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THE METEOR ALUMNI NEWS
S. P. LucK, JR. Captain
ALUMNI EDITOR E.R.W.~lcCabe, Jr.
"Virginia News>~ James I. Pritchett, liT, '30
"Carolina News" Peter \V. Hairston, Jr., '30
VVashington and Lee H. A. Lamar, '29
S. Preston Luck, Jr., '30, captain of the 1930 Virginia Episcopal School basketball team, is playing stationary guard for the University of Virginia Freshmen. He has been acting captain, and is the only man to play a game all the way through. Last year Luck was the key in the great V. E. S. defense and was one
Faculty Biography
MR. J. w. GANNAWAY Mcdhematics
Mr. John Wallace Gannaway, Pro- fessor of Mathematics at Virginia Episcopal School since 1920, was
born in Bell Buckle, T ennessee on April 17, 1894. Mr. Gannaway is married and has one daughter, Edith.
Professor Gannaway received his early education at Murfreesboro, T ennessee, High School and at Battle Ground Academy at Frank-
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AN APPEAL FOR SPEAKERS
"To·t1·y thy e~oq~wnce now 'tis the tirne" (ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.)
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married during the past year. While at V. E. S. Cuthbert was an honor student and at one time editor of THE METEOR.
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A s H T O N
When one happens to mention anything about the V. E. S. Jinx, the of the outstanding prep school play-
St. Paul's Church, Edenton, N. C., on January 31st.
Former Teachers
The Rev. Richard H. Baker is the rector of a church of the Redeemer in Baltimore, Md. While here, Mr. Baker taught French and Religious
varsity baseball team, and also at- tained this honor at Battle Ground Academy.
At the close of his prep school career, Mr. Gannaway entered the Middle Tennessee Teacher's College and was a member of the football team one year and the baseball team
.thought of the football jinx with Episcopal High School automatically flashes through the listener's mind,-but V. E. S. has yet another jinx, one of equally long standing,-the literary jinx with Saint Christophers
School of Richmond.
V. E. S. lost the annual contest here last year, and worse yet, for the
ninth time the public speaking honor was awarded to the Richmond team. We are all too quick to condemn literary activities in favor of athletics, but our continued loss of the speaking event has ceased to be "just a tough break" and has become an habitual occurrence which the school in defense
of its own self respect cannot long overlook.
The date of the selection of the debaters who will meet the Saint
Christophers team in Richmond, is fast approaching. The material is plentiful and the prospects are good,-but what about the reading and public speaking events ?
ers of Virginia.
Bill Hobbs, '30, is on the Fresh-
man basketball squad at the Univer-
Julian Bowles, Armistead Long, and P embroke Grove, all, '30, visited the school over the week-end of the game with Episcopal High School. They are all students at the Univer- sity of Virginia.
Robert Wilson, '30, is on the
Dean's list at the University of Vir-
T he year
following he
This year the school is fortunate in having two exceptional readers, may be counted upon to do their share of the work connected with bring-
ing the dual championship back to V. E. S., but on looking about us we fail to note the interest which should be aroused over the remaining two events.
The debaters, as is customary, will be selected from the winners of the inter-class debates in a general debate held in study hall. We feel sure that this department will be ably cared for by the English Departments.
Concerning the li:tst event, we wish to make an appeal to the pride of the student body in suggesting that every boy who feels that he has any speaking ability whatsoever, hand in his name to the proper authorities volunteering to try out for the public speaking event. This is an oppor-
tunity for the boy who has not had the chance to distinguish himself in
athletics, to do the school a real service. Limber up your tongues, fellows, and let's fill the windjammers berth for the Saint Christophers meet.
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lives and activities throughout the current semester.
We are sorry to lose six students who have withdrawn from school at
tl).e close of the first semester, and we wish them the best of success in whatever line of endeavor they may attempt, but in bidding them farewell, it is well to remember our fellow students who are able to and desirous of remaining and continuing their fine preparation for college and life. May
we attain more success in our academic activities as time flies onward.
gima. both having won the State Championship title in the past. These boys
GOING ON Semester examinations have come and gone.
All that is needed is a group of From little or no material, Mr. Gan- boys to get together and take this to naway has always been able to make
some place in the gym where it can a team that has won the majority of be used for the purpose for which it the games on its schedule. He is a
was intended. member of the "V" Club, and facul- Yours in hope of some action on ty advisor of the General Athletic
In most cases the results were gratifying a.nd a worthy reward for the half year's work which pre- ceded them, however in some instances as is invariably the case, failures occurred. These failures are unfortunate, but a hope presents itself in the second term. The lessons we have learned and the valuable experience we have derived from the first half-year of the school calendar should be a guiding light to better success, the foundation upon which to build our
this matter,
Association, which position makes him athletic director for the school. Next to Mathematics and Base
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ward. H e played on the same V. E. S. team with Luck.
Carolina
"Buck" Harris and
are playing on the Freshman basket- ball team at the University of North
cent visitors at the school.
Ashby Patteson, '29, was at the
Fork Union Military Academy game. He is now a third classman at V. M. I.
Harry Forsyth, '25, visited the school a few days ago.
Francis Smith, '29, is now attend- ing the Central School of Fine Arts in Washington, D. C.
Ben Smith, '20, is head coach of basketball at Christchurch School, Middlesex, V a.
Francis H. Craighill, Jr., '21, is rector of St. Andrews Church in Douglas, Ga.
Kendall Cuthbert, '21, is now Treasurer of the J. H. Gunther Cor- poration of Los Angeles, California,
them burning, slowly eating their way through the mat.
This is a condition which is not only unclean and unsanitary, but gives visitors a bad impression of the school and perhaps the most impor- tant thing, it is ruining a good piece of equipment, that will be hard to replace.
H e is out for for-
H e
was a
member of
Charlie P oe
Carolina. Harris is playing floor all for all the infirm and decrepit guard and Poe center. chairs in school, together with the disintegrating pieces of the same pop
Shan Morris, '25, Gooch Crosby, bottles, whole and in pieces, and '30, and James Jarret, .,30, were re- worst of all, cigarette butts, some of
lumber
products.
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Pembroke Nash, '22, was married lin, Tennessee. While at Murfrees- to Miss Jacqueline Prince Drane at boro High School he played on the
Instruction.
the faculty from 1924-1926.
Mr. Ellis N. Tucker is back at
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Dear Editor:
For some time there has been a
condition in school that has caused considerable comment among certain boys in the school. The case to which I refer is the so-called wrest- ling mat in the play room. What was once a very useful piece of equipment has now become a catch-
two year s.
transferred to the University of Ten- nessee, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree. He made the varsity
baseball team during both his years at the University of T ennessee. He was a member of the Sigma Chi so- cial fraternity and also had the honor of being chosen to the Phi Kappa Phi, honor Scholarship So- ciety. He was a member of the monogram club, for wearers of the "T".
Mr. Gannaway, after completing his B. A. course at the University of T ennessee, attended Cambridge Uni- versity in England for a year. ·He was a member of the first baseball team in the history of Cambridge, playing first base. He later re- turned to the University of Ten- nessee for three summers and took
his Master of Arts degree there.
At V. E. S. Mr. Gannaway is pro- fessor of Solid Geometry, Trigono- metry, and second year Algebra. He is up on all mathematical subjects,
and it is hard to find a problem that will stump him for any length of time. He has coached the varsity baseball teams for the past ten years, and has put out some of the finest prep school teams in Virginia, es- pecially the memorable team of 1927.
home on furlough.
sent time a professor of mathematics in Shanghai, China. Mr. Tucker taught Mathematics at V. E. S. du-
He is at the pre-
A STUDENT.
IN MEMORIAM
THE METEOR, in behalf of the plays an enviable game. He is ex-
student body wishes to exp-ress its sincerest syrnpathy to Nelson Hairston on the recent loss of his gmndrriother.
Ball, Mr. Gannaway likes tennis, and tremely popular with the boys, and
though he has the handicap of teach- ing the hardest courses in school, his classes are enjoyed, and a lot is gained from his able teaching.