Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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A YOUNG STORE CATERING TO YOUNG MEN Knight-Sneed Co. 8l7 MAIN STREET Fashions in Fashions A Young SI'ore fbr Young Men JEWELERS x w wm OPTICIANS The LANTERN TEA ROOM Second Floor. CarroII Ho+eI Phone 3632 Lynchburg. Va. Choose your Barber from Hue five experienced and emcienf Barbers cf Ihe SOUTHERN BARBER SHOP IBeIween Isis and ParamcauniL TheaIrosI 609 MAIN STREET TWO SHOWERS Our Shop is Large and Roomy SHOP AT JACKSON'S CUT-RATE DRUGS For LYNCHBURG'S BEST VALUES HUGHES 'WRY CLEANING CORP. I603 Park Avenue Telephone 974 Lynchburg. Virginia See Taylor and Taylor Esfainshed I859 I. P. Bell Company STATIONERS. BOOKSELLERS. PRINTERS. PHOTOGRAPHERS 8l6 Main Sfreef Bring Your KODAK WORK f0 Us Craiqhill 6: Jones. IncorporaIed DRUGGISTS 9I3 Main SI'reef PHONE I646 FOUNTAIN AND LUNCHEON SERVICE Lynchburg. Va. John E. Gannaway 8! Co.. Inc. Hardware and AgricuHuraI Implemenfs Painfs. Roofing Home Appliances Welcome +0 Our S+ore l0l6-I8 Main Sf. Telephone I54 Lynchburg. Virginia PARAMOUNT e November l4-I6 - GINGER ROGERS PIERRE AUMONT HEARTBEAT - November I7-l8 e DENNIS MORGAN JACK CARSON TWO GUYS FROM MILWAUKEE IN LYNCHBURGeIT'S for YOUNG MEN'S FASHIONS LETTERS Dear M r. Gannaway. Your IeHer came qui+e a whiIe ago. buf when if came. I suddenIy found ouf Iha'r I couId go +0 Swifzerland. and in fhe FUSI'I of geHing ready. I didn'f have fime f0 do anyr Ihing bu'r puf fhe IeHer In my bag and hope Ihaf I mighf find fime Io answer if. and I finally did. aHhough H is Iafe. I Ieff Ior SszerIand Ias'r Augusf 25+I1. We Ieff Gorizia abouf I0:00. caughf Ihe frain f0 Verona IHaIyI, Ihere changed +0 a swell sfreamlined can which fook us in Io Milan. where we were processed. efc.. for our Swiss four. We sfayed in Milan overnight fhen Ieff Ihe nexf morning for The Swiss border. where our baggage. uniforms and passporfs were checked. . . . . . . You ask whefher +hings had quie+ed down much!! I don'+ believe fhaf Jthey are having quife as many demonsfrafions as be- fore, aIIhough +he fension is sHII as sfrong. I Imagine Ihaf you read or heard abou'r Ihe YugosIavs shoofing downl fwo American planes. Well . . . ofher Jrhan Thai and a few ofher minor incidenfs. so far. H'IIngs have quiefed down a Iof. But quife a Iof could have happened since I left, buf I hope nof. Sincerely yours. Gene. SIng. Roberf E. PeeIe, V. E. 5.. '44. Co. C. 349Ih lnI., A. P. O. 88, do P. M.. N. Y.. N. Y. CONNER PRODUCE CO. LYNCHBURG. VA. Iooo Jefferson S+ree+ Phones: 5000-500 I -5002 RIVERMONT Meat Market FINE MEATS - GROCERIES PHONE 5I00 Serving All Rivermonf DEPENDABLE. EFFICIENT. FAIR JOHN P. HUGHES MOTOR CO.

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NOVEMBER, I9ll6 am VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL THE HONOR COMMITTEE ALLEN. PAGE. AND ARMISTEAD Volume XXXI Bee OpinionQ

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Volume XXXI THE SCHOOL LYNCHBURG. VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 13. I946 Opening Dance On Safurday. chober 5+h. affer Friday's game wifh Miller School. fhe Hop CommiHee presenfed fhe firsf dance of H18 curremL VES school year. The music was furnished by a renfed niccolodian, supplemenfed wifh records belonging f0 several 0F +he boys. The decorafions consisfed mainly in a crepe paper cenierpiece. con- necfed wifh +he balcony by pendamL sfreamers. Of course Jrhe ever presenf co'umns were used. As ior +he female element +he Hop Com- miffee. wifh Jrhe aid of Mrs. Bar- num. arranged +0 acquire 30 R.-M. W. C. girls as guesfs for +he eve- ning. Despife an early slump. oc- casioned by +he naiural shyness of VES boys. fhe dance was considered a success by all. Homecoming Ac+ivi+ies Homecoming Day. resumed affer Jrhe war on November IO, I945, was confinued in much Jrhe same paHern +his year on Jrhe day of +he Wood- berry Foresf game. Safurclay. Oc'ro- ber I9+h. A bonfire. prepared on Langhorne Field by Armis'read and recrui'rs from Jrhe 4-F squad. was Jrhe scene of a pep rally Jrhe nith before +he game. Then. on Safurday. came +he game. isee Sporfsi and a dance. +he second of Jrhe year. formal. held in Barksdale Gymnasium. The decorafions were of an under- sea effect complefe +0 fhe silhou- eHes oi: mermaids, fish, and an odo- pus. Bob Cieve'and and his orchesfra furnished Jrhe music and a large num- ber of sfudenfs. alumni. isee Alum- nii. and Jrheir daies were present Many of Jrhe alumni sfayed unfil Sunday. when Old V. E. S. and God of Mercy were used in Jrhe chapel services because of +heir presence. One group of guesfs espe- cially welcome were Jrhe many mar- ried alumni wifh Jrheir wives and families. THE METEOR V. E. S. CHOIR L. +0 R.: Car+er, Reed, Akers. F.. Taylor. 5.. Thomas. 6.. Maddux. W., Warren. W.. Wayland. Hughes iCruciferi. Gafhrighf. Taylor. P.. Thomas. C.. Lewis. C.. V Wiggins, and Carpenfer ' Abseni: Cardwell. Field. Gower. J.. Lewis. 6.. MacLeod. and Kerner Then and Now The V. E. S. Choir isee cufi. one of +he oidesf school organizafions. iasf monfh began, wifh Jrhe school ifself. +he 3Is+ year of ifs exisfence. Uniil +he spring of l9l9, when +he Lang- horne Memorial Chapel was com- plefed. if pari'icipai'ed in services in fhe Recfor's aparfmenf. and in +he siudy hall. During Hiis fime 'rhe choir -was direcied by a Mrs. Barger. a na- Jrive of Lynchburg. who came ouf +0 +he school weekly on Friday nighf +0 hold pracfice, and on Sunday f0 ac- company +he services. Mr. Banks fook charge of +he choir in +he fall of I920. on +he +hird Sun- day of his firsf year af VES. and has confinued +0 direci if +0 +he presenf +ime. The organ now used in fhe chapel was insfalied in +he fall of l92l. a giH of ero sisfers, Mrs. Bow- man and Mrs. Presi'on, in memory of a +hird sisfer. One of +he mosf musi- cally successful former VES choir members is Harrison Chrisfian. who was for a while associafed wifh +he Mefropolifan Opera Company. He now gives voice lessons in Lynchburg. O+her noiabie members have been Richard Banks, of Richmond. Va.. and John Grumiaux. of Norfolk. boJrh of whom. according +0 Mr. Banks. had oufsfanding fenor voices. This year's V. E. S. choir isee cufi. +hough slithy smaller, dii'Fers bu1L Iii- He irom choirs of previous years. Fri- day nighf pracfices. morning and evening services on Sunday. and +he weekly paymenf oi Jrwo merii poinfs +0 each member. inifiafed wifh +he meriJr poinf sys+em four years ago. all remain. Also re- maining is +he exempfion of +he members from Chapel offerings. which cynics insisf +0 be responsible for +he enfire membership. The fad +haf V. E. 5. boys like +6 sing iConfinued on page 4i