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APRIL 22, 1940
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va.,
semi-monthly during the school year of 1939-'40 except holidays and examination periods.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
HENRY c. BOURNE, JR.
Editor
F. M. SIMMONS ANDREWS..................................................Managing Editor
GEo. WHITAKER..........................................................................Photograp.h.er MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG......................................................Faculty Admser
ALUMNI NEWS
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Edward B. Lockett is White
House correspondent for the Inter- national News Service.
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James Elliott Heath i~ ~sso~iate
counsel for the Senate JVJI Liber-
ties Committee in Washington, D. C.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Maury Miles
haYe announced the birth of a daughter on March 11th.
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Milton A. Barber, Jr., is a sales-
man for Page-Williamson, Inc., in Charlotte, N. C.
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Robert C. Howison was a guest
of Mr. James Poindexter at school on Sunday, April 14th. He is prac-
tising law in Raleigh, N. C. . The wedding of Mr. Augustme Washington Tucker, Jr., to Miss
Helen Barnum Carvier took place on Friday, April 12th, in Brevard,
N.C.
Nelson G. Hairston is specializing
in advanced biology at Northwest- ern University in Chicago.
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John A. Moore is a student in the
Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Gilbert C. Robinson is attending
a convention of North American Ceramics Students in Toronto, Can- ada.
COINCIDENCE A Short Story
by
CAROLINA ALUMNI MEET
. ~he~lumniofV.E.S.atthe Umverstty of North Carolina, who
have recently formed a V. E. S Club, held their semi-annual meet~
VoLUME XXV
NUMBER 10
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T. H. PARTRICK B. F. REAGAN
R. T. STONE
B. c. CLARKE
D. F. LANGHORNE
C. R. W. ScHoEw R. A. RILEY
E. s. PEEL
K. F. BROOKS
P. C. RoBINSON
back to the night of the begmmng v. E. s.
of that battle within himself, whose Those attending
decision brought about his leaving were: Joe Cheshire, Edgar Goold,
Reporters
BUSINESS BOARD
EDWARD A. MITCHELL
monotonous, small town life for LeConte Gibbes, Willie Gordon, Hal
Business Manager
C. D. L. PERKINS ................................................Assistant B~tsiness M anage1•
H. B. THOMSON ................................................Assistant Business Manager W. J. LONG•.•.•••..•....•....••........•........•.•••..•..•••••..•Assistant _Busin~ss Manager
which, he had decided, he had no stomach. Then there was the em- bezzling of some funds, which prob- ably hadn't been missed yet.
Armentrout, Kenneth Gant, '36; Cameron McCrae, Edwin Penick, Bill Joslin, '37; Dick Kendrick, Clayton Moore, '38; Bobby Kittrell,
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Manager Manager
"But why look on the dull side," Charley Hancock, John Foreman, he shrugged, "when there's such a Tommy Crudup, Henry Burgwyn
bright side? No longer will I be in and Alston Lewis, '39. Willie Gor- a rut, so nicely dug out for me by don acted as presiding officer this
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Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE LIGHT THAT MUST NOT FAIL
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It seems to be human nature for a man not to be able to appreciate the wonders that surround him; the things that are of tremendous
importance and the things that are so insignificant that the average m~n doesn't know they exist, but which, nevertheless, play a great part m his everyday life. Although it may seem rather odd, the Const~tution ?f the United States strikes this writer as falling in both categones. It IS, without a doubt, the most important act of legislation that the world_has ever known, and yet it is so taken-for-granted that the avera~e ~mencan doesn't know just exactly what it says or to what extent 1t mfluences his life.
Across the face of Europe men are marching; the rumbling of their footfalls shake the earth. Here in America we know what is going on, a far as is humanly possible, with the strict censorship of all communi- cations coming across the boundaries of the belligerent nations. We get both sides of the story, and many times we are forced to laugh at the contradictions that are contained in the off¥:ial communiques. Our news is not "doctored up" and made to sound in favor of one or the other of the belligerents. There is nothing held back. Whatever the news, w~ get it pure and unadulterated in our reputable newspapers and magazmes. This is so because there is a section in the Constitution that gives the people of the United States one of their greatest blessings, the freedom of the Press.
We couldn't help thinking of a line from G. K. Chesterton's Lepanto, "The Pope has cast his anns abroad in agony and loss:" when recently His Highness, Pope Pius the Twelfth, made a plea to the Nazis to spare the lives of the priests and clergy who still remain in Poland, in spite
of the risk they run. Outrageous things have taken place in the name of Germany. The representatives of the Christian faith have been and still are beaten, tortured, and in many cases killed; and for no good reason. But the clergy are not the only ones to feel the wrath of the Germans. Men and women are told what they should and should not believe about a Supreme Being and if they refuse to worship according to the State
they are also brutally tortured and mistreated. The Catholics and Jews, like driven cattle, are being run out of Germany or killed off. But here in America there is a section of the Constitution that gives a man the right to worship as he pleases, so long as he. does it i_n a peaceful_ way.
In the United States no man can be demed the nght of a tnal by jury, if such be his wish. There can be no trial behind closed doors and before a closed mind. There can be no arrest and imprisonment without the victim being told what he is being held for. He has the right to get up and defend himself and this cannot be taken away from him, no matter what his crime. How different this is from what reports lead us to believe goes on in present-day Germany and Russia. There a man may suddenly fade out of the picture and never be seen again. His friends and rela- tives may have an idea where he is, a very good idea, in fact, but they
will never know for sure where he has gone or why he was taken away. As to why he was taken away, the man himself may never know the answer to that question. It would be folly for him to expect a trial in an open court; he would be amazed if he were told that he was to be tried by a jury of his equals. All he would know would be that he had sinned against the government, had been caught, and that now he was
receiving his punishment.
Who knows what will come out of the present conflict on the European
continent! If Hitler is triumphant it will be a decided victory for Dic- tatorship over Democracy. Europe will then be more alive with con- centration camps than ever. What will be the hope of those who exist in the e cesspools of horror!! What will be the guiding light that will reach them through the darkness that surrounds them! It will be the Constitution of the United States, striking therv as it srikes all foreigners, with its freedom and justice. We must realize that some day that mass
of struggling humanity will crawl out from under the heel of the tyrant, as our forefathers did, and it will get up and look around in the light of freedom, and the first thing it will see will be the Constitution of the United States.
made all this possible and who'll liam Joslin, secretary.
Richard D.
Churchill Chalkley visited school on March 25th and April 6th, respec- tively.
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ter football by a knee operation. Tom Scott spent Sunday, April
dered if Helen and his daughter had circle, with nothing in the middle, when the time came to put it in,
gotten back from Scotsborough and nothing was put in the middle and found him gone. He hoped not, as to this dav there is nothing.
University of Virginia, visited school recently.
Francis Baily, freshman at Hamp- den-Sydney College, was at school over the April 7th week-end.
ENDOWMENT FUND
htt a car and killed some people. opinion that it should be left hke
This brought forth no sympathy it is for the benefit of THE METEOR,
or even curiosity from James Sulli- so another article can be written van. He was only irritated; for he .
sat on the side of his berth contin- next time they need somethmg to uing his silent cursing, then turned :-fi_ll__up:.......s...p::_a_c_e_. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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new life, amid bright lights and gay
people. Then there's Brenda, who
session. For the coming year, Rich- ard Kendrick was elected president, Edwin Penick, treasurer, and Wil-
to race a train and cause such a Since the first appeal was made mes~?" he muttered. "And why do
to the Alumni to support the Alum- these people have to cause more
ni Endowment Fund, the response delay by their morbid curiosity and
has been very gratifying. We have a~ected feelings over some insig-
'received lettens and contributions mficent fool who means nothing to from Alumni far and wide which any of them?"
are accepted with great appreciation. To these questions he found no But, nevertheless, there are a great answer, yet.
many from whom we have heard The next morning there was a
nothing. As most of you may know, scurrying and commotion that might
the proposed Alumni Fund is partly ?e laid a~the feet of those exchang-
to establish a scholarship to V. E. ~ng de~a1ls and stories of the prev-
S. This would be awarded each wus ~tsaster. It was typical, but year t~ some deserving boy, who annoymg.
otherw1se would not have the op- Sullivan finally arose in disgust
portunity to come here. When the and! for ~hegreater part of the day,
Fund was put before the last meet- buned h mself in a book, in order 1
ing of the Alumni held here Novem- to show his utter disregard. ber 11th, it received a unanimous
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As the train pulled out of Glen- ing and banquet in the Episcopal
dale Junction, James Sul~ivan felt Chapter House at Chapel Hill on
a peculiar, but welcome rehef, sweep
over him. He knew, now, that there
was no turning back and that the
battle that had raged in his soul speaker for the occasion. He talked was over, regardless of the conse- in a brief, informal speech, 0~ quences. events and school activities during
"Soul? That's a hot one." he the past year, outlining somewhat mused. "I'm no longer in that class; the prospects of the school for the
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I'm supposed to be scornful of such commg year.
mawkish ideas." After the meeting had been ad-
He settled down with a self-satis- journed, the Alumni joined in a gen- fied smile on his face and reviewed eral discussion about old boys and the past. His reflections carri~d ~im reminiscing of the old days at
the meeting his wife and child and that drab, Vaughn Winborne, '35; Jim Davis,
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He stopped this and began read- ing; for he saw no sense in review-
ing something he had gone over
again and again. After reading umns and the like, and one of these
awhile, he decided to retire as some-
Ed Smith and Spooner Harrison one boarding the train at Scots- plans called for a circular decoratio?-
are candidates for baseball at N. C. in the front gable. Since it was ind•- borough might recognize him, and cated on the blueprints by just a
State. Smith was kept out of win- then, too, he was sleepy. He won-
7th, at V. E. S.
Walter Greene reached the finals he wanted more time if possible. What ~hould be done about it?
in the 175-pound class at the Intra- Mural Boxing Tournament at N. C.
He was climbing into his berth, Well, we've asked numerous people when he felt a jerk and heard a for their opinions and the majority crash that shook every car. The train seem to think that it should be filled
came to a very abrupt stop but up with something. Mr. Mattfiel_d
not abrupt enough. At first startled, says that he thinks a piece of plam
then angry, he cursed silently. There white wood would do the trick and was much confusion in the car, as S
State.
Lovit H. LaRoque visited school
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others want something fancy. curious people surged forward to body moved in favor of a cl_ock
orne- soon circulated that the train had to show the boys how much tJme
"see what happened." The rumor
and AI Stoddard, freshmen at the · they had. However, we are of ~he
Arthur Heald, Thorburn Graham, Charles Doughtie, Bill Langhorne,
over and attempted to sleep.
"Why did some damn fool try
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It has been announced that the wedding of Miss Mary Randolph and Mr. James
Poindexter will be held on the eighth of June, nineteen hun- dred and forty. Bishop lett
and Dr. Randolph will officiate at the ceremony.
Attention, Alumni! Alumni Day has been an-
nounced for May 4. Plan to come to baseball game mtd
dance.
vote of approval. It was with this -~(~C~o~n~c=l~u~d_:ed~i~n~N~e~x~t~I=s~s~u_:e~.)~~~============l backing in mind that plans were I
carried forward to put it into effect. So may we urge you again-send in
your contribution or your pledge now and ask other Alumni to do
the same. In one letter received re- cently the sender wrote: "Because
the finest men I have ever known were my teachers and coaches at
V. E. S." The school is proud of SueI1 a CompI.
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Mr. H. W. Mattfield, the Senior
Master, was invited down as guest
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