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THE METEOR
No.2 Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va.,
semi-monthly during the session of 1931-_3_2 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Subscription, 15 cents per copy; $1.75 per year
SC HOOL Non-military. Superior
preparation for all col- leges at moderate cost.
Accredited
High standard in schol-
arship and athletics ... Gymnasium . . . 140
acres healthfully and beautifully situated in Virginia mountains.
FOR CATALOG WRITE TO Rev. Oscar de Wolf Randolph,
D. D., Rector
V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va.
VoL. XVII
OcTOBER 29, 1931
Staff
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BARROW ..................................................................................Editor RICHARD P. SMITHER ........................................................B~tsin.ess Manager
.ttB·M CHARLES G. SMITHER.......................................ASS1S an 1-tswess ana.ger
J. K. BANKS.•.•.•.••••••••••..••••••.•.•..•••.••••..••.•.•..•••.•••••..•••.••.•.••.•.••Faculty Adviser Reporters
DA VID C.
GEORGE FoRSYTH••.•••..•.•.•..•••.••••••••.••.•.•.•.•••.•.••••••••.••.•.••••.•..•MauagiNg Ed·itor
J. c. R. TAYLOR Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post
at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act' of March 3, 1928.
ORGANIZING
torial board of the m. y W. and L.
ar tee .
assistant
E. R. W. McCABE
C. S.
McNuL TY
A rthur
Lamar, '29, is an
In past years organization in the Senior Class has been a very short-lived affair. One or, at most, two months before Finals a meeting is called, officers elected, and a gift, more or less hurriedly
decided upon. While these classes have left some almost invaluable gifts behind them for the school to enjoy and to commemorate their stay, they have left comparatively few traditions as organized groups. The traditions are all individual traditions left by individual
boys. :
It is possible that this regrettable circumstance might be reme-
died by an earlier organization. The class could probably through
this means do more for the school and for itself. Few things can be
accomplished as well in an hour as in a day.
It may be pointed out that in other institutions of the type of
V. E. S. Seniors are regarded as a more important group than they are here. They have certain privileges which make it more of an honor to belong to this class. Their reason for enjoying this position is because of a certain unity and organization. It is possible that
• the same result could be accomplished through a like medium at V. E. S.
Of course it is realized that in selecting the members of the Senior Class it is important that they should be boys who will g raduate or who will finish and go to college the next year. It would
take away from the privilege of being a senior if boys had that dis- tinction f0r ·m0re than 0ne vear. This is undeniahlv a hard t::tsk
MR. BANKS Eugiish
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ALUMNI NEWS
E. R. WARNER McCABE, ALUMNI EDITOR
Carolina
Claude Freeman, '31, pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
William B. Harrison, Edward W. Martin William C. Pitt, Warner L. Tabb, jr., all '31, pledged Zeta Psi
fraternity. T B ,31 1 d ed William · ost, ' Pe g
SigmaNu. . ,30· thd
Peter Hairston, D '"lts oTn I e el t-
VIRGINI A
R,obert Daniel, '31, has been taken a~ ll\4111.' vf th 11 .·re Uit<:ertain ·~ to wht>ther the~ , til "'me b ck 1into 1'111 IlLt·•r
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able, however. The subject is also worthy. of the thought . at least Sc:wdllee Jcmng the SUJ11 \..1 l
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vear c "pree" . ho<•l. T he ob tacle iJ bv no mean tnsunuuun - Un · ~ 1'tt.:rary "' Ct'
G. A.
S c o T T C r E . t E N S , Pre~ ' "
RoGER WILLIAMS.; Vice-Presi- dent
WARNER McCABE, Secretary SAMUEL BANFF, Treasurer MR. J. w. GANNAWAY, Ath-
letic Director
"V" Club
ScoTT CLEMENS, President
RoBERT LALANCE, Vice-Pres- ident
WARNER McCABE, Secretary SAMUEL BANFF, Treasurer RoGER WILLIAMS, Sergeant-
at-Arms
Hop Committee
RoGER WILLIAMS WILLIAM BASKERVILL CHARLES McNuLTY
of the old boys. ' ' played the part of magistrate in This organization of the class would not only be for the Seniors' "Speakiug the News," by Lady Gre-
benefit. It would establish a tradition and a precedent for the years gory. He also directed the play.
to come. This fact makes it worth more than a mere passing thought to those who expect to continue here until the time comes to go
to college, and gives them something to look' forward to. --------o 1
HOME COMING
A week from this Saturday there will be many of the Alumni from the various colleges and Universities back at V. E. S. for the day. ~his is known as "Home-~oming Day," and !Such a day is set astde each year for the Alumnt who care to pay us a visit.
Reed ~anner, '25, paid the s::hoo\ a short vtstt recently.
Edward B. Lockett, '29, visited the school recently during his vaca-
tion. Mr. Stockett is connected with t~e Hearst News Bureau in Wash-
ington, and has spent a good deal of time. in th~ ~ast few months in re- portmg avtatwn, and more recently has been employed on the Kane case
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T h e word "home-coming': mean s very little to a .great many of
the students at V. E. S. It IS a date, a good time, a big football I at ~ampton. . .
I· Rtchard Gnffith, '31, ts a student The majority of the student body has never been away from home vama.
day,--further than this it is impossible for the average student to
understand the deeper sentiment attachecl to a real "home-coming." m _Haverford college in Pennsyi-
long enough to become really "home-sick," and to ~xperience the thrill of returning again to the place they love best, after a long
absence. .
But to the Alun~ni, both yOL~ng and old, it is an event long antici-
pated, one ot~ wht~h they wtll look back with a 1great deal of
pleasure.. Thetr feeltngs on that: clay, as they view the old school
once agam, ar~ of su~h a nature as to make them inexpressible. If
one _can put htmself 111 the pla~eof the returning Alumni, he will fin~tt more easy to understand hts emotions.
M~lcolm_ McClean Lasher is workt~g wtth the Connecticut Con-
structwn Company.
Robert W ayland, '27, is
Ohw Gas Company. ,
No_rman Stockett, 28, ts now
stud:ymg at. the General Theological Semmary, 111 Ne-;v York.
"The Meteor" BARROW, Editor-in-
John Moyler, 26, has become a T~us it seems that the least the student body c·an do for these special agent for the Provident Mu-
Chief
GEOR?E FoRSYTH, Managing Ed~tor
RICHARD SMITHER, Business A1anager
MR. J. K. BANKs Faculty
men ts to turn the school over entirely to·them on this their "Home- Coming Day." Be nice to. them, help them in any way possible, and
see that they are entertamec\. One day out of the year seems small enough recognition for those men who have "One bef.pre· let's make
it wholly theirs! "' '
"HThen in later years when we are wont to return to V. E. S. or
ome-Coming Day," we may expect the same treatment. -------01--------
CHEER LEADERS · 1
As t~eyear goes on a cheer leader or cheer leaders will be elected or. appomted t o lead cheers. But reme·mber, they can not do every- thmg alo~e; they cannot ~o:ce the boys to yell ; nor can they convey the meanmg of school spmt to ·those who cannot grasp it. It is up ~o the student body to cooperate with these cheer leaders. Although tt s~em~ that most of the boys do not realize the fact, the task of 1eadmg1s by n_o means an easy one. However, this1 job would not be
so constclerecl tfthe cheer leader had the support of the students.
In the eyes o~ the other schools in the state V. E. S. has had one
_of the be~t cheenng systems anywhere. Now certainly we do not want 1t to be satd that the student body of 1931-32 let this spirit die.
Adviser
"S . c1enba
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W right flying school at Maryland.
Pikesville,
Office
editor of the Ring Tum Phi. Claiborne Darden, '29, played barefooted in a recent inter-frater-
nity football game. Duke
Tom Smith, "31, pledged Kappa Alpha fraternity; last year he was head counselor, president of the G. A. A., co-captain of football and held many other important posi-
tions.
Rufus Hairston, '31, pledged Phi
Kappa Alpha fraternity. V. P. I.
Jo Stras, '28, after three years at Sewanee, is now a student at Tech- .ancl. He visited the school on the tenth of this month.
John Miles and John Perrine both "28, are second lieutenants.
Robert Sanders and "Papy" Ris- tine both are juniors.
Richard Holberton, '30, is a rat. He is out for freshman football.
Miscellaneous
·.·it f1tl•11hHeJ lsoPi \ ·ht,.e 111
The recent cheer practices and the last home game have shown a ~11arked improvement over the prev-
Ious ones. The conduct and the
cheering itself in those previous to
the last week were not what they
should have been and we think that
that fact has been realized by the boys.
_A week from next Saturday the Btshops are to face their old foe
E.. H. S. The Garnet and Whit~ gndsters will be primed for this
game, and they need the support of
the Students to pull through on the
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long end of the score. So let's go •
DAVID BARROW, Secretary
GEORGE FoRSYTH, Treasurer
MR. C. L. McGHEE Faculty Adviser '
Der Deutsche Verein WARNER McCABE, President
]ACK TAYLOR, Sec'y-Treas. MR.. Z. V. LONG, Faculty Ad-
vzser · Football
RoBERT LALANCE, Captain WARNER McCABE, Manager
MR. H. P. CosToLo, Coach MR. C. L. McGHEE and MR.
J N B
· · OND, Asst. Coacl1es.
W. L. Bethea, '28, visited tl".e school recently. He is working at Detroit, Mich.
Dick Wright '31 is at Wesleyan ''
College, in Middleton, Conn.
King Constantine '26 is workng
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with the ew York Watch Com-
pany in New York City. While at V. E. S. Constantine was a coun· selor and captain of the South At· !antic championship track team.
The Bridge
The iron frame-work of the old bridge is at last being removed. The absence of this will add greatly to
the b~uty of the new bridge.
Student Body, and let the Big Red team k~ow that we are backing them
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by
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Puttmg spmt mto those yells.
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with the .
DA VID
EPISCOP AL
tual Life Insurance Company. L:1st June he graduated from the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
Ellis Loth, '22, who was head
Joseph Kentworth Banks, pro- fessor of English at the Virginia Episcopal School since the fall of 1920, was born in Huntland, Ten-
nessee, April 3, 1898.
He attended his home town
schools in his boyhood except for one year in which he went to Castle Heights School. From this school he went to the University of Ten- nessee where he received his Bache- lor of Arts degree in 1920. While at this University he gained many honors; he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, editor-in- chief of the University of Tennes- see Magazine, a member of the Alpha Phi Epsilon journalistic fra-
ternity, a member of the Sigma Epsilon literary fraternity, a mem- ber of the Lanier Club. Mr. Jo Banks also gained two other great
honors--the presidency of one of the literary societies and of the Education Club. The only period in which Mr. Banks left the Univer· sity during his four years there was two months spent in the Students' Army Training Corps in the year
of 1918.
In the fall of 1920, after obtain-
ing his degree at Tennessee, he came to V. E. S. and has been a professor here ever since that time. Besides
!his regular course, English, Mr. 1Banks also undertook two other courses his first year at V. E. S., history and Latin. He now teaches
English two, three, and four.
In the summer of 1921 he mar·
ried Miss Margaret McAnulty, of Bolivar, Tennessee, who also re· ceived a Bachelor of Arts degree
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visitor to the Fishburne game last week-end.
C. M. Henkel is at the Curtiss
counselor from
1920- 1922,
was
a
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Facuity Biography
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