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il cmr. He has already started of his making a success of
Dr. Randolph took as his theme The five representatives from V. duce a METEOR equal, if not superior, the story of "The Prodigal Son" E. S., Edwin Penn, Wharton Mellor, to the present one.
from the Go pel According to St. William Holmes, William Gulick, The convention meets the 13th,
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NORVELL, AND MCCABE WILL HEAD "THE METEOR" FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 1930-1931
Their Begime Promises to Put Out a Splendid Paper In Every Department
RIIJ.IER IS EDITOR
Ctzkie Borvell Chosen Business Xanager; Warner McCabe Will
Be llanaging Editor
At a recent meeting of THE ME-
BOB Staff Richardson Hillier was elected editor-in-chief of the 1930- 1931 METEOR. Although he has been affUiated with the business end
of the staff, Hillier is well qualified
for the position as he was elected
CJI'iginally as a reporter and later
changed to the business end where to the holding back of grades and
he his been most efficient. In point sickness on the part of some stu- of service he is the senior member dents, thus causing their work to
of Jhat part of the staff which is be in an unfinished state. However,
alitaming and is consequently "on
6e tTicks."
At tbe M.Dle time Caskie Norvell
Oaeen boro, N. C., was approved Jmeiness manager. Although he present serving as a reporter
done much work with the manager, and will have an to do more before the
and halos and to present him in ference Scholastic Press Association Excellent Moral Shown By Rector. modern twentieth century life, so in New York.
In Parable of Prodigal Son that he may be a real power in our THE METEOR will be represented lives. rrhe idea for it originated in at the conference by F. Richardson In the regu:a,· Sunday Morning one of the theological students, Mr. Hillier, voting delegate, and E. R.
are bright.
&l"Jler McCabe was chosen
HAIRSTON, P., LEADS
FOR MONTH AND TERM
Forsyth and Blackwell Make Best In Math. Many Grades Not In
The averages for the first term have been received by THE METEOR in a very incomplete state, and we are making the following statements from quite incomplete information.
Only about ten term averages are
RELIGIOUS MEETING
HELD AT ALEXANDRIA
V. E. S. Represented By Five Boys; Other Schools Send Delegates
F.
Richardson Hillier and W arner McCabe to Represent "Meteor"
as V. E. S. Delegates WAS FORMER MEMBER
in our possession and a few more averages for the fourth month due
Earlier in the same year it took the W. & L. award for
VIRGINIA EPISCOP AL
SCHOOL,
L YNCHBURG, VIRGINIA FEBRUARY 13, 1930
TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO ATTEND COLUMBIA SCHOLASTIC PRESS CONVENTION IN NEW YORK
from the slight information we have
it is easily seen that Peter Hairston
of Advance, N. C., leads the school,
an exceedingly high average, and we H1' sermou was short and to the and the group of six students who tanding in their work for THE
both for the month and for the term.
Chapel Service, Rev. Oscar deWolf William Baxter, who carried his Warner McCabe, next year's editor- and for the month is 95%. This is preached a most i11teresting sermon. 'f. K. Nelson, formerly of V. E. S., spectively. Both have been out-
His average for the term is 94.3% Randolph, D. D., our rector, idea through with the aid of Dr. in-ch~ef and managing editor, re-
sincerely believe it runs in the fam- point and undoubtedly benefited have charge of the Friday night METEOR and it is expected that with on ad,B for next year, and ily, since his younger brother, Nel- every one who heard it. services at E. H. S. the information gained they will pro-
son Hairston, averaged 90% for the term.
Honor Roll
i only his first year on Peter Hairston of Advance, N. C.; son, and the other showing the bad he has shown himself a Nelson Hairston of Advance, N. C.; attitude of the older brother. How- reporter and should Robert Daniel of Memphis, Tenn.; ever, he took it up from a still dif-
ferent angle when he went on to
ert Wilson of Richmond, Va.; Ed show how it was an example of an- policies of the future f 1 h
Luke. He stated that this story wa and Peter Hairston, left early on the 14th, and 15th of March and its ac- The following boys are on the taken usually in two ways: one morning of Friday, February 7. The tivities consist among other things .aitor for the coming year. Honor Roll for the fourth month : showing the love of a father for his early part of the afternoon they of lectures, meetings, and exhibits.
Peter Hairston as man-
~uble assistant to Mr. Charlie Poe of Raleigh, N. C.; Rob-
the seminary in time for supper. Calloway Talks
dividual criticism of each paper en-
tered by authorities on the subject.
'l'HE METEOR was formerly a
__..been f 1 t d b t Belmore o Schuy er, Va.; Jo n swered prayers.
Shortly after this meal the con- member of the association, but for
ference began in earnest with the the past few years has not sent
'' f St A t· •~a:u r assur R d l h f L hb
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first of a series of.talks. The plan of these talks was a constructive one. This first one told something of the character of Christ and with this as a basis those following treated the
problems of faith, action, and pro- fession, and finally Dr. Gibson summed up the whole thing in a ser-
entries to the contest. ·
Such a meeting should put THE
METEOR in contact with all of the best school papers in the country-a contest that should make for a big-
ger and better METEOR.
av" ormu a e ' u
t ... eats ed that . ...,ausey o . ugus me, a. , n- The son had undoubtedly prayed
·n th dgus anop o ync urg, a., Wl no ave a re. and Don Peters of Lynchburg, Va.
The following list is of boys av- · bfhfth
that he could go out and enjoy life and after arguing with his father he got his money and left and broke all promises to his father that he
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upe~mposed
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month: Cornelius Sullavan of Nor-
folk, V a.; Caskie Norvell of Greens-
I t
tht ·nb eragmg85%oretterorteour
time ; and
o n looks
a . Wl e , predeces~ors m every allcers w1ll be elected
PHYSICAL
JAN. 30TH
of Thursday, physical .examina-
in the rear room of eottage. Dr. Davis, member of the but thorough llv questioned shown in AI before the cheat expansion
taken and com- of last
aaminltion was hurried and a
tlttn the one boys who
1iDce last fall pe over and thoroughly throat, in the ex-
boro, N. C.; Francis Pretlow of Suf-
folk, Va.; Frank Loyd of Lynch- FIFTHFORMCONCLUDES mon on the problem of relationship BISHOPJEllWILLBE
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burg, .va.; Page Clagett of Wash-
to the church. After each talk INTER-CLASS DEBATING group of the members of the con-
- - - · ference met under the leadership of Affirmative Wins With Hairston one of the peaker , or members of
and DeBerry Best Speakers the seminary faculty to talk over
HERE FOR TION Small Number Expected to Be don-
firmed On April Sixth
ington, D.
Columbia,
Geneva, N.
of Marion,
C.; Walter Holberton of
V a.; Y .;
V a. ;
Irving Dan
McGrew of Anderson Stoddard of
the lecture they had just heard, and
Savann'ah, Ga.; George Forsyth of
Esmont, Va.; Arthur Taylor of
The Fifth Form held its final
inter-class debate on Thursday night, to find out exactly what had been
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Lynchburg, Va.; Dan Worthington February 6th, in the library. The gained and to try to answer any
Dr. R. C. Jett, founder and for- mer rector of V, E. S., bishop of the diocese of Southwestern Vir- ginia, will be here to perform the
Confirmation Ceremony.
The services will be held in · the
Langhorn e Memorial Chapel on
Sunday night, April 6th. It is his custom every year to come here about the middle of Lent to perform the
ceremony.
The bishop will conduct the serv-
Usually there arc from five to ten boys who join the church at this time; however, this year the num- ber will probably be considerably
smaller.
This year the class will be under
the supervision of Dr. Randolph, and the first one should be held some time in the near future.
of Ivy Depot, Va.; Jack Taylor of Page, W. Va.
Term Roll
These boys averaged 90% or more
for the term: Peter Hairston of Ad- vance, N. C. (94.3); Charlie Poe of Raleigh, N. C. ( - ) ; Robert Wil- son of Richmond, Va. ( - ) ; Nel- son Hairston of Advance, N. C.
(90).
The following average 85% or
above for the term: Walter Holber- ton of Columbia, Va. (85.6); Cas- kie Norvell of Greensboro, N. C.
(89) · Spotswood Allen of Lynch- burg,' Va. (86.2) ; Irving McGrew
question for debate was: Resolved, problems that the talk might have That The Present Jury System in suggested.
the United States Should Be Abol- Mr. Calloway, mathematics teach- ished. This will be the subject for er of the Episcopal High School,
the coming debate \irith Saint Chri - gave the address .of ·the character of
Dan V a. (87.2); Jack Taylor of Page, W.
of Geneva, N. W orthington of
Y . Ivy
Va. (89.4).
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(86.6); Depot,
evening.
nate in its find in DeBerry, a new boy, who has shown up very well in all the debates in which he has con-
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topher's and also for the debate at the University of Virginia later in
.
Christ. H e briefly sketched some of Christ's characteristics, bravery,
of Christ's actions. Then he went on to say that if other problems about Him. confronted us not to let them stump us; they are not all im- portant, so attack them from an· other angle.
Address on Faith
The next morning, Bishop Strider
of the diocese of West Virginia, gave a talk on "What We Believe and
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the spring. Hairston
fri endliness,
pointed out that these are funda- mental things that we can see in all
Ashton, J.,
the question while on the negative
were Branch, Belmore, and DeBerry, all of whom proved themselves ca-
pable debaters. The affirmative
P .,
veil upheld the affirmative side of
side won, Hairston and Lewis DeBerry being chosen as the best speakers of the
The school is very fortu-
and Nor-
P eter
In attending the conference of Delegates to Attend Many Lectures
Episcopal school of Virginia the five
delegates from V. E. S. did more
than li ten to a series of lectures;
they went through a very real re-
ligious experience. Be ides V. E. S.
five other schools were represented, the State offered by the University
Woodberry, E. H. S., St. Christo- of Virginia for the second time in
pher's, Christ Church, and Stuyve- succes ion.
sant, with a total of 33 delegates.
This was the first conference of its its class in the South. Now for the kind to be held in Virginia and its fir t time it is to compete for na- object was, to quote Dr. Gibson, to
DR.RANDOLPHGIVES
INTERESTINGSERMONget Christ out of his flowing robes tional honors at the Columbia Con-
spent in Washington and arrived at One of the best features is an in-
and loyalness, and
Given By Famous Newspaper Men of the World
Last ummer THE METEOR won the prize for prep school papers in
ice and deliver the sermon.
probably be assisted by Dr. Ran- dolph.
He will
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