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EDITORIAL BOARD
HENRY C. BouRNE, ]R. Editor
F. M. SIMMONS ANDREWS..................................................Managing Editor GEo. W H IT A K E R ..........................................................................Photograplter MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG......................................................Faculty Adviser
ALUMNI ENDOWMENT FUND .DRIVE BEGINS
ALUMNI NEWS LETTER OF AN ALUMNUS
The alumni of the University of Th~ follo~ing is a portion of a North Carolina will hold their an- very mterestmg letter re~eived here
VoLUME XXV
MARCH 14, 1940
To THE ALUMNI:
The year 1941 brings to Virginia nual banquet in Chapel Hill on the recently from .Lowry Stnc!air' an
NUMBER 9 Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va.,
Reporters
T. H. PARTRICK B. F. REAGAN R. T. STONE
B. c. CLARKE
D. F. LANGHORNE
EDWARD A. MITCHELL Business Manager
C. D. L. PERKINS................................................Assistant Business Manager H. B. THOMSON ................................................Assistant Business Manager W. J. LONG........................................................Assistant Business Manager W. B. STALNAKER..........................................................Circulation Manager T. S. RoBISON..............................................Assistant Circulation Manager
Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ALUMNI ENDOWMENT FUND
From time to time you, the alumni of V. E. S., have been called on for several minor contributions to this school, contributions in your capacity as alumni. These minor co11tributions may have eemed of a pestering and insignificant nature. They lacked any semblance of ordered or concerted action. Nothing worthy of any enthusiasm has before this
been offered, nothing which appeared to accomplish any purpose or strived toward a definite goal. Many of you have probably felt this lack and had the desire to begin and participate in a directed effort to accom- plish something for the old school. Well, at last such hopes have become materialized and it is now possible to join a concentrated and directed drive, whose object is to place at your disposal a fund, to be used for
whatever purpose that you see fit. ·
Virginia.
Royall E. Smithey, dentist in junk, I found a reversible topcoat .
P. C. RoBINSON BUSINESS BOARD
at school on March 9th. '29
Beverly D. Causey is now on a six-months' leave of absence from
equtpment, when used for bedding and mattress. ·by
"We were exuberant over the 1~1. prospect of flying from Kweilin for
C. R. W. ScHoEw R. A. RILEY
E. s. PEEL
K. F. BROOKS
we.were condu~ted farther inland by :;:nes. '26 Chmese guernllas; traveling by Sch
The other minor things which you have been called on for fade into out by those who passed through
North Carolina, is now a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Herbert "Buck" Thomson, so-
who were inclined to dawdle for tea at every roadside mat shed. Finally we reached the coast, learned that England and Germany had been ~t war and erroneously, that the Aqul- tania had been sunk; and took pas- sage on a freighter for Hong Kong.
TERRIBLE MITE RUINS
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back toward his original destinat10~.
Official sources said that he was m
his Morris chair studying with all
his might before the Moscow end
of the Berlin-Moscow axis had even
thought about revolving. Howe~er,
it seems that that rumor concemmg
"Blind Neddy" is completely.with-
out foundation; because he .un~e­
diately stuck Addison for lmter~ng
and "Little Peter" for attempting •
to avoid arrest and refused to gwe
him a hearing. When the case was
carried to the highest tribunal on
such affairs, Henry "Chips" Ma.tt·
Episcopal School its twenty-fifth an- niversary, and to its alumni the deep satisfaction that their school has contributed richly to the lives of some 1,200 boys. It is time, there- fore, to look back over a quarter of a century of work well done an<;' to
plans so that this work may contmue and expand.
11th of April.
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a umnus, teac 1mg at Brent School
in Baguio, Philippines: ' "It seems that I am so much out
insignificance as, for the first time in the history of V. E. S., the alumni and have gone out from V. E. S., phomore at Hampden-Sydney, was
have set out to accomplish something definite. It remains to be seen, a moderate alumni fund will be pro- recently initiated into the Kappa
whether this drive will succeed; and it is needless for us to say that its vided that may be used as a founda- Sigma fraternity.
success depends on each one of you individually. The drive is still in its infancy; the foundaton is not as firm as it might be. Unless the fullest cooperation is obtained from everyone, another effort to make use
tion for future expansion. Disposition of the projected cor-
Inasmuch as the savings account will begin to draw interest just as soon as the money is deposited, the
of your until now dormant energies will have gone up in smoke.
Some of you probably already know something about the project, for members at the meeting to be held faster each alumnus mails either a
than their arithmetical quota do so. great and creditable things can be accomplished. Let us remind you that Such over-quota contributions he
this is the first time that the V. E. S. alumni have been organized for a pointed out, would serve to meet de-
definite purpose. Other prep schools here in Virginia have done it. It ficiencies in rounding out the sched-
remains to be seen whether you can successfully and with zeal carry out ui:~ program resulting from in-
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a worthy project.
abt!tty of some to give the amount sought.
President Poindexter at the same
time announced that arrangements
have been made to facilitate collec-
tion of the money in establishment
of a savings account with the First
Nati.onal Bank of Lynchburg to the
cred1t of the V. E. S. Alumni En- dowment Fund.
Virginia Episcopal School, but JOmtly we can make a real contribu-
v habeus corpus and refused to ta e
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OUR LITERARY TEAM
For fifteen years a literary meet has been held annually between St.
Robinson concerning the wn ~ off the penalty, which had now
Christopher's School and Virginia Episcopal School; and each year the
same team has emerged victorious-St. Christopher's School. For fifteen
!on~ years .this ve~itable jinx has remained unbroken, until this year.
Th1s year, m the s1xteenth contest between the schools, something hap-
pened to that jinx. The wrong school won. It was V. E. S. by a 2-1
victory (if you count the number of branches of the contest reading
public speaking, and debating), or a 5-4 victory (if you count the totai
number of votes). It's about time a couple of jinxes were broken around
here. Maybe this is the beginning. Anyhow, what we started out to do
was to praise our literary team. They are to be complimented on their
victory which was gained by excellent preparation in all the three divi- •
and render the decision, the coaches for also playing an important part,
and the chairman and timekeeper for discharging their duties with extra- ordinary finesse.
reached three demerits.
But this was only the quiet befo~
the storm ; the storm that str? d
later in the day, in the sixth. penolt
at the expense of one Holl1day. b
Stons.
We want to thank the judges for accepting the invitation to attend ADDRESS
. If finally, to save htmse , wa
s force the
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to send "Little Peter" from ·
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We of the alumni, whose lives and Mary, in Williamslurg, Va.
here in the Far East.
bear the stamp of V. E. S., want a very definite part in that future.
W e have the privilege and obliga- tion of a guardianship over V . E. .s. We are bound together by the ttes of a kinship knit through the forma- tive years of our lives. The fine men and courageous ideals of our school gave us a heritage we must cherish
and faithfully preserve for others. Framework of a program to exer- cise the privileges and discharge the
duties of V. E. S. graduates was
"An electrical engineering instruc- R. W . Gamble stayed at school tor of Hong Kong University na111ed
Under plans drafted and ap- tion of Virginia in Covington.
travel brought us to within 500 li of the coast in spite of danger from air raids along the way. Then we took to bicycles, following a tom-up motor road ; and riding on the back carrier behind a coolie is not a mean
proved at the Fall alumni meeting, each alumnus will be asked to give a dollar for each year he has been out of school, up to and including the 1941 seniors. This, it was agreed, would impose the minimum burden upon those who might least be expected to have fully established themselves economically, and would properly call for more from alumni
long out of school.
If this program is fully carried
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Leigh Taylor was recently elected president of the Hampden-Sydney College Glee Club.
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nerstone fund of the alumni asso- ciation will be voted by contributing
it has been touched upon at some of the alumni meetings earlier in the during the twenty-fifth reunion next part or the whole of his contribu-
year. For complete information as to the particulars of the drive see year at the time of the baseball tion, the larger the fund will be the article on this page entitled Alumni Endowment Fund, and don't fail game with Woodberry Forest when it is presented next year.
to use accompanying blank. THE METEOR will try to help in every way School, May 10, 1941. If you are unable to make the
that it can, and gladly offers itself as an instrument to publicize the drive and to keep you informed as to the particulars.
The importance of responding immediately to this drive cannot be stressed sufficiently. Very little is asked of each individual, and yet with the contribution of each and every one of the some twelve hundred
James E. Poindexter, president of entire contribution at once, send in
the Alumni Association, called for
a prompt response to the new pro-
gram, and expressed the hope that
those graduates able to give more
as large a part as you can, Alumni. If you find it necessary to wait a little, please sign the pledge coupon provided in this issue of THE
METEOR, advising how. you wish to schedule your contribution.
Individually, most of us might be able to do very little financially to
tion.
Mail your pledge coupons and
your contributions to the Alumni Endowment Fund, Virginia Episco-
pal School, L ynchburg, V a.
RICHARD w. GAMBLE EDWARD B. LOCKETT '
For the A lumni Endowment ' Fund Committee.
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The Rev. Francis Craighill, rector
of Bruton Parish Church, in Wil- ?f t~~ch that I hardly know what ~to3
liamsburg, was a guest of Dr. Oscar Randolph on March 3rd.
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mqumes to make.
"To shake the impression that 1 L!G
may become a dyed-in-the-wool ped-
Richard Hubard Henneman is a agogue, I ventured into China last
professor at the College of William summer to see what was going on
ALUMNI ENDOWMENT FUND
some strange comc1 ence, ~ ck t ing out into the great atr pofte
I gladly subscribe to the v E S AI may count on me for my dolia · ' ·
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that is the V. E. S. study hall. A e~
it had been retrieved, it was s.fcls
on another flight across the 'f"1
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r a year contnbut10n. I left v. E. S. in 19....... I am enclo ing my check for
of the room. Well, thmgs w~nBolli· bad to worse and as they dt.d. and day reached a cardiac cnsts d
dollars. Or I will pay a follows.
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Koh made the trip with me; and we
'24 penetrated imaginary Japanese lines .,, ro S. Carter Williams is a radio on foot through a point up the coast ¢a
dramatist and writer in Richmond, north of Hong Kong. From there the
over the week-end of March 3rd.
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Blacksburg, Virginia, was a visitor the .most useful item of my meager wer
roughly put together at a meeting
held last fall after the V. E. S.-E. his duties as professor at St. John's just $600 in national currency. It
would mean comfort and speed; but voted to start with establishment of vacation, he is attending language we never made it. Planes in Kweilin
an endowment fund, to be pre- school in Peking. were fully booked for weeks with sented during the twenty-fifth anni- Withers Whitehead visited school Chungking passengers; and we versary ceremonies in the spring of on March 7th. chose a doubtful route overland to 1941. '31 K wangchowan on the coast south of
Preliminary plans were shaped to Paschal Shook, graduate of the Hong Kng for our return. Our impose a minimum financial burden Yale Law School, is now working entry route had been blocked by a on those most lately graduated. in a law firm in Birmingham, Ala. Japanese landing party.
Alumni voting agreed that the max:i- '33 "The next week's travel was the mum contributions sought were Lionel L. Barbee is connected most harrowing of the entire excur- moderate.
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"For three days we pushed on to make up time lost by not taking the Robert Strange, student of jour- plane, pushing the bicycles most of
nalism also at the University of the way and pushing the coolies,
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