Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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A YOUNG STORE CATERING TO YOUNG MEN Knight-Sneed Co. 8I7 MAIN STREET Fashions in Fashions A Young S+ore for Young Men JEWELERS . aw OPTICIANS The LANTERN TEA ROOM Second Floor. Carroll Hofel Phone 3632 Lynchburg. Va. Choose your Barber from Hue five experienced and efficienf Barbers 0, af +he SOUTHERN BARBER SHOP lBefween Isis and Paramounf Theairesj 609 MAIN STREET TWO SHOWERS Our Shop is Large and Roomy SHOP AT JACKSON'S CUT-RATE DRUGS For LYNCHBURG'S BEST VALUES HUGHES ?RY CLEANING CORP. I603 Park Avenue Telephone 974 Lynchburg. Virginia See Taylor and Taylor Esfablished l859 I. P. Bell Company STATIONERS. BOOKSELLERS. PRINTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS 8l6 Main Sfree'r Bring Your KODAK WORK +0 Us Craiqhill 6: Jones. I ncorporafed DRUGGISTS 9l3 Main S+ree+ Lynchburg. Va. PHONE I646 FOUNTAIN AND LUNCHEON SERVICE John E. Gannaway 8: Co.. Inc. Hardware and AgricuHural lmplemenfs Pain+s, RooFmg Home Appliances Welcome +0 Our S+ore l0l6-l8 Main Sf. Telephone l54 Lynchburg. Virginia iHHPrry Ghriagmaz anh A $.65!pr N211: 132m OLD DOMINION THEATRES INCORPORATED IN LYNCHBURG-IT'S W8 for YOUNG MEN'S FASHIONS LETTERS EdHor, The Mefeor. V. E. 5.. CHy. Dear Sir: In your lasf issue I observed a cerfain Halianesque fendency in orfhography which. if allowed +0 lie uncorrecfed. mighf lead f0 infernafional jealousy and some consequenf acf of refaliafion. I am referring +0 +he word used fo denofe a five-cenf +hea+er. which appeared in your columns as nicco- lodian. May we nof have in We fufure Hue dicfionary spelling. nickelodeon. fhus pre- serving +he meaning o+l The word? Affer all, in +his day of rising prices, a five-cenf piece sHIl procures Hwe playing of one record. Capfious Crific. Lynchburg. Va'. ln shameiacedly admiffing f0 +he error broughf +0 our aHenfion by fhe above anonymous crHic, we feel obliged +0 ac- knowledge fwo o+her errors in Hwe November issue. Even a non-capfious crific mighf no'rice our murdering of H19 Lafin deriva+ion in fine spelling abscence. fhus robbing Jthe word of all connecHon th ifs good romL absum. Along ano+her line. H19 name HJim York in fhe Alumni column should have been Jim Work. Edf'g rrhe edHer mus+a gof somun else +0 rife fhis apolagee. He kum Horn Affon in The mou+ins. He ain'+ never had no edicafion. Faculfy Adviser. $Mm Fashions in F oods SOUTHERN CAB COMPANY PHONE 2-9.4 RIVERMONT Meat Market FINE MEATS -- GROCERIES PHONE SIOO Serving All Rivermonf DEPENDABLE. EFFICIENT. FAIR JOHN P. HUGHES MOTOR CO.

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DECEMBER, I9lI6 VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL MR. BANKS Bee The SchooU J I l E Volume XXXI No. 3

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Volume XXXI LYNCHBURG. VIRGINIA. DECEMBER I7. I946 No.3 - THE SCHOOL llSenior MasI'er, Organist and Choir Direcfor Mr. Joseph Kenfworfh Banks. whose appoinfmenf as senior masfer of Ihe school was announced by Dr. Barfon af Ihe beginning of Ihe school year. became a+ Ihaf lime only in name wha'r he has been in effecf for many years. Mr. Banks was born on April 3rd. l898. af Hunfman. Tennessee. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Banks. He aHended local schools and had one year af Casfle Heigh+s Milifary Academy. In I9I6 he ma+ricula+ed af Jrhe Universify of Tennessee. grad- uafing wifh a B. A. degree in I920. The universify being a land granf in- siifufion. all sfuclenIs are required +0 parficipafe in +wo years of miIH-ary drill, and during his service Mr. Banks was in Jrhe Ia51L fwo monfhs 01C World War I. In Sepfember I920 Mr. Banks came Io V. E. S. The following summer. l92l. he was married +0 Miss Mar- gare'r McAnquy oi Bolivar. Tennessee. also a graduafe oi Jrhe Universify oi Tennessee. class of I920. During +he session I92I-22 Mr. and Mrs. Banks lived in +he iniirmary in Jrhe aparf- menf where Ihe Dixons now reside. The following year. however. Ihey moved info Jrhe house which Ihey now occupy and which had iusmL been com- plefed Ior Ihem, The Bankses have Iwo children. a daughfer Margaret born in I922. and a son. Jo. Jr.. born in I934. Mar- garef affended RrM. W. C., where she received a degree in science. On January I. I944 lsee The Mefeor. I944l she was married in +he V. E. S. chapel +0 Mr. Viclor Kehrer of PiHs- burgh, Pa.. a former Ieacher of sci- ence aI V. E. 5. Since Jrhen Jrhey have bofh assis'red in work leading 'Io Ihe periecfion of +he afomic bomb. a+ New York. N. Y.. and Oak Ridge. Tennessee lsee The Meleor, Oct. I945I. Jo is now aHencIing Roberf E. Lee Jr. High School. lConIinued on page 4l WEST DORMITORY I' . . . OPENED FOR THE SECOND SESSION OF SCHOOL . . . Then and Now Wifh Ihe opening of Ihe Ihiriye iirer session of VES many new voices and fhe sounds of sfrange Ieef echo Ihrough Ihe halls of Jrhe old Wes'r DormiJrory. This is ifs +hir+ie+h anni- versary. H was buihL in Ihe summer of I9I7 and opened for Jrhe second session of school in Sepfember of Jrhe same year +0 provide for Ihe ine creasing number of sIucIenIs. The building owes ifs exisfence +0 Ihe perseverance and hard work of Bishop Jeff. Wiih Ihe aid of eighf oi Ihe moswL oulsfanding business men of Lynchburg a loan of Iilfy fhousand dollars was raised for Jrhe project The job was Ihen handed over 'Io Mr. Burnham. a Lynchburg archifecl'. wiI'h a rough skefch which Bishop JehL had made. The TimL few days afler +he open- ing Oi: school Jrhe boys had Io go from one floor +0 Jrhe oiher by ladders. And when +he s'reps were be- ing puf in a large iron landing fell and crashed info Ihe concrele floor barely missmg a boy. The building has undergone several changes +hrough +he years. In I920 +he library was moved from Ihe Main Building +0 +he soufheas'r corner of Ihe Jr-ir51L floor. In Jrhe summer of I945 anofher room was added +0 Jrhe masfer's quariers on Ihe second and Ihird floors. Lasf year Jrhe li- brary. which is now a living room. and +he masfer's room on FirmL Wesf were converfed in+o aparfmenIs for Mr. Milfon and his family and are now vacanf following his resignafion. The lower end of fhe hall was l'hen waIIecI OFF and now includes fhe li- brary. In Ihe basemen'r +he one room +haI is vacanl now was once a classroom and las+ year belonged Io +he Air Sqouis. The recreafion room and Jrhe radio club's room were used for s+or- age. The V-club's room is +he only one IhaiL has been consfanHy in use. The building also includes an ele- vafor. scene of many escapades. and an aHic sl'orage room for Jtrunks.