pisToI-ball in The oTher. Massie lThe Mad ScienTisTl-Keep- ing secreT his knowledge oT The The- ory oT The aTomic bomb. Perry lSToopl-Living up To his repuTaTion as The meanesT counselor in school. Murray, A. lArTl-SporTing whiTe wool socks These days. Rianharcl lDavel-The brains oT The Larson-Rianhard dry cleaners. You wear 'em, we Tear 'eml Richardson llfzral - Helping a member oT The TaculTy compile a new Time Table Tor The ATchison, Topeka 8: SanTa Fe. SmiTh, F. llzishl-A liTTle laTe ar- riving due To circumsTances beyond his conTrol. Sprague lDusTyl - Opening a brand new pawnshop on The oTher end oT Main. Thomas, G. iDimpIesl-Learning how To waddle like a real duck and swearing he'II never be able To ruTT his TeaThers. TrevaThan lGoId-brickl-WaTching TooTball pracTice Trom The cool side- lines as usual. VanNoppen lCap'nl-Endeavoring To seT a good example Tor The resT oT The Team. CarTer lChickl-The TirsT TooTball casualTy oT The year. BeTTy lEgal-Running a mile Tor a Camel. CapT. GarneTT lJu'iusI-Making TrequenT Trips To CarpenTer's bunk Tor help on LaTin IV. For Us The Bell Tollsg By George E. WiThers I dislike The V. E. S. bell immensely, and many Times a day I have a sTrong desire To pull up iTs rope cord or To iniure The bell in some more perma- nenT Tashion. I aIon'+ dislike The Tone oT The bell or iTs shape: I am noT even complain- ing oT The rickeTy old scaTToId iT clings To. WhaT I do abhor is The manner in which iT rings when I leasT expecT iT or when I am hard aT work doing someThing oTher Than The mis- sion Tor which The bell Tolls. For ex- ample There is The way iT rings Tor meals when I have iusT sTep ed inTo The shower. Being waked in Thie morn- ing by iTs rhyThmicaI clang beTore I have sunk well inTo my dreams is also someThing To gripe abouT. IT isn'T enough To wake me up, The bell musT also puT us To bed. ThaT bell which collecTs us To classes aTTer recess is The same old bell which in- variably rings in The middle oT mail delivery To summon us away beTore all The leTTers have been given ouT. Why is The elecTric buzzer ThaT ends classes so welcome, when The bell wiTh The clapper is so deTesTabIe? The 'mosT logical conclusion is ThaT The bell is oTTensive To V. E. S. boys because iT rings, Do, and we are lazy. x TThis is The TirsT oT whaT THE METEOR hopes will be a series of shorT original composiTions by V. E. S. sTudenTs. I I I VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Non - milifary. Superior preparaTion Tor all col- leges aT moderaTe cosT. AccrecliTecI High sTandard in schol- arship and aThIeTics . . Gymnasium . . . I4O acres heaIThTuIIy and beauTiTuIIy siTuaTed in Virginia mounTains. FOR CATALOGUE WRITE TO George L. Barton. jr., M.A., PILD., Headzuaster V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va. THE METEOR The boTTom was absoluTeIy covered had been visiTing ITaly along wiTh her BIO-X-RAY John Morgan Page Born: December 8, I928. Home: Brandon, VermonT. CusTomary Expression: BuT Mr. MiITon said ThaT . . ., eTc. PeT HaTe: Being called, John, The BapTisT. PeT Love: STuarT Hall School Tor Girls. AmbiTion: To seT a new 440 rec- ord. Long John has reached The Top OT The ladder in his Three ears aT V. E. S. This year he is head! counselor and presidenT oT The Honor CommiT- Tee. He made a name Tor himseIT in Track lasT year by winning The 440 in The STaTe MeeT, as well as Taking poinTs in oTher evenTs elsewhere. He is a member oT The V-Club. and shows promise as a varsiTy end This season. Charles G. Weaver Home: Richmond, Virginia. . BirThday: November 26, l925. AmbiTions: To marry HoIIiTieId and To see his name in ligh+s on Broadway. PeT HaTe: Being called Wee- Wee. CusTomary Expression: You've goT Tive-pal! Usually Seen: Leading The Green Bar Pa+rol. GreaTesT Concern: Rock Lee. Chuck's undying love Tor Dr. BarTon broughT him here lasT year Trom ChrisTchurch School. DespiTe The TacT ThaT he is a naTive oT The Virgin STaTe oT ETernaI Rains, he is a member oT The Honor CommiT- Tee and is presidenT oT The Hop Com- miTTee. He also dares The ieers oT his Tellow-sTudenTs To serve as assis- TanT scouTmasTer oT Mr. FoIIeTT's boy scouT Troop. Richard Gundry Home: CaTonsviIle, Md. Born: Possibly. CusTomary Expression: Hurryup- andgeTinbedI lone wordl. Usually Seen: Wearing his Toofball monogram. GreaTesT Concern: Keeping his sIurp. AmbiTion in LiTe: To own Reho- boTh Beach, Del. ' FavoriTe SporT: PockeT billiards- and The eighT ball. FavoriTe PasTime: Growing more hair on his chesT. PeT HaTe: Being called SIop Head. PeT Love: Being a counselor. Gunder is a second-year boy and despiTe The TacT ThaT he's a Yan- kee 'lword slighfly abridgedl, he has been a crediT To The school, making The varsiTy lasT year in TooTbalI, and being one oT The Tive Ie+Termen on This year's Team, as well as a coun- selor. He has also managed To keep his grades up. LETTERS lConTinued From Page Two.I The way oT enTerTainmenT To be Tound in This quieT Ii++Ie coasTaI village. The beach, or whaT They had nerve enough To call a beach, was composed oT a sandy loam which clung To one's body as .iT iT were Tly-paper. IT was very likely ThaT a person would come oTT This beach dirTier Than beTore. The waTer was noT Too dirTy, buT wiTh Tungi and slime, and This didn'T add To The charm oT The aTmosphere To any greaT exT,enT, I assure you. However. There was one brighT spoT abouT The swim. ThaT was when I meT a very charming young girl while I was splashing abouT The surf. STum- bling around wiTh The liTTle ITaIian ThaT I know, I Tried To , make conversaTion wiTh her. To my surprise she responded in per- TecT English plus an American accenT. She Turned ouT To be an American girl ThaT par- enTs when The-war broke ouT and conse- quenTIy could noT secure passage back To The STaTes. She was a very aTTracTive girl, and The TacT ThaT she was an Ameri- can made her even more inTeresTing. She had To go up shorTIy aTTer I had meT her, buT IaTer ThaT evening while I was walking slowly down one of Those narrow sTreeTs ThaT are so Typical oT The Ii+Tle Towns oT ITaIy, she ran up and kissed me. As I siood in The middle oT The sTreeT moTionless wiTh surprise. she darTed oTT again down one oT The little clark alleys and disap- peared inTo The darkness. ThaT was The lasT Time ThaT I ever saw her, and iT only makes This counTry even more oT a mysTery To me. The nexT morning we were aT The wharf aT The speciTied Time. As we waiTed Tor The boar To be loaded, sun-browned naTives piled iT high wiTh Tish, ice, and all kinds oT vegeTables. The ship was no luxury craTT by any sTandards, buT was merely a vege- Table boaT, and our only seaTs were baskeTs oT TomaToes. Our obiecTive was Capri, and we were willing To suTTer mosT any malaise To reach ThaT obiecTive. As The IiTTIe craTT chugged lazily along cuTTing The blue sea waTer sharply wiTh iTs Trim bow, The Tresh saITy breezes began To blow in our faces and The smell of The Tishy wharves Taded Tar behind us. There now was noT much To see buT waTer and more waTer, buT even This had parTicuIar beauTy abouT iT because oT iTs lovely color, a magniTicenT blue ThaT seems To be so characTerisTic oT' The MediTerranean and iTs adiacenT waTers: I dare say ThaT even The mosT skilled arTisT wiTh all his knowledge oT mixing painTs couIdn'T dupIicaTe such a hue. ATTer several hours The huge ouTIine oT The Isle loomed ahead oT us looking like a huge sea' monsTer, buT soon aTTer ThaT iT-began To Take The Torrn oT The beauTiTuI island ThaT iT really is. AlmosT as soon as The previous TransTormaTion had Taken place, we were docking aT The liTTle harbor. The village oT Capri nesTIes amid The surrounding mounTain peaks oT The easTern parT of The island. IT is a IabyrinTh oT nar- row, picTuresgue alleys, down which The unheeding visilror can quickly lose his way. ITs cenTer of acTiviTy is The Square or Piazza, where The local people congregaTe aT all hours oT The day. This is The cenTer Trom which radiaTe The myriad of paThs and narrow roadways leading To all parTs oT The island. From This Square easy access can be had To many oT The Tamous and enchanTing beauTy spoTs oT Capri along The inviTing paThways ThaT sTem ouTward Trom This axis. Here. we spenT much 'oT The TirsT day looking over These sTrange new people and shopping aT The quainT IiTTle sTores. IT didn'T Take us long To discover Tha'T mosT oT The beauTy in Capri was conTined To The scenery. We Tound The girls oT Capri well-scrubbed, plain, and a IiTTIe on The dumpy side. The people as a whole were indusTrious, religious, and happy-go-lucky. The war has ruined Capri's peaceTime Tour- isT Trade, buT The coming oT The American soldier has provided a TourisT Trade all iTs own. The island Tolk will sell you anyThing Trom a coral necklace To a boaT ride around The island-and will charge Three To Ten Times iTs worTh. One oT The mosT inTeresTing Things ThaT we saw aT Capri was The Blue GroTrTo which is one of The mosT famous caves in The world, The GroTTo was hollowed ouT by waves during prehisToric Times, and now. due To The sinking oT The coasT, is filled wiTh The sea. When The sun is shining ouT- side, The GroTTo is filled wiTh an exTra- ordinary blue IighT, while obiecTs in The waTer assume a silvery appearance. The cave musT be enTered Trom The sea Through an opening- noT more Than Tour TeeT high and six TeeT wide. IT The sea is rough aT all, or if There is an easT wind, iT is impossible To enTer. Even in calm waTer The IiTTIe boaTs musT waiT Tor an incoming wave. and The passengers lie down on The boTTom oT The boaTs in order To geT Through The small opening. When The day arrived ThaT we were supposed To reTurn To CaserTa, we really haTed To leave This gorgeous isle, buT we, oT course, had no choice excepT To reTurn To The same old grind. All in all There was really noT a whale IoT To see aT Capri, buT iT was enjoyable iusT To sTroIl around and absorb iTs romanTic aTmosphere. The True magic oT The Isle lies in iTs exTreme beauTy, cleanness, and simpIiciTy. This is whaT casT The spell on The visiTors To This Tamous Isle. Someday I expecT To reTurn again To Capri, buT I hope iT will be under diTTerenT cir- cumsTances nexT Time. Your young Triend, ANDREAE. PvT. Andreae M. Hodgson, '44, AFHQ I and E SecT. CaseTTa, ITaly. The MeTeor Thanks Mr. Ganna- way and Alumnus .Hodgson Tor an inTeresTing posT-war soldier sTory.- Ed. B E TSY R0sCiMP1f5TSf?Iw0-TwENTY SANDWICH BREAD DELICIOUS BETSY ROSS CAKES Lynchburg Steam Bakery, Inc. Lynchburg. V PURE AND WHITE-ALWAYS RIGHT! WHITE STAR STEAM LAUNDRY CDMPANY 'ki' 80 Years Old FIIYST NATIONAL BANK of LYNCHBURG URCES: TWELVE MILLION DOL e Bank - Member Federal Deposii CI M Q NOVEMBER, 1945 1 '45 V X Q 'X J' - - - ' .. I -2 5 Smvivmf VX V VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL . THE HONOR CGUNCIL H'V4'LT'Z'l'l', i4l'll1fSILUUd, Pagv VOLUME XXX QOpi1zio11sj NUBIBER 2 g....,..,. . .... . , . .. 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For lwo or lhree days while we were up around Alaska I iusl aboul froze, bul lhe lhird day lhe skipper changed course and we slarled sleaming soulhwesl. ll wasn'l loo bad, bul lhe ship did roll and pilch a lol. All ol us passengers including me gol sick as dogs, bul il didn'l Iasl loo long, and aboul lhe liflh day oul lhe wealher and lhe sea calmed clown. On Sepl. 9 we passed Iwo Jima and on lhe Illh we pulled inlo Okinawa. A big slorm had hil lhe place lwo days belore our arrival, and lhe island was cerlainly lorn up. They claim lhal more men were Iosl in lhal slorm lhan were losl in lhe invasion, We Iel oll 800 Seabees, and aller silling in harbor lor len days, we hauled up lhe anchor and headed lor Japan. The Benson made sev- eral slops along lhe soulhern coasl wilh lhe main one Sesabo. There were plenly ol ships lhere, and lhe Benson dropped olll plenly ol men, bul lhey didn'l gel me. Lasl week we made porl in a big Jap harbor. There are several cilies around here, bul lhe main ones are Keere, I-liro, and I-Iiroshima. I'm planning lo make liberly in one ol lhese lhis allernoon. Well. anyway lhe Benson pul me in a drall lisl and I was lranslerred lo lhe U. S. S. Biloxi. She's a Iighl cruiser and really is a swell ship. I was lucky and was given lhe lorward lurrel lo work in .... I like il a lol, bul lhe rale I'm looking lor is civilian lirsl class .... Charlie. S Ifc Charles R. Penick, '43, U. S. S. Biloxi. The Meleor lhanks Mr. Gannaway lor an inleresling leller lrom an al- umnus whom many boys in school re- member well. Ed. ..i..,0i A Rescue al Sea Dear Mom. This morning I was rhe happiesl 'fellow alive because I lhoughl l would be coming home in a law weeks. Now all my dreams are shallered. My commanding olilicer lold us lhis morning lhal we would have lo go lo Germany as Army ol' Occupalion. All men wilh 45 poinls and under will have lo slay over here. There is nolhing I can do aboul il excepl leel bad and lhal does nol do much good. Il lhey slop lhe drall, I'lI never gel home. My only hope is lhal lhey con- linue lhe drall so lhal we can be relieved lo come home. From whal l've been reading in lhe papers lhe drall will slop. Il seems as if lhe people have lorgollen lhal we wanl a chance lo live as civilians. We, lhe combal men, won lhe war and il seems lo me lhal il is only lair lo lel lhe ones who didn'l lighl, come over lor occupalion and make sure lhere isn'l anolher war. Il is quile evidenl lhal lhe people don'l see lhings lhal way. So il looks like I won'l be home for a couple ol years. Now lhal censorship has been Iilled I can lell you lhe whole slory aboul lhe LeopoId- ville. We gol orders aboul noon, Decem- ber 23rd, lo be ready lo sail lor France by 6 o'clock. We were ready and on lhe lrain headed lor Soulhhamplon by 6 o'clock. We boarded lhe ship and were ready lo sail in a very shorl lime. My company was pul in lhe wrong comparlmenl by mislake and anolher company look lhe comparlmenl lhal we were supposed lo lake. lThe lor- pedo hil lhal comparlmenl and lhe whole company was kiIIed.I We didn'l sail unlil lhe nexl morning lDec. 24-lhl. ll was a beaulilul day and everybody was happy even lhough we were headed lor lhe Bulge and would be lighling lor our lives in a couple ol days. Toward evening lhe waler was gelling rough. I was up on deck gelling a Iillle fresh air and remarked lo one ol lhe boys. I would hale lo be in lhal waler, never dreaming lhal in lwo hours I would be in il swimming lor my lile. I wenl below and lriecl lo sleep unlil we docked be- cause once we hil land I knew lhere would be no more sale sleeping. The boys were all singing Chrislmas Carols and were as happy as anybody could be under lhe cir- cumslances. Al aboul 9 o'cIock lhe lorpedo hir us. I was lhrown oul ol my hammock by lhe concussion of lhe lorpedo. We wenl up on deck and everybody was as calm as could be. The boal was sinking bul we didn'l know how lasl so we weren'l worried much. We were iusl lhree miles oll Cherbourg and we could see lhe lighls. A deslroyer pulled up along side ol us and we slarled iumping from our boal lo lhe deslroyer. Aboul 800 men gol on including lhe Caplain ol lhe ship and all lhe crew. Aboul I5 minules eller lhe deslroyer lell. lhe boilers blew up and lhe ship slarled sinking lasl. There was nobody lo lell us lo abandon ship excepl lhe Army ollicers and lhey dicln'l know any- lhing aboul lhe ship. Aller lhe boilers blew we knew lhe ship would sink in a very few minules bul we didn'l jump overboard be- cause we had orders lo slay on unlil we had orders lo abandon ship. The orders never came so we slayed on unlil lhe Iasl minule. Everybody slarled jumping' al lhe same lime. Guys were jumping onleach olher and necks were broken by lhe dozen in lhe mad scramble lo gel off lhe boal. The boal sank lwo minules afler we slarlediumping. A lol wenl down wilh lhe boal. 'Aller lhe boal sank, we were all grouped 'rogelher and everybody was yelling and screaming. I swam away lrom lhe crowd, because il was sure dealh lo slay all logelher. The scream- ing and yelling soon lurned lo prayers. There wasn'l a man in lhal waler lhal nighl lhal didn'l lurn lo God lor help. . . The waler was cold and I was losing my slrenglh lasl. My lile preserver wasn'l doing much good because il was so small. I had on an over- coal. lield iackel and lwo pair ol underwear. Thal weighed a lol. I was lucky lo even gel a lile preserver. Some ol lhe men didn'l even have any because lhere weren'l enough in lhe boal. I was so lired and cold and lull ol sall waler lhal I didn'l care whal anymore. ll would have been easy lo die lhen. Every lime I would lry lo open my moulh lo brealhe a big wave would come over me. Il would have been easy lo sink oul ol sighl inlo peace and quiel away from all lhe com- ing horrors ol war. l'II never lorgel how I lell lhen. Then I slarled lhinking aboul lhe lelegram you would gel lor Chrislmas. I gave a look around lo seeiil I could find a lConlinued on Page EIeven.l dm e -e msebe-mel VOLUME XXX NOVEMBER 27, I945 NUMBER 2 THE SCHOOL Lenses and ShuTTers LasT monTh a camera club was Tormed under The sponsorship of Gene Gilman, The phoTographic edi- Tor oT The MeTeor. Wiggins was elecTed presidenT. . The school provided a room in The basemenT oT WesT DormiTory, which The members are TiTTing up as a darlc- room. IT is already equipped Tor de- veloping and prinTing. By ChrisTmas The members expecT To procure an enlarger. Mon+hly prinT compeTiTions are planned, The members enTering only phoTographs which They have Taken. developed, and prinTed Themselves. The TirsT compeTiTion is scheduled Tor December I. The judges Tor This compeTiTion will be seIecTed aT The nexT meeTing. O Opening Dance The V. E. S. opening dance was held in The RecreaTion Room on Oc- Tober 6Th. A iulce-box Turnished The music. Because oT The season of The year corn sTaIlcs were used in The dec- oraTions. The corn was sTaclced around each pillar in The Torm oT a shock, while pine branches were placed in The windows. The room was Tlooded wiTh a reddish IighT. Behind The iulce- box was an aTTracTive posTer, drawn by Bill Thomas and Paul Taylor, car- rying ouT The Theme oT The dance. 0 Honor Roll for SepTember-OcTober CarpenTer ..........,............. MacCaIIum ... . . ,... 97.8 94.6 Fennell ..... .... 9 I.8 Lewis ..... .... 9 0.2 WroTh ..... .... 9 0. Allen, T. .... .... 8 9.6 Smifh, S. .... .... 8 9.2 Alexander . . .... 88.8 ScoTT ....... .... 8 8.8 Schumacher . .... 87.6 Wellforcl ... ... . 87. Field ....... .... 8 6.8 Armisfead . . .... 86.8 Braxfon . . . .... 86.4 Hughes . .... 85.5 Bell ...................... .... 8 4.6 THE METEOR SmiTh, F. .... .... 8 4.6 Perry . . . . . . . . 84.4 Wiggins .... 84.4 Page ..... .... 8 3.4 Maddux 83. Massie ....... .... 8 2.8 Thomas, G. ... .... 82.6 TrevaThan . . . .... 82.6 Harris, B. ... ,... 82.2 Aldrecl . . . .... 8I.8 Sfephenson .... 8l .8 MacLeod ... .... 81.6 Gower . . . .... 8l.2 NUTT, R. . . .... 8I .2 Barge . . .... 8I. Seneff .... .... 8 0.5 Beffy . . . .... 80.5 Moses . . ....,............. .... 8 0. 1 Honor Roll for OcTober-November CarpenTer ........................ 97.6 MacCaIIum ........... .... 9 3.5 Fennell ..... .... 9 2.8 WeIlTord ... .... 92.6 SCOTT .... .... 9 0.8 Alexander .... 90.6 Smifh, S. ... . . . . 89.2 Field ..... .... 8 9.l SmiTh, F. .... .... 8 9. ArmisTead . . .... 88.8 Hughes . . . .... 88.6 Bell .... .... 8 7.6 Hansen . . . .... 87.4 BraxTon ..... .... 8 6.8 Shannonhouse .... 86.4 Cherry ..... .... 8 5.8 WroTh ........ .... 8 5.6 Thomas, G. ... ,... 85.4 Cardwell ... .... 84.6 Moses .... .... 8 4.2 Kemper .... 83.6 Lewis . . .,.. 83.2 CarTer . .... 83.l Homecoming Dance ISee cuTI On November IO, V. E. S. held iTs TirsT homecoming dance since beTore The war. IT was held in The Barlcsdale Memorial Gymnasium. A large num- ber oT ouT-of-Town guesTs were pres- enT, among Them many alumni. The gym was very aTTracTiveIy dec- oraTed wiTh a rusTic Tence backed wiTh evergreens on eiTher side oT The Tloor. A whiTe laTTice-work Tence surrounded The orchesTra sTand. The main TeaTure in The decoraTions was a line oT characTer drawings which compleTely encircled The balcony drawings oT many oT The boys and of some members oT The TaculTy. Bill Thomas, Paul Taylor, and RuTherTord Goodwin were The arTisTs. Jimmy ST. Clair and his orchesTra provided The music. Seneff . . . 82.5 Gormly . . 82.4 STieg'IiTz . 82.4 Bradsher . 8 I .8 Harris, B. 81,8 CraTT . . . 8I.6 GriI:fiTh . . 8 I .6 STephenson 8I.6 Gay .... 8I.4 Barge . . . 8I,I Gower . . 80,8 NUTT, R. . 80.6 Perry .... 80.2 Wayland 80, Wiggins . 80. 3 Glhr illilvtrnr VOLUME XXX NOVEMBER 27, I945 NUMBER 2 QXQIRI. SCIIDLB., F NN annm: I 'ff XB -Vfassociw Issued by The sTudenTs oT The Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monThIy during The school year oT I945-'46 excepT holidays. SubscripTions, 25c per copy: 52.00 per year. EDITORIAL BOARD DONNELL VANNOPPEN, Jr.. EdiTor-in-ChieT DAVIS L. RIANHARD ....... ..........,,.............,,.......,. ....... M a naging EdiTor FRANCIS K. ALDRED ...,......, .........,. ....,,.....,.. ............. S p o rTs EdiTor W. PRYOR PERRY ..................... .,....,.............. ........ E x change EdiTor MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT .......,.,.........................,.. ............ E aculTy Adviser REPORTERS VAL STIEGLITZ MACON HARDY JACK CARPENTER ARTISTS BILL THOMAS PAUL TAYLOR EDGAR BETTY PERRIN GOWER ANDREW RAMSEY . RICHARD GUNDRY CHARLES WEAVER JOE CHERRY FRANCIS ALDRED PHOTOGRAPHERS DR. G. L. BARTON, Jr. GENE GILMAN BUSINESS BOARD DAVIS L. RIANHARD .................................................................... Business Manager JAMES W. BALLOU ..............................................,..... AssisTanT Business Manager EDWARD SENEFE .......... ..,..,.... A ssisTanT Business Manager ROBERT J. FIELD ....,...... ........... ................ . ...............,.. C i rculaTion Manager EnTered as second class maTTer SepTember 28, I928, aT The PosToTTice aT Lynchburg, Virginia, under The AcT oT March 3, IB79. OPINIONS Honor Honor is a very delicaTe planT. Properly nurTured and consTanTly cared Tor, iT can grow inTo a Thing of beauTy and ioy and proTiT To iTs proud possessor. BuT like all delicaTe Things iT is easy To blighT honor and To de- sTroy iT uTTerly. One slighT misTake, and The careful husbandry oT monThs and years is seT aT noughT. The Three boys whose picTures ap- pear on The TronT cover are The chieTi culTivaTors and husbandmen oT The honor oT The Virginia Episcopal School. WiThouT The assisTance oT The oTher nineTy odd boys They can do liTTle To shield The honor oT The school Trom The cold blasTs oT peTTy cheaT- ing, Trom The chinch worms oT liTTIe lies, Trom all The oTher small aTTackers of The honor sysTem which in The end can make iT wilT and die. WiTh The 4 day aTTer day, week aTTer week, monTh aTTer monTh help oT The enTire sTudenT body They can win This TighT and preserve The honor of The school To sTand Tor all The years To come as an example oT whaT can be accom- plished by boys who really love and revere Their school. They need your help-and yours- and yours. A I. U M N I I9I8 Mr. and Mrs. AlberT Kemper re- cenTly visiTed Their son, AIber+ S., III. who is now aTTending V. E. S. Mr. Kemper was also presenT aT The meeT- ing oT The Board oT TrusTees oT The school, oT which he is a member. I922 LT. John W. Adkins, of The U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Adkins recenTly visiT- ed The school. I926 Dr. Royall E. Smifhey, oT Chris- Tiansburg, Va., aTTended a recenT TooTball game aT The school. I928 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lee aTTended a recenT TooTball game. Mr. Lee, who was a prorninenT aThleTe while aT V. E. S., has iusT been discharged Trom' The U. S. Army. I930 James PriTcheTT and his wiTe aT- Tended a chapel service aT school lasT monTh. I93I LT. WaITer E. HoIberTon oT The U. S. Army was aT school. LT. Hol- berTon, who enTered The Army in Oc- Tober, I94-I. has recenTly reTurned Trom service in lTaly. I932 FirsT LieuT. SpoTswood Allen, of AmhersT, Va., a B-I7 piloT, is among I2 Virginians, all Tormerly held in German prisoner-oT-war camps aTTer Their capTure when shoT down over Europe, who have arrived aT San An- Tonio, Texas, Tor processing. LT. Allen will eiTher be reTurned To inacTive service or reassigned To duTy aT The camp. I938 James SaI'TerTieId recenTly was aT V. E. S. He has received his dis- charge Trom The U. S. Army and is now connecTed wiTh The Lone STar CemenT Co. I 940 LT. Wilkie Lane was aT V. E. S. lasT monTh. LT. Lane enTered The U. S. Army in June, l94O. and has received The CombaT lnTanTry Badge and The Purple HearT. He reporTs ThaT he is now very hopeful of a discharge in The near TuTure. I 942 PvT. John Taliaferro oT Virginia Beach, Va., now oT The U. S. Marines, visiTed school on a furlough. He en- Tered The service in June, I943. L. S. NoTTingham, Jr. lMeTeor, De- cember, I944, OcTober, l945l, has iusT been discharged Trom The U. S. Army. Ensign Edwin Lee Nelson, of The U. S. Navy, visiTed school. Ensign Nelson, who was a member oT The- MeTeor sTaTT and Tennis Team while aT V. E. S.. was wounded aT Okinawa. Second LieuT. H. W. FosTer, Jr., is now wiTh The l3Th lnTanTry, 8Th Di- vision, aT I:orT Leonard Wood, Mo., buT reporTs ThaT his division expecTs THE METEOR To be deacTivaTed soon. While aT V. E. S., LT. FosTer was a member of The V -Club, The MeTeor sTaTT, and The G. A. A., and was counselor, The sec- reTary oT The Senior class, and end on The All-STaTe FooTbalI Team. He aTTended The UniversiTy oT Virginia aTTer leaving V. E. S. LT. Roberi' Seager, II, U. S. MariTime Service, was married To Miss Caroline Parrish aT Marion, Va., on AugusT I4, I945. LT. Seager was Head Counselor and ediTor oT The MeTeor while aT V. E. S. and aTTend- ed The CiTadeI in SouTh Carolina im- mediaTeIy prior To his entry inTo The service. I945 Hosp. App. Zfc Willilam W. Field, Jr., has compIeTed HospiTaI Corps School aT Bainbridge, Md., and has been Transferred To PorTsmouTh, Va. Since SepTember he has paid The school several visiTs. J. S. Wellford, Jr., U. S. N., visiTed school in OcTober. He had compIeT- ed his booT Training at Bainbridge, Md., and was To return There upon The expiraTion oT his leave. William G. Long is now attending The UniversiTy oT NorTh Carolina. Charles Hileman visiTed The school lasT monTh prior To his inducTion inTo The U. S. Navy on OcTober 3rd, I945. He expecTed To be senT To Bain- bridge, Md. James J. WhiTe visiTed The school during The pasT monTh. He entered The U. S. Army on October l7Th, I945. Graham Koch, who enTered The Air Corps during The lasT school Term, visited here last monTh. He is now a privaTe and is sTaTioned aT Amarillo, Texas. ArThur Lloyd visiTed V. E. S. on his way To The UniversiTy oT Michigan, where he plans To Turther his scholas- Tic career. Among Those alumni in aTTendance aT The E. H. S. Ihomecomingl game November IOTh were The following: Charles Cardwell, 'I9, and Mrs. Cardwell: Henderson Maddux, '24, and Mrs. Maddux: Armistead Long and Richard HoIIoerTson, '3O: Robert Riley, '4O: Charles Phillips, Adam Thorp, Frank Riley, and Jarvis Proc- Tor, '42: John T. Gregory .'43g Allen Magill, '44: William Long, Mason Thomas, Robert ArThur, William WhiTe, Dan Bell, William Field, Bev- erley Owens, Hal Dunbar, Jesse Wal- Ier, Dan WesT, Ralph Alexander, and John Gower, '45, THE METEOR EXCHANGES The MeTeor acknowledges receiv- ing The Tollowing school pubIicaTions: The S+onewaII Jaclcson Journal, STonewaII Jackson High School, CharIesTon, WesT Virginia. The CQ, Fishburne MiliTary School, Waynesboro, Virginia. The Deerfield Scroll, Deerfield, MassachuseTTs. The News LeTTer, UniversiTy of Virginia, CharIoTTesviIle, Virginia. The Boys' Appeal. Boys' Home, CovingTon, Virginia. The MounTain Echo, Blue Ridge School, Bristol, Virginia. CANCER Quiz DO YOU KNOW- THAT-persistent indigestiong sores of the lip, mouth or tongue that won't healg changes in the size or color of warts, moles or birthmarks, or, sud- den loss of weight, MAY be early cancer symptoms? THAT-many cancers can be cured when recognized early and treated promptly by your doctor or an approved clinic? THAT-the only medically ap- proved methods of cancer treat- ment are Surgery, X-Rays and Radium? THAT-your best investments are periodic check-ups by your doctor? Chances are that you may NOT have cancer.. But if your doctor or clinic says you have - DON'T FEAR. Cancer is curable if rec- ognized early and treated promptly by competent physi- cians or clinics. AVOID QUACK CURES! For further informa- tion Write to AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 350 Fifth Avengxe New York City Come In and Loolc Over The NEW FALL STYLES Wills-Camp Co. 8I9 Main STreeI' See SCOTT I I A YOUNG STORE CATERING TO YOUNG MEN Knight-Sneed Co. ' 8I7 MAIN STREET Fashions in Fashions A Young STore Tor Young Men See RIANHARD ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT MUSIC DEPARTMENT PHILLIP'S BROS. In corporaTed 906 Main STreeT Uilissqniflfarrgzl 805 Main STreeT DAVIS RIANHARD, AgenT The Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION JEWELERS f X, If OPTICIANS ig t f e fgf f ,rf Qfefzff f If 97 L Good QuaIiTy ' Value RighT MEN'S FURNISHINGS 5 BOY SCOUTS CharTers and Awards In a simple ceremony during morn- ing chapel Sunday, H. F. CoTey, ex- ecuTive of PiedmonT Area Council, presenTed charTers To Troop No. 7 and Air Squadron No. 7-A, Boy ScouTs oT America, and conTerred high scouT honors upon Two boys. The recipienTs oT honors were Sears Harris and Beverly Barge. Harris re- ceived The Bronze Palm award Tor Tive meriT badges over Eagle ScouT rank: Barge, The Eagle rank iTselT. Mrs. Barge pinned The badge on The vesTmenTs oT her son, a member oT The school choir. Mr. Barge was a wiTness. Before leading all The scouTs in The congregaTion in a renewal oT Their scouT oaTh, Mr. CoTey poinTed ouT ThaT Troop 7, now enTering iTs TourTh year oT service, enables boys Trom oTher Troops To conTinue Their scouT acTiviTy while They are aT V. E. S. The air program Tor older boys, Mr. Co- Tey added, is indirecTly sponsored by The U. S. Army Air Force and oTTers unlimiTed opporTuniTies Tor inTeresTed boys. Squadron No. 7-A is The TirsT such organizaTion in Lynchburg, The second in The PiedmonT area. Troop No. 7 conTinues To be led by Mr. FolIeTT, who is assisTed by Charles G. Weaver. The new air squadron is led by Rev. Marshall M. MilTon, school chaplain. Mr. MilTon has had over 2,300 Tlying hours, many oT Them as FirsT OTTicer lCapTainl, Air TransporT Auxiliary, Royal Flying Corps, in which he served 34 monThs. He reTurned To This counTry in April, I944. He was 'formerly The owner oT a Tlying school aT Hopewell, Va. Mr. MilTon's assisTanT is ScouT Squadron PiIoT Lewis A. BrisTow. BrisTow Trained aT WesT PoinT lVa.l Municipal AirporT. He has 47 Tlying hours To his crediT. which he is in- creasing by regular TlighTs aT The Lynchburg AirporT. He is a member oT AircraTT Owners and PiIoTs Asso- ciaTion, Virginia PiIoTs AssociaTion, and The Civil Air PaTrol. He was Tormer assisTanT Tlighi' Teacher aT WesT PoinT High School. i In The congregafion Sunday were D. P. OTTinger, scouTmasTer oT Troop No. I2, Lynchburg, and Tour of his six sons, all in scouT uniform, , 6 , AeronauTics OrganizaTion The newly-Tormed AeronauTics Or- ganizaTion in connecTion wiTh The Senior ScouTs, has begun iTs pre- TlighT courses under The direcTion oT Mr. MilTon. The members This spring expecT To receive acTual Tlying expe- rience wiTh parenTal permission. The organizaTion has received Trom The school a room in The basemenT oT WesT dormiTory To be used in Their acTiviTies. This room has been re- sTricTed To members and is be- ing redecoraTed. Mrs. MilTon has given The boys a rug, and is now making curTains To help Turnish The room. IT is hoped ThaT The club will be able To acquire addiTionaI Tur- nishings in The near TuTure. EquipmenT boughT Trom The gov- ernmenT will be used Tor insTrucTion by Mr. MilTon. This will give The sTu- denTs experience in The handling oT acTual Tlying equipmenT. PEOPLE From ATTu To 3rd WesT The arrival This week oT Nelson Randolph RuTTin oT Orange has round- ed ouT The Teaching sTaTT oT Virginia Episcopal School. I-le will Teach maTh- emaTics. Mr. RuTTin is a graduaTe oT Epis- copal High School and oT The Uni- versiTy oT Virginia in I935. Beliore The war he was a public accounTanT in Louisville, Ky. EnTering The UniTed STaTes Army in I942, he Took parT in The invasion oT ATTu in May, I943, The TirsT am- phibious landing underTaken by The Army. He spenT 20 monThs on ThaT island as a sTaTT sergeanT in a coasT arTillery anTi-aircraTT baTTery. ATTu isn'T as cold as mosT people Think, Mr. RuTTin said, buT The wil- Iawaws are a horse oT anoTher color, so bad someTimes iT is impossible To walk againsT The wind, FrequenTIy This sTeady wind will lasT Two or Three days wiThouT any break. Willawaws occur in summer and in winTer. Mr. RuTTin reTurned To The main- land in December, I944, was Trans- Terred To The Tield arTillery aT l:orT Sill, Okla., and was discharged lasT monTh. The new appoinTmenT brings The Teaching sTaTT OT The school To nine in addiTion To The headmasTer and The chaplain, approximaTeIy one academ- ic insTrucTor Tor every Ten boys. Mr. RuTiin will now have To endure The willawaws oT Third WesT. A BeauTy and The BeasT lsee cuTl The big brown dog lies indolenTIy on The lush grass as a diminuTive, brown-haired liTTle girl playTuIly Ton- dles his clumsy paw. Her preTTy blue eyes sparkle impishly, as she clasps her TaT, pink hands in delighT aT The dog's Toolish grin. Isabelle MilTon, Izzy as she is known To her Triends, and Homer, Uncle PhiI Dawson's big mongrel, have a daily wresTling bouT during TooTball pracTice. Izzy does mosT oT The Tussling, however, Tor Homer is quiTe a lazy Tellow and well pasT his canine prime. Miss MilTon's playTul abuse is Taken good-naTuredly by Homer, oTTen wiTh a very senile-looking dog-smile. Izzy pulls his Tail, boxes his ears, Talls on him, heaps grass on him, and wreaks many oTher indigniTies, which The big dog Takes quiTe graceTuIIy. ln TacT. he seems To enjoy The play as much as liTTle Izzy, The Peoples National Bank EIGHTH AND MAIN STS. LYNCHBURG, VA. Member F. D. I. C. J A C K S O N ' S CUT RATE DRUGS THE METEOR A MasTer oT Languages Pierre Axel Grail, a Roumanian wiTh an inTernaTional background, re- porTed Tor duTy as French Teacher OcTober 24. The new Teacher was born in Weis- baden, Germany, where his TaTher was Roumanian consul-general during The French occupancy aTTer World War I. His moTher is Swedish. His primary educaTion was in France, where he remained unTiI he was Tour- Teen. In I937 when he was a sTudenT aT The InTernaTional School aT Bordig- hera, lTaly, near The French border. he meT Mr. G. B. Lamar. The Triend- ship Then sTarTed uITimaTely resulTed in The presenT appoinTmenT. The InTernaTional School, which had been driven Trom Spain by The Span- ish RevoIuTion, IaTer was Torced To move again, This Time To Fredericks- burg, Virginia. ATTer spending a sum- mer in Sweden wiTh his TaTher, Grail Tollowed The school To America. LaTer he aTTended school Tor Two years aT Samford PreparaTory School, Wil- mingTon, Del. When The UniTed STaTes enTered The war, Grail reioined his TaTher in Sweden and began The sTudy oT Swedish. He now Talks French, Swed- ish, English, and Roumanian. Mr. Grail IeTT Oslo on OcTober I2 aboard The Norwegian ship STavan- gerTiord, The TirsT ship To America aTTer The war To carry civilian pas- sengers. The Trip was made possible by a cancelIaTion only Two days be- Tore The ship was due To sail, She was Torced To puT back To Norway To Turn over To The auThoriTies a quisling who had been discovered on board. She Tinally reached New York on Oc- Tober 23, aTTer weaThering a hurri- cane and passing wiThin 30 yards oT Two TIoaTing mines. Grail, whose Tamily name is Ukra- nowski, dropped Tor obvious reasons, plans To give up his Roumanian alle- giance in Tavor oT American ciTizen- ship. In addiTion To his duTies in The French deparTmenT, he is assisTing Rev. Marshall M. MiITon in coaching The l3O-pound TooTball Team. PATRONIZE SEARS. ROEBUCK THE MEfTEOR BIO-X-RAY I William H. Thomas Home: BIueTield, WesT Virginia. Born: May 22, l928. CusTomary Expression: Good God, GundryI PeT HaTe: SIophead's so-called jokes. PeT Love: Playing The drums. AmbiTion: To ouTplay Krupa. GreaTesT Concern: Jean PaTTer- son. SpareTime OccupaTion: Playing parlor games aT Jean's. Windy Bill has earned Tor him- seIT a reserved seaT in all bull sessions by his abiIiTy To baT The breeze. He is a counselor, an honor sTudenT, and a sTarTer on The TooTbalI Team. ValenTine Henry STiegIiTz, Jr. Home: The Plains, Virginia. Born: OcTober I9, I928. CusTomary Expression: WhoaaII Usually Seen: HeadwaiTing. GreaTesT Concern: STiegIiTz. AmbiTion: To be a Tour-leTTer-man ID-U-M-Bl aT Purdue. FavoriTe SporT: Having dinner on darm, a-Ia cracker. . FavoriTe PasTime: Brushing a-Ia cracker crumbs ouT oT his bed. PeT Love: Mr. Gannaway. PeT HaTe: MacLeod. Old Pal Val is a second year boy who seems To do well in iusT abouT everyThing. He is a counselor and a member oT The V-Club, having made his leTTer in baseball lasT spring. RoberT ScoTT ' Home: Lynchburg, Virginia. Born: December 23, I928. CusTomary Expression: Hey, ya'lI cuT The Talkin' back ThereII SpareTime OccupaTion: HarvesT- ing sIurp Trom anywhere. PeT HaTe: EighTh period sTudy hall. Usually Seen: Scooping ice cream. GreaTesT Concern: Juan William- son. AmbiTion: To see Juan dance The Hula-Hula. FavoriTe SporT: CrogueT. Bob is a TavoriTe wiTh The boys be- cause oT his abiliTy To geT along wiTh anyone. He is a Third year boy, a counselor and always an honor sTu- denfr. He is Tamous Tor his well-run eighTh period. I MILESTONE Born, in Virginia BapTisT HospiTal, To Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bell early Sunday morning, Their second child. a girl, name ConsTance Elaine, weighT six pounds, Tour ounces. ' Mutual Press. Inc. 58-60 NinTh STreeT PHONES: 3 O05 I 589 VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Non - miliTary. Superior preparaTion Tor all col- leges aT moderaTe cosT. AccrediTed High sTandard in schol- arship and aThIeTics . . Gymnasium . . . I4O acres healThTuIIy and beauTiTully siTuaTed in Virginia mounTains. FOR CATALOGUE WRITE TO George L. Barton, Ir., M.A., Ph.D., H cad l'IlCZ.S'fCI' V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va. IN LYNCHBURG IT'S C 1-I IIILILN TENS THE SHOPPING CENTRE For All Your Shopping Needs fMiIlner QuaIiTy CosTs No Moral 7 SPORTS From The Sidelines By Frank Aldred A promising Bishop squad in Sep- Tember has Turned by November inTo a Team held TogeTher only by ad- hesive Tape and a prayer. Injuries have increased unTil now aT leasT Tive TirsT sTringers may be unable To play in The ST. ChrisTopher game. Armis- Tead, a proven veTeran, has reTurned To see only parT Time acTion aTTer being benched Tor several weeks wiTh a leg injury similar To The one he received lasT year. Bullard, a very promising lineman and a sure sTarTer, was injured in pracTice beTore The season began. Tom Allen and Perrin Gower, boTh oT whom have seen plenTy of acTion This season. are also on The injured lisT. John Page, The versaTile Bishop end, received a leg injury in The Eishburne game which will keep him ouT Tor The re- mainder oT The season. The remaining game on The Bishop's schedule is a big cjuesTion in The mind oT Coach Bell, buT need- less To say a Team wiTh plenTy OT spiriT and TighT will answer To The opening whisTle. The SouTh-Alabama deTiniTely has The bowl spiriT and would like an- oTher crack aT Duke, The Team ThaT edged ouT The Tide in The Sugar Bowl lasT year. They may geT Their wish unless They are called upon To par- TicipaTe in The Bowl oT Roses aT Pasa- dena againsT The wesT coasT champs. Tennessee, beaTen only by Alabama. will no doubT geT a bowl bid. Vir- ginia, Though hiT hard by mid-season navy graduaTions, may go unde- TeaTed. The EasT-Army conTinues along The unbeaTen paTh, piloTed by The TD Twins, Blanchard and Davis. BoTh are sure To be unanimous choices Tor All-American. Columbia could go Through The season undeTeaTed, iT iT were noT Tor powerful Penn, sTand- ing smack in iTs way. Navy, unim- pressive in more Than one conTesT, is neverTheless a greaT Team. The WesT-ln The mid-wesT The baTTle is deTiniTely a knock-down drag-ouT aTTair. Ohio STaTe, deTend- ing champs oT The Big Ten, is being pressed on every side. Purdue, ln- diana, and Michigan are deTiniTely in The baTTle wiTh Thrice beaTen' NorThwesTern providing The upseTs 8 and near-upseTs. NoTre Dame is Tops in The non-conTerence brackeT and will be beaTen only by Army. Prep. Schqols-Woodberry EoresT, led by Dean Davidson, is all seT To Take over The Virginia prep crown Trom ST. ChrisTopher, champs Tor The pasT Two years. Lynn Chewning and Bill Hawkins. Two SainT sTars oT lasT year, are showing up well Tor V. M. l. This year. T Lone VicTory OCT. 5-The Virginia Episcopal School Bishops marched To a I9-O vicTory over Miller School oT CrozeT in Their TirsT game oT The season. In The TirsT period The home Team marched Trom iTs 46-yard line To a Touchdown. Passes Trom BeTTy To Ballou and Page puT The ball in scor- ing posiTion. Ballou ran Ten yards Tor The TirsT score, and he also kicked The exTra poinT. VES scored again jusT beTore The halT, as Gower made Two long runs To puT The ball on The 20-yard line. BeTTy passed To Sprague, who ran To The one-yard line. BeTTy plunged over Tor a Touchdown' on The nexT play, making The half-Time score I3-O. The Bishops' lasT Touchdown came aTTer Gower had run 20 yards To The I3. VES advanced To The Miller School Two-yard line, and Larson wenT over To score. The Try Tor exTra poinT was no good. The VES second sTring played mosT oT The lasT quarTer. The lineup: VES Pos. Barge ........... L.E.. Gundry .......... L.T.. ArmisTead ........ L.G. VanNoppen .... CenTer .... Kemper ... .... R.G. Thomas . .... R.T.. Page ... ....... R.E.. BeTTy ... ...... Larson ........... L.H. Allen ............ R.H. Ballou . .......... F.B'.. Score by periods: VES ................. Miller ............... Miller School Morris Cummings ,... Noody Hill Powell Plump Pace Cason Bosserman Reese ............Buck .7660--I9 .0000-O VES Scoring-Touchdowns. Ballou, BeTTy, Larson. PoinT aTTer Touchdown, Ballou. VES SubsTiTuTions-Gower, l-Tyre, Sprague. Gormly, WiThers, Lewis, Aldred, CarTer. Maddux, Harris, WroTh, STiegliTz, NuTT, SeneTT. DeTeaT No. l ChaTham, OCT. I3-l-largrave Mil- iTary Academy evened The series of games wiTh Virginia Episcopal School here Today aT Tour games each by de- TeaTing The Lynchburg Team I4-6 be- Tore a large Homecoming Day crowd. l-largrave avenged lasT year's I3-O deTeaT aT The hands oT The Bishops. l'largrave scored TirsT, Taking Al- Ien's kickoTT on Their own 20, and wiTh Leps aT The helm mosT OT The way, scored wiTh scarcely Three minuTes oT The TirsT period gone. Leps carried nine yards around end Tor The score and also kicked The exTra poinT. ln The second period V. E. S. marched To The l-largrave 35 on runs by Gower and a pass To Page, buT The CadeTs held and The resT oT The quarTer was spenT in play around The mid-sTripe. ln The Third period Ballou, who was ouT oT acTion during The TirsT period because OT injuries. enTered The game Tor V. E. S. and did mosT oT The ball carrying. ln a sTeady march, The Bishops carried The ball To The Har- grave 2-yard line, where The home Team held Tor downs and Rowsey punTed To BeTTy on The H. M. A. 25. On The nexT play, BeTTy Tlipped a pass To Ballou, who skirTed end Tor 25 yards and a Touchdown. The exTra poinT, an aTTempTed pass, was no good. AT The beginning oT The TourTh guarTer Hyre recovered a Tumble on The CadeT 35. Ballou, who had gone ouT aTTer his Touchdown run, came back inTo The game and on The TirsT play Trom scrimmage circled righT end Tor a Touchdown sTanding up, buT The play was nulliTied because oT a holding penalTy. WiTh less Than Three minuTes To play, Rowsey was Torced To run Trom punT TormaTion because oT a low cenTer pass and was sTopped on The V. E. S. 33. ATTer a series oT running plays which carried The ball To The V. E. S. 3, Rowsey scored Through Tackle. Again Leps' place- menT was good. Leps kicked oTT To Allen on The l5, and he ran iT back To The 3O.' V. E. S. drove To The Har- grave 40 where The CadeTs Took over as The game ended. Miller SubsTiTuTions-SuTherland, Walfers. BUY VICTORY BCNDS THE METEOR DeTeaT No. 2 OcT. 20.-The Woodberry ForesT eleven, conTining all iTs scoring in The TirsT halT, overwhelming an ouTclassecl buT TighTing Virginia Episcopal School conTingenT aT Woodberry ForesT, 33-O. The home Team roared To iTs opening Tally when Wick Read re- Turned The opening kickoTT To The VES ThirTy-yard line, Tanner and Da- vidson alTernaTed in carrying The ball To The Tour Trom which poinT David- son crashed over. The second score came a Tew minuTes laTer when David- Zon reTurned a punT 80 yards inTo pay irT. - A blocked kick on The VES 26, seT up The Third score in The second peri- od, aTTer which a pass and runs bv Tanner and Davidson placed The ball on The Tour. Davidson scored Trom There. Tullis' inTercepTion oT Ballou's pass gave Woodberry The ball on The VES I2. Barnes Then Tore Through a wide- open gap in The VES line To score. A pass Trom Tullis To Brown, which cov- ered 48 yards, gave The orange and black iTs Tinal score. The Woodberry reserves Took- over in The lasT halT buf were unable To ThreaTen seriously. VES made one acTual bid Tor a score buT The Try Taded on The opponenT's 20-yard line. Lineups: VES Pcs. Woodberry Cohoon .... ..... L .E. .....,..... Moore CorneTT ... ,,,., L.T ........ McMasTers Thomas .. ..,. LG. ,... ...,... H ill Barge .... .... C enTer. .. ..... Wilson Gundry .... .... R .G. ....,... SlaughTer VanNoppen ...... R.T. .....,.. Eshelmann Page ............ R.E. .,.. ... PeTerson BeTTy .... .... O .BZ .... . . . Barnes Larson' H.B ..... HorTon Allen ...... .... H .B. ........... Tanner Ballou ....,...... F. B. ,...,..., Davidson SubsTiTuTions: VES-Sprague, Gormly, Kemper, Hyre, Maddux, Aldred, STiegliTz. CarTer, TrevaThan, Lewis. Woodberry-Tullis, Selvidge, Anderson, BuxTon, G., Read, Fuller. DeTeaT No. 3 OCT. 27-The Virginia Episcopal School Bishops were deTeaTed I2-O on Johnson Field by The Fishburne MiliTary School CadeTs Trom Waynes- boro, avenging The VES vicTory of lasT year. Fishburne's TirsT Touchdown came early in The TirsT quarTer when a VES pass was inTercepTed on The Bishop's 45-yard line and run To The IO-yard line. On The TirsT down The Bishop's line held, buT Reed wenT around righT end on a Triple reverse To score on The nexT play. The Try Tor exTra poinT was blocked. THE METEOR The visiTors' oTher score came in The Third quarTer when Two TirsT downs and a 30-yard run by Hubbard ac- counTed Tor The Tally. The exTra poinT was no good because oT an oTT sides penalTy. Ballou was ouTsTanding Tor VES, gaining on play aTTer play by TasT running. OT The original TirsT sTring line-up used in The opening game oT The season only seven were able To sTarT in yesTerclay's game. Tom Allen, who is suTTering Trom a chipped hip bone, was broughT To The sidelines in a car To see his TeammaTes puT up Episcopal increased iTs ToTal by Two in The second quarTer when BeTTy's kick Trom behind The goal line was blocked by a charging Episcopal line. BeTTy recovered The bounding pigskin and The halT ended a shorT Time laTer wiTh The ball on The VES I0 and The score 8 To 0 in Tavor oT The visiTors. Episcopal's second Touchdown came Trom The VES I2 wiTh Holland scoring on a drive Through cenTer. The Tinal Tally came wiTh iusT minuTes leTT To play wiTh Barkley again Tossing To Birge. BoTh aTTempTs Tor The exTra poinT Tailed. Their losing TighT. The line-ups: F. M. S. Pos. ' V. E. S. ReaTon .......... L.E. ..... . .. Cohoon Shaw .... .... L .T. ..... ... CorneTr Doxey .... ...,. L .G. .......... Thomas ScoTT .... .... C enTer ........... Barge Hoskins .. .... R.6. VanNoppen Hilkin . .... R.T. .......... Sundry Carver ... ..... R.E. .... . Page Reed .....,..... O.B. ............ BeTTy Hollowell ........ H.B.. TrevaThan Hubbard ....,... H. B. .......,. Sprague lsenhower ........ F. B.. Ballou SubsTiTuTes-V. E. S.: Gormly, Kemper, The lineups: ' VES EHS Cohoon .......... L.E. .......... Roddey Kemper . . .... L.T. ......... Haydock Thomas ...,...... LG. .... . . . Gregory VanNoppen .... CenTe' ..... Dixon Gundry .......... R.G. .... .,.. O uaile Gormly .......... R.T.. ... Perry Barge .... ..... R .E.. ..... Birge Sprague . . ..... O.B ..... .... B arkley TrevaThan . ...,. H. B ....... .. Holland BeTTy ........... H.B. ......... Glascock Ballou ........... F.B ...... ...... D aniel Score by periods: E. H. S. .......... ......., 6 2 6 6-20 SubsTiTuTes: VES-ArmisTead. Lewis, Mad- Aldred, STiegliTz, Hyre, F. M. S.: Ashman, Wolf. Humphrey, Brooks, Gordon. DeTeaT No. 4 .. Nov. I0-A hosT oT TleeT backfield men coupled wiTh accuraTe aerials proved The winning margin as a rug- ged Episcopal High School conTin- genT Trampled a TighTing buT ouT- classed Virginia Episcopal School eleven, ZO-0, on rain-soaked Johnson Field. The small buT lusTy homecoming crowd which wiTnessed The one-sided conTesT played under Tar Trom good weaTher condiTions, saw The visiTing Alexandria Team chalk up markers in each period while holding The Bish- ops scoreless. The maioriTy of The Tray was ToughT in VES TerriTory wiTh The excepTion oT Two Bishop scoring ThrusTs ThaT Tizzled ouT wiThin sighT oT Episcopal's goal posTs. The Alexandria Team scored The iniTial Touchdown midway in The opening period wiTh a drive ThaT sTarTed Trom The VES 33-yard line and was climaxed wiTh a shorT pass Trom Barkley To righT end Birge in The end zone. The aTTempTed conversion Tailed. TEXAS TAVERN ci-nu coN CARNE dux, Aldred, Hyre, CarTer. EHS-Goodwin, Parker, Gilliam, Kaminer. Gravell, Perry. DeTeaT No. 5 Nov. I7-AT FronT Royal The shaT- Tered Bishop Team received iTs TiTTh deTeaT oT a dismal season To allow Randolph-Macon Academy To score iTs TirsT vicTory. The Tinal score was 25-O. The TirsT Touchdown Tor The home Team came aTTer a long drive in The TirsT quarTer wiTh Shrader carrying The ball over and kicking The exTra poinT. The halT score was 7-O. ln The Third quarTer Prohaska passed To Craig in The end zone Tor The second score. In The lasT quarTer Wunder ran IO yards for The Third score. The lasT Touchdown came in The lasT oT The TourTh quarTer wiTh TiTer running 20 yards To score. The game was hard ToughT ThroughouT. Ballou was The ouTsTand- ing player Tor The Bishops, making several long runs. The lineups: VES Pos. RMA Cohoon .......... L.E. ........ Chewning Kemper .. .... L.T. ......... ClemenTs Gormly .......... LG. .... .... C ombs CorneTT ........ Cenfer .... .. . Conway VanNoppen ...... R.G. .... STewarT Gundry .... .... R .T ..... ...... G len Barge .... ..... R .E. ..... .... M acon Sprague ......... O.B ..... . .. Prohaska TrevaThan . . .... L.H. .... .... M olTz BeTTy .... ...... R . H. ........... Drake Ballou ........... F.B. ............ SmiTh SubsTiTuTes: VES-ArmisTead, Lewis, NuTT, Hyre. RMA-Shrader, Tifer. Wunder. METEORITES Through The Telescope By The AsTrologer Speeding across The lens oT The Telescope we see a long, blue, Hsouped-up car wiTh a low-riding back-end bearing none oTher Than ZeTa Psi's own Burley Long, coming back Trom heaven To see his old parT- ners in crime. Cap'n Bob ArThur, Owl-man WhiTe. Bobo WesT, and Jesse Waller. Booger lTchyson, The celebraTed skin surgeon, comes Through wiTh a brillianT Tumor oT The wrisT opera- Tion in l-lisTory V. Sponge, pleasell Slophead Sundry has been seen sneaking around school wiTh a Tiend- ish gleam in his eye! WaTch ThaT spiked TomaTo iuice, Ballou. LaTely The No. l song on The V. E. S. hiT parade has been We're from ST. Mary's. Boys, and WhaT Do We Care! SporT and l-lock, Two Tair- si7ed hosses, are Tinding iT a raTher 1ighT squeeze in The hearT 01' Reesey, Honey. Big Boy has anoTher arm inTec- Tion aTTer going home To see his 'oman in The company oT Coon Dawg. lThey musT be rivals? 'WaTch your sTep, Big 'un.l We wish To beg your pardon Tor such an arTicle, buT Ol' Pal Val scooped all The sTardusT ouT oT The Telescope lens. 1 ..O i The AsTronomical Calendar .OcTober I4-ATTer sTarring in The V. E. S.-l-largrave game, FooTsey is Telled by a broken rib in a rough ses- sion oT ThaT hardesT of all hard games. Touch TooTball. OcTober I6- Croach Barge sends home Tor his radio and vic. hav- ing heard Trom The besT oT auThoriTy iThe EnTerprises, lnc.i ThaT he has been appoinTed a counselor. STrange- ly enough, The appoinTmenT doesn'T go Through! 0cTober I7 - 64-CaraT Treva- Than gives The boys on The TooTball squad a break by showing up Tor pracTice aTTer over Two weeks oT Ter- rible goldbr-pardon me, oT Terrible illness. OcTober I8-- 64-CaraT makes TirsT sTring. STrange--could iT be ThaT old ingredienT ? OcTober 25 - Reusen's Romeo DuTTey has himselT a Tling. 10 4 R lv xwhygoqx ' I.. November 3-Needing sleep bad- ly, FooTsey, lviope, and Ski- Jump Take a week-end To Raleigh. inTending To spend all Their Time caTching up on iT. November 5-Same Three reTurn To school looking like new men, hav- ing spenT all Their Time sleeping aT The Baron's house. They swear They averaged over TourTeen hours sleep boTh nighTs. November 6- Cookie reTurns To The TooTball wars wiTh a TwenTy- pound brace on each knee. lAlso breaks up every TirsT sTring play.l November IO laTTernoonl-Bishops play Their hardesT game oT The sea- son, buT The breaks Tail To go Their way. Game played in perTecT TooT- ball weaTher. Sun shining. a Tall nip in The air, noT a cloud in The sky. lThe opinions expressed in This col- umn are noT necessarily Those oT The Caroliniansl November IO lnighTl-Jimmie ST. Clair makes wiTh The iive Tor The E. H. S.-Alumni Dance. Among The couples seen were Mr. AlberT Ein- sTien wiTh Miss Jacqueline CarpenTer, Mr. PeTer Tchaikovsky wiTh Miss Ro- berTa Field, and Haywood wiTh Homer. November II-All visiTing alumni wake up very early so ThaT They won'T miss breakTasT, especially Bobo WesT and Owl-Man WhiTe. November ll llaTerl-CerTain boys are TrighTened because Their weekend daTes almosT come To chapel. November I2-Edgar and Ol' Pal Val arrive in Town aT 3:00 o'clock aTTer hours oT grueling labor on Ex- ample IO7. November I3 - Fwed Cohoon decides To miss pracTice in order To wash his unmenTionables. November I4--ATomic bombs be- gin dropping down sTairwells. And They said Nagasaki was bad! . People in The Public Eye Aldred lSmooThiei - CelebraTing aTTer each Ohio STaTe vicTory. Allen, T. lDemon Deacl-Longing To pay a visiT To SweeT Briar. ArmisTead iCookiel-Trying To sell his cook books on The black markeT. BraxTon lSlaTsl--Making himseili Tamiliar wiTh The head counselor's duTies, iusT in case. Cohoon llzwedl- GeTin' mighTy Tard oT people pushin' me around. l iesT ain'T use To iT, ThaT's all. Gilman lGeniel-STiii looking Tor ThaT privaTe room wiTh a baTh. Hardy lBlondiel-Telling people ThaT iT ain'T peroxide. King lMoTher Duckl-Living in True WesT Tashion. lin his case her name isn'T Nell, iT's MargareTl Ogden lEgg-headl-Taking Them in The head. Richardson lITchyl-ScraTching! Seneff lSnuTil-Trying To geT his name in The MeTeor. SmiTh, S. lSTani-Barking orders aT people in his usual nasTy voice. Weaver lWee, Weel-Taking The Tull counT on The Tloor aT The Vir- ginian. THE METEOR LETTERS life rafl or somelhing lo hold on 'ro bul' all I could see was men swimming around . . . Abou? 'rhar lime a rall came from I don'I know where and I hung on. If was crowded wilh men buf I managed lo hold on. The rafl 'was a gill of God because when I looked 'Ihe 'iirsf Iime II wasn'l' 'rhere . . . I held on Io 'lhe rafl unfil I was pulled off by a man Ihal seemed 'lo go crazy. I didn'I have sfrenglh Io fighl back. buf I wasn r afraid when I found lhal l had nolhing maferial lo hang on lo. I had God and I knew 'lhar He had saved me once and would save me again. In less Ihan Iwo minules I was pulled aboard a Iugboal. I lay on deck and vomiled and lhen passed oul cold. I came 'fo In aboul five minules and by 'lhe lime we gol' Io Cherbourg I was well enough lo walk off 'Ihe boar. I refused lo go 'ro a hospilal be5 cause I knew 'they would be crowded wilh Ihe men Ihal were coming in from The BuIge. Men were coming in wilh arms and legs blown off and Iols of men were nearly dead from drowning. A+ leasl I could walk. They pul us, Ihe ones Thai' could walk, in an ex-German concenlralion camp. We slepl on pallers on lhe floor wilh abou? five blankels. I fhoughf I would never gel warm again. The nexl day, Chrislmas, we wenl' 'ro an assembly ppinl' and had our Chrislmas dinner. Alfer a good meal I fel? wonderful. I had a slight cold lo show for Ihe calasfrophe . . . Tha+'s 'Ihe sfory of 'rhe LeopoIdviIle. We losl 800 of the 2.000 men on board. l'lI wrile again soon. Keep on sending packages 'cause I won'l' be home for quile a while. John. Pfc. John S. Waller. '43, 264th lnfanlry. The Meleor Thanks Mrs. Waller for +his Ierfer from her son. Ed. A... ..- . - ., ,,.. ..- QUALITY DAIRY PRODUCTS PHONE I063 ART BARBER SHOP Under Ho+eI Carroll V. E. S. WELCOME Palronize Those Who Paironize You Esiablished I 859 I I. P. Bell Company STATIONERS, BOOKSELLERS. 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Dependable Tor Over 27 Years 800 COMMERCE ST. - PHONE 2304 PEARSON'S Drug Store LETTERS I BIO-X-RAY Dear Colonel, I ThoughT you mighT be inTeresTed in whaT quesTions we of The ouTer world would have answered. Besides, wiTh mosT oT lasT year's sTaTF gone, you musT be hard up Tor mae Terial. AT leasT ThaT's whal' Jack ParroT says, Anyway, here goes. We hear ThaT Edgar BeTTy was so worried aboui' Anne Adkerson's heaITh ThaT he losT enough weighT To Take The cenTer posiTion Trom SubleTT on The Il5-pound Team. Con- Tirm or deny. Fish SmiTh is now beaTing Tracks To Miss I-Iandy's domicile, and annoying The Or- phanage children. Tell him To be careful, I I know. Ballou sTiIi lives on Okinawa wiTh Juan, or has she hibernaTed? We wanT To knowl The EeTTy-Ballou machine has been un- successful bucking Gripe V under The ExaIT- ed One. I-low 'bouT iT? And above all, has Hughes been Too rough on Greeky and Reynolds, or have They con- Tinued To molesr us? I'IoId 'em down! Would appreciaTe any of This inTormaTion. How could I pick up a Tew back issues oT The MeTeor? Mr. FoIIeTT. surely The Navy was never like V. M. I., buT will you accepT an enlisT- menT in your army? I can bring you re- cruiTs galore. Drop me a line if you geT a chance. Sincerely, WharTon Gaul. Only The asTroIoger could answer Alumnus Gaul's quesTions abouT The boys and girls in The news. IT has been Too cloudy oT IaTe Tor him To use his Telescope. As To The army-we have Two oT Them now, Mr. FolIeTT's lnTanTry and Mr. MiI+on's Air Corps. BoTh, we believe, are superior To Camp Peary's besT.-Ed. A YOUNG STORE CATERING TO YOUNG MEN Knight-Sneed Co. 8I7 MAIN STREET Fashions in Fashions A Young STore Tor Young Men See RIANHARD ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT STOP AT Music DEPARTMENT BELT- SHOE STORE P1-11LL1P's BROS. Feafurmg IncorporaTed SmarT Young Men's Shoes 906 Main Sfreei Francis Kazimer Aldred Home: Ivanhoe, Virginia. , Born: March 3, l928. I AmbiTion in Life: To pass Solid, via Edie, GreaTesT Concern: Edie, Usually Seen: aT STuarT's house. FavoriTe PasTime: improving his Torm. FavoriTe Expression: ShuT up, King! SmooThie is a Third-year boy aT V. E. S. I-Ie is a counselor on ShorT Dorm, The librarian, and a TooTbaII IeTTerman. Henry Turnage Trevafhan Born: February I3, I928. I-lome: FounTain, N. C. CusTomary Expression: ll'Ie never says anyThingl. PeT Love: CounTry Joe. PeT I-laTe: All Virginians. GreaTesT Concern: The Tar Heels. Usually Seen: Goldbricking. FavoriTe SporT: Sleeping. AmbiTion in LiTe: To do a repeaT OT his scene wiTh BeTTy Beasley IasT June 5. Blackie has braved The Terrors oT Virginia Tor nearly Three years. LasT year he made a baseball IeTTer, and was on The All-CiTy I3O-Ib. TOOT- ball Team. This year he is a counselor, and a TooTbaII IeTTerman. Edward HamiITon Seneff I-Iome: PiTTsburgh, Pa. BirThday: November 3, I928. CusTomary Expression: You dumb gazaboI SpareTime OccupaTion: Raising squirrels. PeT I-IaTe: People who call him Measles FavoriTe SporT: Track. FavoriTe Food: Dr. Peppers wiTh ice cream. AmbiTion in LiTe: To geT OTF Bounds. . I-lobby: CoIIecTing Track picTures. ScrunuTF as he is known To The boys, came down Trom Yankee-land Tour years ago. Since Then he has become well-known in various acTivi- Ties. I'Ie is a Track leTTerman, one oT The boys on The demeriT Track, The peT annoyance oT The masTers, and recenTIy was a hard worker on The TooTbaIl squad. 01111 e -e lliltieieme VOLUME XXX No. 3 THE SCHOOL . Z i I os 9 'mf I 'I yi X ' YwsWmwv, ..,-,Qs Heir 'iq S 1 i . , f nil, Q- I 45-lT5imTGll A' I Af! kv' 2 . . ' Wulf s, an If 1 . . but not In be outdone . . ChrisTmas Trees LasT week someirhing new was sTarTed by The boys oT SouTh Main and has since spread To all The oTher dormiTories. ChrisTmas Treesl All sizes, shapes, kinds, and condiTions. WiTh clonaTions by Mr. FoIleTT, The boys on Main decoraTed a nice Tree: buT noT To be ouTdone, Second WesT, Third WesT, and ShorT Dorm also made Theirs. The Trees on Third and ShorT are The only ones wiTh lighTs, buT all The Trees are aTTracTive. Per- suaded by Weaver To do so, every- one on Third chipped in To buy bells, Tinsel, and all The oTher Trimmings. ShorT noT only Tixed a beauTiTul Tree, buT exTended The decoraTions To The IighTs in The hall. THE METEOR DECEMBER 20. IQ45 Honor Roll For November-December I. CarpenTer ........,............ 97.8 2. MacCaIlum ............. ..... 9 5.5 3. ScoTT ..,.... ..... 9 3.2 4.WellTord 92.4 5. Alexander ... ..... 9l.8 6. Eennell ..,... ...., 9 I.2 6. Thomas. CS. .... ..... 9 I.2 8. Perry ....... ..... 9 0. 9. Lewis .,... ..... 8 9.2 IO. BraxTon .,... ..... 8 8.8 II. SmiTh, S. .... .... . 88. I2. ArmisTeacl ... ..... 87.6 I3. MacLeod ... ..... 86.8 I4. Field . ..,.... ..... 8 6.3 15. Allan, T. .... .... . l5.Bar+Ie+T I7. CraTT ..... ..... I7. Hardy ,.,.,. ..... I7. SmiTh, E. .... ..,. . 2O.Hughes 2I. Hansen ..,.. ..... 2I. Marshall .... ..... 23. STiegliTz 24. Braclsher .. ..... Ald d 25 re .... ..... 25.GormIy 27 85.8 85.8 85.6 85.6 85.6 85.5 85.2 85.2 84.6 84.3 83.4 83.4 . GriTTiTh . . . ...,. 83.2 27. Shannonhouse ..... 83.2 29. Wiggins ..... ..... 8 2.6 30. Murray, P. .... ..... 8 2.2 3l. CarTer ...,.. ..... 8 2.I 32. 8uTler ....... ..... 8 2. 33. Harris, BL ... .... . 8l.8 34.Cherry.... 35. VanNoppen . .... . 36. Thompson . .... . 37. Slrephenson ..... 38. Bell .,.... 38. BeTTy .........,............... 8l .6 8 I .2 80.8 80.4 80.2 80.2 ALUMNI I924 LieuTenanT-Commander S. LinTon SmiTh has reTurned To The sTaTes, and is now aT home in Raleigh, NorTh Carolina. I930 The engagemenT oT Miss Helen Gavze oT Chicago, Illinois, To Cap- Tain John Oakley Zimmerman, UniTed STaTes Army, OT Lynchburg, has re- cenTIy been announced. The wedding will Take place early in The New Year. CapTain Zimmerman, inTerned by The Japanese aT CabanauTan, Philippine Islands, and released January 30 by UniTed STaTes Rangers, is To be sTa- Tioned aT The PorT oT ErnbarkaTion, ForT Mason, San Francisco. I940 'LieuTenanT George lvl. Alexander oT The Engineer Corps oT The UniTed STaTes Army, visiTed The school ,re- cenTly. LieuTenanT Alexander, who was abroad Tor a year in The Euro- pean TheaTer oT OperaTions and in The PaciTic, is now sTaTioned aT Phila- delphia, Pa., and expecTs To be dis- charged some Time during The coming monTh. l94I I.ieuTenanT Thomas Robison oT The UniTed STaTes Air Force, paid The school a recenT visiT. While aT V. E. S. LieuTenanT Robison was a counselor, a member OT The Honor CommiTTee. The Hop CommiTTee, and The V Club. and was winner oT The V Club prize Tor The besT Non-LeTTer Man AThleTe. I942 PharmacisT's MaTe 2fC B o y d Horsley was aT V. E. S. recen+ly. He has seen service in The UniTed STaTes Navy in The PaciTic TheaTer OT Oper- aTions, mainly on Guam Island. While aT V. E. S., Horsley was a counselor and a member oT The V Club. EXCHANGES The MeTeor acknowledges The receipT oT The Tollowing school pub- IicaTions: The MonThIy Chronicle Episcopal High School Alexandria, Va. The DeerTieId Scroll The DeerTieId Alumni Journal DeerTield, Mass. The U. oT Va. Alumni News UniversiTy oT Virginia CharIoTTesville, Va. The MuskeTeer Hargrave lvliliTary Academy ChaTham, Va. The CQ Fishburne MiIiTary School Waynesboro, Va. The STonewaIl Jackson Journal STonewall Jackson High School CharlesTon, W. Va. The Boy's Appeal Boy's Home CovingTon, Va. 3 I IIB HHPTPHI' PEQPLE VOLUME XXX DECEMBER 20, T945 NUMBER 3 M SCIIO Q. BNI 14 QR P SSASSOLTIXXX XX I mm If m Issued by The sTudenTs oT The Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monThly during The school year oT I945-'46 excepT holidays. SubscripTions, 25c per copy: 52.00 per year. EDITORIAL BOARD DONNELL VANNOPPEN, Jr.. EdiTor-in-ChieT DAVIS L. RIANHARD ...,... .............. .......... ........ M a n aging EdiTor FRANCIS K. ALDRED ,.......... ........... S porTs EdiTor W. PRYOR PERRY ..................... .....,......,...,.,...,. ,...... E x change EdiTor MR. JOHN D. EOLLETT ,.....,.......,.,,.....,,............... .,.,...,.. E acuITy Adviser REPORTERS VAL STIEGLITZ MACON HARDY RICHARD GUNDRY JIM BALLOU EDGAR BETTY CHARLES WEAVER JACK CARPENTER PERRIN GOWER FRANCIS ALDRED TOM ALLEN ROYAL SHANNONHOUSE JOE CHERRY ARTISTS PHOTOGRAPHERS BILL THOMAS PAUL TAYLOR DR. G. L. BARTON, Jr. GENE GILMAN BUSINESS BOARD v DAVIS L. RIANHARD ..................................................,..........,...... Business Manager JAMES W. BALLOU ......... . . ..................... AssisTanT Business Manager EDWARD SENEFF .......... .......,.. ................. ....... A s s isTanT Business Manager ROBERT J. FIELD ..................,............,.,.....,.,.., ...,....,...,......... C ircularion Manager EnTered as second class maTTer SepTember 28, I928, aT The PosToTTice aT Lynchburg, Virginia, under The AcT oT March 3, I879. OPINIONS An old proverb, ThaT bird is noT honesT ThaT TouIeTh his own nesT, is easily applicable To an exisTing siTua- Tion aT V. E. S. A perverTed group oT boys here seem To Take a cerTain ioy in desTroying school properTy. Why This should be no one knows, unless The oTTenders Think ThaT They are geTTing back aT The school Tor some supposed iniusTice. This group wreaks mosT oT iTs havoc in The re- creaTionaI room in The basemenT oT WesT DormiTory. Nearly every day some new damage is done. SomeThing should be done To im- press The TacT on These boys ThaT They are hurTing Themselves more Than The school. As The old saying goes, They are cuTTing oTT Their nose To spiTe Their Tace. The school doesn'T care whaT The recreaTion room looks like. IT doesn'T even 4 care wheTher The room is Thereor noT. IT merely designaTed The room as a place Tor The boys To spend Their spare Time in bad weaTher. WhaT condiTion The room is in is enTireIy up To The boys. IT seems ThaT The boys who care enough abouT The room To use iT would see ThaT iT is Taken care oT, and ThaT The boys who are causing The desTrucTion are disposed oT. OTher schools have similar rooms ThaT are very well Taken care oT. Why can'T iT be ThaT way here? We could develop The basemenT oT WesT DormiTory inTo a very nice place. The V-Club and AeronauTical Organ- izaTion have club-rooms There, The Camera CIub's dark room is There. These, plus The recreaTion room, could be properly cared Tor, and Turned inTo a True recreaTional room insTead OT The dirTy, broken-up shambles ThaT iT is now. LeT's see whaT can be done abouT iT! In AppreciaTion Two women To whom V. E. S. owes a debT oT graTiTude and appreciaTion are Mrs. Maie M. Payne and Mrs. Philip Dawson lSee coverl. Mrs. Payne graduaTed Trom PeTers- burg HospiTaI Training School Tor nurses. She Tollowecl This wiTh a posT- graduaTe course aT MT. Sinai HospiTaI in New York CiTy and anoTher aT Columbia UniversiTy Teachers Col- lege. Mrs. Payne came To V. E. S. in I937 and has had sole charge oT The inTirmary since ThaT Time. This work she has handled enTirely wiTh- ouT assisTance, excepT in cases oT emergency. Mrs. Payne handles her deparTmenT wiTh a skilled, kindly, Though Tirm, hand. She Takes a real inTeresT in all The boys and is Tire- less in her eTTorTs Tor Their comTorT and well-being while They are in her care. As Mrs. Payne is Boss in The in- Tirmary, so is Mrs. Dawson Boss in The kiTchen. Mrs. Dawson came To V. E. S. in l92I as The wiTe oT Mr. Philip Dawson lUncIe Phill. She has had sole charge oT The kiTchen Tor nearly TiTTeen years. In This Time she has Tound a way To every V. E. S. boy's hearT, noT only Through his sTomach buT by her delighTTul per- sonaliTy and kindly naTure. Mrs. Daw- son has done an excepTionaIIy Tine iob in keeping good, wholesome Tood in The School dining room, despiTe warTime shorTages and subsTiTuTes. In This small way may we, The boys oT V. E. S., show our admiraTion, respecT, and appreciaTion Tor The unseITish eTTorT These Two grand old ladies have puT TorTh Tor us. B. STuarT STephenson A naTive oT Richmond, Va., has Taken up his duTies here as insTrucTor oT Spanish, German, and elemenTary maThemaTics. A graduaTe oT Thomas JeTFerson High School in Richmond, Va., and oT WashingTon and Lee UniversiTy, he has also sTudied in The UniversiTy OT Mexico. He was a member oT The Army Air Eorces Tor nearly Three years, almosT Two oT which he spenT in lTaly. He received his discharge laTe in No- vember, I945. He has his quarTers in The inTirm- ary. THE METEOR A VeTeran STucIenT George M. Douglas came To V. E. S. upon receiving his honorable discharge Trom The UniTed STaTes Navy on November 27, I945. He was born in Bladenboro, N. C., and wenT To high school in Red Springs, N. C. AT The age oT ThirTeen he IeTT school To work in CharlesTon, S. C., where he became an engineer on a pleasure yachT. AbouT a year aTTer leaving home he ioined The UniTed STaTes MariTime Service. ATTer nine monThs oT service in The MerchanT Marine, and Trips To Spain and SouTh America, he TransTerred To The UniTed STaTes Navy. He Took his booT Training aT NorTolk, Virginia, becoming a moTor machinisT's maTe. He served on The desTroyer, U.S.S. Blakely, in The AT- lanTic TheaTre, and on The baTTIeship, U.S.S. New York, in The MediTer- ranean area. ATTer parTicipaTion in The NorTh ATrican campaign and The invasion OT Sicily, he was TransTerred To The U.S.S. YorkTown in The SouTh PaciTic area. Because OT iniuries sus- Tained during The sinking oT The YorkTown he was Tlown To a Naval HospiTaI in The Marianas Islands. From There he was Tlown To Samoa. On June 24 he was TransporTed by merchanT vessel To a hospiTaI in San Francisco. He was laTer senT To Naw- porT, R. I., Tor The Tinal phase OT his hospiTalizaTion. On OcTober I7 George Douglas was discharged from The UniTed STaTes Navy aT The age oT nineTeen. He is The TirsT reTurned veTeran To enroll aT V. E. S. Happy BirThday December 4-Paul Murray December 8-Louis BrisTow. John Page December I2-Don Van Noppen George WiThers December I5-WiThers Fennell John WroTh December 23--RoberT ScoTT December 26-Davis Rianhard December 27-Richarcl Gundry. , 5 N Q e r5 ,'1W f f!f15 ffl! Good QuaIi'I'y Value RighT MEN'S FURNISHINGS THE MTETEOR METEORITES Through The Telescope By The AsTrologer Since The V-Club iniTiaTion a new singing sensaTion has Taken The school by sTorm. lT's none oTher Than Frankie Allen. Graham Koch had beTTer look To his laurels. Down in ThaT black den oT iniquiTy, George's Pool Room. we see none oTher Than our own head counselor being Thrown ouT on his ear. WhaT's The maTTer, John? Had a Tew Too many? The counselors have Turned over a new leaT. They had a legal burger parTy in The HeadmasTer's aparTmenT. Jesse Waller, Inc., was sorely missed. Our eardrums have been under severe sTrain since Douglas arrived in his Buck Rogers car. ChrisTmas vacaTion is almosT here. and The asTrologer expecTs To hear a mess oT bull slung beTore and aTTer by such oraTors as Egah, Ski- Jump, and Mope. And now, in The Tace oT a blinding, Typically Virginian snowsTorm, The AsTroIoger is Torced To puT away The Dec. 3-Twelve very happy boys in school. STrangeIy enough, They are The same boys ThaT were so glum over The week-end. Dec. 5-Usual group congregaTes Dec. 7 Dec. 8 Dec. IO Dec. I2 Dec. I3 One aT Mr. MilTon's Table aTTer The noon meal. Some aT- TracTion? -Thousands oT dollars go across beTTing boards all over The world, buT iT sTill doesn'T snow!! - S p o rT really comes Through wiTh some slick chicks Trom R.-M. W. C. - Pal Val comes back Trom Town as usual, covered wiTh blue chalk, and wiTh empTy pockeTs. -A cerTain Table in The din- ing room is moved Trorn iTs usual posiTion. Thereby causing no end OT Trouble and roars oT raucous laugh- Ter. -Real, hon esT-To-goodness. sho' nuTT SNOW! To The greaT surprise and ioy oT several NorTh Carolinians. week in The TuTure-ATTer many sheeTs oT 366 worTh oT Tail, cer- Tain boys Tind ouT wheTher They pass Telescope unTil The weaTher clears. The AsTronomicaI Calendar Nov. I7-l:ooTball Team makes The Nov Nov. Nov Nov Dec. Trip To l:ronT Royal Tor The R.-M. A. game. The Trip was enioyed by all, being Tull oT inTeresT and IO min- uTe sTops. I8- Edgar, Mope, 'Hyre, and Pal Val go To D. C. To show The Redskins' STeve Bagarus how To play TooT- ball, aTTerwards dropping in aT The Dragon. 2+-FooTball Team siTs in The balmy summer breezes on The lower Tield, puTTing up a hard TighT in The ST. C. game. 27-CerTain boys have a pre- moniTion oT impending evil, Tor some reason dreading The approach oT The week- end. 30-Same boys receiving 40's and 60's on class papers, noT having sTudied Tor Them. Could There be a reason? R e a s o n maTerializeslIlI Twelve helpless goaTs are led To slaunghTer. or Tail Solid.-Amen!!!! QUALITY Dairy Products PHONE I063 Esfablished l859 I. P. Bell Company STATIONERS, BOOKSELLERS, PRINTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS 8I6 Main STree'I' Bring Your KODAK WORK To Us ART BARBER SHOP Under Ho+eI C arro II V. E. S. WELCOME Pnfronize Those Who PaTronize You ii TEXAS TAVERN CHILI CON CARNE i 5 THE V. E. S. VARSITY FOOTBALL LETTERMEN 4 LEFT TO Rim-TT: First Row-A1'11z1'sfc'r1d,' Bargrg Bvffyq Vim Nofvpcn fCaftczinj Ballou-,' G'll7'Ldl'y,' Sprcigzm Second TQOXV1C0l'II!'ff,' IfUl1lf7f'1'v,' Pzzgcg slldrcdq Lewis,'Allw1, T.,' Gowwq' Hyre Third Rovv-IT-f119'r'r1-V f1Tlg1'.j Couch Belly Trcvatlzcmg C 0110011 ,' Assf. Coach C1'cmk,' Thoizmfsg M'addfu.v, Gormly SPORTS DeTeaT No. 6 Nov. 24.-V. E. S. losT iTs lasT game oT The season on Johnson Field To ST. ChrisTopher's oT Richmond, 33-O. Rixey, sTar leTT halTback, wenT over Tor Two oT The Tive Touchdowns. Early in The TirsT' quarTer The Bishops losT Ballou, one oT Their besT players, because oT a hurT arm, which was laTer Tound To be TracTured. V. E. S. used reserve sTrengTh mosT oT The TirsT halT. Gower subsTiTuTed Tor The injured Ballou aT Tullback, and was a con- sTanT ThreaT Tor The remainder oT The game, boTh on oTTense and deTense. In The TirsT halT. ST. ChrisTopher's drove 45 yards To score, wiTh Rixey plunging overlTor The counTer. Rixey scored again on an end run' beTore The halT. Chapman came in To make boTh poinTs and The score sTood I4-O aT The halT. a .-L The Third quarTer saw ST. .ChrisTo- pher's drive Trom'Their own I8 To score again. The exTra poinT was i T6 wide. In The lasT guarTer, Chapman, SainT sTar, enTered The game and made anoTher Touchdown on a 20- yard sprinT around end. Chapman had suTTerecl a broken jaw in a pre- vious game and was Torced To wear a wire brace. The lasT Touchdown was made by Wall, quaderback oT The visiTing Team, on a shorT run around 'The Bishops' righT end. l.aTe in The lasT guarTer, Gower gained I5 yards and a TirsT down Tor V, E. S. He and BeTTy, Bishop halT- back, Took Turns aT carrying The ball and moved iT Trom Their own 30-yard line To The ST. ChrisTopher 40, only To have a pass Trom BeTTy inTer- cepTed,- as The game ended. The line-up: V. E. S. , ST. ChrisTopher's Cohoon ...,...... L.E. ...,..... Dameron Kemper ... ...., L.T. ........ McCauley Gormley ...,..... l..G. .... ... Lybrook CorneTT ... CenTer ............ PoTTs Van Noppen ...... R.G. ......,. Wellford Gundry ... ..... R.T. ............ Davis Barge .... ..... R .E. .....,.. DavenporT Sprague ... .... QB ..... ........ W all BeTTy ,.... . .... H.B. ........, Holloway TrevaThan .. .,.. H.B. ............ Rixey Ballou .. ..... F.B. ........ Des PorTes Ballou Makes All-STaTe Team Jim Ballou, ouTsTanding ball-carrier oT The Bishop eleven during The T945 season, was awarded a posiTion on The All-STaTe prep school TooTball Team picked by Tour coaches. The voTes were casT by G. A. Bell, V. E. S.: Joe Mercer, Woodberry: Evan Male, E. H. S.: and Hugh Brenaman, ST. ChrisTopher's. The Team was as Tollows: Ends: Charlie PeTerson, I85, Woodberry, and Broun Dameron, l52, ST. ChrisTopher's. Tackles: Julian BuxTon, 200, Wood- berry, and Tom Eshelman, l92, Woodberry. Guards: Joseph SlaughTer. I75. Woodberry, and Floyd Holloway, I65, ST. ChrisTopher's. CenTers: Henry Wilson, I5O, Woodberry, and Joseph PoTTs, 167, ST. ChrisTopher's lTiel. QuarTerback: William Wall, I-45, ST. ChrisTopher's. HalTbacks: Doug Chapman, l6O, ST. ChrisTopher's, and James Ballou, l7O, V. E. S. Fullback: Dean Davidson, I97 Woodberry. i THE' METEOR THE V. E. S. JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL LETTERMEN LEFT TO RIGHT: First Row-Ma1'sIzall,' Ogdeng Mosesg Hardy fcllflfflblfj ifI figgi11s4,' M ai-Lend ,' Goode Second Row-Murray, P.,' Ricmlzardg PIa1'1 i.r, B.,' G ayg Bartleftg Tlzormzs, G. Third Row-Assistant Coach Grailg Manager' PVecwe1',' Coach lllilton All-Ci+y Selecfions Three boys from V. E. S. made The All-Cify I30-lb. fooTball Team. BarT- leTT, The only firsf-sfringer. was placed aT Tackle. On The second Team. Moses holds down a guard posifion. while Hardy is in a halfback slof. Rev. Marshall M. MiITon of V. E. S. was a member of The All-Cify FooT- ball CommiTTee. The Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION JEWELERS f ,X X 0 1 ' f OPTICIANS THE ME-'TEOR From The Sidelines By Frank Aldred As is The cusfom, The Mefeor here- wiTh submifs an all-opponenf Team. Dameron, L.E.. one of ST. ChrisTo- pher's sTandouT performers on John- son Field November 24Th. I-le was sharp on boTh offense and defense. Eshelmann, L.T.. Woodberry's bul- wark in The line. I-le filled up holes beaufifully and made more Tackles Than any ofher player. Combs, LG., R.-M. A.'s sharpesf offensive blocker. I-le was always mixing his charges To smack runners for liTTle gain. Wilson, C., Woodberry's Whin- er. An excellenf line backer and a sure passer. T-le is The besT pepper- upper faced all season. SlaughTer, R . G . . Woodberry's blond bombshell, probably The besT lineman faced all season. I-le was immovable on defense and an excel- IenT blocker on offense. Perry, R.T., E. I-l. S.'s hard charg- ing, sure hiffing Tackle. He was a polished blocker on offense. Peferson, R.E.. Woodberry's besT receiver and TargeT for mosT of The passes. On defense, he confinually smacked opposing passers and nipped end runs in The bud. I-Iolloway, QB., F. M. S. AI- Though he did noT score,himself, he was The offensive punch Throughouf The whole game. Chapman, I-I.B., ST. ChrisTopher's. Used only as a P. A. T. man unfil The closing minufes of The game, he proved To be a hard running back despiTe his broken iaw. Rixey, I-I.B., ST. ChrisTopher's main Threaf all affernoon. I-le Threaded needles wifh his passes and scored Twice himself. Davidson, F.B., shining lighf of Woodberry's dream Team. Three Touchdowns and anoTher called bacli againsl' The Garnef and Whife is enough said. I-Ie is an excellenf punfer and a masfer of The end run. Qilissqnffarrgz I 805 Main STreeT DAVIS RIANI-IARD, Agenf 7 DELICIOUS BETSY ROSS CAKES Lynchburg Steam Bakery, Inc. Lynchburg. ' 'A ' ' ' --f- - -- X. V .,-,., ..,.Y .Y , ..,. .- BETSY R0sCQMPLlMI5IS'?Iw0-TWENTY SANDWICH BREAD PURE AND WHITE -ALWAYS RIGHT! 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Incorporaled 906 Main Slreel FOR EVERYTHING IN SPORTING GOODS and PHOTOGRAPHY. see S. O. FISHER :oz-1 MAIN smear Eslablished I859 I. P. Bell Company STATIONERS. BOOKSELLERS. PRINTERS. PHOTOGRAPHERS 8I6 Main Sfreel Bring Your KODAK WORK Io Us LETTERS To Some Boys Who Do No? Fully Believe in God: If I learned nolhing of school boolcs of VESIle dfbeI'e'GdNoI . . .. arne o :ev in o . all The way: ius+ a half-hearied Christian belief. Bui, in Ihe baI'I'les of Iwo Jima and Okinawa where I was hir by shell fraqmenis I learned Ihal' a 'true belief in God is one of fhe mosl' comforling and relieving lhings there is. When Ihey pulled lhe lasl piece of hol lend-lease sieel ou? of my leg. I siopped praying. I realized Ihen fha? for Ihree hours I had been enlirely oblivious 'Io pain by cornmuning wilh God. This may seem im- possible Io some boys. buf Io me if was a very real ihing. In Ihose 'Ihree hours lhey had Ialcen sixfeen pieces of Jap shells from my legs. abdomen, and shoulders. I don'r prelend Io be a hero. l'm nof. I'm only one in many who holds 'the Purple Heart My wounds were bad, buf noi crip- pling. I fell you, Ihough. believe in your God. I believe in mine now. Bur if fool: a Jap shell Io show me Ihe light John Conlrlin, Slfc. U. S. Naval Hospilal, San Diego 34. Calif. The above leller was wrillen on 'Ihe inside of a Chrislmas card ad- dressed io 'rhe Iacully and sludenl' body. The IvIe+eor offers if for whal' I+ is worlh. PARAMOUNT February I3-20 RAY NILLLAND LOST WEEKEND IN LYNCHBURG IT'S NIE STOP AT RIVERMON1' , BELL SHOE STORE Meat Market . Fenuring HNE MEAT-S -n GROCERIES For All Your Shopping Needs Smarf Young Men's Shoes Servi::?::Eg3l2?mon+ IMilIner Oualily Cosls No Moral We ima e -e meme Volume XXX FEBRUARY lb, I946 No. 4 THE SCHOOL Mid-Winfer Dance The Hop CommiTTee did Them- selves up in Tine sTyle Tor The Mid- WinTer Dance, held in The recreaTion room on February 2. The clecoraTions were carried in a ValenTine scheme. The orchesTra being framed in a large red hearT. Red cherubs and cupids' embellished The blue-draped walls, and recl hearTs on a whiTe back- ground adorned The pillars. The room was baThed in a soTT blue lighT. The Hop CommiTTee, working wITh only Two members, appoinTed a sub-com- miTTee To help wiTh The decoraTions. Dave Rianhard, Paul Taylor, Val STiegliTz, and John Hyre served on This commiTTee. Many ouT-oT-Town guesTs aTTendecl The dance. among Them several alumni. The music was provided by Jimmie Saunders and his orchesTra. i Honor Roll 'For Term Ending February 2, I946 l. CarpenTer .....,............... 97.I 2. MacCallum ... .... 95.4 3. Alexander .. ,,,, 90,0 4. ScoTT ...... ,.... 8 9.8 4. Wellford . . . ,,., 89,8 6. Fennell ..... .... 9 9.4 7. Braxfon .... .... 8 8,0 7. SmiTh, S. .... ..... 8 917 9. WroTl1 . . . .... 87.7 IO. Field .... .... 8 7.6 ll. Thomas .. ..., 97,4 I2. Lewis .... .,.. 8 6.8 I3. Perry .,,... ..,. 8 6.5 I4. ArmisTead .... .... 8 6.2 IS. Hughes .... .... 8 6.l I6. SmiTh, F. .... .... 8 6.0 I7. Allen, T. .... .... 8 5.4 IB. Aldred ..... .... 8 4.2 I9. Bell .......... .... 8 3.6 20. Shannonhouse . .... 82.4 2l. STiegliTz ..,. .... 8 2.2 22. Bradsher ... .... 82.0 22. Gormly .... .... 82.0 24. Moses ..... .... 8 l.8 25. Harris.B. 81.2 25. Kemper .. .... 8l.2 27. Gay ..... .... 8 0.4 27. Hansen . . .... 80.4 27. MacLeod ................ .... B 0.4 30. Cherry .............,.......,.. 80.0 THE METEOR V. E. S. on The Air From one To Three Times a week The radio program, The World of SporTs, on STaTion WLVA has been carrying maTerial abouT The school. The program is sponsored by Phil ip's BroThers and is announced by The sTaTion's ace commenTaTor, Wayne Tyler. Jan. l7Th many V. E. S. boys were laTe To supper in a vain eTforT To hear one of Their number, Beverly Barge, appear in person on The program. Barge did speak, buT his parT of The program came long aTTer The sTarT of The evening meal aT The school. The occasion Tor The special broad- casT was The resumpTion, To a very limiTed clegree, of aThleTic relaTions beTween V. E. S. and E. C. G'ass High School wiTh The enTry of The laTTer school inTo The CiTy AThleTic League. Elias Richards, capTain of The high school Junior VarsiTy Team, and Barge, capTain of The V. E. S. I7- Year-Old Team, were inviTed To speak. OTher speakers were The Rev. Marshall M. MilTon, coach of The V. E. S. Team, and George PeTers, di- recTor of The league. Mr. Tyler, in his closing remarks, expressed his saTisTacTion al' even This limifed resumpTion of an associaTion which had been broken off over Tif- Teen years before. Feuds are won- derful. he said, on The aThleTic Tie'd. They are no good anywhere else. The World of SporTs program has joined The Lynchburg No'vs in advocaTing The burial of The haTcheT beTween The Two Lynchburg insTiTu- Tions. Earlier in The year Mr. Tyler clevoTed almosT hali his program To This maTTer, reading in Tull The edi- Torial Common Sense from The Oc- Tober issue of The MeTeor. VesTry and AcoIyTe Guild Two new organizaTions have re- cenTly been formed in The school. The STudenT VesTry, consisTing of Francis Aldred, Tom Allen, Edgar BeTTy, Dick Gundry. and Don Van- Noppen, will have charge of The chapel offering and will decide iTs use. The VesTrymen will co-operaTe wiTh The chaplain. The AcolyTe Guild, IisTing Jack CarpenTer, RoberT Hughes, John Page, and Charles Weaver as mem- bers, will assisT The chaplain aT The celebraTion of Holy Communion and oTher special services. BoTh groups are under The direc- Tion of Mr. MiITon. BOY SCOUTS New Equipmenf The V. E. S. Air ScouT Squadron 7 has received new pre-ilighT insTruc- Tion equipment Mr. Marshall Milfon, squadron leader, announced recenT- ly. The insTrumenTs are an alTimeTer, a Turn and bank indicaTor, and a raTe oT climb inclicaTor. ln addiTion, ex- pecTed To be received soon are a di- recTional gyro and a gyro horizon. OTher equipmenT will be purchased from Time To Time by The club. The Junior Birdmen have also re- received a Kenna airplane engine of l6O h. p., also To be used Tor insTruc- Tion'purposes. This new equipment TogeTher wiTh Mr. MilTon's weekly lecTures and insTrucTion are making an excellenT Toundafion upon which The ScouTs will begin acTual Tlying les- sons earlv in March. EXCHANGES The MeTeor acknowledges The receiving of The following school pub- licaTions: The Deerfield Scroll Deerfield, MassachuseTTs The C. Fishburne MiliTary School Waynesboro, Virginia The Alumni Review UniversiTy of NorTh Carolina Chapel Hill, NorTh Carolina The News-LeTTer UniversiTy of Virginia CharloTTesville, Virginia The MonThly Chronicle Episcopal High School Alexandria, Virginia CongraTulaTions To The News-LeT- Ter on reaching iTs TwenTy-TirsT birl'h- clay. 3 'I1P illllrtrnr VOLUME XXX FEBRUARY 16, I946 NUMBER 4 QM SCHO QT o 1' xl -'5AssouW 144' If Q Issued by The sTudenTs oT The Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monThIy during The school year OT l945-'46 excepT holidays. ' SubscripTions, 25c per copy: 52.00 per year. EDITORIAL BOARD ' DONNELL VANNOPPEN. Jr.. ' EdiTor-in-ChieT DAVIS L. RIANHARD ...............,........,.,................,,....... ......,.. M anaging EdiTor FRANCIS K. ALDRED ........ .......,.. ......... ........,... S p o rTs Edifor W. PRYOR PERRY ........................,...................... ....... E xchange EdiTor MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT ,.........................,.......,.... ........... E aculTy Adviser REPORTERS VAL STIEGLITZ MACON HARDY RICHARD GUNDRY JIM BALLOU V EDGAR BETTY CHARLES WEAVER JACK CARPENTER PERRIN GOWER TOBY HANSEN TOM ALLEN ROYAL SHANNONHOUSE JOE CHERRY ARTISTS PHOTOGRAPHERS . PAUL TAYLOR DR. G. L. BARTON. Jr. GENE GILMAN i g BUSINESS BOARD DAVIS L. RIANHARD ...................,...,............................................ Business Manager JAMES W. BALLOU ,...... .......,................,............. A ssisTanT Business Manager EDWARD SENEFE ........... ........ ...................... L .... A s sisTanT Business Manager ROBERT J. FIELD ....................,........................ ....,.........,..,.... C irculaTion Manager -EnTered as second class maTTer SepTember 28, l928, aT The PosToTlice aT Lynchburg, Virginiaglunder The AcT oT March 3, I879. g OPINIONS The Book Worm We all know him. He is ThaT person who spends The day in sTudy ha'l wiTh his books apen be'Tore'him, buT never reading'Them. When he is noT gazing aT The hands oT The clock or wriTing a IeTTer, he is pesTering his neighbor. Occasionally he sings To himselT- oorly. His more indusTrious neigh- Ears sTop Their' work To Turn wiTher- ing glances on him, buT To no avail. When he has Tinished his song, sTu- denTs nearby hold Their breaThs, won- dering whaT he will do nexT. Then he sTarTs again-This Time crumpling and crackling paper. ' IT only he would use Tor someThing worThwhile The energy ThaT he wasTes boThering The' sTudious boys near himl When The be'l TTnalIy rings, he slams his books 'TogeTher and sTrOIIs ouT. inT'o The hall, Y W-J 4 ig AlThough This sTudenT TriTTers away his enTire, precious sTudy Time each day, he is invariably The one who whines abouT all The work Those cheap masTers pile on us. ALUMNI mi Col. Edwin R. CarTer, Jr., a U. S. Army chaplain, assisTed aT The burial services oT The IaTe Gen. George S. PaTTon. Jr., in Luxembourg. l928 Samuel L. Lee, recenTly discharged Trom The Army, is now conTacT repre- senTaTive' in The Lynchburg oTTice, VeTerans AdminisTraTion. Mr. Lee, a graduaTe of V. E. S. and TheiUniversiTy OT Virginia Law School, was engaged in The pracTice oT law in CharloTTesvilIe beTore enlisTmenT 'in The' Army in May, l94I. He wenT overseas wiTh The Chemical WarTare Service and Iafer Transferred To The OuarTermasTer Corps, aTTending O. C. S. in AusTraIia where he was com- missioned a second lieuTenanT upon graduaTion. I-le was discharged Trom The Army OcTober 7, I945, aTTer serving 34 monThs in AusTralia and New Guinea. I-le has been connecTed wiTh The VeT- erans AdminisTraTion abouT Ten days and arrived in Lynchburg recenTly To assume his duTies wiTh The office here. l929 B. D. Causey, Jr., is now residing aT l6I5 PresTon Road. Alexandria, Va. I936- Maior George L. Barfon, Ill, has iusT reTurned Trom his Tour overseas and is now on Terminal leave. He and his wiTe and Two children are visiTing his parenTs here aT school while The Major is looking over The possibilifies of civilian liTe. Wearer oT Tive baTTIe sTars, The PresidenTiaI UniT CiTaTion wiTh Clus- Ter, The MiliTaire Wilhelm Order, and The Belgian Fourragere, Major Bar- Ton lThen capTainl saw all his acTion wiTh The Tamed lOIsT Airborne Di- vision in Normandy. NorThern France. Holland, BasTogne, and Germany. He describes The Screaming Eagle Division as The hardesT hiTTing. TasTesT Troops in The Army. In The para- Troops, all men and oTTicers are sTricT- ly volunTeers: and whereas They are a cocky, TighT-loving bunch in This coun- Try. Maior BarTon sTaTes ThaT Their Tierce courage and valor were so lorillianTly displayed againsT The Ger- mans ThaT The Screaming Eagle was known and Teared ThroughouT The German Army. lT was an honor To serve wiTh such a Tine group oT men, and when and if The nexT one breaks I hope I can Tind my o'd sIoT wiTh The 506Th ParachuTe InTanTry of The IOIsT Airborne Di- vision.'i ATTer leaving V. E. S., where he was head counselor, ediTor oT The Me- Teor, and winner oT The Adair Archer Award, Major BarTon aTTended Ham- ilTon College in New York. ' I937 Edwin Lee, who has recenTly been discharged Trom The U. S. Army. was aT The school during The pasT monTh. Mr. and Mrs. Robe:-T GraTTon Gil- lespie oT Grundy are announcing The engagemenT oT Their dauqhTer, BeTTy Gray, To E. J. Frewen Wilson, Jr. The wedding will Take place in June. THE- .METEOR l938 Waldo STubl:ains was married on January lsT To Miss Lull. The couple are boTh residenTs oT Birmingham. Ala. Mr. STubbins, who Tormerly aT- Tended Birmingham SouThern Col- lege, is now a senior aT The UniversiTy OT Virginia and his wiTe is a graduaTe OT Michigan UniversiTy. Dr. and Mrs. John Hundley Hos- kins announce The engagemenT oT Their daughTer, Emily Hume, To WisTar Morris Heald, Jr., son oT Mr. and Mrs. WisTar Morris Heald, all oT Lynchburg. Miss Hoskins was graduaTed Trom Hannah More Academy, ReisTers- Town, Md., and STaTe Teachers Col- lege, Farmville. She is a member oT Gamma TheTa sororiTy and The Spin- sTers Club. Mr. Heald received his educaTion in Virginia Episcopal School, E. C. Glass High School, Trom which he was graduaTed, Lynchburg College and UniversiTy oT Virginia. He is a member OT Pi Kappa Alpha TraTern- iT . yEnlisTinq in The UniTed STaTes Army while aT The UniversiTy oT Virginia, he reTurned recenTIy Trom more Than Three years service in The PaciTic The- aTer OT OperaTions. The wedding will Take place in The laTe spring. l939 LT. ArThur Heald, oT The U. S. Army, arrived in This counTry on Jan- uary I9Th. WiTh Mrs. Heald he will visiT his parenTs aTTer compleTing his separaTion process aT ForT Meade, Maryland. LT. Heald served overseas in Europe Tor I8 monThs. ln Lynch- burg The couple will join WisTar M. Heald, Jr. IV. E. S., 138, now dis- charged aTTer service in The PaciTic.l I94I LT. RoberT W. Evans, oT The 9Th PhoTo Reconnaissance Squadron OT The UniTed STaTes Air Force, visiTed The school recenTly. While aT V. E. S. LT. Evans was a TooTball and basebail leTTerman. ATTer leaving The school, he aTTended The UniversiTy oT N. C. Also visiTing The school was John Emericlc, recenTly discharged Trom The U. S. l5Th Air Force, in which he saw service in lTaly. JAMES W. BALLOU HAS BEEN APPOINTED BY THE FACULTY TO FILL THE VACANCY IN THE COUNSELOR BODY THE METEOR I942 i Chill Perkins who served in Europe wiTh Co. A, 3lITh Engr. CombaT BaTTaIion, 86Th Division, reTurned To The UniTed STaTes in June. The di- vision was redeployecl To The Pacific beTore V-J Day and is aT presenT sTaTioned in Manila. His presenT rank is TirsT lieuTenanT. l943 Arch Alexander, laTely discharged Trom The U. S. Air Force, in which he served in The UniTed STaTes alone, was aT The school during The pasT monTh. While aTTending V. E. S., he was a counselor, a member OT The G. A. A., The Hop CommiTTee, a co- capTain oT TooTbalI, and a member oT The V Club. I944 David GriffiTh, oT The UniTed STaTes Navy, visiTed V. E. S. recenTly. He is now sTaTioned aT Camp Peary, Va. Pfc. David Perkins is now sTaTioned aT Greensboro, N. C., aT The A. A. F. Ordnance DepoT. I 945 STeve HammeTT, U. S. N., now sTaTioned aT Camp Peary, Va., and Jesse Waller, now aTTending Hamp- den-Sydney College, were aT The school during The pasT monTh. lConTinued on page lOl PEOPLE Lewis C. Flemer, Jr. Lewis Charles Flemer, Jr., 22, a veTeran oT World War ll, enTered V. E. S. January I2, I946. His home is in Oak Grove, Va. In The Tall oT I94O he enTered ChrisTchurch School. where he remained unTil The Tall oT I942. On December 4, I942 he was inducTed in The army aT Camp Lee as an enlisTee. He received his basic Training aT ForT Knox in The Armored Force Tank Corps. On May 9, I943 he sai'ecl Tor over- seas duTy. Two weeks laTer he landed aT Oran, ATrica, where he was in The Torward observaTion posT oT a Tank OT The 2nd Armored Division. His baTTery was in The TirsT wave aT Sicily in I943. From Sicily he wenT To Liver- pool, England Tor an operaTion. ATTer convalescing Tor Two and a halT monThs, he was ordered on maneuvers wiTh The 2nd Armored Division. June IO, I944, Flemer landed in Nor- mandy on Omaha Beach. The TirsT major engageme'nT was The baTTle oT CarringTon, ToughT up in The BriTish secTor oT ComenT. His nexT baHle was aT ST. Lo where his company broke Through The German lines. He was in consTanT baTTle all The way across France, spearheading Tor The IsT Army. In early OcTober oT I944 he was among The American Torces ThaT broke Through The ,i'SiegTried Line. Two monThs laTer he received or- ders To go To Ardens To sTop The Ger- man winTer oTTensive on The Belgium Bulge. In The spring oTTensive oT i945 he crossed Rhur, Rhine, and Weiser Rivers, spearheading up To Mage Burg on The Elbe River. He was or- dered To Berlin Tor The honor guard To The PresidenT in The Big Three meeTing. Flemer IeTT Germany in AugusT and sailed Trom LeHavre, France on OcTober I. He reached The UniTed STaTes a week laTer aT BosTen, He 'received his honorable discharge aT ForT Meade, Maryland on OcTober I4, I945. He is now a senior and plans To graduaTe in June. ATTer 9F6dUGTiOn he plans To go To V. P. I. To sTudy agriculTural engineering. Flemer was in The army a TOT-el of TlllfTY'f1lf1e and a haIT monThs, of which TwenTy-nine and a half were SpenT overseas. He received numer- ous decoraTions, among Them I-he Bronze STar, six campaign sTars, The Good ConducT Medal, The Belgian Fouragere, and The PresidenTial ciTa- Tron. Happy B January 3-Tom Allen. January I2-Vernon Dawson. January I3-Charles Johnson. January I8-Sears Harris. January ZI-Charles McAlpine. January 27-Charles Way'and. January 30-Samuel Newberry. February 3-W. Pryor Perry. February II-Ar-Thur Murray. February I3-Henry TrevaThan. February I8-RoberT Hughes. February 20-Randolph Thomp son. Come ln and Look Over The NEW FALL STYLES Wills-Camp Co. BI9 Main STreeT See SCOTT V-u' 5 SPORTS From The Sidelines - By Frank Aldred The I946 GarneT and WhiTe bas- keTeers, Tollowing in The TooTsTeps OT Their TooTbaII predecessors, have ab- sorbed deTeaT in Their Tour iniTiaI games. The Bishop quinTeT puT up a brilIianT TiC1hT againsT a much Taller Hampden-Sydney. JV squad, buT Iosi in The waning minuTes oT The game. 35-25. AT ChaTham, The boys goT oTI To a TasT sTarT againsT The Hargrave aggreqaTion, buT soon relinquished Their lead To The Tigers, who were never headed and wenT on To win, 29-23. The Woodberry game was Tar Trom evenly maTched. The Orange and Black proved To be iusT Too Tall, Too TasT, and Too good! The Tinal score: 58-I8, Woodberry. AT Fork Union, The Bishops played headsup ball all The way, buT could noT sTop Gedisco who pushed 22 poinTs Through The hoops, in leading The CadeTs To a 58-33 vicTory. WiTh The loss oT Sprague, CapTain Ballou is The only IeTTerman remain- ing, wiTh BeTTy The only non-IeTTerman Trom IasT year's squad. WiTh so Ii++Ie experience a whirlwind Team can hardly be expecTed, buT as The season progresses The boys should round in- To Top shape, and are expecTed To win some games. Baby Bishops Thus Tar The Two junior baskeTbaII Teams are TighTing iT ouT To see who will use The Tloor in The aTTez-noon a TTe r varsiTy pracTice. The I5- year-olds are under The direcTion OT Mr. Grail, while The I7-year-olds are being coached by Mr. IvIiITon. The I5-year old Team has played Tour games, 'osing Three and winning The IasT by The score oT 23-25. The sTarTing lineups are Ivladdux and Marshall aT guards: WeIITord and Lewis aT Torwards, and Taylor, S. aT cenTer. On The second Team are Finch, 'BraxTon, MacLeod, and Cor- neTT. ' The I7-year olds have played only Two games and have meT deTeaT in boTh, TirsT aT The hands oT The Glass JV and nexT in a sad game wiTh The YeIIowiackeTs. The Tormer marked The TirsT aThIeTic conTesT beTween V. E. S. and E. C. Glass Tor over I5 years. The experience and heighT oT The Junior HiI'Toppers proved Too much Tor The Bishops who puT up a 6 vaIienT TighT To The end. The sTarTing lineup Tor The I7-year olds is Barge and STiegIiTz aT guards: Goode and NuTT, R. aT Torwards: and Aldred aT cenTer. The second Team is Thomas and Hardy aT guards: Bell and Og- den aT Torwards: and Cherry aT cen- Ter. In The mosT recenT game beTween The Two squads The I7-year olds licked The I5-year olds To The Tune oT 4I-24. The game was TeaTured by The clipping and body blocks oT Big Boy Cornei-T and The smooTh I9 poinTs by SmooThie Aldred. Hampden-Sydney Wins The Virginia Episcopal School Bish- ops IosT The TirsT game oT The I946 season To The Hampden-Sydney Jun- ior VarsiTy, 35-25. The game was played in The Barksdale Gymnasium. V. E. S. goT oTT To a TasT sTarT, and The TirsT period ended nip and Tuck 5-4 in Tavor oT Hampden-Sydney. The Bishops ToughT hard To regain The lead which They had held briefly aT The sTarT, buT were unable To go ahead again. Hampden-Sydney led aT The halT I7-9. In The second half The visiTors were never in real danger alThough The Bishops were in The running aT all Times. Miller, The cenTer, led The Hamp- den-Sydney aTTack wiTh I3 poinTs. MarTin, a -Torward was nexT, wiTh II poinTs To his crediT. Kemper was high poinT man Tor V. E. S., making good on Three goals and a Tree Throw Tor a 7-poinT ToTaI. V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. Hyre, T. ....... ..... 2 0 I 4 Allen, T. ..... ,.... 2 2 3 6 BeTTy, C. . . . .... . I I 4 3 Ballou, g. .... ..... 2 I 4 5 Harris, g. .... ..... 0 0 0 0 Gay. T. ....,. ..... 0 O I 0 SmiTh, T. .... ..... 0 0 0 O Page, c. ....... ..... 0 0 0 0 Kemper. g. .....,,.... 3 I O 7 Tofals .............. I0 5 I3 25 Hampden-Sydney G. F. P.F. 'T.P. Fuller, T. .............. 2 I 3 5 MarTin, T. ............ 3 5 3 II Miller. c. .... ..... 6 I 3 I3 Graves, g. .... . 2 0 I 4 Taylor, T. ...... ..... I 0 I 2 BarneTT, T. ..... ..... 0 O I O Jones, T. ..... ..... 0 O I 0 Cooper. c. .... . 0 O 0 0 Haga. g. .... ..... O 0 0 0 Lacy, g. ..... ..... 0 0 0 0 ToTaIs .............. I3 7 I3 35 TEXAS TAVERN CHILI coN CARNE Hargrave Wins ChaTham. Jan. 23-Hargrave Mil- iTary Academy Took an early lead and beaT down Two enemy rallies To de- TeaT Virginia Episcopal School 29-23. The visiTing Bishops scored TirsT on a pair oT Tree Throws, buT Hargrave dumped Tour quick goals and was never headed. V. E. S. rallied Twice and narrowed The gap, buT The Ca- deTs always kepT ahead. IvIariTield, Tiger Torward, was The game's high scorer, pushing in six baskeTs and a Tree Throw. Hyre. also a Torward, was high poinT man Tor The Bishops, making good on Tive goals Tor a ToTaI oT IO poinTs. V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. Hyre, T. ..,........... 5 0 2 I0 Allen, T. .... .... I 0 O 2 BeTTy. c. .. .... I O 4 2 BaIIou.g. I 2 4 4 Kemper, g. I I 0 3 Page, c. .... .... I 0 I 2 Harris.g.... .,..0 0 0 0 ToTaIs ...... .... I 0 3 I I 23 Hargrave G. F. P.F. T.P. Mariheld. T. ... .... 6 I I I3 Moon, T. ..... .... I 0 0 2 SmiTh,c.... ....2 I I 5 Leps. g. .... .... 3 3 3 9 LighT, g. ............. 0 O I 0 ToTaIs .............. I2 5 6 29 Woodberry Wins Woodberry ForesT's TasT quinT scored a 58-I8 vicTory over Virginia Episcopal School in The Barksdale Gymnasium. Woodberry dropped in seven poinTs beTore Ballou was able To break The ice Tor The Bishops, buT The Orange Team Torged sTeadiIy ahead aTTer ThaT and led aT The end oT The TirsT quarTer by The score of 24-5. Woodberry used subs Treely in The second haIT. buT were s+iII Too Tall and Too TasT Tor The Bishops. V. E. S. G. F. T.P. Hyre, T. ................. . . I 0 2 Kemper, T. .... .... O I I Gay, T. ..... .... 0 0 0 SmiTh, T. .... .... O 0 0 BeTTy, c. .. ..... 0 2 2 Harris, c. . ..... O 0 0 Ballou, g. .... . 3 4 I0 Page, g. .... ..... O 0 0 AIIen.g. I 3 ToTals ...... ..... 5 B I8 Woodberr G. F. T.P. PeTerson. ..... ..... 3 0 6 Tullis, T. ...... ..... 6 2 I4 STewarT. T. .... .... . 0 2 2 Moore. T. ..... ..... 0 0 0 Davidson. c. .. ..... 4 3 I I BarnhardT, c. .. ..... 0 0 0 HorTon, g. .... ..... 5 0 I0 Flower, g. ...... ..... 6 3 I5 Younger, g. ..... ..... 0 0 0 Tofels . .................. 24 I0 58 THE METEOR :Fork Union Wins Fork Union's high scoring basIceT- ball Team deTeaTed Virginia Episcopal 'School oT Lynchburg 58 To 33 yesTer- day aTTernoon on The winner's courT. Forlc Union, led by Gedisco and WinsTead, Iumped OTT To a seven- poinT lead before BeTTy counTed Tor The losers. The winners pushed sTead- ily ahead and were leading 32 To I6 aT The halT-Time whisTle. The CadeTs used second and Third sTringers aTTer building up a 46-27 lead aT The end of The Third quarTer. V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. Hampden-Sydney Wins Again The Hampden-Sydney Junior Var- siTy Took Their second vicTory of The season over The V. E. S. Bishops To- day. 39 To 22, on The Hampden- Sydney courT. The Bishops. aTTer geTTing oTT To a slow sTarT. rallied and were ahead IO To 9 aT The end oT The TirsT quarTer. Hampden-Sydney came back in The second c1uarTer To go ahead again and led I6 To I3 aT The haIT. In The IasT haIT The Bishops never seriously ThreaTened The Tiger's lead. The .Tigers led 29-I6 aT The end of The Third quarTer. SpraTley led The winner's aTTack Hvfe- ---'- ---'- 0 8 3 8 colIecTing e'even poinTs. Tavlor was I' ' 4 2 0 - I 6 second wifh 8. Ballou led The Bishops' Gay,xf.'.iif iff 3 0 2 s SCOVIUQ WHI1 7 POINTS- BTTy,c.... ..... 4 3 2 ii- Bjllou. Q, .... ..,.. 2 3 3 7 E' SI G' F' RF' U Kemper' I 4 I Gyf6,.F.... ...... I U I Pollard. 9. ..... ..... 0 0 3 0 AITL1 'I ' 2 ? A g Hams' 9' '3 '4 ' L 2 2 2 SmiThI, f. iff ffl: I o 0 2 ToTaIs ..... I3 7 is 33 -'-- - A I I 3 Forlc Union G. F. P.F. T.P. Ballou. CJ- -..- .-... 2 3 3 7 Wins+ead, f. ..... 7 2 3 is Pollafd- 9- '-'-' 0 0 2 0 M. Shaw, f. .... ..... o o o o Kempef- 9- '3 -'--- I 2 3 4 Blake. T. ....... ..... 0 2 I 2 - - - eedisca. f. .... ..... I o 2 1 22 TOTGIS '---- ---'- 7 8 I2 22 DOYIS. 'I- --.- ----- I 0 0 2 Hampden-Sydney G. F. P.F. T.P. Hassen,T.... ,.... 0 0 O 0 SpraISIyl 3 2 II W.Shaw,c.. ..... 3 I I 7 Hagel O 0 0 Morgan, c. .. ..... I I 3 3 I-3uIIeI,I Ig. N 3 I 5 7 Calling, c. ..... 0 O O 0 COOPSFII' O I 3 I 5YeIFI'a ' 9- - O I 3 I Taylor, C. ,. 4 o 2 a Dallis, g. ...... ..... I I I 3 Bame,I,I' C- -U .H-I O I 0 I Brown. g. ..,. ..... I 0 I 2 MIIIMI g' 3 I 0 7 Profn++,g.... ....o o o o BurIOn'g.m who 0 I 0 Thorp' 9' ' 'B -3 -Q -E Groves, g. ... ,... 2 0 3 4 ToTaIs ..... 24 IO I4 sa Toms .WE 7 E Q5 MAKE RESERVATIONS JEWELERS FOR YOUR I , PARENTS X f 6 AT THE Q I OPTICIANS HQTEI- 3 PATRONIZE EIGHTH and CHURCH PHONE 2700 VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Non - milifary. Superior preparaTion Tor all col- leges aT moderaTe cosT. AccrediTecI High sTandard in schol- arship and aThIeTics . . Gymnasium . . . I4O acres healThTully and beauTiTuIIy siTuaTed in Virginia mounTains. FOR CATALOGUE WRITE T0 George L. Barton, jr., M.A., Ph.D., H eadmaster V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va. Craiqhill 6 I ones. IncorporaTed D R U G G I S T S 9I3 Main STreeT Lynchburg, Va PHONE I646 FOUNTAIN AND LUNCHEON SERVICE L O S T IToreverI ONE METEOR' STORY by The ReporTer Who Was LaTe SEARS. ROEBUCK and TRUST COMPANY II The LYNCHBURG NATIONAL BANK MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION THE METEOR 7 METEORITES People in The Public Eye Allen, T. lTombI-Scraping The boTTom oT The barrel Tor a daTe Tor Mid-WinTers. ArmisTead lBaTTyI-Looking Tor a wrench To Throw in The Williams ma- chine. Ballou IAII-STaTeI-Slowly being edged ouT by All-SouThern Voris. Barge lCroachI-Wishing as many women would sign his noTebook as I-lam Bunny's. BarTleTT lLarranceI- Ug Toink goo spIuT, don'T you Think? Bowen IFaT RaTI-Dropping by be- tween games To geT his mail. BrisTow TWingsI- CX-4 To conTroI Tower. Wind souTheasT, ceiling Twelve hundred. Cardwell lTankI- No, Mr. Banks. I haven'T seen JoJo. Over. Carter IWhaapII-Proud oT his name now ThaT he has dropped The- burger. Goiser lWeaseII - Threatening George IV Through The keyhole aT 5 a. m. Page lI.ong Johnl- I warn yOU. anyThing you say may be used. against ou! Y Rianhard lDoin'sI-Doing well in his new business- Complaints, Inc. Scott lB'obI-Sporting his EasTer bonneT early. The Astronomical Calendar Dec. 20--The Library is The scene oT much acTiviTy, buT The boys who are There seem To have nothing To do except To wriTe Turiously, using up dozens OT 366 pads, apparenTIy ac- complishing noThing. Dec. 2l-The TacuITy, obviously ignoring The many requests oT The boys, sends The sTudenT body home Tor ChrisTmas-and There were SO many boys who wanted To stay here and workl! Dec. 25- Ole SanTa Claus brings Cookie, Edgar, Mope and Jim each a copy oT I-low To Understand The Many Tricks oT a ST. Mary's Girl. New Year's Eve-Edgar Trips over a rug and Talls down The Country Club steps.-John Hyre peeps ouT oT The corner pocket in one oT Ra- leigh's many cue halls, and learns That iT's New Years.-Mope races a '46 Cadillac in Swee'pea To cele- braTe The coming of The New Year. IP. S.- Swee'pea won.I 8 Jan. 6-Every one is very eager To reTurn To school. Several boys have To be persuaded noT To Take early Trains. IP. S.-John is sTiIl in The corner pockeT.I Jan. 7-School reopens!!!! Supper is The scene oT many happy Taces. The main Topic oT conversaTion being The nexT days' lessons. TP. S.-WiTh The aid oT derricks and sTeam shovels, John is Tinally pulled down Trom The corner pockeT.I Also Jan. 7-BaskeTbaII pledge goes onllll However, many boys are- n'T worried, because They are sTiIl ex- haling smoke Trom The holidays. Jan. I2 - STigIeTo is reamed. steamed, and dry-cleaned by The Midwinter dance aT The Naval Acad- emy. Jan. I6- Jim becomes a mem- ber oT ThaT eIiTe group of boys, known To Themselves as counselors, and To The resT oT The boys in school as The 'k '!!!Ifiiil?'s. Jan. I7-The baskeTball squad pracTices Tor The game on The Tollow- ing day, attired in helmeTs, shoulder pads, and hip pads.-No-They're noT a biT rough!!! Jan. I8-Team puTs up a good TighT llllll buT is unable To overcome Hampden-Sydney's early lead. Jan. I9- Raindoins. John, and STigeIeTo seem To have a very nice Time sTaying ouT. IIT The mountain won'T come To MohameT, Then Mo- hameT must go To The mounTain.I Jan. 20- FooTsey and Chick spend all day in Town playing cro- queT.-The boys 'on basketball pledge walk around with Their Tongues hang- ing out, waTching The OFT pIedge boys eat candy, ice cream, and all sorTs of good Things. Harris-Woodson Co. Incorporated Manufacturing and Jobbing Confectioners WE SUPPLY V. E. S. STORE Mutual Press. Inc. 58-60 Ninth STreeT Jan. ZI-BaskeTbaIl Team again has pre-game pracTice, This Time us- ing Tanks and Tield morTars. lBuT They sTiII aren'T playing rough-OH. -Nooo????I Jan. 22-Varsity squad puTs up a good Tight again, buT The breaks iust aren'T wiTh Them, as They are beaten by Hargrove War CoIIege.-AIso-- Junior Varsity is edged ouT Tor Their second loss-by The Yellow JackeTs. Jan. 23-Complications develop in The ST. Mary's siTuaTion cenTering around Cookie, Jane, Mope. and Susan. Seems ThaT ST. Iv1ary's is do- ing iTs besT To break up The love liTe oT Mope, Ballou, Edgar. and Cookie. Jan. 24-Only Three legs broken, a crushed head, and a broken arm in The pre-game practice Tor The Wood- berry game. l Also Jan. 24-Junior VarsiTy has a nice, gentle IiTTle scrimmage, hardly anyone geTTing any Touls. Jan. 28-I-Ie'I lexaml week begins. STore runs shorT OT 366's. I Feb. I- Croach Barge records 'I Should Care To keep KiTTen in a perpetual swoon, and The boys in a perpeTual laugh. Feb. 2-Mid-Winters come oTT in Tine sTyle. The Peoples National Bank EIGHTH AND MAIN STS. LYNCHBURG, VA. Member F. D. I. C. COMPLIMENTS OF BIBEE'S SUPER MARKETS Lynchburg, Va. - Danville, Va. Roanoke, Va. - Altavista, Va. The Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank PHCDNES: 3 O 0 5 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPosir , 5 8 9 INSURANCE CORPORATION THE METEOR Through The Telescope . - - ' K -,.-,r ' 55 I js xi QT 5:4-5 A 'i - . Tir 'W Hia. By The AsTrologer Taking our TirsT observaTion since Chrisfmas vacaTion, we see quiTe an accumulafion oT sTardusT. Dave The Pledge R i a n h a r d looked amazingly hale and hearTy when he came back Trom The vaca- Tion. The asTrologer wonders how he managed To keep in such condiTion. Bad Bev Barge has been Telling abouT The EighTh-Grade Barge Club fhaf The girls back in Durham have formed. ThaT includes all The girls lTourTeen and underl ThaT Barge daied over ChrisTmas. The AsTrologer misses The presence of one of iTs TavoriTe sTars, Windy Bill ' Thomas. We wish him The besT of luck. Wings BrisTow was a Ii++Ie laTe in arriving back aT school. lT seems ThaT he was sleeping in a parked air- plane one sunny day. Upon awaken- ing he saw onlv The blue sky 'over- head arid The sTill propeller. l-le grew panicky and bailed ouT, breaking his collarbone. ' Down in Georges The V. E. S. boys are really burning uo The Tables. IT so happens ThaT Pal Val usually qeTs scorched. Some of The regular Tirebugs are BeTTv, Hvre, Hansen, Perry, B a l l o u, Bradsher, Carfer. Gower, NuTT, and Shannonhouse. Prof. Massie has been occupying The lasT Tew Trig classes wiTh Teach- ing The Guru how To in+erpolaTe. l-low do you do iT, FluTe? Vision is raTher dim. buT we Think we can see sTorm clouds gaThering over ST. Mary's. From The currenT rumors This is The lasT reporT on ST. Mary's ThaT will be available To read- ers of The old AsTrologer's column. NOT To be poking our head in some- one else's business. buT we hear ThaT CarpenTer has been Thinking of Anne Adkerson in an amorous way. This is unconfirmed. We wish To congraTulaTe Black Gold TrevaThan on his TeaT of THEMETEOR i l than all of the folllowing diseases dombined: Scarlet Fevex, Inianrile Paralysis, Typhoid Fever, Meningitis, Peritonitis, Diptheri-, Dysen- tery, Diarrhea and Malaria. The American Cancer Society states that, contrary to common misconception, cancer is not solely a disease cf middle o: old age. Guard those you love from this scourge cf childhood 5 smashing a radiaTor wiTh Bob ScoTT's head. On The TirsT day back we heard Al- son Goode Talking abouT a new girl. He changes so TasT ThaT even The As- Trologer can'T keep Track oT Them. And now day lThe deadline Tor MeTeor arTiclesl comes, and we can see no more. ' QUALITY Dairy Products I PHONEIOM mo-x-RAY Davis Lincoln Rianhard Born: Dec. 26, l927. Home: ThaT is hard To say, buT he is mosT seen aT RehoboTh, Del. FavoriTe SporT: PuTTing Fish in The drawer. CusTomary Expression: F ro sTy, come here! PeT Love: Mabel. AmbiTion in Life: Ask him abouT The Acres ploT. GreaTesT Concern: TT you don'T know- Usually Heard: Telling aboui' beach parTies. PeT HaTe: Pledges. Favorife PasTime: Dreaming up ways To be mean. Davis is a four-year boy who has done well on The Track Team. He has been a leTTerman Three Times and is capTain This year. He is presidenf of The V-Club, and is on The G. A. A. John Hyre Horne: Raleigh, N. C. Born: SepTember I8, l928. CusTomary Expression: LeT's go caTch one. Usually Seen: Combing his hair. Ambifion: To pass HisTory V. GreaTesT Concern: J. Herringbone Tweed. FavoriTe Sporfz Loafing. John is anoTher good Tar Heel in Virginia as a missionary. He is a fooT- ball leTTerman, a member oT The V- Club, firsT sTring forward on The bas- keTball Team. He will probably have aT leasT one more year aT The school. Macon Leroy Hardy Born: March 9, I929. Home: Virginia Beach, Virginia. PeT HaTe: The simpler damsels of Lynchburg. PeT Love: Mr. FolleTT's awakening sTaccaTo. Usually Seen: Shoofing some bull abouT his harem. CusTomary Expression: Now waiT a minuTe, Mr. Fol'eTTl Blondie came To V. E. S. lasT year from The dunes of The Beach To become The cuTe boy of FirsT 'VVesT. This year he led The Baby Bishops over Their rough road, and was ouTsTanding enough To make The All-CiTy Team and win his minor leT- TBP. 10 l ALUMNI lConTinued from page Zl ArcTic Missionaryq' By CapT. RoberT A. Uhl Cac PoinT Hope, Alaska-AT This mosT norThwesTerIy poinT of The Alaska mainland, bordering on The ArcTic Ocean. lies The Eskimo village of Ti- gara. Here, Too, siTuaTed on ground ThaT several ArcTic experTs c'aim was The siTe of The oldesT civilizaTion on The NorTh American ConTinenT, is SainT Thomas Mission. Residing aT The Mission since July. I943, To acT as The spiriTual leader for some 600 Eskimos who inhabiT The region in and around' Tigara. is The Rev. William J. Gordon, Jr., V. E. S.. '36, Tormerly of Spray, N. C. WiTh him are his wife, The former Shirley Lewis of SeaTTle, Wash., and Paneen, Their small year-old daughTer, born in AugusT, T9-44, whose name means liTTle daughTer in Eskimo. The duTies of a missionary are ex- Tremely difficulf and hazardous in comparison wiTh Those hardships and privaTions ThaT The few oTher whiTe men sufifer merely in mainTaining life in This desolaTe and uncivilized region of The Tar NorTh. On The boaT ThaT visiTs PoinT Hope each AugusT are The medical supplies, The precious perishable foods and canned goods, and The merchandise for The nafive sTore in The village- all of which musT lasT unfil The boaT reTurns again The nexT year. Since There is no dock aT PoinT Hope, These supplies musT be loaded inTo smaller boaTs, naTive craff and barges, and Taken To The shore where They are car- ried by s'ed or by hand over The sofT Tundra. Even The women and children help in Taking whaT They can carry. The perishable food...is cached away To keep wolves and polar bears from geTTing iT and To keep iT from spoil- ing when The TemperaTure in June and July someTimes climbs as high as 50 degrees above zero. The baTTle of The average whiTe man in The ArcTic is againsT The uTTer monoTony of ThaT bleak region. For nine monThs of The year sTorms and blizzards can isolaTe you, cuT you off from The people in your own village, leT a'one The resT of The world. There are no conveniences on hand here. 'From The NorTh Carolina Churchmenf' November, 1945. No radios or Telephones or movie houses To help pass The long ArcTic nighT. WaTer and fuel musT be car- ried by hand. SomeTimes There is no mail for Three monThs aT a Time. BuT This missionary in The few mo- menTs he is Tree Trom his pressing duTies aT PoinT Hope finds diversion in puTTering around his hoThouse, aT- TempTing To raise leTTuce and rad- ishes, or seTTing and prinTing on his small mulTigraph a quarTerly news- leTTer ThaT is senT To many people The world over. lf The condiTions are Tav- orable, he goes ouT To hunT seal on The ice so ThaT his nine Husky pups will have enough To eaT This winTer. AccumulaTed since I9I2 when The Mission was builT are hundreds of books ThaT help To pass many a cold and dismal evening in The ArcTic. BuT The greaTesT pleasure of all is waTching Penny, his lovable Iiirrle daughTer, playing on The Tloor, and being wiTh his very charming and aT- TracTive wife. One of Mr. Gordon's mosT impor- TanT funcTions aT Poinf Hope, one which requires much of his Time, is ThaT of being The docTor for Those in Tigara who are sick. The resisfance of The average ArcTic Eskimo is very low and he is subiecf To many mild forms- and The more serious as well -of infecTion ThaT The average, healfhy whiTe man would be able To resisT. When There is a case of sick- ness in The village, you will find This man of God carinq for and comforf- ing The paTienT wiTh such simple buf poTenT insTrumenTs as a ThermomeTer, a waTch, sulTa TableTs, and a prayer book. LasT winTer his mosT severe case oT sickness was a young Eskimo boy sTricken wiTh pneumonia. Poinl' Hope was isolafed. Neifher The disTricT physician aT PoinT Barrow nor The dis- TricT nurse aT Kohebue could geT There in Time. AfTer his iniTial doses of sulTa, The only medicine available, The boy appeared To be recovering. Then he suddenly had a relapse' and deafh seemed imminenT. Mr. Gordon sTayed aT his side day and nighT un- Til The youTh was ouT of danger, well on his way To recovery. This experi- ence TaughT him ThaT The naTive people did noT know The necessiTy of conTinuing The doses of sulfa afTer The boy began To feel beTTer, and iT was This ThaT caused his relapse and almosT his deaTh. Above and below PoinT Hope along The ArcTic coasT of A'aska from Kofzebue To WainwrighT lie THE MSETEOR numberless Eskimo villages and camps fhaf comprise fhe exfensive parish of fhis Arcfic missionary. To fhis six- foofer no obsfacle is foo greaf fo overcome in bringing spirifual assisf- ance and succor fo fhe nafive people. ln fhe few summer monfhs when if is daylighf around fhe clock. weafher permiffing a nd bush planes being available, Mr. Gordon visifs as many of his people as he can before fhe long, dark winfer closes in and all flying in fhaf region ceases. For fhe remainder of fhe year he depends upon his dog feam and sled fo carry him on his circuif in fhe monfhs of consfanf sform and bliz- zard. ln February, l945, when he was making a frip by sled wifh an Eskimo helper fo Poinf Lay, a nafive seffle- menf 200 miles norfh of Poinf Hope. fhe femperafure was 30 below and a sfrong wind from fhe norfh was blowing in fheir faces. For fwo days of The six fhaf if fook fo reach Poinf Lay a nd ifs eighfy-five inhabifanfs fhe wind and femperafure remained unchanged. On fhe fhird day The wind sfopped, buf fhe femperafure skidded down fo 50 below. Some- how, he reporfs, if seemed warmer. ln fwo monfhs he has been known fo fravel 800 miles over fhe Arcfic fableland of ice and snow. As is offen fhe case. upon reaching some of fhe smaller villages and camps, he finds fhaf fhe people have moved 'ro some more advalnfageous spof for shelfer and for fhe hunfing and fishing by which fhe Eskimo lives. The prospecf of an added iourney would dis- hearfen men of less courage and con- vicfion buf nof so fhis man of God in fulfilling his mission of bringing Chris- fianify fo fhe Eskimos. He provides for his Eskimo parish- ioners fhe Communion Service, prayer meefings, bapfisms, marriages and funeral services. ln fhe larger villages fhere is usually fhe govern- meni' school building in which fhese services can be held. In fhe smaller sefflemenfs somefimes a nafive house builf of Tundra brick and whale bone, a fenf, or even fhe open fundra il'- self serves as a place of worship. During fhe fime fhaf Mr. Gordon is making his many frips fo fhe Eski- mo villages of his exfensive Arcfic parish. Mrs. Gordon and Penny re- main af fhe Mission residence. The house, a simple fwo-sfory green frame sfrucfure wifh whife shuffers. railings, and eaves, is a landmark fhaf can be seen for miles. And affer a long and peri'ous iourney, when ifs slanfing roofs firsf appear above fhe horizon, if brings promise of a joyful reunion, a warm home-cooked meal, femporary respife from fhe rigors of 'rhe Arcfic. and a feeling of fhankful- ness fo fhis Arcfic missionary fhaf he is home once again and wifh his loved ones. THE WAR Balance Sheef Mosf businesses publish fheir bal- ance sheefs af ihe beginning of each new year. On fhe walls of fhe V. E. S. chapel fhere are fhree large, gray plaques, leffered in black and gold and bearing a consfe'lafion of gold sfars. These are a kind of balance sheef, fhe V. E. S. balance sheef of war. They are nof fhe final. cerfified public accounfanf balance sheef-if is foo soon affer V-J Day for This- buf fhey are sufficienfly complefe 'ro sfrike off a profif and loss sfafemenf. On fhe credif side of such a sfafemenf would appear fhe names of approximafely 450 alumni who eifher have come back or will come back. On fhe debif side are 28 names beside each of which is a neal' gold sfar. ln fhe business of war fhis is nof an unfavorable sfafemenf. The loss amounfs fo abouf Uk. Air raids over Germany and Japan were nof considered foo cosfly if fhaf percenfage of planes and men failed fo refurn. Buf if would be hard fo convince The families and friends of fhese young men fhaf fhe price was cheap. ll' will be hard fo convince anyone who sees 'rhose gold sfars glinfing in fhe V. E. S. chapel. The presenf sfudenf body sees fhe honor rolls every fime a chapel service is held. Some of fhe wor- shippers have served in fhe war, some will be cal'ed fo assisf in winding up fhe fangled affairs of fhaf mur- derous business. All can dedicafe fhemselves fo fhe fask of seeing fhaf War may never sef up business again af fhe old sfand, fhaf fhe I94-5 bal- ance sheef shall be fhe lasf. THE DEAD Arfhur Barlow, '25 Presfon Bellamy, 40 William B. Blanchard, '42 Arnold Breckenridge, '33 Elmer I. Carrufhers, '20 I I Churchill Chalkley, '35 Banks C. Clarke, '40 Don F. Cox, '37 I James G. Coxeffer, '32 Richard P. Dillon, '4l Peyfon Eravel, '40 Walfer O. Gibson, '43 Walfer T. Green. '38 lzaac H. Hanff, '36 George P. Huffon, '37 James Jarreff, '30 lsham Keifh, '25 Benjamin Kearfoff, '38 Malcolm M. Lasher, '3l William D. Langhorne, '39 Jack McManus, '4I Brooks Miller, '39 Maff W. Ransom, '40 James R. Shaw, '38 Cleson H. Tenny, Jr., '38 Russell M. Thurmond, '22 Jack W. Wesfon, '40 Frederick B. Websfer. '35 May 'rheir gold sfars never +arnish SOUTHERN CAB COMPANY PHONE 2-9-4 farrg: Q 805 Main Sfreef D. L. RIANHARD, Ageni' ART BARBER SHOP Under Hofel Carroll V. E. S. WELCOME Pafronize Those Who Pafronize You Reynolds Druq Co., Incorporafed Prescripfion Work Our Specialfy 72l Main Sfreef Phone II43 LYNCHBURG. VIRGINIA Lynchburg Steam Bakery, Inc. Lynchburg. ,,. ,.,., .. .L.. L . ., -.. .Y , . .. ..- T . . 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Dependable Tor Over 27 Years 800 COMMERCE ST. - PHONE 2304 PEARSON'S Drug Store 2476 RIVERMONT AVENUE - STOP AT BELL SHOE STORE FeaTuring SmarT .Young Men's Shoes LETTERS I I I y Bro-x-RAY February 25, I946 Dear GenTIemen, I've been wanTing To wriTe Tor some Time, buT I haven'T had a permanenT address un- Til iusT recenTly. I've been in replacemenT pools since I Tinished booT Training, and I'm noT sure of anyThing. I was aT Shoemaker, CaliT., unTiI IasT Thursday. The Trip ouT here was preTTy inTeresTing. We saw some righT nice-looking scenery, and one good-sized whopper of a wreck in Missouri. I believe ThaT was The coldesT nighT I ever spenT. The only Time I can remember being nearly so cold was when Uncle Phil decided To economize on coal in The winTer of '44. I saw Jack WelITord a couple oT weeks ago aT Shoemaker. Aside from Gaul and Hileman, he's The only V. E. S. alumnus l've run across in The Navy. Ivlr. FolIeTT, Gaul and Hileman said They would send you Tive dollars They owe me Trom a Time when I was caughT in a gener- ous mood. Please subscribe me To The MeTeor, and give whaT's IeTT To Mr.,Gan- naway Tor The V-Club Treasury. IT.This year's Treasurer is anyThing' like Long, I'rn sure They can use iT. Please mail me all The back copies oT The MeTeor, since I haven'T done more Than glance Through a couple of copies. I've been looking around ouT here in sun- ny California lwhen iT wasn'T rainingl, and I Think l've seen almosT everyThing The aver- age TourisT is supposed To see. San Fran- cisco is abouT The mosT diTFerenT place I've ever seen, AbouT The only Thing l've seen Thai was more unusual was The NorTh Caro- lina deserT, which produced such Things as Lil AI, FooTsie, Long, WesT, and several oThers. I hope you're all well, and ThaT Things are progressing smooThly around school. Please remember me To your Tamilies. Regards To all, Jack. J. H. ParroTT, S lfc 783-2l-I4 Dra'iT No. 538i Trom Shoemaker cfo FIeeT P. O. San Francisco, Calif. 'TI-IE METEOR haTes To inTorm Ex-EdiTor ParroTT ThaT The above men- Tioned Tive dollars have noT been TorThcoming Trom alumni Gaul and I-Iileman. TEXAS TAVERN ci-nu coN CARNE ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT MUSIC DEPARTMENT PHILLIP'S BROS. IncorporaTed 906 Main STreeT AlberT S. Kemper Born: AugusT I9, I93O. I-lome: BlueTieId, W. Va. PeT Love: Throwing The discus. PeT HaTe: Track pracTice. CusTomary Expression: Reesie, honey! AmbiTion in LiTe: To break Koch's record. GreaTesT Concern: The Beavers, Usually Seen: AT The sTore. Bunny is enduring The horrors oT liTe in The OId Dominion Tor The second year. I-Ie was a TooTbaIl IeTTerman. and one of The mosT con- sisTenT VarsiTy baske+balI leTTermen. He is expecTed To be one oT The sure poinT-geTTers on The Track Team This year. John WroTh Born: December IS. I927. Home: Parkersburg, W. Va. PeT Love: Bugs abouT sTudy lamps. PeT HaTe: People who say he slurps in R. I. Usually Seen: Taking care oT Isa- belle. CusTomary expression: Now, Mr. MiITon says. . GreaTesT concern: Paden la Triend OT Maloell. FavoriTe sporT: Being a Tlying elT. RoTT came To V. E. S. in The middle of lasT ear To become one oT The brains oTlThe school. He has been chosen valedicforian oT The graduaTing class oT I946. Frederick Sears Harris, Jr. Born: LeT's hope sol Home: Rainelle. W. Va. CusTomary Expression: Gee Whil- Iikersl PeT l-IaTe: Mr. RuTTin's MaTh. A. and B. P'eT Love: Laura Lee. FavoriTe SporT: Laura Lee. Spare Time OccupaTion: Propos- ing To Laura Lee. Usually Seen: Trying To look more like FlaT-Top. Smouse is really a very likable Tellow, and a promising aThIeTe. He is known as,a hard worker, and his deTerminaTion and sTick-To-business will lead him To success. 6111111 c -e lweieme Volume XXX V MARCH 2I, I946 No. 5 BOY SCOUTS In The Chapel The STudenT VesTry held iTs TirsT regular meeTing Wednesday, Febru- ary 27. Tor The purpose oT elecTing oTTicers. Francis Aldred was eIecTed Senior Warden: Edgar BeTTy, Junior Warden: Don Van Noppen, Regis- Trarg and Dick Gundry, Treasurer. IT was voTed To have regular meeT- ings on The TirsT and Third Thursdays oT each monTh. A leTTer oT appre- ciaTion was senT To The Rev. Mr. Barn- well oT ST. Paul's Church, Lynchburg, Tor his giTT To The choir. PEOPLE Honor Roll Tor MonTh Ending March 2 I . Ca rpenTer .... 2. SmiTh. S. .... . 3. Wellforol ..,.. 4. Alexander ...... 5. ScoTT ........... 6. Perry ....... 7. Thomas 8. BraxTon 8. BuTler ...,. I0. CraTT ..... II. Moses .. I2. Field .............. l3. Marshall ..........., I4. Shannonhouse IS. BeTTy ........,..... l5. Pollard ....... I6. Allen, T. ..,. . I7. Aldred ....... I8. Hansen I9. Bradsher ..,.. I9. STiegli+z ..... 20. Cherry ....... 22. Fennell ....... 22. Flemer 22. Hughes 22. Lewis ......... 22. NuTT, R. .... . 97.3 94.6 93.4 92.I 9I.8 90.5 90.0 89.8 89.8 89.6 89.2 88.3 88.2 87.8 87.6 87.6 87.5 87.4 86.4 85.8 85.8 85.2 85.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 'Due To The excessive lengTh oT The Honor Roll This rnonTh, only The boys averaging above 85 have been Iisfed. THE METEOR I ...9 1 'n tim rapczlzle hands of the above sfaf' Morale Builders ' LasT monTh as in all The monThs oT The school year a small sTaTT oT col- ored men under The dirccTion oT Mrs. Phillip Dawson conTinued To hold The responsibiliTy Tor mainTaining much oT The morale oT boTh sTudenTs and TaculTy. This group is The kiTchen sTaTf. Dawson W. SmiTh, The dean oT The sTaTT Trom poinT oT service, has been baker aT The school Tor six years. He was born in BedTord CounTy in I909 buT was educaTed in PiTTsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he graduaTed Trom WesTinghouse High School. He received his culinary experience as cook Tor Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where he cooked Tor Ten years, and as masTer cheT aT The NaT- ural Bridge HoTel. His Triendly dis- posiTion makes him a valuable mem- ber oT any organizaTion. Beauregard lllrenchyl WesT was born in HaliTax CounTy in I898, buxom Then as now. For TwenTy six years he served Randolph-Macon Woman's College as cook and Then as uTiliTy man beTore he decided To swap girls Tor boys.' He has been aT V. E. S. Tor Tive years. The sTudenT body appreciaTes alike his clebonair spiriT and his experT cooking and Tlavoring. Henry McDaniels, born in l908. has been aT V. E. S. Tor Three years. Buck, as he is Tamiliarly addressed by The boys, is The uTiliTy man in The kiTchen. His iob aT The school is To clean up aTTer meals. John G. WhiTe, a Lynchburger by birTh, was recenTly discharged Trom The army aTTer serving Three years, one monTh, and Tour clays. He is en- TiTIed To wear Tour ba++Ie sTars Tor his parTicipaTion in major engage- menTs. WhiTe had been working Tor The school Tor Two years beTore en- Tering The army. Henry Harris is a newcomer To V. E. S. wiTh only one monTh's service. He worked Tor eighT years aT SweeT Briar College and Tor TiTTeen monThs aT The NaTional AirporT aT Alexan- dria. SmiTh Parker is The oldesT member oT The kiTchen sTaTT, TiTTy-Two years old lasT June. He was born in Chris- Tiansburg. He was Tormerly employed aT The Lynchburg Foundry. Lawrence lJoe Louisl Parker, The son oT SmiTh Parker, is one of The Ta- voriTes oT The boys, who reporT ThaT he always wears a cheerTul smile. Joe Trains on ice cream. He rarely misses purchasing a cone aT The school sTore daily, including Sunday. IT is in The capable hands oT The above sTaTT ThaT much oT The physi- cal and menTaI healTh of The school resTs. Schools, like armies, Travel on The sTomachs oT The men and boys who make Them up. The quarTermas- Ters. mess sergeanTs, cooks, and humble kiTchen police can make or break The TighTing sTrengTh oT an army or oT a school. V 3 Uhr filllrirnr VOLUME XXX MARCH 2I, I946 No. 5 sm sen ex 0 '-'o P is fnssouih Rf XS Issued by The sTudenTs of The Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monThly during The school year of I945-'46 excepT holidays. SubscripTions. 25c per copy: 52.00 per year. EDITORIAL BOARD DONNELL VANNOPPEN, JR. EdiTor-in-Chief . DAVIS L. RIANHARD ..... .................. , .. ,.,... ..... M anaging EdiTor FRANCIS K. ALDRED ..... ....... ...... ,,,.. . . S porTs EdiTor W. PRYOR PERRY .,..,... ,....... . .. .... Exchange EdiTor MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT ..... ...............,..... ..... F a culfy Adviser ReporTers VAL STIEGLITZ MACON HARDY RICHARD GUNDRY JIM BALLOU EDGAR BETTY CHARLES WEAVER JACK CARPENTER PERRIN GOWER TOBY HANSEN TOM ALLEN ROYAL SHANNONHOUSE JOE CHERRY Ar,Hs+s . PhoTographers DR. G. L. BARTON, JR. PAUL TAYLOR GENE GILMAN BUSINESS BOARD DAVIS L. RIANHARD ..... ......... .................,....... . ..... B u siness Manager JAMES W. BALLOU ..... . .,,.......,.......... . .AssisTanT Business Manager EDWARD SENEFF ..... .... A ssisTanT Business Manager ROBERT J. FIELD ,.... ..,....................,. .,........, . ..... C i rculaTion Manager EnTered as second-class rnaTTer SepTember 28, l928, aT The PosToTTice aT Lynchburg, Virginia, under The AcT of March 3, IB79. CPINIONS Will Your School Record Recommend You? As The naval recruiTing oTTicer pre- pared To leave he asked as The Tinal and deciding quesTion: You really believe,ThaT The boy is reliable and could be depended on To do as he is ordered? To which The principal oT The high school replied, Yes, I believe ThaT he is dependable. The recruiT's record shows ThaT he was noT only a good scholar buT ThaT he also Took on added responsibiIiTies by Taking pad' in exTra-curricular acTiviTies. Again a high school graduaTe's school record has played an impor- TanT role in gaining him a posiTion he probably could noT have aTTained had his record been unsaTisTacTory. And here are Two more examples oT where a good educaTionaI record is an asseT. A well known reTaiI concern al- ways asks iT The applicanT Tor em- ploymenT was a TruThTul sTudenT, if 4 he was neaT, and iT he was depend- able. Also The prominenT colleges never Tail To ask iT The applicanT Tor en- rollmenT did recommendable work in high school and would The enrollee be able To carry on as well in his college sTudies. Every Time The quesTion is asked, Can This high school graduaTe be depended on? The sTudenT's school record is checked and Therein lie his opporTuniTies Tor employmenT or en- rol'rnenT. For iT These records are commendable The graduaTe is likely To be accepTed. The MysTery oT The Missing Canine The cause oT much speculaTion has been The recenT disappearance oT Mr. Philip Dawson's big mongrel, ITIomer. To all appearances The dog has liTeraIly vanished. He was around one day and gone The nexT. IT is raTher odd ThaT he should leave in such an abrupT manner, Tor he has always appeared perTecTly saTisTied wiTh V. E. S. and his many masTers. He musT have been conTenT here, or 'else very lazy. He came To V. E. S. as a very young dog: and, Though no one knew his exacT age, he was aT leasT Twelve years old when he IeTT, which is geTTing up in years Tor a dog. IT seems unlikely he would have remained so long iT he hadn'T been happy. Homer was a guieT old Tellowi he was always genTle and ever ready wiTh his Toolish, Touching smile. He was The TavoriTe pIayTelIow oT IiTTIe Isabelle MilTon and a greaT Triend ol all The boys here aT V. E. S. I BeauTy and The BeasT, THE METEOR, Nov. I945l. The good- naTured old dog was made The goaT oT a'l The pranks The younger heirs oT V. E. S. masTers could Think oT To bring down upon his paTienT head. l'le sToicly accepTed every indigniTy imaginable ThaT could be heaped upon him. Many Theories have been pre- senTed as To The cause oT Homer's absenTeeism. Someone suggesTed ThaT perhaps he iusT couIdn'T Take The rough play oT Miss MiITon any longer, and didn'T wanT To oTI7end her by disdaining her advances. This seems a raTher doubTTul hypoThesis, Though, Tor The dog was perTecTly Tree To avoid her complefely if he so desired. IT has been said ThaT Homer's sudden deparTure is 'di- recTly or indirecTIy The resuIT oT The improper advances inTlicTed on him by Mr. Banks' liTTIe dog, Pepper. This, Too, appears raTher unlikely, be- cause Homer was Tive Times The size oT Pepper, and should have been cguiTe able To deTend himself, despiTe his greaT age. His longeviTy suggesTs The Theory ThaT he Took him- seIT oTT To die in peace in some secluded nesT in The woods bordering The school. There is a rumor riding The school grapevine ThaT some such Thing occurred and ThaT The kiTchen sTaTT, Tor sake oT economy and because oT The meaT shorTage- well-The ground meaT we've been having Tor breakTasT-buT ThaT's im- possible, oT course . . . Or is iTI?? Happy BirThday March 2 .......,............ Eugene CorneTT March 3 ........ ..,....... E rancis Aldred March 5 ...,.... ............ P hil CraTT March 9 ........ ........,.. C yrus CoTTon Macon Hard March I6 ....,.,............... STanley SmiTh March I7 ............ ArmisTead WellTord March I8 ...,.............. MorTon CriTcher March 23 ........,..... Johnson CarpenTer March 25 ...................... George Lewis March 28 ,..,.....,.......... William CarTer THE METEOR ALUMNI i923 Richard W. Gamble is currenTIy associaTed wiTh The engineering Tirm oT Carey B. Gamble, Canal Bank Building, New Orleans I5, La. A LieuTenanT Commander wiTh The Navy Tor The pasT several years, he has recenTly been released To in- I925 Edward S. Evans, Jr., oT DeTroiT, head oT The Evans ProducTs Co., has been appoinTed by Dr. ElIioTT as a member oT The STaTe Planning Com- mission's commiTTee on ToresT prod- ucTs. He succeeds his TaTher, who did research recenTly. I926 Beniamin Gildersleeve assisTed in The wriTing o'T a book, Geology and Mineral Resources oT The Jackson Purchase Region, KenTucky, Tor The CommonwealTh oT KenTucky, DeparT- menT oT Mines and Minerals. acTive sTaTus. I932 FaTher Harris Findlay, of Roanoke, visiTed The school recenTly. I936 FirsT LieuTenanT Thomas N. Davis, lll, was graduaTed Trom The Army Air Forces School oT AviaTion Medi- cine aT Randolph Field, Texas, re- cenTly. The school specializes in Training physicians and surgeons in The branch oT medicine peculiar To Army Air Force piloTs and oTher personnel. The course is prerequisiTe To aTTaining TlighT surgeon wings wiTh The AAF. LT. Davis received his AB degree Trom The UniversiTy oT Virginia in I94I, and his MD Trom The same school in I944. I 940 S-SgT. HerberT B. Thomson, Jr., has been iudged winner Tor an essay enTered in The UniTed STaTes Air Forces Europe Soldier's Savings Con- BeTore enTering service in I943, he aTTended DarTmouTh College. CapTain and Mrs. Virgil GriTTin oT Barber's PoinT, Oahu, T. H., an- nounce The marriage oT Their daugh- Ter, Elise Hall, To Harrison WaiTe lll, LieuTenanT USNR, son oT Mr. and Mrs. Harrison WaiTe, Jr., oT The Cedars, near CharloTTesville. LT. WaiTe aTTendecl The Engineer- ing School oT The UniversiTy oT Vir- ginia and There received his com- mission in The UniTed STaTes Naval Reserve in February, IQ44, aTTer which he served Tor a year aboard The aircraTT carrier MonTerey wiTh Task Force 58. Since lasT April he has been sTaTioned aT Barber's Poinf. EXCHANGES THE METEOR acknowledges hav- ing received The Tollowing school publicaTions: The Deerfield Alumni Journal The DeerTield Scroll DeerTieId, Mass. BulleTin Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College RuTherTord, N. J. The CO Fishlourne MiliTary School Waynesboro, Va. STonewall Jackson Journal STonewall Jackson High School CharlesTon. W. Va. The Alumni Review UniversiTy oT NorTh Carolina Chapel Hill, NorTh Carolina The Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION +eThomson, now discharged, was aT VES recenTly. T . f ..C:iucIcienI1eimer'4... 6 Good QualiTy 7VL Value Righl' MEN'S FURNISHINGS OPT'C'AN5 THE METEOR 'lllissqnffarrgl , 805 Main STreeT D. L. RIANHARD, Agent A YOUNG STORE CATERING TO YOUNG MEN Knight-Sneed Co. 8I7 MAIN STREET Fashions in Fashions A Young STore for Young Men See RIANHARD QUALITY Dairy Products PHONE i063 ART BARBER SHOP V. E. S. WELCOME PaTronize Those Who PaTroni1e You EsTablishecl I859 I. P.. Bell Company STATIONERS, BOOKSELLERS, PRINTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS BI6 Main STreeT Bring Your KODAK WORK To Us Fashions in Foods 5 METEORITES Through The Telescope 'fix T. A '-JV 'T' f-,Q,.dQ By The Old AsTrologer In spring a young man's Tancy Turns To ThoughTs OT Goober, buT we. The AsTrologers, know ThaT spring leads boys inTo oTher Things, Too. ln recenT bull sessions There has been much Talk abouT The proposed good-will Tour TO Mexico by our V. E. S. ambassadors. Rianhard. Gower, and STiegliTz. Hansen. genTleman OT leisure. re- cenTIy asTOunded The school by low- ering himselT To going ouT Tor The brisk-ball Team and sTopping smok- ing aT The same Time. The underground aT V. E. S. is ex- panding. IT now spreads propaganda wiTh a radio ThaT Sparks Gilman seT up. Barge also sings Tor his ad- mirers WVES. Big Bad Bev has divulged The secreT OT his super-human sTrengTh. l-le modesTly Told us ThaT he had The muscles OT a TwenTy-year-old man. B. O. Armslob hasn'T had ThaT TrusTraTed look laTely. T-le says ThaT he has given up women and seTTled down To hard work. occa sionally over sTaTion The V. E. S. dog lovers are really geTTing on The ball. We haven'T won any shows yeT, buT greaT Things are expecTed Trom The FirsT VVesT Ken- ne's. SlOp-l-lead really goT The Tuzzy one Trom Bourke The oTher nighT, be- ing leTT wiTh a big bill and no babe. Tom has announced his inTenTions OT being The TourTh one On Miss Oglesby's lisT. And now as Snake would say: Spring is sprung, The Tlowers rizi l wonder where The sTar-dus+ iz? 6 People in The Public Eye Bell fDingl-Scrubbing walls, Tloor. ceilings, eT ceT. OT The lav. on Third wesT. lhlis own idea?T CarpenTer lCarolineT-Trying To convince himself ThaT They haven'T. CorneT TBlondiel-wriTing home To Tell his mom he'll be wearing a red rose in his leTT lapel so she'll recognize him. Gay THapl-Lucking ouT in The V-Club iniTiaTion shorTened Tor his beneTiT. Gundry TPrism-Pussj-Assuming a new slanT heighT since compleTing The mumps. Perry TSneakyT-Passing ouT cigars To machine members aTTer The elec- Tion Tor presidenT OT The senior class. SmiTh F. TFishyT- Noi No! Mrs. Payne! You dOn'T undersTand! Taylor S. TDollTaceT-Looking wisT- Tully aT Whirlaway. Jones TBonesj-Wishing The sTudy- ouT lisT sTarTed Trom The boTTom. BuTler Ulnifeyj-Casing The FirsT NaTional Bank Tor his nexT TwenTy grand. Weaver fWee Wee,- lT's da lauwl PARAMOUNT - March 20-27 - CLARK GABLE GREER GARSON ADVENTURE Come ln and Look Over The NEW FALL STYLES Wills-Camp Co. 8I9 Main STreeT See SCOTT lv The AsTronomical Calendar Feb. 3-ATTer a hard nighT. mosT OT The boys around school are going around wiTh a half-dazed expression on Their Taces, and wishing ThaT They could go To bed and sleep Tor a week. TThis is The day aTTer midwinTersT. Also Feb. 3-BaskeTball boys go back on pledge. aTTer having pulled a carTOn OT cigareTTes each. Feb. 4h-Same baskeTball boys are seen exhaling pure nicoTine aT prac- Tice, Torcing The G.A.A. To have The gym TumigaTed beTore any TurTher pracTice could be carried on. Feb. 6-A sTaTe OT war now exisTs beTween SweeT Briar and STigleTO. The Telephone Company disconTinues operaTions on The line Trom Lynch- burg To AmhersT, said line being TaT- Tered and Torn Trom The derOgaTOry remarks ThaT passed over Them. Feb. 6-I4-Ah! Such a lively Time OT year! In TacT since iT's so lively. and Tull OT sTories. l'm going To re- Train Trom wriTing any OT Them. Feb. I9-V.E.S. seems To be a regular hospiTal Tor mumps. measles. pneumonia, and pink-eye. The sTyle seems To be. when geTTing up in The morning, To loudly yell, l've goT 'em. and every boy wiThin a radius OT Two miles scaTTers, noT caring whaT you've goT, Feb. 2I-A sTrange aura OT smoke hangs over The school, candy wrap- pers are laying everywhere and sOTT drinks are sold by The Thousands,- Yes-BaskeTball Pledge is OTH!!! Feb. 24-Mar. 2-A week OT aTh- leTic inacTiviTy, in which cerTain in- dividuals develop huge bay-windows Trom candy and carbonaTed waTer. Mar. 3-Dorm COmpeTiTion be- gins.-FirsT inspecTion made by Buk. Mar. 4-Second inspecTion made by The General OT The Armies. EveryThing is wrong and noThing is righT. Mar. 5-Ahhh! Spring is here! lWaiT a minuTe. Lynn, ThaT's my shoe you're shoveling ouT wiTh ThaT snowj. -BUT-As l was saying-ln The spring a young man's Tancy lighTly Turns To ThoughTs OT love and base- ball. lVVhaT?? You say There's a sporT called Track? Hummphll Never heard OT iTllT-The original goldbrick himselT, none oTher Than H64-CaraT TrevaThan shows up Tor The TirsT prac- Tice. Many are seen laTer, nursing sore arms, aTTer having Tossed around The briskball Tor a while. Mar. 5-Lawrence uTTers a com- T H E M E T E O R ple'I'ely new word, FnIIIII WaiI Iill WebsIer geIs ahold oI Ihis. lvlar. 6-A new Iigure is seen on Ihe baseball Iield, Hansen having de- cided Io bless Ihe boys wiIh his presence. Ivlar. 9-I I-Eggar, lvlope, Jim, and FooIsey Ialce a weekend Io Raleigh, coming baclc in Iine shape Io wel- come in Ihe new V-Club goaI, Johnnie Ga . They also help Io shovel puI Ihe V-Club aIIer Ihey have Iold oI Iheir various and sundry weekend advenIures. Dave and SIigIeIo decide Io drop in on Ihe MidwinIers Dance aI SweeI Briar-and Ihey do. Mar. I3- The Trio is seen plan- ning anoIher excursion Io SweeI Briar, in Ihe hope oI Iinally hiIIing some good luck. SPORTS Four DisasIrous AIIernoons February I6 Wooclberry ForesI l4epI Ihe lead all Ihe way aI Orange Io Irip Ihe V. E. S. cagers, 39-IB. Tullis, a guard, led Ihe aIIacIc wiIh I2 poinIs, coIIecI- ing Iive Iield goals and Iwo Iree Ihrows. Jim Ballou, capIain and guard Ior Ihe Bishops. was high scorer Ior Ihe visiIors wiIh 5 poinIs. Gay was sec- ond high wiIh 4 poinIs. The line-ups: Woodberry G. F. P.F. T.P. Tanner, I. ... ... I 0 0 2 Moore, I. .,.. ... I I I 3 PeI'erson, I. .... ..... 2 I 0 5 Eshelman, c. . 2 0 O 4 Davidson, c. 2 0 2 4 Wright C. . ..... o o o 0 Tullis, g. 5 2 I I2 I-IorIon, g. .... . 3 2 I 8 Wilson, g. .... . 0 I I I Belew, g. .... ..... O 0 0 0 Flowers, I. ... .... . O O O O I-Iill, I. .... ..... 0 O O 0 YOun'l'e, I. . .. .... . O O O 0 Tofals .... ..... I 6 7 6 39 V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. I-Iyre, I. .... . I 0 I 2 Gay. f. .... ..... 2 o 2 4 Allen, I. I O 2 2 Smifh, I. .. . .... . I 0 O 2 Be1Iy, c. . ..,.. O O 2 O Harris, c. .. - ,... O O I O Ballou, g. .... ..... I 3 4 5 Page, g. ...., ..... I 0 I 2 Kemper, g. .... ..... 0 I O I ToIaIs ............... 7 4 I3 I8 THE METEOR February I8 Virginia Episcopal SchooI's Bishops bowed Io a sIrong Fishburne IvIiIiIary School cage squad on Ihe Waynes- boro schooI's courI, 35-I4. Gassaway and I-Iubbard were lead- ing scorers Ior Ihe winners wiIh eighI poinIs apiece, while I-Iyre was Iop man Ior V. E. S. wiIh seven Iallies. The line-ups: V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. I-Iyre. I. ......... .. . 3 I O 7 Gay, I. .,.... ... 0 0 2 0 Allan, I. ..... O I O I Smifh, I. ..... .. . O 0 O 0 BeIIy,c. .. I O 4 2 Harris, c. . O 0 O O Ballou, g. .... ... 0 3 4 3 Page, g. .... ... O I 0 I Kemper, g. .... 0 O O O To+als .,..... ... 4 6 IO I4 Fishburne G. F. P.F. T.P. Gassaway, I. ..,.. ... 3 2 0 8 Hollowell, I. ... ... 2 I I 5 SIraIIorcI, c. ... ... 3 I 0 7 Gregory, g. .... ... 2 3 3 7 Hubbard, g. 4 0 I 8 Tofals .........,..... I4 7 5 35 February 20 Fishburne lvIiIiIary School edged ouI Ihe V. E. S. basIceIeers 25-23 aIIer a Ihird period Bishop rally Iell shorI. The game was played in Ihe Barlcsdale Gym. Fishburne deIeaIed V. E. S. Iwo days previously aI Waynesboro, 35-I4. The line-ups: Fishburne G. F. P.F. T.P. Gassaway, I. .,.. ... 0 2 2 2 I-Iallowell, I. .. ... I 0 2 2 SIraIIord, c. .. ... 2 O I 4 Murphy, g. .... 5 O 2 IO Gregory, g. ... ... 3 I 4 7 Carver, q. .. ..... O O O O ToIals. .. ..,... I I 3 I I 25 V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. I-lyre, I. .... ... 3 I 2 7 Allen, I. .... ... 4 0 0 B BeIIy, c. .... ... I 0 2 2 Ballou, g. ..... ... I 3 2 5 Kemper, g. .... ..... 0 I 2 I ToIals ............... 9 5 8 23 February 23 Led by Gregory, Daniel, and Alex- ander, Episcopal I-Iigh School Irom Alexandria Iurned in a convincing 5I-I7 vicIory over Virginia Episcopal School in Barlcsdale Gymnasium. WiIh Alexander counIing 20 poir1Is and Daniel dropping in an even doz- en, Ihe Alexandria Iive Iook an early lead and added Io iI as Ihe game progressed. The visiIors led 24-IO aI haII-Iime. V. E. S. was held Io Iour goals Irom Ihe Iloor, Ballou, Ihe leading scorer, counIing Iwo oI Ihem. ThirIy personal Iouls marked Ihe conIesI. The line-ups: Episcopal G. F. P.F. T.P. Gregory, I. ..... .... 4 I I 9 FooIe, I. ...., . . . I 0 I 2 Glascoclc, I. ... .,.. 0 0 O 0 lvIarIin, I. O O 0 O Daniel, c. .... 5 2 4 I2 Crosland, c. .. ... 0 0 O O Alexander, g. . .. .... 9 2 3 20 Roddy, g. ..., .... O 4 2 4 Welch, g. .. .... I 2 2 4 ToIaIs.., ...... 20 II I3 5I V. E. S. G. F. P.F. T.P. I'Iyre,I.... I I 2 4 Gay, I. ..... .... 0 I 2 I Allen. I. .... .... 0 I 2 I Smifh, I. O 0 O O BeIIy, c. .... .... 0 I 3 I Ballou. g. .... .... 2 5 5 9 Kemper, g. O O I 0 Page, g. .... .,.. I 0 2 2 9 I7 I7 ToIaIs ............... 4 Summary of Junior Seasons The V. E. S. Junior VarsiIy Ieams ended a season OI ups and downs wiIh Ihe sevenIeen-and-under's loss Io Miller Parlc on March 7. The sevenIeen-and-under cagers Iailed Io win a single ciIy league IIII, buI deIeaIed Ihe SharpshooIers in Iwo exhibiIion games on Ihe home- courI, once Io Ihe Iune oI 36-25, and Ihe second game barely nosing ouI Ihe visiIors, 4I-39. Aldred led Ihe scoring wiIh sev- enIy-Iive poinIs, SIiegIiIz Irailing him wiIh IwenIy-Iive. The IiIIeen-and-under Iared IiIIIe beIIer Ihan Iheir older IeammaIes in Ihe ciIy league games, winning only Iwo ouI oI seven. They deIeaIed Ihe PresbyIerian Orphans' I-lome in Iwo pracIice games. Maddux and Lewis led Ihe Baby Bishop's scoring. 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Most Likely to Succeed-Armis- tead, Carpenter, Aldred. Best Athlete-Ballou, Betty, Allen. Done Most tor V. E. S.-Armis- tead, Weaver, Page. Best Singer-Gower, Weaver, Betty. Shoots Most Bull-Ramsay, Mesiclt, Gundry. Wittiest-Ramsay, Mesiclc, Gun- dry. First to Marry-Armistead, Fle- mer, Weaver and Aldred ltiel. Most in Love-Harris, S., Wroth, Richardson. ' Best Dressed-Armistead, Hyre, Lewis. Best Waiter-Hardy, Gundry. Cornett. Best Counselor-Gundry, Perry, Aldred. Clumsiest - Withers, Cardwell, Bell. Gripes Most-Akers, F., Mac- Alpine, Senett. Most Considerate - Armistead Cornett, Weaver and Marshall Itiel. Best Naturecl-Armistead, Gun- dry, Weaver and Mesiclc ltiel. Laziest-Bradsher, Jones, I-lart. Most Conceited-Allen, Ballou, Thomas. Biggest SIurp+Ballou, Bowen, Bass. Biggest Slob-Mustard, Bowen, Bass. r Favorite Song- I-Iey Bop a Re Bop, I-larlc the Sound ot Tar Heel Voices and Sioux City Sue Itiel, That Good Ole Mountain Dew. Favorite Weed - Chestertields, Luclcies, Camels. Best Wishes PARAMOUNT THEATRE filth e -e metseme Volume XXX COMMENCEMENT ISSUE No. 6 THE SCHOOL Senior Class Lewis M. ArmisTead represenTs Churchland, Va., aT V. E. S. Though hampered by repeafed knee iniuries, he made Two baseball and one fooT- ball leTTers during his sTay here. Cookie is a member of The Hop Commiffee and is on The Honor CommiTTee3 and is also a V-Club officer. Cookie has conTribuTed a loT To V. E. S., and has helped many boys wiTh his good-naTure and under- sTanding: James W. Ballou is one of The many members of The Carolina clan, hail- ing from The mefropolis of Oxford. This is Jim's second year, and he has disTinguished himself in aThleTics. LasT year he made leTTers in fooT- ball. baskefball, and baseball. This year he was a four-leTTerman, p'us being All-STaTe in fooTball and cap- Tain of baskefball. He is a member of The 6. A. A., and holds offices in The V-Club and The Senior Class. He is also a counselor, and a member of The MeTeor sTaTf. Edgar R. BeTTy, anofher good Car- olina boy, came from Raleigh, Three years ago. Eggy is noT only a counselor, a member of The choir, and The VesTry, and on The G. A. A., buT is also vice-presidenT of The V-Club and The Senior Class. Edgar, a Three-leTTerman, was capfain of This year's baseball Team and did a re- markable iob boTh on The mound and behind The plafe. Women haven'T bofhered Edgar much This year, for he has been kepT busy land who hasn'T?l by solid and Trig Taken, of course, under The ExalTed One. James S. Bradsher is winding up his second year aT V. E. S., having come up from Sfovall, N. C., in The fall of '44. Clem has made a name for himself by his scholasfic sTand- ing and his popularify. He is The brain in The Gurus Trig class, and is an ouTsTanding member of The exercise squad. THE METEOR RoberT BuTler came To us in The middle of The year, a Tried and TesTed Blue Devil. He immediafely made himself conspicuous by his silence. He resides on Third WesT, where he has earned The name, Killer. Lewis Flemer, one of our reTurned veTerans, came To school iusf afTer Chrisfmas. AlThough The change from The E. T. O. To V. E. S. was raTher greaT, he has done a good iob of reconversion. Lew is one of The Joy-Boys of Second WesT, and is well liked by everyone. Besides sTudy- ing, he finds Time for Track and shoofing The bull wiTh lvlesick. Richard F. Gundry, The Senior Class prophef, has come down from his TaTher's saniforium To spend Two very inTeresTing wears aT V. E. S. Slope is a good-naTured bov, and is noTed for his cornv wif l?l. He has made Two leTTers in foofball, and was a dependable shoT man in Track This vear. He is a counselor on Main, and is a very acTive reporTer on The MeTeor. Winfield Massie was leTT here by a passing hurricane lasT vear which blew no from Miami, Florida. Since ThaT day FlooT has keiof V. E. S. in a sTaTe of fearful anTicipaTion wiTh his manv fanTasTic invenfions. He is a prominenT member of The Trio class, and an old-Timer wiTh The 4-F boys. William lvlesick, an old V. E..S. boy, reTurned afTer soring vacafion This year To conTinue his sTudies afTer receivino his discharge from The Army. Bill is a born comedian, and keeps The enTire sTudenT body in an uproar. He has made a good come- back in his work and is verv popular wiTh everyone. His original home is ForT Bragg, N. C. W. Pryor Perry blessed V. E. S. wiTh his arrival five years ago from Warsaw, Ky. SToop lived a normal life, geTTing The convenTional num- ber of demeriTs, and several nick- names, among Them Sneaky and Taoper. This year he is a counselor, seTTlinq down on Second WesT afTer several changes. To Top off Perry's many acTiviTies he is presidenT of The Senior Class. Davis L. Rianharcl, who is in his fourTh year aT V. E. S., hails from WilmingTon, Del., and has been well- liked for his sparkling personaliTy and original wiT. Dave is a very success- ful Track man, and four leTTers and one capTaincy To his crediT. He is presidenf of The V-Club, and is man- aging edifor of The MeTeor. Dave. a Firsf WesT veTeran, is usuaily seen running from Mcluocklin or looking for a racing form. Being a beach boy, his greaTesT desire is home and The cguief, simple ways of summer life. Edward H. Seneff came To V. E. S. Tour years ago from PiTTsburgh, Pa. AlThough Ed lives in Yankee-land, he has fiTTed very well inTo life in The SouTh. ScrunuTT leTTered in Track for Two years, and has been an acTive member of The V-Club. He is also in The choir and on The MeTeor sTaTf. Royall Shannonhouse, known in The vernacular as Shannonmouse, is one of The more sTeadying influences in school. He lived Through The half year of solid wiTh no ill effecTs, and was ouT for TooTball and baseball. The MeTeor claims him as one of iTs leading pen-pushers. ValenTine H. STiegliTz presenfed himself To The school year lasT year as a gifT from The Plains, Va. ln his Two years he has had a fling aT The babes aT Sweef Briar and R.-M. W. C., and is now one of The leaders in The barfenders club. Always rank- ing high on The honor roll, he is a counse'or and a Two-year leTTerman in baseball. Henry T. TrevaTl1an sacrificed him- self Three years ago, and lefT his home in Founfain, N. C., To become one of Tar Heelia's missionaries To The TorgoTTen land. TrevaThan made his TirsT leTTer, in baseball, lasT year, and This year leTTered in fooT- ball and baseball. His quieT ways and easy-going naTure have made him a very likable person. Blackie, being a counselor, spends a greaf deal of his Time Trying To keep Things under conTrol on EasT Main, and iriaming of Tufure days aT Chapel i 3 Donnel VanNoppen, Jr., Morgan- TOn's conTribuTiOn TO V. E. S., has led an OuTsTanding liTe here in Lynch- burg. BeTTer known as MOpe, Don arrived lasT year and prOmpTly made his leTTer as a lineman On The TOOTball Team. DespiTe The wilds OT Virginia, MOpe's TirsT year was very successful. ln SepTernber he came back and was awarded The Tollowing posiTiOns: counselor On Main, cap- Tain OT TOOTball. presidenT OT The G. A. A., ediTOr OT The MeTeor, Treasurer OT The V-Club, regisTrar OT The VesTry, and secreTary OT The Senior Class. Mope is very popular wiTh The boys as well as wiTh The Lynchburg women. Charles Weaver came Trom The Tair ciTy OT Richmond Two years ago To make guiTe a name Tor himselT here aT V. E. S. Wee-Wee is chairman OT The Hop COmmiTTee, and has done an excellenT job OT arranging The dances. He is a mem- ber OT The Honor CommiTTee, and one OT Randy's boys on Third WesT. George WiThers, known To his Triends as WhOOTers, comes Trom Richmond, and has become well-es- Tablished aT V. E. S. in his Three years here. George is an upsTancling mem- ber OT The MeTeor sTaTT, having ac- quired a by-line Tor his Tine TeaTure arTicles. He has been kickinq around The aThleTic Tields, TOO, and Though 'falling shOrT OT a leTTer, has exhibiTed excellenT spiriT. , John WroTh arrived aT V. E. S. in The middle OT lasT year Trom Par- kersburg, W. Va. RuTT has proved himselT To be a good scholar, being valedicTorian OT This year's Senior Class. He has shown Tine spiriT in aThleTics, TOO, having Tallen iusT shorT OT leTTers in TOOTball and Track. EXCHANGES .The Tollowing school publicaTiOns have been received by The MeTeor in The pasT mOnTh: The C-Q Fishburne MiliTary School Waynesboro, Virginia The DeerTield Scroll DeerTield, MassachuseTTs The News-LeTTer I hr ' vtenr VOLUME XXX JUNE 1, 1946 NUh'IBER 6 Qxqxlkl scnoqso My 5511921 1, , f5SAssocxnN5 lssuecl by The sTuclenTs OT The Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monThly during The school year OT l945-'46 axcepT holidays. SubscripTiOns. 25C per copy: 52.00 per year. EDITORIAL BOARD DONNELL VANNOPPEN, JR. EdiTor-in-ChieT DAVIS L. RIANHARD ....,. , ........,.....,... .. ........ . .... Managing EdiTOr FRANCIS K. ALDRED .,.. ...... ........ ....... S p O rTs EdiTor W. PRYOR PERRY ......... ..,........ . .... Exchange EcliTor MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT .... ...................... ..... F a culTy Adviser ReporTers VAL STIEGLITZ MACON HARDY RICHARD GUNDRY JIM BALLOU EDGAR BETTY CHARLES WEAVER JACK CARPENTER PERRlN GOWER TOBY HANSEN TOM ALLEN ROYAL SHANNONHOUSE JOE CHERRY A,..HS+s PhoTographers A PAUL TAYLOR 'g7lfE-NE gI'Lm5f,ON- JR- BUSINESS BOARD DAVIS L. RlANHARD .... ......... .............................. B u siness Manager JAMES W. BALLOU ...... ...........,.......... , .. . .AssisTanT Business Manager EDWARD SENEFF ...... .... A ssisTanT Business Manager ROBERT J. FIELD .... ...,,. ........ ...........,,........ . ..... C i r culaTion Manager EnTered as second-class maTTer SepTember 28, 1928. aT The PosTOTTice aT Lynchburg, Virginia. 'der The AcT OT March 3. IS79. ' SENIOR CLASS FRONT Row :l Betty, Ballon, Perry, VanN0pfven,, G-zmdry, ifV1'oth SECOND ROW: R'lGH.lIUI'dA, Scoft, lfVeawr, FIf'I7lFJ', M'esirk, Slzamzonlzozise, Br11'Zev'. , Un'VeVS'iY OTV1fQims BACK Row: Srivglifs. Swwjf. Wiflzcrs, Bradslzcr, Armistcad, Aldrvd, CharloTTesville, Virginia 4 llifassiv, Trcwtlzazz. THE METEOR OPINIONS Our ResponsibiliTy One oT The gravesT problems Tac- ing America Today is wheTher -we 'Teen-agers will realize in Time our bounden duTy and responsibiliTy To our counTry and To ourselves. When we enTer The world on our own-and Tor mosT oT us This will be wiThin a piTiTully Tew years-we will be Taced wiTh a world poisoned by racial preiudice, haTe, disTrusT, and'The oTher vile sperm oT world war. Besides This, The cornpeTiTion oT Thousands oT veTerans will be so greaT as To desTroy all Those who are poorly prepared. Then Too, The posT- war world will soon be sTepped up To a higher piTch Than has ever yeT been known. The nexT year or Two will be a TransiTion period while The world shiTTs gears. By The end oT I948 one may well say, Heaven help The unskilled! ConsequenTly, we have a solemn obligaTion To ourselves and To our counTry: To geT a good educaTion, a concreTe ToundaTion Tor whaT is in- eviTably To Tollow in TorThcoming years. This is our primary duTy above all else. No one has a righT To shirk This obligaTion. The problem lies in making us realize ThaT iT is There. IT is upon our shoulders ThaT The iob oT rebuilding This ravished world will Tall. LeT's see if we can'T do a beTTer iob oT permanenT paTching Than our TaThers have done. ALUMNI I924 John M. GoldsmiTh, Common- wealTh's ATTorney Tor The CiTy oT RadTord, has announced his candi- dacy Tor The Congress OT The UniTed STaTes Trom The SixTh DisTricT oT Vir- ginia, subiecT To The DemocraTic pri- mary. ATTer leaving V. E. S., Mr. Gold- smiTh aTTended The UniversiTy oT Vir- ginia and was graduaTed Trom The law school oT ThaT insTiTuTion in l93O. Aubrey Sfrode, oT AmhersT, Va., married recenTly Mrs. Thebo Jen- nings KearToTT, oT Lynchburg, Va., daughTer oT Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jen- nings. Mrs. KearToTT is The widow oT Benjamin KearFoH, V. E. S., '38, killed in acTion in I944 during The THE METEOR Normandy Campaign, and donor oT The Benjamin R. KearToTT Memorial Cup, The annual presenTaTion oT which was begun aT V. E. S. lasT year. l925 Major Harrison T. Nicholas, Jr., U. S. Army, and Mrs. Nicholas are now living in Lynchburg wiTh Major NichoIas's moTher. I927 Oakley Hill, oT Lynchburg, pre- senTed several violin solos aT The evening chapel service on Sunday, May l2Th. I93l The engagemenT oT WaI+er E. HolberTon To Miss Anne Harris War- riner, daughTer oT Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Warriner, OT Blacksburg, Va., was recenTly announced. Mr. HoIberTon is an alumnus OT V. P. I., and has recenTly reTurned Trom 38 monThs oT service overseas, where he parTicipaTed in The ATri- can, Sicilian, and 'European cam- paigns. He is now connecTed wiTh The DuPonT Co., and is living in Wil- mingTon, Delaware. i932 LT. Comdr. Eugene EuTsler, U. S. N. R., oT Goldsboro, N. C., was re- cenTly married To Miss Virginia Wes- Ton, daughTer oT Mr. and Mrs. Ray Faunce WesTon, oT Mobile, Ala. Comdr. EuTsler was graduaTed Trom The UniversiTy oT NorTh Caro- lina and did posT-graduaTe work aT Cornell UniversiTy. i934 . Mr. and Mrs. WalTer Eugene Sim- mons oT Raleigh, N. C., have an- nounced The birTh oT a daughTer. CynThia Brown, on April 6Th, I946. . I935 The Rev. George MarTin Bean, Tormerly a naval chaplain serving in The PaciTic area, is now assisTanT pro- Tessor and acTing chaplain aT Lehigh UniversiTy, BeThlehem, Pa. His ad- dress Drown Memorial Hall, Lehigh U., Befhlehem, Pa. I937 The engagemenT OT HerberT.Bar- row Turner, son oT Mr. and Mrs. Lawson W. Turner, oT Old EIkTon. BedTord CounTy, Va., To Eleanor Bur- dick, daughTer OT Mr. and Mrs. Gus- Tav H. STalling, oT Lynchburg, Va.. was- recenTly announced by The bride's parenTs. The wedding will Take place in May. Mr. and Mrs. J. Doniphan Owen aTTended recenT graduaTion exer- cises aT The UniversiTy oT Virginia, where Their son, Earl Owen, received his degree in medicine. William Joslin was married on May l8Th To Miss Mary Caher, oT HarTsville, S. C. i938 Venable Lawson has reTurned Trom army duTy in Alaska and will re- enTer The UniversiTy oT Alabama in SepTember. l939 Following his graduaTion Trom The Harvard Medical School, George D. Penick wenT To Chicago, III.. on May IsT To begin his inTerneship aT The PresbyTerian HospiTal. I 940 Mr. RoberT H. Bellamy, oT Wil- mingTon, N. C., has been noTiTied by The War DeparTmenT ThaT his son, STaTT SergeanT PresTon B. Bellamy, Army Air Corps, has been awarded posThumously an Oak LeaT ClusTer, represenTing an addiTion To The Air Medal. This award was made by di- recTion oT The PresidenT, Tor meriTor- ious achievemenT as radio operaTor while parTicipaTing in an aerial TlighT To Saipan, on May 2'-7Th, l944. I 940 Donald D. Cross, oT Concord, Va., will be married on June lsT To Miss Gloria Lee King, daughTer oT Mr. and Mrs. Claude King, oT Lynch- burg. V l942 Phil Hines, John Farabow, and Gordon HeaTh have -reTurned Trom overseas service and are now aT- Tending The UniversiTy oT NorTh Carolina, aT Chapel Hill. John Hinsdale Joslin has been dis- charged Trom The U. S. Marines aTTer Two and one-half years oT service, eighTeen monThs oT which were spenT in The PaciTic TheaTer, where he was sTaTioned in Hawaii, Iwo Jima, and Japan. Joslin, a naTive oT Raleigh, N. C., has recenTly signed a proTessional baseball conTracT wiTh The BosTon Braves. I 943 Berkeley Williams visiTecl school during The pasT monTh, and was aT ThaT Time applying Tor admission To The Virginia PolyTechnic lnsTiTuTe. Jack CarpenTer has been ap- poinTed EdiTor-in-ChieT oT The MeTeor Tor The coming year. 5 PEOPLE l New Teacher and Coach WiTh The opening oT school nexT Tall Mr. Eugene E. Barnum will Take over his duTies as baskeTball coach and head oT The science deparTmenT. Mr. Barnum, who is aT presenT an inTerviewer Tor The UniTed STaTes EmploymenT Service, has oTTiciaTed many oT The local TooTball and bas- keTball games, and holds several awards in baske+balI. He was born in Parkersburg, WesT Virginia, in I9lO, and aTTended Par- kersburg High School, where he played TooTball, baskeTball, and Track: and was AssisTanT Physical DirecTor OT The Y. lvl. C. A. ATTer graduaTing he accepTed a posiTion wiTh The Lynchburg Y. M. C. A., insTrucTing gym classes, calis- Thenics, Tumbling, and swimming. He also played wiTh The lndependenT Baske+ball Club. Mr. Barnum aTTended Lynchburg College, graduaTing in I935 wiTh a Bachelor OT ArTs degree in biology. During This Time he played TooTball', baskefball, and Track, leTTering in all Three sporTs., Heihelped coach bas- keTball and Track during his senior year. He made Tri-STaTe Torward lVa., N. C., S. C.l, and was second high scorer in The sTaTe Tor Three years. ' lvlr. Barnum TaughT science in Ap- pomaTTox High School and was head coach Tor a year. He reTurned To WesT Virginia where he held a simi- lar posiTion aT Parkersburg High School Tor Two years. ATTer This he worked Three years Tor The Mead CorporaTion in Lynchburg, and coached aThleTics. Three years ago he accepTed his presenT posiTion wiTh The UniTed STaTes EmploymenT Service. During The Tall Mr. Barnum oTTiciaTes TooT- ball games, and in The winTer referees baskeTbaII games. ZW, I M ETEOR STAFF THE METEOR STAFF SITTING: Aldrod, PC'l'l'j',, VanN0fvpen, Rianlmrd, Hunseifz KNEELINCIZ Taylor, P., Sfieglits, Allen, Cl7I'f7Fl1l'Ul', Field, Hardy. STANDING: IMF. Follcft, Gu-ndry, Gower, Ballon, Sermj, Slzcznnorzlzozise, Ranzsvy, Trcvaflznn. Clierry, IV0avw', Betty. School Farmer On lvlay lsT, l94I, Vernon H. Barker came To V. E. S. To begin his career as school Tarmer and handy- man. Since ThaT Time he has well earned The laTTer TiTle, Tor To him Talls a good share oT The odd jobs and The inTerminable odds and ends ThaT come up. All The livesTock ThaT The school possesses lpigs, cows, and horsesl, are in his care. Barker is in charge OT The Tarming Tor such crops as poTaToes, corn, hay, eTc. He also has charge oT The school orchard, and he does all oT The woodshed work. Vernon Barker was born and reared on a Tarm near BrisTol, Virginia. He seems To have an inborn love Tor farming, Tor, Though he has worked on many jobs. he evenTually reTurned To This ancienT calling. Barker has been employed in a coal mine, a silk mill, and by The sTaTe on The SH8cPWC. Before he Took up his duTies aT V. E. S., he ran a service sTaTion in Peakland. Barker is almosT invariably seen dressed in a heavy, ToresT-green sweaTer, worn, blue overalls, and a sTained, baTTered, brown haT. Small oT sTaTure labouT Tive TeeT, nine and one-half inchesl his ruddy cheeks nearly always conTain aiquid oT The sTrong Tobacco he enjoys so much. His blue eyes are sharp wiTh a ready wiT, and good humor. He is married: has one liTTle girl who will be Three years old in SepTember. lThe Me- Teor, OcTober I943l. Baseball he claims as his TavoriTe sporT, and he says he doesn'T care whaT posiTion he plays. His hobby is resTing-on Sun- day, oT course. Barker says he likes V. E. S., and ThaT masTers and boys alike TreaT.him righT. Fashions in Foods and MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION l The LYNCHBURG NATIONAL BANK THE METEOR BOY SCOUTS Air ScouTs The V. E. S. Air ScouT Squadron 7 is climaxing iTs TirsT year oT exisT- ence wiTh The acTuaI TIighT insTruc- Tion oT The Tour mosT promising scouTs. Charles Cardwell leads wiTh Two hours in The air To his crediT, Tol- Iowed closely by ScoTT Tay'or wiTh an hour and a haIT, and CrawTord MacCalIum wiTh a haIT hour. Chick CarTer will begin his dual insTrucTion soon. Besides The TlighT insTrucTion be- gun recenTIy, oTher courses Taken up by The scouTs have been a sTudy oT The Civil Air ReguIaTions and oT Air NavigaTion. The Junior Birdmen also have a valuable assemb'age oT aeronauTics equipmenT procured Trom war-surplus supplies. This equip- menT includes a Turn and bank indica- Tor, a raTe oT climb indicaTor, an aITi- meTer, a direcTionaI gyro, and a gyro horizon. The pride oT The Troop, how- ever, is a Kenner engine oT I6O h. p., which is also used in weekly lecTures and insTrucTion. The incepTion oT The Air ScouT Squadron aT V. E. S. is due To The Rev. Marshall M. MiITon, school chaplain, who is The squadron leader and in- sTrucTor. Mr. MiITon has done a Tine iob oT shaping up The club, and in preparing iTs members Tor The com- ing air age. The Meteor Announces ITs RaTing wiTh TI-IE NATIONAL SCI-IOLASTIC PRESS Assocmnon as EirsT-Class I-Ionor RaTing wiTh 835 PoinTs ouT oT a possible I,OOO SOUTHERN CAB COMPANY PHONE 2-9-4 THE METEOR fjlifi fiximxyxx ae? QF Y x' 7M f Ti? Uii if X W The LasT Will and TesTamenT oT is The Senior Class oT I946 I. VanNoppen, Donnell, Jr.-I-Iis hair To John I-Iyre. 2. Perry, William Pryor, Jr.-I'Iis I X smoking permission To Grimes X ' f Thomas. ' 3. Ballou, J. WhiTaker, Jr.-I-Iis , , aThIeTic abiliTy To Web Maddux. 4. SeneTT, Edward I-IamiITon, III- T His demeriTs To Jack Carpen- Ter. OPTICIANS 5. Bradsher, James Sydney-I'Iis mule wagon To ElIioT Bass. 6. ScoTT, RoberT C.-I-Iis suck To 7 SPN! PTHGITT I T' I-I III I-I' THE METEOR . meg: z, aen me ., - is - rnOu+h+O1IGOOber.l1 wishes To Thank The 8. Massie, WinTieId-I-Iis rockeTs MUTUAL PRESS 9 fro Cllifles 'Tl-'aCAlP 1? Tor Their Tine work and . reva an, enry urnage- . . His 'gilded Maki' +0 Dick wonderTuI co-operaTion during DLITTG-y. I ' The pasT session IO. WroTh, John-I-Irs eIT-wings To Their emgforfs have been Paul Taylor. , II. Elemer, Lewisel-Iis cigars To '3 big help Jo Jo. I2. Aldred, Francis K.-I-Iis smooTh- ness To Bob NuTT. I3. Shannonhouse, Royall-I-lis sin- ceriTy To Alson Goode. The I4. BeTTy, Edgar R.-I-Iis quid To ' Andrew Ramsay. Peoples Ncrhoncrl I5. WiThers, George-I-Iis coordin- aTion To Dan Bell. I6. G u n d r y, Richard E.-I'Iis slope-isms To Perrin Gower. EIGHTH AND MAIN STS' I7. ArmisTead, Lewis Moore-I-Iis LYNCHBURG, VA. cruTch To The nexT crip. I8. Mesick, William - I-Iis mous- Member F' D' L C' Tache To Bill CarTer. 7 ME-I-EDR'-I-ES , I couNsELoR BoDY Through The Telescope l x . -. I X ,,-, ' 55 J: I X14 W, l if , , Q' '-:Q T Engyxwq, .By The Old AsTrologer The.AsTrologers oT This year are going on To broader Tields oT asTron- omy. We ,hope ThaT nexT year's As- Trologer will come up To The high grade oT bull ThaT we have Tried To achieve This year. BuT as To The ob- servaTions oT lasT monTh's research: Someone asked Tom Allen The oTher day abouf his opinions as To who will be l-lead Counselor nexT year. We were Told ThaT he puT on his besT IES grin and said, Oh, l guess iT'lI be beTween BraxTon and me. l-le also allowed as how his Torm was preTTy good. V. E. S. will lose Two of The biggesT Fraudsj Schemers, and Sheckel- shieks ThaT have been here in a long Time when Perry and VanNoppen close up The EnTerprises. lnc. Ballou originally was going down To Carolina, buT decided To come back To V. E. S. since Chapel Hill is such a dull, uninTeresTing place. As we look down Trom our ob- servaTory we see new sTandards OT bull being seT. There's Lew Flemer and Bill lvlesick airing Their opinions oT liTe in The E. T. O. lT's really someThing To hear. NoTice To l-lamilTon College: Pre- pare Tor a new low in wiT and humor-Gundry arrives nexT year. We hear rumors abouT a new epi- demic oT measles aT SweeT Briar. And whaT's This disease Hyre is re- covering Trom? Well, This is The lasT Time mosT oT us will be seeing STiegoleTo's name in The MeTeor. For a lengThy re- sume oT his acTiviTies during The year, look aT his arTicles in The MeTeor. i WoT! No more sTardusT? sl. FIRST Row: fleft to 1'igl1tj-Tre'vatlza1z, Ara:-zisteady, Page, Vlfeavler, Sticglitz. BACK Row: Qleft to 1'igl1tj-Brtly, Ballon, V'Ul1lVOPf7C7l, G-mz.d1'y, Scott, Perry, Aldrrd. CharacTers ALDRED lJew-Boyl-OTTering his ham To Cookie Friday nighT aT The senior banqueT. ARMISTEAD TC. Sl-Chummy wiTh The headmasTer and The senior mas- Ter despiTe E-EMMENSE number oT demeriTs received daily Trom each. BALLOU lDuckTooTl-l-liTTing The TilThy weed again-as if he had been keeping Track pledge! BETTY lEggyl-Going inTo exile aTTer The Track Team's sTunning vicTory over The baseball Team. BRADSHER lDobbinl-l-liTching his mule To one oT The columns during The banqueT. BUTLER lKniTyl-STuTTing his pockeTs wiTh silverware aT The banquet Tinding iT much superior To ThaT he goT aT The WhiTe House. FLEMER lPeasanTl-GeTTing a sToker Tor his ceegar. GUNDRY lphloap l-laidl-Giving his Gosh-ThaT's-corny ioke crown up To lvlassie aT The banqueT. MASSIE llvlad ScienTisTl-Making huge gains wiTh The waiTresses aT The banqueT. MESICK lSargel-Wishing he could swap more cigareTTes Tor more pic- Tures. ' PERRY lSToopl-lnsisTing ThaT he siT by Blobo aT The banqueT. RIANHARD lBookiel-Laying every- Thing on Knockdown To win The CharlesTon sTakes. SCOTT lBlobol- No, no, NOT by SToopl SENEFF lAlways-on-Timel - Three seconds early Tor The banqueT. Record? SHANNONHOUSE lFlushl-Shining Tor his Daddy J. D. in Eng. Vl. STIEGLITZ lOld Foull-Swearing ThaT he can caTch The ball iusT as easily in his mouTh. TR EVATT-IAN lBwak-Wahl - Sorry now ThaT he did noT go ouT Tor Track, The sporT oT kings. VAN NOPPEN llviopel- Noi l goT here TirsT! Everyone can'T siT by Blobo! WEAVER llzzyl-Swooning when Big Belle calls LiTTle Belle. WROTI-l lRoaThT-Pleased aTTer The TorTy-ninTh playing oT l'lay-Bob-A- Re-Bob. THE METEOR The AsTronomical Calendar Having Tinally goTTen around To wriTing This column, aT leasT Two days aTTer The deaclline, I Tind ThaT There isn'T a greaT cleal To wriTe abouT. However, be ThaT as iT may, l shall aTTempT To make iT as uninTeresTing as possible, so ThaT you will be able To skip over iT wiThouT any sense OT loss. April I-April Fool's Day is cele- braTed in a greaT way aT The diTTerenT homes OT V. E. S. boys. The biggesT calamity was when someone sub- sTiTuTed round goose eggs Tor pool balls in one OT The Raleigh cue halls! even CruTchTieId's couldn'T geT The egg sTain ouT OT John's drapes. April 2-The gang's a'l back again, and Thousands OT shovels are needed To shovel iT ouT OT The V-Club. OUT OT 93 boys, 92 reguesTs Tor week- ends were imrnediaTely Tiled. lCar- penTer naturally wanTed To sTay here and sTudyl. April 4-Baseball pracTice is in Tull swing again, whaT wiTh BOTH Blackie and Toby There. The air over The baseball field is polIuTed Tor Three days wiTh pure nicoTine exTracT. April IO-The TirsT baseball game OT The season. We are beaTen by a Team coming all The way Trom Con- necTicuT iusT To see if Carolinians acTually do exisT. April I3-The briskball Team sure is having a dismal sTarT. We areeven beaTen by Hargrave. April I6-Lepp's Triend, Big Jim BaI'ou, is sTruck down in prac- Tice by Flying cleats owned by Grimes Thomas. He wanTed To have his wounded arm cuT OTT, buT Then de- cided ThaT he would need iT To puT The shoT wiTh in The coming Track meeT. April I7-We are again humbled, This Time by STaunTon M. A. JusT couIdn'T do a Thing wiThouT Our Boy Ballou, April 20-We are licked again on a windswepT field by E. H. S. Every member OT The squad knocked a ball ThaT would have been a homer in any oTher park, buT They were blown back so ThaT The caTcher had To run backwards To geT Them. April 20- Eggar and Jim narrowly escape deaTh under The wheels OT a subway in ThaT rousing meTropolis OT The Plains. Pal Val, being used To Them, acTs as iT They THE METEOR weren'T even There. lThe boys had guiTe an inTeresTing Time aT Rock- wood on SaTurday nighTl. April 27-The Bishops upseT The Tigers on The Bishops' Tield. Edgar piTches a beauTiTul game Tor our TirsT maior win oT The season. May I-A long Trip is Taken To STaunTon, buT The ball game is rained OuT. To Toby and Ballou, however, The Trip is very proTiTable. I May 7-We journey To Fishburne, only To be beaTen again. This geTs very monoTOnous, doesn'T iT?? May 9-We Tinaliy geT anOTher vicTory!'l Hyre pitches a Three-hiTTer To seT down The CadeTs from Fish- burne. IT was a close game, being won in The IasT OT The IasT inning. May Il-The Trip To Woodberry ends in disasTer. We are soundly Trounced To The Tune OT I5-I. May I5-Due To NorTh Carolina weaTher, we are Torced To posTpone The game wiTh Hargrave. This norTh- ward moving rain is beginning To geT everyone down. May 7-We are beaTen by Har- grave in a game ThaT could only be Termed lucky. Edgar piTched a beau- TiTul game. May I9-Well, baseball season is over now and-whaT's ThaT?-did someone menTion a sTrange.occu- paTion called Track? ? WhaT's THATT7? Mav 20-Carolina weaTher sTiII prevails, Torcing everyone To wear raincoaTs To Town. May Zl-PicTures are Takenlll AT least a hundred Tubes OT lpana are used up in an eTTorT To make The picTures as phoirogenic as possible. The phoTographer Tries To geT a spoT OTT OT his lens while Taking The pic- Ture OT The MeTeor STaTT, buT dis- covers ThaT iT is noT acTually a spoT, buT Mr. FolIeTT. Well, since 'This is The IasT wriTing that I will do Tor The MeTeor, leT me bid you all a Tond Tarewell, and hope ThaT you never have To go Through The agony OT reading anoTher column like This one-So longll The TaculTy and sTudenT body wish To express Their deepesT sym- paThies To Jack Wiggins on The deaTh OT his TaTher, Jacob E. Wiggins. CANCER SERVICE With increasing public awareness of the cancer problem there has arisen a growing need for various types of serv- ice. To Till such need, the Field Army of the American Cancer Society per- forms many such services within its program. Here are a few: 1. It stimulates the setting up of tumor clinics by bringing to light the urgent need foradded facilities for care of 'advanced cancer pa- tients. 2. It provides transportation for in- digent patients. 3. It supplies hospitals and nurses with surgical dressings and other needed supplies. 4. It equips and loans cabinets of articles and equipment for needy cancer patients. 5. It provides Tumor Clinics, Pre- vention Clinics and Industrial Health Clinics with clerical and nursing aides. Above all, the Field Army volunteers are constantly working toward the eventual breaking down of public fear, ignorance and prejudice through a pro- gram of cancer education. Cancer can be cured! HELP THE FIELD ARMY TO HELP YOU. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 350 Fifth Avenue New York City Come ln and Look Over The NEW SUMMER STYLES Wills-Camp Co. BI9 Main STreeT See SCOTT MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR YOUR PARENTS AT THE VIRGINIAN HOTEL EIGHTH and CHURCH PHONE 2700 - 9 HOMECOMING DANCE - . 1 LITTLE BELLE AND HOMER . . . OFF TO A Goon START . . . 10 THE METEOR Y x W' 64 x A DAVIS L. RIANHARD TO LEAD V-CLUB FIGURE TONIGHT MISS JACQUELINE I'1ALL THE V-CLUB A SITTING! Betty, Ballon, Ricmhardr, VanN0,hfmn, Armisfead. KNIQELING: Gower, Scncjf, Sfieglits, Gzmdry, Page, TlZUZ'IIf11U7'Z, Gay, Nutt, R., Riclzardson. STANDING: Gormly, Mczddzmf, Kemper, Hyre, MUCCGIIIIYII-, Newbc1'ry, Cornctt, Aldred, ZVIz1rmy, P., Allen., Lewis, Hansen, Akers, F., zTJm'ray, A. T H E MA E T E O R ,- SPORTS From The Sidelines T By Frank Aldred I The Bishops goT oTT To a good sTarT on The gridiron by downing Miller School To The Tune oT I9-0. Then iniuries hiT The squad and The Team wenT down To deTeaT in The remaining six games. FirsT came Har- grave. Save Tor Two cosTly penalTies, The GarneT and WhiTe would have Taken The Tigers in sTride. lnsTead, They wenT down by The score oT I4-6. NexT came Woodberry's dream Team, and beTore The Davidson avalanche could be sTopped, The score sTood 33-0. Woodberry used subs in The second halT and The score remained unchanged. NexT, The Bishops losT To Fishlourne on Two freak plays I2-0. lniuries never ceased and when The EHS game came 'round, hardly any maTerial was leTT. BUT in The mosT impressive game oT The campaign, The GarneT wenT down TighTing all The way, 20-O. The' overconTidenT Bishops Then iour- neyed To Randolph-Macon only To be beaTen 26-O. In The lasT game oT The season, The ST. ChrisTopher ma- chine rolled To a 33-0 win. ik -Ulf FK ik ATTer The sounds oT TooTball had died away, There arose a diTlerenl clamor, ThaT oT baskeTball. BuT The Bishop remained in his losing ways. ln The TirsT game, Hampden-Sydney's JV won 35-25. NexT Hargrave Took an early lead and wenT on To win 29-23. Woodberry's' Tigers scored an easy 58-I8 vicTory and Fork Union almosT duplicaTed The score by win- ning 58-33. ln a reTurn encounTer wiTh The Hampden-Sydney JV, The Bishops wenT down 39-22. The Bishops iourneyed To Wood- berry Tor a reTurn engagemenT and redeemed Themselves in parT 'Tor Their TirsT deTeaT by only losing 39-IS. in Two quick games wiTh Fishburne, The CadeTs won boTh: The TirsT 35-T4 and in The Barksdale Gymnasium in The besT playedigame oT The season by The score oT 25-23. The boys Trcm EHS smacked The Bishops 5I-I7 and The remaining games were cancelled because oT various epidemics aT The schools. Thus ended a very disasTrous season Tor The GarneT. Ik FK wk lk The V. E. S. baseball Team opened The season againsT Hopkins School iz T BASEBALL LETTERMEN ll, FIRST Row: Cleft to 1'igl1tj-Alwistead, S tieglits, Betty, Capt., Ballon, L ewis SECOND Row: Cleft to 1'igl1tj-Trczfatlzau, Gower, Newbcwy, Hyre, H aizscn, Alcan, F. STANDLNG: Gormly, IlfIa1iage1',' lVIl'. Bell, Coaclz. oT New England, a Team Traveling Through The souTh playing various Teams, and was meT wiTh a Terrible hiT barrage, losing 22-5. NexT, came Hargrave and Blackwell, sTar CadeT piTcher, baTTed and piTched his Team To a I3-O win, The only Time The Bishops were shuT ouT all season. The Team losT To STaunTon MiliTary Acad- emy l5-2 beTore breaking inTo The win column ,wiTh a win over Brook- ville High School, I0-8. STaving oTT several VES rallies, EHS won Il-4. BedTord won a surprising I5-7 vic- Tory in a slugTesT on The Bishop dia- mond. ln Their besT game oT The season and wiTh some very Timely hiTTing The GarneT and WhiTe licked Woodberry 9-8, puTTing The game on ice in The ninTh inning. In a well played game aT Waynesboro, Fish- burne Trimmed The Bishops 3-2, buT Two days laTer The charges were re- versed wiTh a 5-4 vicTory in a game played on The Bishops' Tield. Wood- berry ForesT goT revenge Tor iTs earlier Trouncing and Took a I5-l counT on Their home Tield. ln The lasT game oT The season, Hargrave Took advanTage oT Two cosTly errors and walked To a 4-I Triumph. ik ik lk wk The VES Track Team was very im- pressive ThroughouT Their season, winning boTh dual meeTs, Taking sec- ond in a Three-way meeT and Tinish- ing Third in The sTaTe prep meeT aT CharloTTesville. The season opened wiTh a dazzling 732-432 vicTory over Hargrave. The Bishops Took eighT TirsT places and Took all Three places in Three evenTs. NexT The cin- dermen iourneyed To Woodberry Tor a Triangle meeT wiTh Woodberry and Randolph-Macon. VES Took sec- ond place wiTh 40.7 poinTs behind Woodberry wiTh 80.9 poinTs. RMA 'lllissqnffarrg T 805 Main S'TreeT D. L. RIANHARD, AgenT We really owe some Thanks To Miss McCarron Tor her splendid co-operaTion. THE METEOR collecTed 29.4 poinTs. The sTaTe meeT was posTponed and in The meanTime The GarneT and WhiTe walloped Fork Union 73-43, Taking nine TirsT places and Tieing Tor Two oThers. For The Third sTraighT year, The Track aT The UniversiTy was rain soaked and Tor The TiTTh sTraighT year Wood- berry walked away wiTh The sTaTe prep school Track crown. The Orange and Black amassed a +oTal oT 75M poinTs. Trailing were: STaunTon Mili- Tary Academy, 39: Virginia Episco- pal School, IS: AugusTa MiliTary Academy, I3: MassanuTTen MiliTary Academy, 225 and Fishburne'Mili- Tary School, 2. John Page was The only Bishop To Take a TirsT place, cop- ping The 880 Tar ahead oT The nexT nearesT man. l'le also Took second place in The 440 behind Woodberry's Murphy, whom he had beaTen in The meeT aT Woodberry. And so ended VES aThleTics Tor an- oTher year. WiTh The excepTion oT The'Track Team which a'mosT dupli- caTed iTs lasT year's record excepT Tor Taking Third in The sTaTe meeT compared wiTh lasT year's TourTh place. aThleTics were on The sTeep downgrade. Lack oT experience was a main TacTor. The absence oT larger boys played a major role. UnTor- TunaTely, lack oT Team spiriT and lack oT school spiriT were ever presenT. lT is The hope oT everyone ThaT VES will go back To iTs usual high place in aThleTics in The near TuTure. Down wiTh moral vicToriesl PoinTs are whaT we wanT . . . more poinTs Than The oTher Team!! Hargrave MeeT The Virginia Episcopal School Track Team won iTs TirsT meeT oT The sea- son on Johnson Field againsT Har- grave MiliTary Academy. The Bishops Took TirsT in eighT evenTs in running up a 7322-432 'score againsT The CadeTs. Page was ouTsTanding Tor VES by copping The 440 and 220 and Taking second in The pole vaulT Tor a ToTal oT I3 poinTs. Ballou was second high scorer, Taking TirsT in The IOO and The 220 low hurdles and a Third in The shoT. Banes was TirsT in The pole vaulT and The shoT To posT I0 poinTs Tor his Team. The CadeTs Tailed To place in Three oT The run- ning evenTs, The 440, The 880 and The mile. Taylor, P., Tumped 5 TeeT, 7 inches, buT was disqualiTied. Summaries: Pole vaulT: Banes Page Holmes l-leighT IO' 3 . THE METEOR TRACK LETTERMEN 1 -n.. -.1-ass-M-f ,FRONT ROW: Cleft to 1'ig'lll1T-IfClllfJC7'A, Allen. Page, Cafvt.,' Ballou, Nutt, R. BACK Row: NIV. Miilton, Coachg Aldrcd, Senejf, 1VIc1rCaIIu111., Rianha-rd, 1lll!7'l'U.T', P., liffm-lager. ShoT puT: Banes TT-IT, Meyer Tl-TT, Ballou DisTance, 35' 9 . Discus: Kemper TVT.. Harris TVT, Jeanes DisTance, 96 TeeT. 440 yard dash: Page TVT, Aldred TVT, T-larris Time, 55.l. Mile run: Rianhard TVT, SeneTT TVT, MacCallum Time, 5:8. IOO yard dash: Ballou TVT, Schia- vone THT, Allen Time, I0:7. I20 yard high hurdles: NuTT May TT-IT, Allen Time, I7.5. 220 yard dash: Page TVT, Aldred TVT, Wilkerson Time, 24:8. Broad Tump: Leps THT, Wilkerson Tl-TT, Weaver TVT and Ferrell THT, Tie. DisTance, I8' 7 . Javelin: MarabiTo THT, Harris TVT, VanNoppen DisTance, l24'4. High Tump: Brooks THT, SeneTl: TVT and Leps Tl'lT, Tie. T-leighT, 5' 6 . 220 yard low hurdles: Ballou TVT, Ferrell Tl-TT, Allen Time, 2834. 880 yard dash: Rianhard TVT, Mac- Callum TVT, SmiTh Time, 2:15. Woodberry MeeT Woodberry ForesT Trackmen cap- Tured nine TirsT places in deTeaTing Virginia Episcopal School and Ran- dolph-Macon Academy in a Trian- gular meeT aT Woodberry. Wood- berry collecTed 80.9 poinTs followed by VES wiTh 40.7 and The CadeTs wiTh 29.4. Woodberry placed TirsT in all oT The Tield evenTs excepT one, Harris copping The Tavelin Tor VES wiTh a heave oT I32 TeeT 8 inches. The Bishops also Took TirsT in The 440. The 800 and The mile. l-lorTon oT Woodberry Took Three TirsTs, win- ning The IOO and The 220 and The broad Tump. Page oT VES won The 440 and The 880. The summary: IOO yard dash: l'lorTon TWT, Som- erTield TRT and Ballou TVT, Tie, Graves TRT. Time, 10.3. 220 yard dash: l-lorTon TWT, SomerTield TRT, Ballou TVT Williams Time, 22.7. 440 yard dash: Page Murphy TWT, Wilde TRT, Aldred Time, 52.9. 880 yard dash: Page TVT Rianhard TVT, Darden TWT, Odell Time, 2:7-5. Mile run: Rianhard TVT, SeneTT TVT, Lineweaver TRT, MacCallum Time 5:l.5. I20 yard high hurdles: WaTT TWT, Fuller Travers NuTT Time, I6.3. 220 yard low hurdles: WaTT TWT, Fuller Brake Allen Time, 26.3. I3 Shor puT: PeTerson IWI, Hill BuxTon IWI, Wunder DisTance, 40' 5.5 . Discus: Phillips IWI, BuxTon IWI, Kemper IVI, PeTerson DisTance, IO5' 2 . Javelin: Harris IVI, Wunder IRI, Vanhloppen DisTance,. I32' 8 . High iump: Shook TirsT, Trav- ers IRI, Cleen IRI, SeneTT IVI, Shakel- Tord and Eshelman all Tied 'Tor second. HeighT, 5' 2.5 . Broad iump: HorTon IWI, Drake IRI, and Reunind IWI, GeTTcheI DisTance, I9' I.5 . Pole vaulT: Longaker IVVI, Hobson Kirk IWI, Brown HeighT, I0' 9 . Fork Union MeeT Virginia Episcopal School Track Team won a 73-43 vicTory over Fork Union MiIiTary Academy on Johnson Tield, Taking nine TirsT places and Tfeing Tor Two oThers. Ba'Iou oT The Bishops was high scorer wiTh I3 poinTs. Page was second wiTh I2 poinTs. Summary: Pole vaulT: Page IVI and Gibson IFUI, Tie, Cooling IEUI. HeighT, IO' 6 . Broad iump: Hornback IFUI, VV'eaver IVI, TroTh IEUI. DisTance, I8' I . ShoT puT: HoTTman IEUI, Ballon IVI, Grundy DisTance, 38' II . Mile run: SeneTT IVI, MacCaIIum IVI, Parmer IEUI. Time, 5.0I' 2 . IOO yard dash: Ballou IVI, Norback IEUI, TroTh IEUI. Time, IO' 5 . Discus: Kemper IVI, HoTTman IFUI, Harris DisTance, 97' 5 . I20 high hurdles: Allen Cool- ing IEUI. Time, I8' I . I 220 yard dash: Ballou IVI, TroTh IEUI, Elemer Time, 25' 5 . 440 yard dash: Aldred IVI, Page IVI, WroTh Time, 60. High iump: SeneTT IVI, and Mac- Horney IEUI, Tie, Gibson IFUI. HeighT, Tive TeeT. 220 yard low hurdles: Allen IVI, Cooling IEUI, Goreman IEUI. Time, 28' 9 . Javelin: Maddux IVI, Jones IEUI, CorneTT DisTance, I26' B . 880 yard dash: Page Mac- Callum IVl.,Parmer IFUI. Time, 2' 05 , STaTe Track MeeT Woodberry EoresT School won iTs TiTTh sTraighT prep school Track cham- pionship wiTh a record ToTaI oT 75M I4 poinTs aT The UniversiTy oT Virginia Track. Trailing were STaunTon MiIiTary Academy, 39: Virginia Episcopal School, I8: AugusTa Mi'iTary Acad- emy, I3: MassanuTTen MiIiTary Acad- emy, 22: and Eishburne MiIiTary School, 2. The meeT's ouTsTanding perform- ers were Woodberry's Charlie PeTer- son, who Took I6 poinTs by winning boTh hurdles and placing second in The iavelin and shoT, and SMA's Bob Spears, who earned I5 poinTs wiTh TirsT in The shoT, discus, and broad iump. The meeT, posTponed once because OT weaTher condiTions, was run OTT in a ,heavy rain which slowed Times and reduced Tield marks. The summaries IOO yard dash HorTon Miller ISMAI, Ballou IVI, Williams Time, IO:7. 220 yard dash: Mi'Ier ISMAI, Hor- Ton Ballou IVI, Williams Time, 24 seconds. 440 yard dash: Murphy IVVI, Page IVI, LawTon IWI, Duprey IMMAI. Time, 5517. I 880 yard dash: Page Heppner IAMAI, McSweeney ISMAI Darden Iwi. Time, 21:29. Mile run: Eouracre IAMAI, Rian- hard IVI, Avis ISMAI, SeneTI Time, 5I05.7. I 20 high hurdles: PeTerson IVVI, WaTT IWI, Euller Allen Time, I7.I. 220 low hurdles: PeTerson IWI, WaTT IWI, Eickenberger IMMAI, Allen Time 28.4. Mile relay: Woodberry IShaw, Tan- ner, Eleming, Selvagel, STaunTon, AugusTa, MassanuTTen. Time, 3:59.7. Broad iump: Spears ISMAI, Snarr IAMAI, HorTon IWI, Reuning DisTance, I9 TeeT, 42, inches. High iump: Fraser ISMAI, Shook IVVI, Winship IWI, and Finch IEUI. Tie. HeighT, 5 TeeT, 6 inches. Pole vaulT: Longaker and Hobson and Brown IWI, Tie, Braseiield A HeighT, 9 TT., 6 in. Discus: Spears ISMAI, BuTIer ISMAI, Phillips IWI, BuxTon DisTance, I I8 TeeT, II inches. Javelin: Kirk IWI, PeTerson IWI. Murphy Fraser ISMAI. DisTance, I36 TeeT, I0 inches. ShoTpuT: Spears ISMAI PeTerson IWI, Bell IEMSI, HoTTman IEUI. Dis- Tance, 50 TeeT, 7M inches. Hopkins-I sT Game April I0.-In Their TirsT game oT The season The V. E. S. Bishops were swamped by Hopkins School, 22 To 5 on Langhorne Memorial Field. The Hopkins School Team, from New Eng- land, was Touring The SouTh, playing prep schools. The visiTors, who were leading 7 To O, had an ouTbursT oT scoring in The lasT inning, and before The dusT cleared I5 runs had crossed The pIaTe. The box score: 000- 0 Hopkins A.B. R. H. E. De Gennara, cf. ....... I I 0 0 Larson, cf. I ............ I I O O Harkin, 2b. ........... 3 2 2 O Dohney, 2b. ........,. ., I I 0 0 Carangeld, 3b. ........ 4 3 2 0 Sheehan, rf. ........... 4 I I 0 Prouosf, Ib. .........,. 5 3 3 O NewTon, IT. ... .... . 5 2 0 0 Carpender, ss ..... 3 3 2 0 Dennison, c. ..... O I O 0 O'Brien, c. .... ..... 2 2 2 O Lvnch, p. ............. 2 I O 0 FiTzgeraId, p. ......... 2 I I 0 ToTaI ..... ..... 3 3 22 I3 0 V. E. S. A.B. R. H. E. Lewis, 3b. .... ... I 0 0 f I STiegIiTz, cf. ... .... . 3 I 0 O Gower, rf. .... ..... 2 I O 0 Ballou, Ib. .... ..... 3 I 2 0 BeTTy, c. .............. 2 I O 0 Trevaihan, 2b. ......... 2 I I I ArmisTead, IT. ......... 3 0 0 0 Hansen, ss. .... . 3 0 2 0 Akers, p. ..., . 2 O 0 I Hyre, p. .,.. ..... 0 0 0 0 Gay,3b.... ...I 0 I 2 TOTaI ............... 22 5 6 4 Score by innings: Hoskins ............... 310 210 Iisl-22 5 V. E. S ........ ......... O OO OOO 5 - JOHN M. PAGE Cajvfairz of Track THE METEOR Hargrave-2nd Game April I3.-Pilcher Blacky Blackwell ol Hargrave lvlililary Academy al- lowed only lour hils, lanned I2, and hil lwo homers, a double and a single as Hargrave handed lhe Bishops lheir second deleal ol lhe season on lhe Cadel diamond, I3 lo O. The Bishops lhrealened several limes, bul were never able lo score. The box score: Hargrave A.B. R. H. E. Schiavone, 2b. ... ... I 0 I O Roberls, 2b. ... . .. 2 I I 0 Adams, Ib. .. 5 3 I 0 I-Ialloway. ss. ... 5 I I O Sadler, ll. ... ... 2 0 I 0 Moon, Il. .... ... 3 O O 0 Blackwell, p. ... ... 4 4 4 CI LIQIII, Cf. .A... 2 I o o Easley, cl. ... ... I O O O Cunill. rl. ... ... I O O 0 Wells, rl. .... 2 I 0 I Tralhnam, c. . ... I I 0 0 Marian, 3b. .. 2 I I 2 Tolal ...... ..... 3 I I3 IO 3 V. E. S. A.B. R. H. E. Newberry, rl. . . ... 4 O I O Lewis, 3b. ...,... ... 4 0 I 0 Trevalhan, 2b. ..,. ... 3 0 I O Ballau, Ib. .,... ... 3 O O O Belly, c. ....,.. . ... 3 0 I O Armislead, ll. .... ... 4 O O O Gower.cl. . 4 O 0 0 Gay, ss. ..,,, H. I O O 0 Hansen, ss 3 0 O I Akers ..... I O O 0 Slieglilz. p. .. 3 O O O Tolal ............... 33 O 4 I Score by innings: Hargrave .......,....... 5OI OIO 24x-I3 V. E. S. ,........ ........ 0 OO OOO OOO- . S. M. A.-3rd Game. April I7.-A powerful Slaunlon Mililary Academy leam had lwo big innings as lhey lrounced lhe V. E. S. Bishops, I5 lo 2, on lhe V. E. S. Field. The visilors gol oll lo a lasl slarl and were leading 5 lo 2 al lhe beginning ol lhe sevenlh lrame in spile ol Belly's lhree-hil pilching. Cornel, lhe V. E. S. calcher, was in- jured in lhe sevenlh, and Belly was lorced lo lill lhe vacancy behind lhe plale. The Cadels gol hol and scored len runs in lhe Iasl lwo innings oll ol Slieglili and Akers, who hurled lhe resl ol lhe game. The box score: Slanlon A.B. H. R. E. Gibson, 2b. .........., 4 I I 0 Baysinger, ss. .... ..... 5 3 2 O W. Lewis, Ib. . . . .... . 5 2 I 0 Lawrence. p. ..., .... 5 0 I O Schweder, ll. .... ..... 3 I 3 0 Pickell, Cl. .... ..... 2 0 2 O Tayloe, 3b. .... .,... 4 2 2 O J.Lewis,rl.... ....4 I 2 O Pope, c. .... ,... 5 I I O Ely, p. .... .... 0 O O O Tolal ............... 37 I I I5 0 THE METEOR V. E. S. A.B. H. R. E. Lewis, 3b. ..,......... 4 l 0 0 Slieglilz, Ib., p. ........ 3 2 I 0 Trevalhan, 2b. 4 O 0 0 Belly, p., c. ..,.. .... 4 O O O Armislead, If. ... .... 4 2 O 0 Akers, rl., p. .... .... 3 0 0 0 Gower, cl. .... .... 3 I I O Hansen, ss. . .... 2 O O I Cornel, c. .... ..., 2 I O 2 Newberry, rl. ... .... I 0 O I Tolal ............... 30 7 2 . 3 Score by innings: S. M. A. ..........,...... 040 OOI 28-I5 V. E. S. ................. OIO OOI OO- 2 Brookville-4lh Game April l8.-Aller lhree slraighl de- leals lhe V. E. S. Bishops broke inlo lhe win column wilh lheir IO lo 8 viclory over Brookville High School in an error lilled game on Langhorne Memorial Field. The Bishops beal down lwo Brookville rallies, wilh Hyre and Slieglilz scallering seven hils lor V. E. S. The box score: Brookville A.B. H. R. E. Jessee. rl. .... .... l 0 O O Mann, rl. ..... .... I O O 0 Adre, rf. ....... .... 3 I 0 0 Slinnelle, ll. .... .,.. 2 0 0 2 Royer, ll. ...........,. I 0 O O R. Garbee, Ib. ........ I 0 0 - 'O Gilberl, Ib. ..... .... 3 I 3 O Baker, 2b. .... .... 3 2 3 I Brooks, 3b. .... .... 4 I O I Walker, ss. ..... .... 3 I I O Dolan. p. ........,,,,. 3 O 0 O H. Garbee, cl. ........ I I O 0 Warren, c. ...... .... 0 O I O Hensley, C. ... .... I O O O Mayheu, p. 2 O 0 0 wma. p. ...., ,.., 2 o o o Tolal .. .... 3I 7 B 4 V. E. S. A.B. H. R. E. Lewis. 3b. .... .... 3 O I 2 Gay, 3b. ....... .... 2 O O O siiegliiz, Ib., C... ..., 3 o I I Trevalhan, 2b. ... .... 2 I I 2 Belly, C. ........ .... 4 I I O Armislead, Il. ... .... 2 O I O Flemer, rl. ............ I O I I Gower, cl., Ib. ........ 4 I I O Newberry, rl. . .. .. .. 3 I I O Hanson, ss. ... .... O 0 I 4 Hyre, p. .... ,... 2 O O O Barge, ll. I 0 I 0 Tolal ............... 27 4 I0 I0 Score by innings: Brookville ................, O02 I32 O- B V. E. S. ................... 2I3 O3I x-IO E. H. S.-5lh Game April 20.-The V. E. S. leam was delealed II lo 4 by Episcopal High School on lhe winning leam's dia- mond. Bolh leams gol across lwo lallies in lhe opening lrame, bul in lhe lhird inning E. H. S. look a 4 lo 3 lead. Three more runs in lhe lourlh and lour in lhe sixlh pul lhe game on ice lor lhe Episcopal High leam. The Bishops rallied .in lhe sixlh on Pilcher Belly's homer, and hils by Trevalhan and Newberry, bul E. H. 5. slaved oll lhe Bishops by lanning lhe nexl lhree men al bal. The box score: E. H. S. A.B. R. H. E. Denial, 2b. ....... ... 4 2 I 2 Smedberg. ss. .... 4 3 I O T. Gregory. cl. ... ... 3 2 I O Hagen, p. ..,.. ... 2 0 O O Ghescock, p. . .... I 0 I O M. Gregory, rl. ....... 3 O O 0 Hill, ll. .......,,. 4 O I 0 Kraminer, 3b. .. ... 4 I 0 I Rush, c. .,... .. 3 I I O Schachl, lb. .... ... 3 2 I I Tolal .... ..... 3 I Il 7 4 V. E. S. A.B. R. I H. E. Lewis, 3b. ...... ... 4 0 0 3 Slieglilz, cl., c. .... 4 I 2 O Gower, cl., ll. .... ... 4 2 2 0 Ballau, Ib. ..,.. ... 4 Oi I O Belly, p. ......... ... 3 I I 2 Trevalhan, 2b. .... ... 3 O I 0 Newberry, rl. . . . .. 3 0 I O Hansen, ss. .. ... 3 O O O Akers, Il. .. ... 2 0 O I Cornel, c. . ... I O O 0 Tolal ...... ..... 2 7 4 8 6 Score by inninos E. H. S. ....... ..... 2 02 304 x-II V. E. S. ................... 20l OOI 0- 4 Bedford-6lh Game April 24-In a wild, high scoring game on lhe V. E. S. diamond, Bed- lord High School collecled len hils oll ol lhree V. E. S. pilchers, and proliled by numerous Bishop errors, lo swamp V. E. S. I5 lo 7. The visilors scored in every inning bul one and checked lwo delermined rallies by lhe Bishops. Gordon, Bed'- lord calcher, led his leam's hilling, gelling a lour-bagger wilh lwo aboard in lhe second, and lwo sin- gles. Newberry, wilh a lriple and a double, and Lewis, wilh a lhree- bagger and a oneibase knock, led lhe Bishops. Firsl Woodberry Game 7lh Game April 27.-Shorlslop Toby Han- son's single wilh lwo'on in lhe lasl hall ol lhe ninlh inning broke a dead- locked score lo give a much improved V. E. S. leam a 9 lo 8 viclory over Woodberry Foresl in a real lhriller on Langhorne Field belore an enlhu- siaslic crowd. Edgar Belly lurned in a greal per- lormance on lhe mound lor lhe Bishops as he scallered seven hils and slruck oul nine, and lhe enlire V. E. S. leam backed him up by play- ing bang-up ball all lhe way. I5 Woodberry scored in The TirsT in- ning, buT The Bishops bounced back in Their half oT The same inning To rack up Five runs and Take The lead, which They held unTil The Tigers Tied The score aT 7-all in The eighTh. The Bishops came back wiTh a run in Their haIT oT The eighTh To Take The lead again. Davidson Tripled in The IasT inning, driving in STeward To deadlock The score again. Once more The Bishops came back TighTing. Tre- vaThan gained a walk, Akers singled, and Then I-ianson goT his Timely game winning hiT. The box score: Woodberry ForesT A.B. R. H. E. Green, ss. ..........,. 4 I 2 0 STewarT. 2b ........... 4 I I 0 Davidson, IT. .......... 5 O 3 0 Moore, rT. ,.....,...,. 4 I 0 0 Vandervoort cT. .....,. 4 I I O SlaughTer, Ib. ...,.,... 3 I 0 0 Johnson, 3b. ..,.,..... 3 I O I Flowers. p., rf. ........ 3 I 0 O Wilson, c. .,... ..... 2 I 0 I Tafal .... .,... 3 2 8 7 2 V. E. S. A.B. R. H. E. Lewis, rf. .. ..... 5 O 4 O STiegliTz, c. ..... 4 O I 0 Gower, cT. ..... 5 I I 0 Ballou, Ib. ..... 5 I 2 O BeTTy, p. ....... ..,.. 3 2 I I TrevaThan, 2b. ......... 2 2 0 0 Newberry, lf. .... , 5 2 I O Akers, 3b. 4 O 2 O Hanson, ss. . ..... 5 I 2 0 ToTaI ........ ..,... 3 6 9 I4 I Score by innings: V. E. S. ......,.,....,.... 500 O02 OI l-9 Woodberry ForesT ......,.. I20 OOI O3l-8 FirsT Fishburne Game May 7.-The Fishburne MiliTary School nine edged The Bishops 3 To 2 on The CadeT diamond. The Bishops were leading 2 To O unTil The TiTTh frame, when The CadeTs bunched Three singles and a Two-sacker by Humphery To deadlock The score. In The boTTom oT The sevenTh PiTcher Murphey won his own ball game wiTh a single ThaT senT Reed home wiTh I:ishburne's winning marker. Gower was The Bishop's ouTsTanding hjTTer, geTTing Two singles and a double in Three Trips To The pIaTe. The box score: Fishburne A.B. R. H. E. Quenlen. 3b. ...,...... 4 O O 0 Reed, cf. .... ..... 3 I I 0 Hallowell, c. ... .... . 3 0 2 O Murphey, p. .... . 4 O I O Ford, 'lI. ....... ..... 3 ' 0 O 0 Gregory, lb. .... . 3 0 I O Carver, 2b. .... ..... 3 I I 0 Humphrey. ss. ..... 3 I I O Powe, ri. .... ..... 3 O I O To+aI .... ..... 2 9 3 8 O I6 V. E. S. A.B. R. H. E. Lewis. rf. 4 0 I O STiegliTz, c. ... .... 2 I O I Gower, cf. 3 I 3 0 Ballou, lb. .... .... 3 O I 0 BeTTy, p. ........ .... 2 0 0 0 TrevaThan, 2b. ... .... 3 O 2 O Newberry. IT. .... .... 3 O O O Akers, 3b. .... .... 3 O 0 I Hansen, ss. . .... 3 0 O O Tofal ............... 25 2 7 2 Score by innings: F. lvl. S. ................,,.. OOO 020 I-3 V. E. S. .................... OOO IIO G-2 Second Fishburne Game May 9Th May 9.-The V. E. S. Bishops broke a deallocked score in The IasT inning To Top Fishburne MiliTary School, 5 To 4 on Langhorne Field. and Take revenge Tor a one-poinT deTeaT suffered aT The hands oT The CadeTs earlier in The week. WiTh The counT deadlocked aT 4-all in The IasT Trame, BeTTy's single senT Ballou, who had also hiT saTeIy, home wiTh The winning run. John Hyre piTched Three-hiT ball Tor The Bishops, Tanning Tive. Rook oT The CadeTs sTruck ouT nine, buT gave up eighT hiTs. ' The box score: Fishburne A.B. R. H. E. Quenlin, 3b. .......... 4 0 O 0 Reed, CT. ....... .... 3 0 O. O Murphy, 2b. .... ..., 3 2 2 I Hallowell, c. .... ..., 3 O 0 0 Gregory, Ib. .... .... 4 O I O Humphrey, ss. , .... 4 0 0 O Ford, IT. ....., .... 2 I 0 O Carver. rT. .... .... 2 I O 0 Powe, rT. I O O O Rook, p. .... .... 3 O 0 O Total . . .' ...... 29 4 3 I V. E. S. A,B. R. H. E. Lewis.rT.... ....4 2 I 0 STiegliTz, c. ... .. .. O 2 O O Gower, cT. .... ,... 4 O 2 O Ballou, Ib. ..., .... 4 I 2 I BeTTy, IT. ....... .... 3 0 2 O TrevaThan, 2b. ... .... 3 O 0 O Akers, 3b. .... .... 3 O I I Hansen, ss. . .... 2 O O 4 Hyre, p. .... .... 3 0 O 0 Tofal . . , .... 26 5 8 6 Fishburne .....,........ .... I OO 2IO O-4 V. E. S ..................,.. 2I0 OI0 I-5 Second Wood berry ForesT Game ' May II.-The Tigers oT Wood- berry ForesT jumped on Bishop piTcher BeTTy Today Tor eighT runs in The TirsT Two innings To deTeaT Virginia Episcopal School, I5-I, on The winner's Tield This aTTernoon in a loosely-played baseball game. The losing piTcher and his baTTery maTe, STiegliTz, swapped posiTions, and The visiTors did beTTer Till Woodberry broke ouT wiTh Tour runs in The eighTh inning. V. E. S. pushed iTs lone Tally over in The ninTh when Ballou crossed The pIaTe. V. E. S ......... OOO OOO OOI- I 4 5 W. F. S ....... 440 OI204 '-I5 8 I BaTTeries: BeTTy, STiegliTz and STiegliTz, BeTTy: STewarT, Wash and Davidson. Second Hargrave Game LasT Game oT Season May I7-A Three run rally in The eighTh inning brokea Tie To give Hargrove MiIiTary Academy a 4 To I vicTory over The V. E. S. Bishops in a TighT game on The V. E. S. dia- mond. Hargrove rallied in The sec- ond inning on a walk and error and led by a I To O score unTiI The IasT regular inning when Ballou doubled, sTole Third, and came home on Tre- vaThan's single, To deadlock The score. In The TirsT halT oT The exTra inning Two errors, a single, and Two walks gave Hargrove Three runs and The game. Edgar BeTTy piTched Two-hiT ball Tor The Bishops, buT cosfly errors by his TeammaTes losT The game, The Bishops coIIecTed six scaTTered hiTs OTT oT Moon, who hurled Tor The War College. The box score: Hargrave A.B. R. . RoberTs, 2b. .......... 4 0 ITJI I'IalIOWay, 55, , U' 4 O 0 0 Adams, rT. ..... 4 I O 0 Blackwell, IT. ... ... 2 2 O 0 Moon, p. ..,. 4 O I 0 Trayhnam, c. . I 0 I 0 LighT, ci. ...,.. 3 0 0 0 Marion. 3b. .... ... 3 0 0 I Mifchell, Ib. ... ... I I O 0 ToTaI .... ..... 2 6 4 2 I V. E. S. A.B. R. H. E. Lewis, rT. .... 4 O 2 0 STiegliTz, C. . . ,H 4 0 I I Gower,cT. 4 O O 0 Ballou, Ib. ..... 3 I I O BeTTy, p. ....,.... ... 2 O O 0 TrevaThan, 2b. .... ... 3 O I 0 Newberry, IT. ... ... 3 O 0 0 Akers, 3b. 3 O O I Hanson, ss. 3 0 I 2 Tofal ............... 29 l 6 4 Score by innings: H. M. A. ...,......, ..... O IO 000 O3-4 V. E. S. ..,................. O00 000 I0-I PHIL'S SMOKE SHOP ITHE METEOR BATTING AVERAGES PIayer- G. A.B. H. 2B 3B HR. Avg. Corneif ,..., ...., 2 3 2 I 0 - 0 .667 I3aIIou ...... ,.... 9 32 I3 2 I 0 .406 Lewis ...... ,.... I I 39 I 2 0 I 0 .333 SJrIegIiIz ..... .,... I I 32 IO I 0 0 .3I3 Gower ...,... ..... I I 40 I0 2 I 0 .300 Armisiead .,.,...... 4 I4 3 0 0 0 .282 Trevaihan .,... Il 32 7 3 0 0 .250 I3eI'Iy ..............,... I I 33 7 I I I .2 I'2U Newberry ,......... 9 29 6 I I 0 .207 Hansen ..... ..,.. I I 29 6 0 0 0 .207 Akers ...... ..... I 0 27 2 0 0 0 .074 Hyre ........ ..... 4 ' 6 0 0 0 0 .000 Gay ......., ...,, 2 2 , 0 0 0 0 .000 Dawson ,. ..... I I 0 0 0 0 .000 Thomas .,.. ..... I I 0 0 0 0 .000 Flemer .... .,... I 0 0 0 0 0 .000 I I 320 I 78 I I 5 I .244 TRACK RECORDS Even+- Record Holder I00 yard dash ............... I0.I seconds QTRIZB' Tie, 220 yard dash. 440 yard dash. 880 yard run... Mile run .,......... seconds 50.8 seconds 2 minu+es, I.6 seconds 4 minufes, 46 seconds I20 yd. high I6.I seconds 220 yard Iow hurdles ..., 26.6 seconds High jump ..,..... Pole vauII .,...... Broad jump ,...., Javelin +hrow,, Discus Ihrow .... 5 Ieei, 9M inches II feei, 9 inches 2I Ieei, 7 inches I79 Ieef, 3X1 inches I23 feei 46 feet inch Sho? pu? ......... , ..... MiIe reIay ......... .......... 3 minuies, 36 seconds T. H. Crudup, I938 T. H. Crudup, I939 James Davis, I936 Claibourne Darden, I929 Rodger WiI'iams, I934 I.. T. Srni+h, I926 L. S. Booih, I928 D. P. GoIdsmiIh, I926 S. P. Luck, I929 Roberi Williams, I935 G. R. E. KOCI1, I944 Rodger Williams, I934 Vinson, Massie, Reams, Davis, I936 Harris-Woodson Co. Incorporafed wishes Io express iI's gra+iI'ude Mam'facI 'I 9 and I0I9I9I 9 Confecfioners Io I'he WE SUPPLY v. E. S. STORE LYNCHBURG ENGRAVING COMPANY MEET YOUR for FRIENDS AT if s splendid co-operahon THE IMETEORR METEORITES Nick-Names Akers, F ............. ....... W ild Arm Akers, M ....,....... .,...................... F Iash Aldred ...........,.....,.............. Smoofhie Alexander ........ Zonder, Jrhe Wonder Allen ...............,............. Armisfead Ballou ............ Barfleii ..,.. Bass ....... Bell .... BeHy .... Bowen ......,. Bradsher .... Braxion ..... Builer ........ Cardwell ...... Carpenier .... Ca rier .......,.,. Corneii ....... Coiion ...... ,,,,,,, Crafi' ......... Criicher .. Dawson Duffy ...,,.. Fennell ..... FieId ...... Finch .... FIemer .. Franks Gay .,..... Gilman Goiser ..., Goode ...... Gormly ..... Gower Gundry ..... Hansen ..,.. Hardy ...,.,.... Harris, B. ..... . Harris, S. .... . Hari ......... I-Iughes ..,.. Hvre . .... Johnson Jones ....,. Kemper .. Kooniz .....,, Lewis ......., MacCaIIum MacLeod .... McAIpine ..... Maddux ...... MarshaII Massie .. Moses ........... ,..,,,, .Terrible Tom ..........CooIcie .......5Ici-Jump ...........SpIuI'I .......Baaaaass ...Ding-Dong .............Eggy .........Fa+ Rai ..,,.....MuIe .........,SIa+s .........KiIIer .....,..,.....TanIc .....SIurpen+er .........Whaap ............Big-un .,...........RusI'y ...Toledo Kid .......Creecher ..........LiI Phil ...........GoIdy .........Woody ......,..Mousey ...........Ears ...,..,.Lew ............Ho+sy ....,..........H.aD ........ Mush-Mourh ,.........Geezer Buddy ..,......GarmIy ...,....,....FooIsie .........SIope-Head ......,.....Tobaa .....,,.....Leroy .....,......Beans ...,....,Smoose .......,..I.iver ....,.......Phews ...I-Iair ....Consomme .....,,,.....Bones ....,......... ,Bunny ..,..........Warn .......Four for Five .........,...MacIc ,.......Town Boy .....,.,TaII Pine ..............SIicIc ,.......Marsh .....,....,...FIoo'r ..,.........VaIIer Murray, A ......... ,......... S iIenI Murph Murray, P ..,......, .......... B ig Murph Musiard ...... .................. S 'ob Mesick .,..... Nesbir ....... Newberry ......,.....WiIIie ..........ScoJr+ie . ....... Wonnie I7 Usually Seen: Talking abouT Lac NuTT, R ...,.... NuTT, W ......... Ogden .... Page ......... Perry ....... Pollard .,..... Ramsay ...,.... Rianhard .....,. Richardson .. ScoTT .,........... Seneff ........... Shannonhouse Smifh, I: ........ SmiTh, S. ..... . STephenson .. Sieqlifz ..,........ Taylor, P ........ Taylor, S ........ Thomas ...... Thompson ...... TrevaThan .... Vanhloppen .. . Wayland ,...,... . Weaver ........ Wellford Wiggins ...................... WiThers ....... .......Goose ............,.Buck .......Egg-I-lead ......Long John ...........SToop ........Measles ..,.....Snake .......PIedge ..........Booger ....,..,,......Blobo Shannonmouse . ..,.............. STan ............Swine ......,..PaI Val . ........ Dall Face ........Dimples .........STreTch ........,.B'ackie ..............Mope ........One Gun ......Wee Wee ....,.......Army ..........I-Iuggins ..................,....Whoofers WFBTTT . .... T iillsbifrffu waggnfaaulq-fn?1'i.ir'6 -T My FirsT Day aT V. E. S. Since school plays such an im- porTanT parT in The life of The aver- age American, I feel iT only naTural ThaT, when picking an incidenT from my pasT life To reIaTe, I should choose one having To do wiTh school. IT was Tuesday, SepTember I9, i945-a brighT, sunny day in The neighborhood of CharloTTesvil'e,' Vir- ginia. BuT There was no ioy in one home, for Today one of The mem- bers of The family dwelling There was going away To school for The firsT Time. All The name-Tapes were sewed in my lTor I was The lucky onel moclesf wardrobe, and nearly all par- enTaI admoniTions had been given. Then The Terrible hour appoinTed for leaving roI'ed around. We goT in our car, and even iT seemed To bound Torfh wiTh unusual fervor iusT To add To my discomforT. I never rode sixTy miles so quickly in all my life as ThaT day on The way To Lynchburg. Arriving aT The Virginia Episcopal School, we were meT begrudgingly by a sad-eyed individual whose every movemenT seemed To give him excessive pain, wiTh The resulT ThaT he moved very Iiffle and very slowly. I8 I finally goT insfalled in my bunk lThough my parenTs sTilI call iT room. Oh, if They only knewll amid The TorrenTs of faTherIy advice con- cerning school life poured on me by The same Sad Sack who meT us. Then my parenTs lefT, and I was all alone in The cold, cruel world. I Think I musT have known Then how Niobe TeIT when bereff of her fourfeen sons and daughTers. The man who had regisfered me so ofliciously seemed always near me, urging me To mingle wiTh The oThers. How- ever, I didn'T feel quiTe like min- gling Then. Old Boys kepT shouT- ing To each oTher in friendly and cog- nizanT Tones, and This made me feel even worse. Then, bells began To ring, and everyone sTarTed rushing in one di- recfion. When I goT To The dining- room, I iusT sfood There looking be- wildered unTil some kindly and firm hand Took me To my appoinTed place. ATTer supper I wandered around 'mid The sounds of slurp. bunk, dorm, and such words which evi- d.enTIy composed The V. E. S. iabber- wocky. AfTer more bells, I was Told To go To bed. I did so, feeling very much bewildered and unhappy. I had enTered anoTher world, one which, Though faulTy in some respecTs, every boy should enTer and spend some Time in, and which I know will conTribuTe a good hand in shaping my fuTure. AfTer all is considered, I be'ieve ThaT firsT day was worTh iT! 'ITAn original essay by Jack Carpenfer subrniTTed as an English V Theme. BIO-X-RAY Andrew Clemenf Ramsay Born: June IO, I928. I-lome: Arlingfon, Va. lWhere General Lee is buried, by Gawdll PeT Love: STamps, wiTh IeTTers sTuck To Them. PeT l'IaTe: Unnecessary Brisks. CusTomary Expression: You Talk like a faT lady! FavoriTe SporT: Seeing The world. Spare Time OccupaTion: Trying To find more spare Time. Usually Seen: Teasing Flerner. Snake is a genfleman of forTune whose main passion is The open road. I-le'-is here To sTay Till he graduaTes This' Time-come hell, high waTer, or anyfhing shorT of Uncle Sam. James W. Ballou, Jr. Home: Oxford, NorTh Carolina. Born: Augusf 22, I928. PeT Love: Babes. PeT I-laTe: Being called Jimboo. CusTomary Expression: LeT's re- Tire -To anyone. Sparefime OccupaTion: Being an aThleTe, Usually Seen: C-5eTTing equipmenT for his IiTTle sisTer's fooTbaIl Team. G-reaTesT Concern: Trying To keep his women from finding each oTher OuT. AmbiTion in Life: To be able To keep his dafes sTraighT. Ski-iump came To VES lasT year from The comforTs of Carolina To become one of our ouTsTanding aTh- leTes. I-le was apooinTed a counselor in The middle of This year, as well as being on The G,A.A., an officer of The V-Club, and Treasurer of The Senior Class. Donnell VanNoppen, Jr. I-lome: lvlorganTon, NorTh Caro- line. Born: December l2, l928. CusTomary Expression: STep on iT, Boonie, There's a black Ford Tailing us! de Jacques. GreaTesT Concern: AnyThing wiTh a skirT. PeT I'laTe: ST. Mary's. AmbiTion in Life: To geT back To Carolina. From The land of The long-leaf pine comes lvlope, who has be- come one of The ouTsTanding boys in school, being ediTor of The MeTeor, counselor, capTain of Toofball, presi- denf of The 6. A. A., Treasurer of The V-Club, secrefary of The Senior Class, and regisTrar of The VesTry. I-le is headed for U. N. C. in Sep- Tember To become a member of The Brigade. I-Iere's To The land of The long leaf pine: The summer land where The sun do+h shine: Where The weak grow sfrong, and The sTrong grow greaT: I-Iere's To Down Home, The Old Norfh STaTe. -EdiTor. THE METEOR ' VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Non - miIiIary. Superior The preparafion for all col- Ieges a+ moderafe cos'r. Accredi+ed -+ I High s+ancIarcI in schol- arship ancI a+I1Ie'rics . . OFFICIAL Gymnasium ' - - '40 News PUBLICATION acres I1eaI+I1fuIIy and beaufifully si'rua+ecI in of 'I'I1e Virginia mounfains. VIRGINIA FOR CATALOGUE WRITE TO EPISCOPAL George L. Barton, Ir., SCHOOL M.A., Ph.D., Headmaster V. E. 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' I -1- Jnwfmr-Q, - V VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL CHA1zL12s GRANVILLE 'WEAVER . . , 5l'l Z'I'L'l' to ilu' Sl'fI00I.U VULUME XXX QThe Schoolj NUMBER 7 tim Q -e mseaeeme Volume XXX COMMENCEMENT SUPPLEMENT No. 7 THE SCHOOL Prizes and Medals The Adair Archer Memorial Medal, given To ThaT boy who. in The esTima- Tion oT The l'leadmasTer and The Tac- ulTy, has shown The besT all round de- velopmenT in his characTer and in his service To The school. Charles Granville Weaver ' The Thomas CarruThers Trophy and Medal, given by an alumnus oT The Class oT I92O Tor scholasTic achieve- menT coupled wiTh aThleTic abiliTy. Francis Kazimer Alclred Beniamin R. KearToTT Memorial Cup, given To ThaT boy who, in The opinion oT The aThleTic sTaTT, has shown The greaTesT aThleTic abiliTy in The school during The year. James WhiTaker Ballou, Jr. The Big BroTher Prize, given an- nually by voTe oT The new boys To The old boy who has done The mosT To help The i'raTs adiusT Themselves To school liTe. ' Lewis Moore ArmisTead The V-Club Prize, given To The besT non-leTTer aThleTe. Frederick Sears Harris, Jr. Academic Prizes Prizes Tor excellence in English com- posiTion, William V. NuTT, English ll: Andrew Ramsay, English V1 Royal G. Shannonhouse Ill, English Vl. Junior Scholarship Prizes: EirsT Prize, ArmisTead Landon WellTordg Second Prize, EllioTT Muse BraxTon, ll. Senior Scholarship Prizes: EirsT Prize, Johnson Teel CarpenTer, Jr.7 Second Prize, CrawTord John McCal- lum. 2 Alpha and Omega LasT week was no cliTTerenT Trom such weeks in each oT The ThirTy odd years ThaT V. E. S. has been in exis- Tence. There was The usual lasT min- uTe cramming Tor examinaTions, The long hours oT menTal eTTorT in The ex- aminaTion room, The posT morTems aTTer The TesTs were over. BuT, like all such weeks, iT had iTs compensaTions. There was The V- Club iniTiaTion To sTarT iT OTT, cli- maxecl las Tar as The resT oT The sTu- denT body was concernedl by The skiT: A JoinT MeeTing oT The Air ScouTs and The Camera Club, which wenT OTT successTully and hilar- iously even Though Gilman McCal- lum's Tlash bulb did Tail To go oTT when he was Trying To Take a picTure oT Bulldog. As usual The regular issue oT The MeTeor wenT To press and This special issue. BeTween seTbacks caused by lack oT co-operaTion by The weaTher- man, EasT Main won a shuT-ouT vic- Tory in The soTT-ball series. The V- Club Tennis TournamenT as usual wenT on Toward a Tinish which, also as usual, is sTill in doubT as This magazine goes To press. The dances were as enjoyable as ever. CommencemenT CommencemenT also Tollowed The paTTern which Through The years has proved so well suiTed To V. E. S. The commencemenT sermon by The Rev. W. Taylor Willis oT Noriolk, Va., lsee page 3l was The only long address, and iT was noT unduly long. Even now as This magazine is waiT- ing To be disTribuTed, The commence- menT exercises are being held under The Trees in TronT oT chapel. John WroTh oT Parkersburg, WesT Virginia, is delivering The valedicTory address. lSee Page 3.1 Now There is a hush oT expecTancy as Richard E. Gundry oT CaTonsville, Maryland, rises To make The class prophecy: . . . l decided To, Take a Tew minuTes OTT beTween The DT ward and The more violenT cases To wriTe a 'There seems To be a good chance Thai The unco-operaTive weaTherman may make a liar ouT oT The MeTeor. IT so. we Take iT all back. We meanT The gymnasium insTead oi The lawn. chain leTTer To The boys .... Jim Bal- lou had nosed his way inTo The Treas- ureris chair oT The LiggeTT and Myers Tobacco Co .... Eggy BeTTy is now running The library aT The ZeTa house and . . . cueing a Tew games wiTh Mope Vanhloppen, who runs over... in a new version oT SweeT Pea . . . Tour blocks longer Than The original . . . Blackie TravaThan has gone in Tor briskball in a big way .... STupe Perry now owns The enTire island ThaT Warsaw, KenTucky, is builT on ..,. lT is sTrange, buT all oT The boys oT '46 make good in a big way. NexT comes The announcemenT oT awards and The conTerring oT diplo- mas by Dr. BarTon, assisTed by Mr. Blanks, The senior masTer. Finally arrives ThaT momenT when The l-lonor Council is announced Tor The coming year. The war is over, and wiTh iT many oT The uncerTainTies which prevenTed This announcemenT lasT year. Two oT The Honor Council are reTurning and will conTinue To serve The school as They served iT This year. They are The head counselor, John M. Page, oT Brandon, VermonT: and Lewis M. ArmisTead oT Church- land, Virginia. To assisT Them and To re lace Adair Archer MedalisT Chgarles G. Weaver is Thomas l-l. Al- len oT Kernersville, NorTh Carolina. Finally The end comes, This maga- zine is disTribuTed, and The Tinals oT T946 are over, The TirsT peace-Time commencemenT in Tive long years. The Dances ln a gymnasium elaboraTely and TasTeTully decoraTed Through The courTesy oT Millner's, who supplied The props, and Miss McCarron, who supplied The palms, The Tinal dances Took place To The saTisTacTion oT all concerned. SaTurday Nigh+ The V-Club Tigure was led by Davis Rianhard, presidenT, and Miss Jackie l-Tall. The receiving line included The oTTicers oT The club, Rianhard, BeTTy, Ballou, ArmisTead, and VanNoppeng Dr. and Mrs. BarTon: Mr. and Mrs. Gannaway: Mr. and Mrs. Bell: and The Rev. and Mrs. MilTon. The music was supplied by Bob Cleveland and his orchesTra. THE METEOR Monday NighT The Senior Dance on Monday nighT was a gala aTTair. The music was supplied by Russ CarlTon and his orchesTra. ln The receiving line were The members OT The Hop CommiTTee, Weaver, ArmisTead, and Paul Taylor: Dr. and Mrs. BarTon: Mr. and Mrs. Banks: and Mr. and Mrs. Dawson. During The inTermission Dr. and Mrs. BarTon were aT home To The seniors and Their daTes. Counselor-LeTTerman BanqueT May 25: The annual counselor- leTTerman banqueT was held in The school dining room. Frank Summers, aThleTic direcTor aT Hampden-Sydney College, was guesT speaker OT The evening. He spoke abouT The dihfi- culTies OT small schools in big-Time compeTiTion. WhaT small schools lack in ma- Terial and TalenT, They musT make up Tor in spiriT, courage, and deTermin- aTion, was Mr. Summers' conclusion. He poinTed ouT ThaT The liTTle man. Though usually The underdog, could command The backing and respecT OT The specTaTors. ' Coach Summers was Tackle on ThaT Tamous underdog Team Trom V. M. l. which in I92I deTea+ed The Univer- siTy OT Pennsylvania and Then wenT on To pile up 43l poinTs Tor The season To iTs opponenTs' 20. Dr. George L. BarTon, Jr., The ToasTmasTer, inTroduced Mr. Sum- mers and The oTher speakers, The capTains OT The Tour varsiTy Teams gave shorT speeches, as did Mr. Bell and Mr. Gene Barnum, who is slaTed To be head baskeTball coach nexT season. John Page, head counselor, spoke Tor his group. Mr. G. B. Lamar made a shorT address abouT The lack OT spiriT shown by V. E. S. Teams dur- ing The pasT year: and Mr. Ganna- way, direcTor OT AThleTics, presenTed IeTTer cerTiTicaTes To The Track and baseball leTTermen. MeTeor STaTT T946-I947 4 EdiTor-in-ChieT: Johnson T. Carpen- Ter, Jr. Managing EcliTor: Thomas H. Allen SporTs EdiTor: James W. Ballou, Jr. FaculTy Adviser: Mr. John D. FolleTT ReporTers: Macon L. Hardy, Jr., An- drew Ramsay, Richard L. DuTTey, Edgar R. BeTTy, Joseph B. Cherry, Jr., Perrin W. Gower, Jr., STanley R. SmiTh, Toby O. Hansen, Jr. STaTT ArTisT: Paul B. Taylor Business Manager: G. SCOTT Taylor CircuT3Tion Manager: RoberT C. J. Fie THE METEOR OPINIONS lI3Oll IT is hard To give a new TwisT To an old sTory. ATTer a week OT examina- Tions your ediTor is in no TiT condiTion To puT a new TwisT on anyThing excepT perhaps To The sTraps OT his sTraiT- iackeT. This being The case, we will say whaT we have To say much as we said iT lasT year and will say iT nexT year. We are no less sincere because we are TriTe. This ediTorial diTTers in one parTicu- lar Trom iTs counTerparT lasT year. We can'T say ThaT The CommencemenT SupplemenT is a surprise, because The sTudenT body voTed To supporT iT wiTh good hard cash when The MeTeor had To admiT iTs inabiliTy To Tinance The proiecT. We Thank The supporTers OT The magazine Tor This evidence OT Their inTeresT and approval. We do noT Thank Them, however, Tor The ex- Tra work They puT us To when we would raTher loaT and enioy The sun- shine and The girls. As was reporTed in The previous is- sue The MeTeor improved in naTional raTing This year. The NaTional Scho- lasTic Press AssociaTion awarded us TirsT class honors as conTrasTed wiTh only second class honors The previous year. We were very goocl ' in seven deparTmenTs, excellenT in The oTher six. BuT There is sTill much room Tor improvemenT: a superior raTing To shooT aT in all deparTmenTs, an all- American raTing Tor The enTire mag- azine. We were especially commended Tor our use OT modern Vogue Typog- raphy. We adopTed This wiTh some hesiTaTion, being disciples OT Alexan- der Pope and loaTh To be The TirsT by whom The new are Tried. AcknowledgmenTs Again much OT The crediT Tor The excellence OT The MeTeor goes To our guides, counselors, and Triends aT The MuTual Press, especially To Mr. Odell Bell and his super-eTTicienT secreTary, Miss Louise Jacobs. Here aT school special menTion should be made OT The work OT The anonymous wriTers OT MeTeoriTes. The liTerary qualiTy and wiT OT This de- parTmenT has shown a decided im- provemenT over The corresponding qualiTies in previous years. The ma- Terial has been amusing and mirTh- provoking. noT embarrasing and blush-provoking. The AlTar, The TenT, and The Well The Rev. W. Taylor Willis OT Nor- Tolk, Virginia, Took Tor his TexT Tor The commencemenT sermon: He builded an alTar There, and piTched his TenT There, and There lsaac's servanTs digged a well. lGenesis 26:25.l Dr. Willis's Theme was The Talse ideas wiTh which we are Tacing a chaoTic world. These ideas are Tal weak OpTimism and lbl human abiliTy wiThouT God. ln The TexT The TenT represenTs The home. ln Turn The solidariTy and se- curiTy oT socieTy is based On The righT kind OT home. The well sTands Tor human service. The alTar is The place OT worship. WiTh These Three The world will survive. The world is sor- did, buT iT need noT sTay ThaT wa . CondiTions will be changed and macTe righT by people who have True values. ValedicTory By John WroTh, II , Today is The besT and The worsT day in The year. IT is The day we geT To go home and The day we have To leave. For several days we have been doing Things Tor The lasT Time. We have had our lasT 'burger parTies, been To Reusens Tor The lasT Time. Many OT us have walked our lasT demeriTs. We are all seeing Taces around us now ThaT we will never see again. This is a memorable day. lT will leave a greaT impression on our minds iusT as The school will leave a greaT impression upon our lives. Looking back aT all The liTTle Things ThaT have happened ThroughouT The year, Things which aT The Time seemed like maior crises in our lives, we rea- lize ThaT They have all conTribuTed To a well-rounded school liTe. This makes us Teel older, and we are. lMosT OT us have aged aT leasT Ten years dur- ing exam. week.l There are a loT OT Things To be gained in going away To school, buT all The gains in The world won'T do us any good iT we don'T apply Them. We shall probably remember The school moTTo: The Tull sTaTure OT manhood, as long as we live: buT un- less we apply iT in our lives, The school mighT iusT as well TorgeT iTs moTTo. IT is noT whaT we learned ThaT counTs, buT whaT we use. There are a lo+ OT Times in our lives when we mighT say, Today l am a man, buT none OT Them would apply as well as Today. UnTil Today we 3 were jusT some boys in high school or prep. school, buT Today we are going ouT inTo The rapidly diminishing world. Some oT us are going inTo The Army, some To college, and oThers To work. We all have as much educaTion now as has The average man. All we need is a IiTTle more living beTore we Take our places as Tull-Tledged mem- bers oT socieTy. I would like To Take This opporTun- iTy To Tell all The sTudenTs and TaculTy good-bye. lT is a wonder some oT The TaculTy are sTill sane aTTer This year. We are glad They are despiTe our eT- TorTs To The conTrary. To The boys who are reTurning and To The senior class nexT year, Take care oT The place. Tellas, and good luck. SPORTS World's Series May.3I: Today on The righT hand corner of Langhorne Field The WesT Main Maniacs, known as The Beas- Ties on road Trips, walloped The wesT Main Bulldogs To The Tune oT 6-I. The Bulldogs, weakened by The loss oT six players who had hopped To The Mexican League, were behind all The way and were unable To score un- Til The IasT inning. Spud TrevaThan losT his shuTouT when Enos Shannon- house singled Micky Akers home Trom second, where he had moved on an error. Time was called momenTarily in The TourTh inning when Weasel Goiser knocked The leTT Tield Tence down as he wenT back To rob 5lop Head Gundry oT a sure exTra base hiT. Jim Ballou piTched Tor The bulldogs buT was unable To sTop The winners' heavy hiTTing. High Ball MilTon was The umpire. The game was The lasT oT The Three- game playoTT series Tor The soTT-ball championship oT The school. The series resulfed in a compleTe vicTory over all opponenTs by CapT. TrevaThan's hard- hiTTing Maniacs. TalenT scouTs Tor boTh major leagues are said To have made handsome oTTers To all members oT The Team. Final STandings W. L. Pc. EasT Main ...,......,... 6 0 I.0O0 WesT Main .,.......... 3 3 .500 Second WesT ,.,..... 2 4 .333 Third WesT .......... l 5 .200 4 Runners Up On May I7 was held The annual Tield day Tor non-leTTer Trackmen. Coach John Page's GarneT Team won an easy vicTory over Coach Jim Bal- lou's WhiTes, 75-55. ATTer The TirsT evenT, which The WhiTes:won, The is- sue was never in doubT. In aT leasT one evenT, The pole vaulT, The vicTory was by deTaulT. The high score man, however, was on The losing side. Gower oT The WhiTes won Tour TirsTs and Two Thirds Tor a ToTal OT 22 poinTs, 9 more Than his nearesT com- peTiTor, Finch oT The GarneTs. The Summaries I00 yd. dash: Gower TWI, TrevaThan TGI, Ogden TGI: Time 10.5. 440 yd. dash: STiegli11 TGI, Gormly TWI, Akers, F. TGI: Time 59. IOO yd. clash TiuniorI: Finch Mus- Tard TGI, MacLeod Time Il.4. I20 yd. L. H.: Ogden TGI, Lewis BeTTy Time I5.5. 880 yd. dash: Taylor, P. TGI. Bell Pollard TGI: Time 2:28. 60 yd. dash TjuniorI: Finch TGI, NUTT, W. TGI, MacLeod Time 7.4. 220 yd. dash: Gower TWI, STiegliTz TGI, Ramsay Time 24.9. Pole VaulT: GarneT TirsT and second by deTaulT. ShoT PUT: Gower TWI, BeTTy TWI, Lewis TGI: DisTance 33' B . Discus: CarTer TGI, Hansen TWI, Gower TWIg DisTance 80' b . ' Broad Jump: Ogden TGI, STiegliTz TGI, e jwj- o'+ ls' 3 ower , is ance . High Jump: Gower TWI, Goode TGI, STieqliTz TGI: HeighT 5'. Broad Jump TjuniorI: Moses TWI, Finch TGI, MacLeod and NuTT, W. TGI Tiei DisTance Io' B . High Jump TjuniorI: BraxTon TGI, Mac- Leod TWI, Taylor. S. and Johnson TGI, Tie: HeighT 4' 6 . 440 yd. dash TjuniorI: Wayland TWI. CarpenTer TWI, NuTT, W. TGI: Time 64. SENIDRS The MeTeor inadverTenTly omiTTed The wriTe-ups oT Two members oT The Senior class in The CommencemenT Issue. We apologize and herewiTh presenT Them: Francis K. Aldred, is compleTing his Third year aT V. E. S. He is loyal To The Old Dominion and also sup- porTs The Ohio STaTe aThleTic Teams. He has made leTTers in Track and TooT- ball and is a member oT The V-Club. He is a counselor on ShorT Dorm. Roberi' C. ScoH', is a Lynchburger, has been aT V. E. S. Tor Tour years. During This Time he has kepT his name high on The honor roll. He is now a counselor on Third Main. ALUMNI Number 29 As The monThs pass The names on The honor roll in The chapel increase in number .... As The columns oT names increase in number, so The con- s+elIa+ion of gold sTars on each board increases .... TThe MeTeor, April- May l945I. AT The Time The arTicle quoTed was wriTTen There were 23 gold sTars. By V-J Day There were 28, and so The Tally sTood Through The long monThs oT peace since The be- ginning oT The currenT school year. Now Gold STar Number 29 musT be added. IT is Tor IsT. LT. John W. Law- son, who aTTended V. E. 5. in I936-37. The Tollowing leTTer was received lasT week by The headmasTer: This is To leT you know ThaT our son, John Worlh Kern Lawson Tlsr. LT. John W. Law- sonI, who has been 'missing in acTion' since Jan. 3, l945, has been declared dead by The War DepT.: and we should like To have his name on your roll of honor aT V. E. S. He was piloT oT a Super ForTress TB-29I and was on his TiTTh mission To Japan from Saipan. Julia Kern Lawson, TMrs. George B. l.awsonI. DEAD ON THE FIELD OF , HONOR 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 James G. CoxeTTer, '32 Richard P. Dillon, '4I PeyTon Fravel, '40 WalTer O. Gibson, '43 WalTer T. Green, '38 lzaac H. HanTT, '36 George P. HuTTon, '37 James JarreTT, '30 lsham KeiTh, '25 Benjamin KearToTT, '38 William D. Langhorne, '39 Malcolm M. Lasher, '3l John W. K. Lawson, '37 Jack McManus, '4l Brooks Miller, '39 MaTT W. Ransom, '40 James R. Shaw, '38 Cleson I-I. Tenny, Jr., '38 Russell M. Thurmond, '22 Jack W. WesTon, '40 Frederick B. WebsTer, '35 ' May Their gold sTars never Tarnish THE METEOR