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EDITORIAL BOARD
THOMAS S. RoBISON, Editor
PETER C. RoBINSON............................................................Managing Editor CHARLES R. W. ScHOEW ......................................................Associate Editor DouGLAS F. LANGHORNE........................................................Alumni Editor MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG........................................................Faculty Adviser
ALUMNI NEWS
During the course of the last year, various plans were published and sent out to the Alumni con-
cerning the school's twenty-fifth
anniversary celebration which is
planned for the week-end of May
1Oth, 1941. We hope that these
P A TRONIZE OUR SCHOOL DIRECTORY ADVERTISERS
VoLUME XXVI
OCTOBER 5. 1940
We wish to take this opportunity in our first issue to ask that all the subscribers of TnE METEOR
patronize our advertisers. Many of our advertisers have been only very kind hearted donators but, on the other hand, some have put their
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operation in patronizing our adver- tisers that we are able to get the advertisements and present THE
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ciate hearing from those who have funds, it is only through your co-
MR. W . J. HoGAN, Faculty Adviser Scientia
THOMAS S. RoBISON, Secretary FRED W. CARRINGTON, Treasurer
Business Manager
PRESTON CRAIGHILL..........................................Assistant Business Manager
RoBIN ABERNATHY..........................................Assistant Business Manager REID EARNHARDT..............................................Assistant Business Manager NED MEWBORN..................................................Assistant Business Manager GEORGE WHITAKER......................................................Circulation Manager FLEMING SAUNDERS......................................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.
TO THE ALUMNI
METEOR to you. Understand that we MR.. C. L. McGHEE, FacuJty Ad-
If you have and if you feel that you will not enjoy reading what is abo~;~t to be said, now is the time to turn your eyes to some other part of th1s
paper. Most of you will, I'm afraid.
The alumni have organized in the last two years. The Alumni Associa-
tion through various men and through THE METEOR has renewed many old ties between the school and those who have lost contact.
THE METEOR, as you doubtless know, is a paper published mainly for the benefit of the alumni. It is their paper. We urge you to read it; criti- cize if you wish; and let us know what you think of what we write.
This coming year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Virginia Episcopal School. During the second week in May there is to be an Anniversary Celebration. Before this there is home- coming. The older alumni will probably not be interested in this date,
October nineteenth, but the younger ones will. Many are in Virginia, Carolina, and schools not far removed from here. Woodberry is the rival; Johnston Athletic Field is the place. There is a dance that night and you are all urged to come. Help make the nineteen-forty- forty-one school year the biggest that V. E. S. has ever seen.
V. E. S. in comparison to many of it rivals, is a young school. We here at V. E. S. feel that we are holding our own on the playing field, in the class room, and around school in general. It is your duty to the school and to those who made the school what it is, to do your part in keeping the school what it is today. If V. E. S. is to keep pace with the many
rivals, the alumni of V. E. S. must do their part.
Perhaps the picture I have tried to paint has a note of stiff competition
not unlike two old ocial dowagers, each trying to outdo the other. It is not that. It is simrly that we who are going to school here today are proud of our school, your school, and we want those who follow us to be proud of it too.
To those who have worked organizing the Alumni into the body that they are today THE METEOR extends its most profound gratitude. Your pre ence at h mecoming will help matters along greatly. Each and every one of you know you are welcome. Nearly all of the old faculty is still here. They are anxious to ee you and yours.
TO THE NEW BOYS
Each year when the new school roster is posted it is to be observed
that though many old boys did not return that year that they are still in a majority over the new boys. This year, however, it is different. At the present there are exactly as many old boys as there are new ones. It is because of this fact that the new boy of today must watch his step. Because there is such a large number of new boys the old members of the school are apt to notice more than usual the seemingly obnoxious presence of the first year students. Every year it is a source of worry ; that is the neophyte who doesn't seem to know just where his place is. Perhaps this warning is a little too late. In a few cases we know it is !
You cannot see the position of the old boy. Many of .you have never
been subjected to strict supervision, nor have you been penalized for not
doing your work or being careless as you are penalized at V. E. S. The
rules are to be obeyed. You have, no doubt, come to the conclusion by
now that you will obey them. They aren't so bad once you get used to them.
New boys have three duties, namely: pouring milk and water at meal- time, pulling windows, and carrying chairs to and from the gym when there is a dance. These are very slight, yet more than once someone will shirk from doing his share. There is no form of hazing at V. E. S.
Sometimes it seems that it would be a good thing, but in the long run it is not a very commendable thing for any good school to have.
Remember above all things, you are a new boy. From the first day of school until June your statu exists merely as that. Try not to have the old boys brand you with the term "gross," for in a few years you and
your "brother rats" will be filling their shoes.
Mary Ware Smith on the twenty- ball, baseball, basketball, tennis and first of August, in Sewanee, Tenn. serving as President of the "V"
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Football
Fac11lty
plans reached the ears of all of our
Alumni and other friends of the ads in THE METEOR for the help
General Athletic Association 's~CJ'fl
CHARLES R. W . Sc~oEw, President / JoiiN DASHIELL, Vtce-President ~~
PAUL EDMUNDS, Secretary ~~' RonERT BARCO, Treasurer ~QII,
MR. JoHN W. GANNAWAY, Fac- 1,.-
school and that they continue to it will give them in their business. kc::ep them in mind, for the school For the past few years the patron-
intends to make it a very memor- izing of our advertisers hasn't been ahle occasion. as great as it should be. We ask We also intend this year to keep you to patronize our advertisers for the Alumni informed of any new many reasons, of which two are plans and sincerely hope that they outstanding! One, to help those who do all they can to stir up interest have helped us and make their ad- and get a big crowd back for the vertisements worth while; second, get-together. We would welcome if you will patronize our advertisers any information, whatsoever, about you will be indirectly helping THE
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CHARLES R. W. ScHOEW, President contact with the school, and appre- almost wholly from advertising ROBERT BARCO, Secretary-Treas. j bare
any Alumni who might have lost METEOR. Since THE METEOR is run
are not asking you to boycott those Raleigh Colston Taylor, Jr., was who do not give us an advertise-
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married to Miss Margaret Peters ment, but we are urging you to THOMAS S. RoBISON, Editor-in-
of Richmond, on June 1st, 1940. '31
Mr. and Mrs. Caskie E. Norvell of Remo, Virginia, have announced
show preference to those who do.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Chief
PETER C. RoBINSON, Managing Editor
CHARLES R. W. ScHoEw Associate
(Continued From Page One.) the birth of a daughter, Anne Dab- President of the German Club and
Editor
DoUGLAS
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ney Norvell. G. A. A., and a member of the . Robert Woodham Daniel, asso- Science Club and Hop Committee.
Ciate professor of English at Yale Charlie also takes an active interest CHISWELL D. L. PERKINS, Busi-
You have, no doubt, read countless editorials titled, "To the Alumni." University, was married to Miss in athletics, participating in foot-
ness Manager
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Club. The other two positions on the Honor Committee are filled by
R.
W . ScHOEW, Captain
CHARLES
Johnny Bost and his wife visited Tom Robison of Sharpless, W.Va., RoBERT P. SHOOK, Manager
Angus C. Randolph, who re- Both have taken active parts in Assistant Coaches ceived his degree in medicine from school activities and athletics since MR. C. L. McGHEE, Line Coach the University of Virginia last they have been here. These three MR. J. N. BoND, Backfield Coach
!til
Eddie
illl the June, is now an intern at the Mason are the only counselors of last year's MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG, Assistant OOth
Clinic in Seattle, Washington.
Don Peters, who also received his medical degree from the Uni-
vers!ty of Virginia last June, is in- ternmg at the Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta.
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The wedding of Mr. James E. Poindexter, who taught at V. E. S.
body to return this year.
The sixteen new additions to the
counselor body are: Robin Aber-
Backfield Coach
V-Club
CHARLES R. W. ScHoEw, President RoBERT BARCO, Vice-President PAUL EDMUNDS, Secretary CULLEN W ALKER T r easurer
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V a.; daughter of the Rector, took plac~ Jess Jackson of Williamsburg, Va.;
last year, to Miss Mary Randolph last June 8H~ in the V. E. S. Chapel.
The groom IS a graduate instructor at the University of North Caro-
lina.
James Causey, graduate from
Yal~ .last June, is now studying Shook of Birmingham, Ala.; Rob- ~e<:hcme at the University of Vir- ert Stewart also of Birmingham·
gmia.
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Cullen Walker of Norfolk, Va., and George Whitaker of Winston-
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