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THE METEOR, v. E. s., Lynchburg, Va. (via Reusens).
Dear Fellows:
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ALUMNI NEWS
The Alumni of Washington, D. c., and vicinity held an informal get-together at a picnic on Sunday afternoon, April 18th. Mr. John W. Gannaway attended and t~lked over old times with the Alumm.
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The marriage of Dr. Alexander vance to Miss Jane Kelley of Wash- ington, D. C., has recently been an-
nounced.
The marriage of Mr. Jan:es
P ritchett, III, to Miss Kathenne Malloy took place on Saturday, April twentieth, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
COINCIDENCE
A Short Story
by 1 MALCOLM HoLLIDA Y 2
2 (Continued From Last Issue.) 4
His thoughts, throughout t?e day, 5 were varied but not once dtd they 6 revert to th~ "delay." He had been 7
somewhat unnerved or upset by the 8 ac:ident, but had regained complete 9 composure by mid-afternoon. He 10 had become absorbed in a book, 10
bro~ght ~p
well worn, but not yet ~xhaust.ed. 15
Sullivan, at first, decrded to tgno~e 16 it as he had all the others, but hts 17 c~riosity asserted itself, and he 18
NUMBER 11 Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynch?urg, Va.,
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EDITORIAL BOARD
HENRY C. BouRNE, JR.
Editor
Wheless .............................. 97
B o u r n e
Stewart .............................. 96.8 Partrick .............................. 94:8
Waite .................................. 94.5
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F . M. SIMMONS ANDREWS.................................................. GEo. WHITAKER..........................................................................
o ogra .1·er MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG••••••.•.....••••.....••••••••.•...•••••••••.•••••••.•Faculty Admser
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
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Camblos ............................ 91.3 yielded. 19 Calder ................................ 90.5
Reportera
BUSINESS BOARD
EDWARD A. MITCHELL
Business Manager
C. D. L. PERKINS..•••.•.•...•.••..•••...••••..•..•..••••..••••..As~istant Bus~ness Manager H. B. THOMSON................................................Ass~stant Bust.ness Manager W. J. LONG.•..•.•••••.•••••.••••.•.•.•..••.••.•.•••••.•••.••••••••Asststant .Busmt;ss Manager W B STALNAKER..........................................................C'J.rculatt.on Manager T.·S.·RoBISON••••..••••..••.•..••....••.........•...••.•.••Assistant Circulation Mana er
Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
'25 ALUMNUS RECALLS GOOD OLE DA YS
We are always glad to print letters from the alumni, and especially in this instance. In fact we wish Mr. Beck wGm!d write us often. We need somebody like him on our staff. For the information of those who .read this Mr. Beck is of the class of '25; and he must have sown qmte a few wild oats, which lose nothing in the telling. The letter;
"I saw it," began one of them, 20 Tucker, B........................... 89.8 "and it was enough to make a ~r~nk 21 McKenzie .......................... 89 sick. There was a woman dnvmg, 22 Cunningham ...................... 88.5 and she was banged up to a bloo.dy 23 Brown ...............................• 87 pulp. Butshehadalittlegirl~tth23 Joyner,W...........................87
"Tiny-the-Terrible's" running rampant fi~ally achie~ed the appar- ently impossible, and brought the old Remmgton agam to hand to hold sweet converse with those of the oft-remembered Alma Mater.
The sundry troubles of these benighted boys bring so clearly to mind those of an earlier generation--of the time that Uncle Matty and Black Billy brought my wild career a?ruptly .to a ha!f~s~ep
(should I say "lock-step") by solemnly warnmg me m. a persptrmg
session in the Rector's Study that "If far-off Wyommg we~e n~t
so distant the wasteland intervals so wide, they would constder rt '"
a very pleasant duty to Ship Me, Suh!
Things were not always so palpitating, however, although wh~n
Yet this idea couldn't dislodge the He had to compose htmself. ~earl­ feeling he had. He went to the ing was useless; after a vam ~t­
diner with high hopes of forgetting tempt in which that image faced hrm
it all, but he met more opposition. on every page he threw the book
The image of his wife and child, down in disgust-and fear. He
happy-wondering-dead, the last looked around; the window re~
one was the most prominent- fleeted it; people's faces becamld ·1· he wou
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Mr. Ladd (God bless his memory) used to read Dracula to us, cozrly secure in his study from the wintry blasts of the outer dar~ness, many there were who kept a bit of wild onion to hand, and smtched a bit of communion wafer to preserve us for more mundane troubles.
The winters were tough there then, t~ough i~ m~y be different now under the New Deal (which you so bghtly drsm.tss) ; but when the sweet, warm spring evening came, we w~re ;ep~td, and more. _I even enjoyed Sunday Evening Chapel then, wrth rts N?w the Day IS Over" and gentle benediction easing the load of the exrle.
Tell me-do you all still go out in the woods, and cut down trees,
and make cabins along those lovely little streams? That was home;
although an irate farmer once sent a co_uple of loads ?f bu~ksh?t over Mason's and my heads to put a quretus on our pwneenng m that vicinity. And the indestructible black w~lnuts, puckery per- simmons sweet cider and half-rotten apples whtch helped keep body and soul together until the next meal- does Heaven still shower these blessings on her needy children there?
Charlie Hancock was vice-president of the rising more class at U. N. C.
elected Sopho-
Manag£ng Editor Ph t pi
p e o p l e
March 20, 1940. Cody, Wyoming,
also tapped as a member of the hon- orary Omicron Delta Kappa Fra- ternity.
George Penn Hutton made the most recent Dean's List at the Uni- versity of Virginia.
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Richard L. Kendrick was recently
chosen a member of the Honor
Council of the rising J unior class
at the University of North Caro-
lina.
Bill Joslin was recently chosen secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Chapel Hill.
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Charles Doughtie, freshman at the University of Virginia, visited school on April 27th.
couldn't disbelieve it. He couldn't think. Then, he began to wonder. Yes, he was sorry, naturally, but wouldn't things work out best f~r him if she were gone? Then hts feeble conscience also accepted the fact that she'd never know.
He rather liked this, he thought. Yet he couldn't help feeling upset
about it, for he had loved his family. "Aw, hell," he growled, "don't be such a fool. They had to die some- time, and you'll forget all about
them. No use cryin' now, anyhow; they're dead."
43 Earnhardt .......................... 82.6
44 Addison .............................. 82.5
44 Moseley .............................. 82.5
44 Robinson ............................ 82.5
47 Jackson .............................. 82.4
48 Harris ................................ 82
48 Robison .............................. 82
SO Alexander, M ..................... 81.8 .::....=...__:_.:..__ _:__ _ _ _ _ _ _
that morose, haggard manner. Oth~r passengers noted momenta;ily thrs strange, furtive man stalkr~g past them, without seeming to nottce any- one or anything as he passed.
He reached his seat and sank down, breaking out in. a cold sweat.
Those attending
Gamble Tame E. Heath, Fdw:trd Lockett: john Dunn, William Luck, Robert Williams, Preston Luc.k, John Frazier, Habersham ColqUtt, Jack Hartman, Frank Mead, and Stag Powell.
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were R.
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f o u r
discussion which had by now become 14
w h e n
tragedy for further dtscusston-a 13
'32 her who hadn't been mutilated, JUSt 25 Andrews ............................ 85.5 Rodger Williams was a visitor killed." "I wish I hadn't seen it!." 26 Root .................................... 85
here at school on April 19th. Angus added another, who, in spite of hts 27 Hodgson, V ....................... 84.8 C. Randolph was also here on the statement was glad to be able to 27 Seager, R........................... 84.8 twenty-seventh. add a bit. "That woman was a mess; 29 Dillon ................................ 84.6
'33 her leg had been crushed to hell. 29 Procter .............................. 84.6 Wilcox Brown, senior at Virginia Wonder who they were? Glad it 31 Mitchener .......................... 84.5
Polytechnic Institute, was at school ain't my family." 31 Perry .................................. 84.5
on April 20th. During the cot~ing "Y eah, I 'd feel mighty sorry for 33 Riley, F ............................... 84.4
summer he will be employed 111 a that kid's ole man, if she's got one. 34 Nelson ................................ 84.3
DuPont Company plant near Des Just think, seeing your family ~11 34 Stalnaker ............................ 84.3
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Moines, Iowa.
John T. Lawson is a hurdler on
stretched out bloody and dead-! d 36 Clark, C............................. 84 go nuts." 36 Reagan ................................ 8-t
"Their name was Sullivan, I 38 Krug .................................. 83.6
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the track squad at Hampden-Sydney heard someone "
Stone .................................. 83.6 "composure" 38 Wood .................................. 83.6
College.
Leigh Taylor was recently elected
president of the Student Senate and vice-president of the Student Coun-
cil at Hampden-Sydney. He was Iieve what he had heard, yet he
James Sullivan's
burst as an egg shell would with a 4'1 Skinner .............................. 83.5 rock falling on it. He couldn't be- 42 Abernathy .......................... 82.8
haunted him. Food was no help. bloody or smtmg, as s .
the Woodberry-V. E. S. track meet That image faced him, haunted him, smile; everything was that 'T:ge·
The following Alumni attended
held at Woodberry Forest on April
27th: Laurie Forsyth, '37; Bobby
Ristine, '38; Lawrence Loftin, '39;
Bill Langhorne, '39, and AI Stod- dard, '39.
oppressed him; for it appeared to Jumping up, he ~tarted wa 1~gt have faith in him, not to believe or walk!ng, n~t knowm~ wh~etill ~e
know what he was doing. walkmg. Hrs pace qmckene h The waiter wondered why the was practically running; then ee
ftlom- meal was left untouched and why was running. F aster, as er · 5 h.
the passenger had left the diner in one made an attempt to stop ~md -----=-----------1but it was too late. He had reac e
the observation car. He leaped rd:
Someone pulled the emergency co '
the train came to a very abrupt stol.
ALUMNI MEETING
After dinner on Saturday eve- twenty-fifth anniversary celebration.
I notice an ad for Gannaway Hardware can this be for our own ning, the Alumni held their bi-an- An election of officers was held The engineer cursed. Peopde
"Long John?" If so, pl.ease give him my re~ards, and te~l him. that the theorems, Constructions, QEDs, etc., whtch he so pamstakmgly beat into my head have never since deserted me.
nual meeting in joint session with after the business meeting had been clamored out. The body was foun. · this year's Senior Class. The retir- adjourned and Robert "Bob-Ike" Nothing could be done. The trat~
irg president of the Alumni Asso- Owen, '34, was voted president of took on its bloody cargo and starte ciation, Mr. James E. Poindexter, the Alumni Association. Mr. Rich-
welcomed the Alumni on behalf of ard Gamble, '33, was made vice- off. . · t fin- The railroad officral had JUS •
Well I've rambled lots-it's been good, and I thank you for the
opport~nity. I nclose $1 for the Alumni fund-perhaps in later the school. The usual formalities
president,andMr.J.N.Bondwas re-elected secretary- treasurer.
th twoaccr- ·~ ished his report on e ties
dents He noticed that both par · to . b t on inqutr-
years more may be available.
Best of good luck to you a11, and may you enjoy the old school
as much as I.
G. T. BECK, SR.
This is the kind of a letter we love to get from ?ur Alumni..It holds about the response to the question- Gamble, J. E. Heath, J. W. Eppes, to James Sullivan of Glendale out the hope that after our time of confinement ts up, we mrght also naires that have been sent out dur- David Donati, Robert Owen, Bill tion.
turn out to be human beings. Certainly, it.makes.us see th.at at least one ing the past two years. The school Boylan, Brodie Winborne, Garland
fellow has done time at V. E. S. and survtved wrthout Iosmg all, or any has every reason to believe that most Tucker, Laurence Prince, Ed Smith
for that matter, of his naturalness. of the Alumni, to whom THE ME- and Bobby Ristine.
TEOR is sent, receive it. Neverthe- Also were Wilcox Brown, Jr., Ed
For the information of the author of this excellent epistle, we still less, only a small portion of these Goold, Bob Simmons, Francis have hard winters around here, and !t wasn't unti,I the oth~r day that we have taken the trouble to send in a
"Odd," he thought. New Counselor
really considered Spring actually wtti; us. That one thmg that even Bailey, Van Scott, Ben Park, Art
Mercer Cranor Parrott, Jr., Pp0inted a
the "New Deal" and Mr. Mattfield cant change. cupations. All Alumni are especially
Butter and Mason Blandford.
were gone through, the minutes be- ing read and approved and the fin-
Alumni attending the meeting or
appearing on the campus over the ing he found that t?e wo~a:o kin
urged to do so now, because of the plans for the school's forthcoming
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had the same name, u and Dr. Randolph told the Alumni week-end were as follows: R. W. child were of Washmgton• June-
:mcial report given.
record of their whereabouts and oc- Heald, Doughtie, AI Stoddard, B. L.
has been recently a b dy member of the counselor 0 ·
V.
E. S.
A verages Month Ending April 27th, 1940
Magi ll
C r a i g h ill
H o l l i d a y
Mitchell .............................. 93.3 Claytor .............................. 93.2 Mayo .................................. 93.2 Thomson ............................ 93.2 Peel .................................... 92.8 Owen .................................. 92.5 Cox, H. A........................... 92.3 Saunders ............................ 91.8 Parrott .............................. 91.5
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