Woodberry Forest High School - Fir Tree Yearbook (Woodberry Forest, VA)

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For more than two decades the Chapel Council has led all student participation in the religious activi- ties of Woodherry Forest. Directed hy the Reverend Charles Covell, this group, through the offerings made each Sunday night in St. Andrewis Chapel. has heen able to establish scholarships at Blue Ridge lndustrial School for two local boys, to supply Christmas and Thanksgiving boxes for underprivileged families, and to send several Boy Scouts from Orange to summer camps. Mr. Covell THE CHAPEL EIIUNIIII. Seated: Rankin, Boyd, Stephenson, Hunter. Standing: Courtenm Bussew Emmert. 23

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First Row: Glascock, Logan, Weinig, Warner, Bussey, W., Love, J., Payne. Second Row: Hendren, Duncan, P., Rieman, Taylor, R., Emmett, Ware. Third Row: Eshelman, Rankin, Sprague, Searson, Saxton, Knisely. THE MIINITIIH BIJAHD Though still a comparative innova- tion the Monitor Board this year showed every indication of becoming a permanent institution in student ad- ministration at Woodberry. Com- posed of members of the Sixth Form who have been at Woodberry for three years or more, the Monitor Board thus makes possible a wider delegation of solne of the authority vested in the Prefects. Because the emergencies of wartime forced four Monitorsfjohn Stout, ,lack Barnes, Bill Pollard, and Earl King-to leave school before graduation, three new members were added to the group: Frank Emmert, Paul Wickliile, and Jack Glascock, who, though not tech- nically qualilied, were chosen to fill the vacancies because of special com- petence. Completing the second year of its existence, the Monitor Board has grown in power, prestige, and sense of duty. Monitorial privileges in- clude an extra hour of study at night, as well as special exemption from task work for demerits. Hand in hand with the privileges go the duties of maintaining order and upholding high standards of conduct, and it is these duties which the Monitors have loyally fulfilled.

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Bllllli II ra uafea For the Class of '43, June 12th marks the jumping- off place to a new and difficult life. War is not a lovely businessg already we have sensed repercus- sions of its tragedy. Yet this much may be said of it: that it brings to the surface all the faculties of courage and resourcefulness latent in men's characters. Perhaps the hazards of war may touch upon something more virile in our natures than any peacetime adventures could ever do. It is a far cry from Hanes Field and Anderson Hall to Tunisia or Guadalcanal, but the gap is one that Woodberry graduates can safely travel.