Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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

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

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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