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VoLUME XXV
Issued by the students of the Virginia E1 iscopal School, Lynchburg, Va.,
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FEBRUARY 2, 1940
during the school year of 1939-'40 except examination periods.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
HENRY C. BouRNE, JR. Editor
ANDREWS..................................................M anaging
MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG......................................................Faculty Adviser employed in map making ~or the
SrM MONS
GEo. Wr-IITAKER ..........................................................................PhotograpiT,er
Sig111a; hesterman Constantine is now Psi.
and Albert
Stoddard, Zeta
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
Reporters
General Drafting Company 111 New Y rk City.
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Pembroke T. Grove, l\I. D., holder
for the school's record for the hun- dred-yard clash, has been trans- ferred from New York to the Col-
EXCHANGE COLUMN
We see in the flf'oodberry Oracle
that Dean Hudson will play for
their Midwinters, which tart on the
16th and run through the 18th. Some
of the boys will remember Dean
Hudson from finals two years ago
thy Thompson's new analysis of in-
ternational affairs, Let the Record
Speak. This was presented by the
authoress herself through the influ-
ence of Mr. William J. Hogan, our librarian.
Other acquisitions are Wi1trf, Sand and Sta1's, the sensational new air story by Antoine de Saint Exapery, the author of Night
BUSINESS BOARD
Hospital
W ashington,
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'ilre
umbia EDWARD A. MITCHELL D.C.
in
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.
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Caskie Norvell was married to
Norfol k,
Robert W. Daniel, graduate of the University of The South, is an in- structor in English at Harvard.
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he put on for us.
From the Lawreuce we find that
"All The Things You Are" is num- ber one on their hit parade. Mr. Hogan's favorite, "Scatterbrain," which is currently high on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, was given fifth place. "Careless" and "Indian Sum- mer" are second and third in that
order.
From the Midway Student we see
that they've done something about
Leagues Under the Sea, by that im- mortal writer of adventure stories,
THIS TERM AND LAST Mr. ]. Southgate Hoyt, after
The last term reached a crescendo during the last week when the
who emerged success£ul from this trial of mental strength had the satis- will finish work on an advanced de-
We also would like to thank Mrs.
regrets. Those who did not do so well either laughed it off or resolved to do better, according to the person. We fear that most of the ones who failed did carelessly laugh it off, as usual, with the same lack of
regard for their future or of respect for their parents. If there are many of these, may they quickly wake up and realize just what their
attitude means. A very promising future cannot be predicted for these mental loafers. We will even go so far as to say that our mental idlers are more to be pitied than our physical idlers. The many who came through their exams with flying colors, however, ought not to decide
to rest on their laurels; there is always room for improvement. In either case, the old term is over and the new term has begun. The old term, whether successful or unsuccessful, must be put behind us as we start our battle to attain final examinations-and home for the summer.
V. E. S. gets the chance to revenge a certain defeat and there isn't much doubt in this corner that our boys can do it. Although getting off to a slow season, suffering defeats at hands of the Hampden-Sydney Freshman and Hargrave Military Academy, they snapped into their
stride by subduing an oll rival, Woodberry Forest. Sparked by All-State
Andrews, who has not seen any action, and Charlie Schoew, we have
high hopes for a champion hip team; and the rival we really want to crush is Episcopal High School.
So in both our studies and athletics we can start out with a clean slate,
resolved to keep it so by untiring perseverance and strength. It is
necessary to take our activities at V. E. S. with all clue seriousness. By Romb, annual of V. M. I., and as-
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using serious it might sound as if one couldn't enjoy himself also. Thi is far from the case. It is true enjoyment to do the job well and to do it right. Having only pleasure while here at school does not make for
having an easy time later on. During the coming term, no matter what has gone before, the "Full Stature of Manhood" should be the goal; and though none may really reach this goal, the striving alone will temper.
YOU'VE GOT A NAME, BOYS
Some of you haven't seen the place long. Been here only a couple of
months. What's your impression ? Or have you thought about the thing
enough? Stick around a few years; long enough to get the Alcatraz
feeling out of your veins. Have you ever imagined that perhaps you're
part of a living thing? The school's been here a few years. It's been
here since some of you weren't even that fond dream you so happily think yourselves to be.
Consider the school as a live animal. Ever so often that live animal has a few offspring. Now provided you're the dreamy school boy you
It isn't hard to do that. It's all according to nature. Something grown
out of the seeds of the beginning. Now if you have ever had faith in The same issue of The Spectator (Continued from Page One.)
Bishops, still game and fighttngd, b 11 an
and recently made the dean's list of ought to be able to imagine that. Think of those offspring as teams. distinguished students.
John MacDowell, Miss Puss Owen -:-
with Arch Alexander, Miss Sally
Ramsey with Warren Seager, Miss
Chicky Develin with Jarvis Procter
and Miss Margaret Shephard with Raymond Russum.
FIRST TERM HISTORY
The members of the staff of THE METEOR wish to e%press their sincere and heartfelt s~r­
row on behalf of the e111"e stttdent body and the members
1
D D first senior master of v:E.·'S. Dr. Nelson diedtO:,
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a man or woman you can have faith in this organism. It's part of you, contained some sketches by Irving so _well will do better, profiting by C. Whitehead. the1r mistakes and the mistakes of
Sunday January 28th, aff
' pro es-
boys. It's yours, boys. You ought to be proud. They're always fighting William K. Langhorne has been the other boys around them. for you. What have they done to call down that dread silence you reward elected vice-president of Zeta Psi
serving many years as
sor of Hebrew at V·rgmw
their tasks with? Have you got blood in your veins, boys? Real, red Fraternity at the University of Vir-
Perhaps the recent epidemic of flu
can account for a part of those who
. · · He oc-
American blood? Can you watch without yelling your head off? Perhaps you can't put all that into a simile. Perhaps you didn't know
were supposed to yell. Perhaps you're too weak to yell. But get it heads, boys. We've got to yell! We've got to yell our heads
got a name, boys.
. . gm1a.
Calvin Satterfield, former editor of THE METEOR, is a member of the Cadet staff at V. M. I., and a ser-
geant in Company C.
Theological Semmary. . r . 't' of semo
ALUMNI NEWS
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LIBRARY NEWS
NUMBER 6 '25
Dean Quarles, salesman for the den-Sydney freshmen on January
acquired
Lovac Sales Company of Chicago, 20th.
visited school recently. . _ The . ~allowing w~~e_ ~lected , .to
and fiction material.
N otal?ly among various reference
Gallimore of
Miss Glynn
Virginia, on December 23rd.
studying ornithology in Europe, and working as assistant curator in the
the snow and the snowballing that
students of V. E. S. experienced a necessary evil of school life. Those Weber Museum at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., goes along with it. All pupils wish- H. D. Pollard of Savannah, Ga., for
ing to snowball signed the follow- faction of looking back over a completed half-year's work with no gree at Cornell in February and ing pledge. "We the undersigned,
her gracious gift of fifty-six vol- umes of new adventure stories and detective fiction-the largest single donation to the V. E. S. Library in recent years. In this group are
then he will serve as a curator of the National Museum.
Sam Wright is now employed in the life insurance business in Or- lando, Florida.
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Morton McDowell Wright is sec- retary for the Stevens Shipping Company in Savannah, Georgia.
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Jack Vandergriff is an ensign on the U. S. S. Tennessee, with base in San Pedro, California.
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Pat Riddleberger, after graduat- ing from V. M. I. last year, is now continuing hi military career as a second lieutenant in the United States Army.
agree that no snowballing will take
place near the building, and we
Virginia.
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"Prof." Masterton was a visitor
at school on January 19th. He is a freshman at the University of Vir-
•• gtma.
George Penn Hutton had a short story published in a recent issue of The Speetator, the literary magazine
at the University of Virginia. He is
majoring in English Composition,
Stalnaker, Miss Esther Payne with Schoew and' Nash. Schoew hit the Francis Joyner, Miss Kakkie Beas- the
1 · hoop for 17 points and was d ey w1th Bob Riley, Miss Margaret sparkplug of the team. Nash ma e
Banks with Charles Phillips, Miss only six points, but his floor game
St. George Ambler Brown, fresh- ntan at v. P. I., visited school for the basketball game with the Ramp-
S i n c e METEOR,
t h e t h e
l~st i s s u e
o f
T n E
Alfred M. McGavock is ch;et fraterntt1es at the Unl\etst_ty o f \ tr- ma~ter 1 a. very handsome volume
chemist in the National Carbide Cor- Iginia at the end of rush111g week,
entitled, B1rds of America, with
oYer one hundred full pag-e color
plates by Louis Aga siz Fuertes famous American painter, and fiv~ -
poration in Ivanhoe, Virginia.
The marriage of Mr. John Hart-
January 15th: P'. Edward V. Scott, Beta Theta _L,
man IV to Mis. Belle Chapin Cass, Bill Langhorne, Charles Do~tghti~,
on TllU~sday, December 21st, in 1 Jr., Thorburn Graham, CIH Pill_; pages of reproduction of eggs in
New Berlin, N.Y ., has recently been Arthur Heald, Delta_ Kappa Epsl-
natural size and color. This was pur- chased as supplementary reading for
biology students. wor Another welcome volume is Doro- ·Coa
lllllOU!lCed.
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Delta;
Laurence Lofttn, Delta Tatt . ,
Lee Maulsby, Pin 1\.appa
and can easily recall the swell show Fright; and Twenty Thousand
agree to use the lower end of the
lot near the C. and 0. Railroad. works by such foremost fiction writ- Hill
Violations will be a sufficient cause to withdraw these privileges." It seems like we could do something
like that, too. After all, we have got two big athletic fields.
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VAGABONDS PLAY FOR
ers as Van Wyck Mason, Helen Reilly, Carter Dickson, and R. A. J.
(Continued from Page One.)
we hope that it will not happen was good. Edmunds sank a snow
again.
Couples dancing were:
bircl, but the Cadets collected two points on foul shots. It was here
ttl' •
that the Bishops' defense fell down. Miss Mary Sally Clark with Cliff The Hargrave team added etgl;t
Peeler, Miss Betty Lou Vanderbilt points to their slight margin. Charhe
with Bruce Thomson, Miss Virginia
· h fi I Schoew scored twice m t e na
Page Dabney with Paul Edmunds, period, but that was not enough. Miss Barbara Bourke with Earl 1
Ballenger scored again only to 1ave Owen, Miss Ceevah Rosenthal with his basket topped by another one of
Willie Newman, Miss Betty Burk Charlie's high shots from the cen- Mac Gilliam is editor of the 1941 with Charlie Schoew, Miss Nanette t<:>r. The Hargrave team fror:e the
Schoew with Simmons Andrews, ball from the toiling Bishops 111 the Miss Jellis Kirkpatrick with Ben 1 The
Reagen, Miss Wistar Watts with last few minutes of pay. .
sistant editor of the Cadet.
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Charles W. Massie was recently Wit ward Mitchell, Miss Vir- the game ended with the Ca~ets
Psi Fraternity at the University of Miss Buddy Alexander with Bill out a doubt to the rival centers-
E
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dward Barton, Miss Betty Clark
elected as a member of Phi Kappa ginia Ward with Paul Simmons, leading 28_24. Our praise goes, wJth-
Anne Lankford with Michael Alex- ander, Miss Virginia Dawson with
)
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did not do so well. However the '
cup~ed the poS1- wn 9 191
grades were not too bad, so far as we know. The sickness must have been pretty severe. Mrs. Payne, our nurse, was even taken sick.
master from 1916 to Mr' when he was succeeded by ·
l i b r a r y h a s
many valuable additions in reference
Jul es
gift during the Christmas recess was a copy of Eric Kelly's new work, At the Sign of the Golden Compass, generously autographed and sent by
the author. This is the third such donation by Mr. Kelly and we take this opportunity to express our grat- itude to a sincere friend of the school.
W alling
and also
numerous
Crime
V erne.
A much
appreciated
Club selections.
POTENT HARGRAVE
(Continued from Page One.) fouled Ayers of Hargrave; the shot
were unable to steal the a
of the faculty at the death 0 the Rev. Thomas K. Nelson,
Henry W. Mattfield.