Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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a Mr. Silas Daugherty describes a chemistry experi- Advanced Biology jam session: Mr. Lowry Stephets ment. SGIENGE ONCEPTS. IDEAS. RELATIONSHIPS. Looking into the future: “If Buck Roger’s freeze gun works on gas, at what temperature and pressure—” Dissecting a rat... “Labs give a chance to gain practical knowledge, a break from pure fact and theory.” .. . “Sir, I think she’s pregnant.” Electron dot-configuration projected. Draw- ings of plants. Bull-sessions on anything. Talks about the evils of smoking. Turtle eggs that break when you play with them. Sodium that causes explosions. Broken test tubes. Sulphur fumes all over school. “Sir, I don’t understand this problem.” “That fig- iresies Learning why plants need nitrogen. LSD. Evolution. Asking questions that have no answers. “It figures.” Problems . . . Sailboats . . . Wind veloci- ty. Solutions. Mixtures. Stuff. The latest Tom Swift book. Where does it come from? Where does it go? Nobody knows, but still theyereache... Biology: Mr. Lowry Stephenson is amused by an amoeba. 24

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HISTORY FEW BULL-SESSIONS in class. A few days of lectures. Debates with the rival class. ““Why did the Roman Em- pire decline?” “Because it was easier to decline the empire than to decline the verbs.” Studies of problems facing a country. “What is the history of Viet Nam?” The Middle Ages. The Ren- aissance. The Reformation. Student Weekly. Current events. Ad- vise and Consent. Political analysis: “His handwriting leans to the left.” “What do you thing about Cooba?” “Cuba is the biggest country in the world: its capital is Havanna, its government is in Rus- sia, and its people are in the United States.” Final exams. Always moving, one era to the next. Never a chance to stop. “We'll never get it all done!” The Civil War: papier-mache battlefields in boxes | with toy soldiers. The Peculiar Institu- oe Color Gettysburg green. Mr. Norman Blake in Western Civilization with Jim Wilcox and Coleman Alderson. Lynch Christian, Peter Grover, Lec Leckie and David Watkins look on as American History sections debate. 23

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t Liles, Joe Mathias, James Hamilton Mr. T. S. Applegate and Walker Box work out the density of water in chemistry and Lanny Buchanan. lab. Chemistry lab: David Watkins looks on as Jim Cherry tests his skill on the scales. Background: Mosby Vogler and Clay Ferebee. 25