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NuMBER 4 Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynch?urg, Va.,
semi-monthly during the scho~l y~ar of _1940-'41 except hohdays and exammat10n penods.
Subscriptions, 15¢ per copy; $1.75 per year 1,400 copies of this issue
EDITORIAL BOARD
THOMAS S. RoBISON,
Editor
_T H E METEOR~ ALUMNI NEWS
'25
Duval Radford, graduate of Wa hington and L~e a_nd George Washington University, I_s ~ttorney­ at-law in Bedford, VIrgmm.
V. E. S. Averages Month Ending Nov. 2nd, 1940
VoLUME XXV
NOVEMBER 25, 19-+0
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W. T. JoYNER
R. G. CARRINGTON G. L. DILLON
W. R. McKENZIE
Charles D. Hamner is at,present a quick glimpse of her misfortune a salesman in the oil business in and in less than five minutes every-
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and autograph hounds.
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her, and she was forced to retreat
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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.
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED
All the talk of late has been of the recent victory over E. H. S. There has been a spirit of joy and good feeling going around. Everyone in school has gotten into the swing of things and has shouted and sung about the breaking of the so-called jinx that E. H. S. has held over our football teams. And it is with a very just right and mind that the students, alumni and faculty should celebrate, each in its own way. The win over
Episcopal was the first in a long time. It took eighteen years for the time to come when it was destined for us to turn the table on them and
beat them.
It is not so much the game and its ultimate result that we wish to versity of Virgima.
deal with. Naturally there is a desire to gloat to a certain extent over the fallen giant. That, however, would not be a just and right attitude
ag r NED MEWBORN.••••••••••••..•..••...•.••••..•.•••.•••••••••.•••Assistant Business Manager
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door knob. But another rumor was to take. What we want to do is give a little praise and credit where they University of North Carolina, brawl with the Spinster-at-Arms of
are due.
For years a man, you all know him, has coached teams at V. E. S.
He has seen them go against stronger teams and beat them. He has blended the spirit of good sportsmanship and clean, fair play into their game, always with the hope that they would play hard and clean foot- ball and they have. He has seen his teams go against Episcopal High
and play a winning game of football, but always when we were win- ning, holding our slight lead, something has happened to turn the tide. Some might call it luck, others good football. Whatever it was though, it was plenty hard to take. To have your hopes built up to ahigh peak, then dashed down, is hard to take even once. Yet no matter how dis- couraging and hopeless the situation he and the men who have worked with him have never given up. They have kept trying year after year to accomplish what once seemed impossible-an E. H. S. defeat by V. E. S.
Finally, after almost a score of disappointments we have won and now
we feel it's our turn to howl. To you who have worked so hard and so
long, THE METEOR in behalf of the student body, alumni, and faculty,
extends most heartfelt praise and gratitude for your constant and tireless
efforts. May they ever be rewarded as we wish them to be, with the best there is for you and the best there are.
AT LONG LAST- A SONG!
For several years, here at V. E. S., there have been numerous people
who ventured to ask why we had no school song of the type suitable for athletic contests and alumni get-togethers, but not until last week did anyone ever do anything about it. Mr. Ambrose Short, our popular new master, was in his room after supper, the night of the E. H. S. ·football game, chatting with a few boys. Someone suggested that it would be
stopped by school the other day, for her Club, Miss Cliff Smith Carriss, a short visit.
Hall Partrick is on the Cross after an argument over who could
LIBRARY NEWS
Whitaker, Kappa Sigma, and Bert very nice if the school had some spirited song, with which to greet the Griffin, A . T. 0.
they're tough,
We will never do enough,
For the glory of old V. E. S. We will fight, fight, fight
For the Garnet and the White
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The newspapers are still go%g
strong in popularity among ~
boys. The Lynchburg NeWS! ~1 ·TheNews and Observer of R;a ei~ '
North Carolina, are still leadmg 1~ pack, but L e P etit Jour~zf~n'%e
victorious team on its arrival. Then and there was planted the first seed to bring forth fruit. They all agreed it was a great idea and determined to compose one on the spot. When finally they reached a conclusion, it was tried out before a few more boys, and things were put in motion.
Every available boy in school was crowded into the library as it was
rehearsed again and again, while more copies were being typed as fast
as possible. Each time it was sung, it was always louder and with more
enthusiasm. When a tired but triumphant team reached school, they
were greeted with a wave of cheering, but more than that-with A Song of Victory!
The following alumni were pres-
ent at the E. H. S.-V. E. S. foot-
ball game on November 9th : Dick
Gamble, John Dunn, '23; Philip
Hotchkiss, '25; Buck Rust, '33;
Page Clagett, '34; George Bean,
'35; Bob Williams, Willie Gordon
'36; Stag Powell '39, and Kenneth Brooks, '40.
L'Everement Jottrnal are st!l . ent 11
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Dr. Benj amin Gi ldersleeve
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Lynchburg, Virginia.
THE METEOR makes a sin-
cere apology for an error made in the last issue. Thomas New-
COI11b Lawrence was killed re- cently in an automobile acci-
dent in North Carolina. He H"ll
one in school knew about it, and unlucky Miss Drip was soon be- 21.
sieged by a host of admirers ( ?) 21.
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was buried at Chapel I .
'31 and the Secretaryess, Brute Magill,
Charles C. Harris, graduate of rushed to her bedside and com- General Motors Acceptance Corpor- she was feeling better, she realized 34.
Billy Adams is attending Aero her fellow spinsters went into a 38. Industries Technical Institute in 38
Los Angeles, California. long huddle, and finally came out !. Calvin Satterfield, first classman beaming, confident that they had 0·
at Virginia Military Institute, is cooked up a good enough reason. 1: editor of the Turn Out and a mem- But they had waited too long! Al- 42.
42 ready countless rumors were flying .f4.
Seager, R. ........................ 83 Johnston .......................... 82.8 Kreuter ............................ 82.8 Williams, A ..................... 82.6
ber of the Hop Committee. '39
962 Petite Miss Drip Higginson, 3. Carnngton, C. ................ 926
Vice-Presidentess of Ye 0 Ide 4. Craighill .......................... 92:2 Maicles' Clubbe of V. E. S., slunk 5. Claytor ............................ 92
Barksdale Memorial Gymnasium to 8. the Dining Hall, early last Sunday 9.
Beverley D. Causey, professor ing desperately to hide a shiner 11. Stockbridge, C. .......::.:::::: 89. 12. Robison ...................... 885
of St. John's U niversity, was mar- which she was sporting (again)· 13. Saunders, F ...............:::::: 88.4 ried to Miss Barbara MacRae on But in spite of her efforts a couple 14. Michele ............................ 88.
is as- sociate geologist with th T. V. A.,
14 McKenzie ...............::::::::: 91·2
stationed at Knoxville, Tenn. ,29
Stockbridge, H............... 90·3 morning, holding her head low, try- 10. Nelson ..................... . 90·2
PETER C. RoBINSON............................................................Manag!ng Ed~tor
CHARLES R. W. ScHOEw •.••••••••••.•••...•.................•.•..........••..Assocwt~ Ed1.tor
DouGLAS F. LANGHORNE........................................................Alumm Ed~tor
MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG•••••••.•.••••...........•.••.......•..••..••.•..•••...•Faculty Advtser November 15th, in Shanghai, China. of loud-mouths (probably Lord 15. Mewborn .......................... 87.8
Dillon, R. ........................ Davidson College, is working in the forted her as best they could. When 33. Langhorne ......................
ation in Raleigh, N. C. '37
that she could not face the mob 35. 36. without some excuse, so she and 36.
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around school as to how Miss Rig- 45.
Stag Powell visited school over ginson receiver her shiner. 45. Mahone ............................ 82.2
the past two week-ends.
AI Stoddard is on the Varsity
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50 . AI Whitaker, freshman at the that she had gotten into another
Country Squad at Carolina.
The library, the most popul~r sew the best, and after taking a ter- place on the V. E. S. campus, IS
rific beating, caught a hard left Junie Peel, Chuck Clark and Paul right in the eye.
proud to announce that it has ac- quired several new books lately. Many were bought by our Jibr~rian while one was presented as a gift.
The books acquired were as fol- lows, Stars Look Down, by A. J. Cronin, Brigham Young, by M. R.
W erner Pecuhar Treasure, by Edna I
Ferber,'Through Embassy Eyes, by lo
Simmons Andrews, Wiley Long, Simmons are all enlisted in Naval
However, in spite of these gos-
sipings, the incident remained a
R. 0. T. C. at Chapel Hill.
medical course at Emory University
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Robert Riley is taking a pre- mystery until the next day, when
Jack Weston set a new freshman sign of a black eye. She explained cross country record at the Univer- that she had been using black pow-
Martha Dodd Golden Boughs, by '
sity of Virginia.
der to fool everyone, and that she
Sir James G. Frazier, Guns of Bu·r-
Peyton Fravel, Jack Camblos and had just felt like pulling another
Cliff Peeler are frequent visitors at super-shine.
goyne by Bruce Lancaster, Dr.
Dogb~dy's L eg, by James N. Hall,
Fire and the Wood, by R. C. Hut-
chinson, For Whom the Bell Tolls!,
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school from the University of Vir- ..
gmia.
Ben Reagan is attending De
Pauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
Lockwood Wheless is a freshman .
VICTORY SONG!
the tune of The Caissons Rolling Along.)
W e're the men, once again, Who are out, to get a win
by Ernest Hemmingway, Stone Chastity, by Margery Sharp, To 1;1e Indies, by C. S. Forester, When t1e Boughs Break, by Adeline Sumsey,
(To at Cornell University in Ithaca,
Go
Roche, World's Ettd, by Upton m-
New York.
The following are fraternity
pledges at the University of North
Carolina: John Wood, Billy New
man, S. A. E.; Simmons Andrews,
Junie Peel, Aldert Root, Tom
Skinner, Zeta Psi; Chuck Clark,
Sigma Nu; Paul Simmons, Phi
Gamma Delta; Mercer Parrott, AI
Whiteoak H eritage, by Mazo D~La . b Hans
the chubby one showed up with no
r ecover
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Old
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For the glory of old V. E. S.
Though they're rough, though was presented as a gift. .
Singing our song of gallantry. And though the years roll on We will still stand as one
inte Ig race as far as the more d
For the Bishops' triumphant victory.
French students are concerne · .
· provmg
The Library has been Iffi k of steadily due to the g~od wnoJwith
Mr. Hogan the superV1sor ~ nd
'. f Robison a the able assistance o
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Barton, the Ibranans. '
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' · d Ad- Anne M. Lindbergh, I Marne
ventU?'e, by Osa Johnson.
Nfrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther,
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