Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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

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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

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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