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David Perkins
Home- Greenwood, Virginia. Birthday-February 16, 1926. Customary expression-(Sev-
eral could be mentioned, but this is probably the most printable): "Y ou know what?"
Favorite drink- Mr. Ganna- way's chocolate milk.
Favorite food-"Wheaties, the Breakfast of Champions."
Spare time occupation-W rit- ing letters to Betty that never get to the mail box.
Favorite sport- Dazzling the fair sex.
Greatest concern - Keeping that hair in place.
"Dave's" advent was some five years ago. During his stay he has come up to Counselor and Honor Committee positions and earned his "V" in track.
David has just passed his Air Corps examination and his imme- diate future is all tied up and secure.
Beverley Jones
Home-Roanoke, Virginia. Birthday-October 23, 1926. Customary expression-Rev is so
versatile it's impossible to select one. Favorite drink-Fermented
mare's milk.
Favorite food- Pickled lobster
shells.
Spare time occupation-:\1emor-
izing \Vebster page by page.
Pet hate-anyone who under-
stands the meaning of his words. Ambition in life-Passing with
at least a 90.
Favorite sport-T aking walks
with Mr. Gannaway's boys.
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Then there is Theodore the Thrower, who tosses books, chalk, and other objects about, and causes blame to be placed upon the boy upon whose shoulder he chooses to p<:rch.
Harry the Hiker and Cornelius the Columnist work hand in hand to acid names to Mr. Follett's pen-
altr lists.
Freddy the Forgetter operates
hr~t during tests, but he does a rery good job of muddling minds m~n on daily recitations.
These are only a few of the many 1 -grcms said to be operating at \ . E. S. And on the feminine side, the Wacs and Waves of the v-grem army are the peakies, those seduc- tive lady gremlins who confuse the minds of boys and so make them late on bounds.
Xone of the students interviewed 1rill admit ever having actually seen a 1·-grem, but neither has a soldier crer seen a gremlin-or a child seen Santa Claus.
They Went Adventuring
.\t exactly 12:SO P. M. on Fri-
day, December 17th, 1943, the V. E. S. Christmas vacation officially be- g-an, and some eighty-odd fugitives from study hall hit the rails for distant parts. Everything was fine. But, like all good things, it had to end; so at exactly 6:30 P. M. on Tuesday, January 4, 1944, the \'. E. S. Christmas vacation was
ol'er.
There were various reports about
what who did, etc., during the vaca- tion, and taking into consideration the Honor Code at V. E. S., all these reports were taken at face value.
From North Carolina comes word that things happened thick and fast. "Li'l' AI" is reported to have burned up more than 200 gallons of black market gas running back and forth to Kinston to see Pokey. "Rock" Lee, departing from his habitual saintly ways, was seen being bounced out of several "hot
spots" in Raleigh. It is said that he was under the influence of a cup of egg nog, which he hap- pened to smell during the cele- bration.
:\loving north, we come to the happenings in "The" state. "Mus- cles" Hodgson is reported to have crushed a German submarine after "Sinatra" Koch had "swooned" the crew, and lured them close to shore. Some reports said that ":Mole" Perry took part in this, but that is
impossible, because Mole's only in- terests were in "Boo."
In Lynchburg Mr. Gannaway was seen striding up and down Main Street attired in a Santa Claus suit.
Ezra Richardson, the man from the hills, was speeding around Wytheville in a brand new Interna- tional Truck, with a reinforced axle and superimposed drive shaft. Ezra also got a leather bound copy of the N. & \V. train schedule.
Dick Claytor placed certain bets upon the fact that he could secure a tender sign of affection from a certain young Lynchburg damsel, b~t from all reports he failed to wm.
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----·0·---- Bishop Ludlow Speaks
In chapel Tuesday the Rt. Rev. Theodore R. Ludlow, D.D., Suf- fragan Bishop of Newark (N. J.) made a most interesting short ad- dress about China. H e described the amazing fortitude of the Chi- nese people under the hardships of seven years of grueling war.
The bishop described at some length the physical and mental characteristics of these people. His explanation of the truly amazing memories of many Chinese was that they are trained from child- hood by the very complexity of a language which contains literally thousands of separate syllables. A slight change of accent gives a word a completely different mean- ing. lie illustrated the memory feats of Chinese students by telling of a physics class whose members thought the tables of logarithms must be memorized-and did it!
The bishop went on to point out that people in different sections of China differ widely in language, culture, and even physique.
Taking all this into considera- tion the present United China is a real miracle.
STUDENTS
Senior Class '44
The 1944- Senior Class consists
of the following members subject to correction :
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Armistead Bell, B. Bugg Claytor Cowdery Cox Drewry Hodgson Jones, B.
Jones, W. Koch Magill Perkins, C. Perkins, D. Stockbridge Thorne, S. Timberlake Work