Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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Interior: Langhorne Memorial Chapel, before renovation (Rededicated October, 1965) In 1943, Dr. George Barton, Jr. became headmaster. As time moved on, he was in the unfortunate position of having to deal with post-war confusion in acquiring and maintaining a capable staff. Barksdale gymnasium was added during his stay, to meet the school’s athletic needs. Roger Atkinson Walke, Jr. continued the precedents of the four men who had preceded him by keeping alive the spirit of expansion. In his four years, Mr. Walke initiated plans and began the work for many of the school’s more modern facilities. George Lloyd Barton, Jr., The Rev. Roger Atkinson Ph.D. Walke, Jr., M.A., B.D. Headmaster Headmaster 1943 - 1957 1957 - 1961

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‘ O° ¢ bien f'] The Rt. Rev. Robert Carter Jetta Dp: Founder and Rector 1916 - 1920 The Rt. Rev. Robert Carter Jett is credited as being the father of the school which he envisioned and which he hoped would enable boys to reach “the full stature of manhood.” He was able to see his aspirations begin to take form, while serving as headmaster for the first four years of the school’s existence, after which time he became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. The arduous task of continuing to raise money and buildings then fell into the hands of Rev. William Gibson Pendleton. During Dr. Pendleton’s tenure, the first faculty home was built for Mr. Joseph Banks, a young and enterprising English master, who with Mrs. Banks was to witness the maturation of the school for more than forty years. In those years the turf began to fly; with the help of machinery and ‘bounders, Johnson Field was underway. The Rev. Oscar de Wolf Randolph continued in Rev. Pendleton’s footsteps by creating another and larger athletic field — the Buck Langhorne Memorial Athletic field, which was planned to be ade- quate for the school’s expanding needs. It was during this man’s head- mastership that the school was able to move through the depression and well into the war years. The Rev. William Gibson Pendleton, D.D. Rector 1920 - 1928 The Rev. Oscar de Wolf Randolph, B.S., D.D. Rector (This view, now the front hall) The Reception Room and Headmaster’s Office 1928 - 1943 |

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Writing halfway through V.E.S. 50th year, one is tempted to some generalizations about schools, which, as all generalizations are expected to be, may be false. Schools can never be better than the net of their masters. It is hard, though not impossible, for them to be better than their headmasters. It is harder still for them to be better than the net of their boys, for the wonder of being a schoolmaster is that boys are far better, have far more to them than most ever dream of stopping to appreciate. Austin P. Montgomery, Jr., M.A. Headmaster 1961 - Many are the vicissitudes of a master’s day. He observes the late-riser sprint in disarray to breakfast, enjoys the blending of voice and organ in song in the chapel, pitches a few facts and ‘curves’ in the ‘historic’ ball park, legs it breathlessly down to first as the faculty wins another of the annual games from the students, aids the troubled boy by being a good listener to find a redoubt from which to make a sally, and@ all the while keeps an eye on the planning for a surreptitious jaunt to the Armory to hear a dance band. Around such diurnal activities, storied years cluster. The diffident lad returns a grateful young man and renews the old master’s will to be a man for all seasons. William L. Wyatt, A.B., Lib. Sci. Senior Master, Assistant Headmaster