Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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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

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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

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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