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OPINIONS
Father and Mother
Many of us are leaving V. E. S.
this year. Some of our nwnber have been here at school five terms. \Ve hate to think in dollars and cents all the time, but have you ever realized just how much your parents have spent on your education? The amount you have cost them here is comparatively small compared to what they will have to supply for your college education if your coun- try's wartime need does not prevent your having one. A great many boys don't, we feel, appreciate what is being done for them. They take things as a matter of course, never once realizing that their fathers and
mothers have to foot the bill. Everyone is inclined to be a little ~elf-centered; some more so than others. Vve are inclined to think too much of what is going to hap- pen to ourselves instead of what is
happening to others.
Stop and take an impersonal
checkup on yourself. See if you haven't been a little inconsiderate and unthinking as far as your deal- ings with your parents are con- cerned. Naturally there are always a few who are not at fault, but I dare say they are a rarity, few and far between. So it is we say play ~quare and fair. Y our people are giving you a square deal, and you should do the same for them. Are you making the most out of the possibilities and the opportunities you have? No, we dare say many are not. If you are at fault make some changes. You will feel better
having done so. Make the most of what you have and be satisfied with it.
You are your mother's and fath- er's treasure chest. In you they have stored all of their hopes. In you they have invested a fortune. You are their storehouse for their future. Many of your parents have devoted their lives to you so that you might have the best they could afford you. You arc their hope and dream. Y our success is their ulti- mate fulfillment of all they have ever hoped for. l Iow can you fail them?
Failing your parents in war time also means failing your country. On the shoulders of the boys of our generation rests the hope of win- ning the peace.
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va., monthly during the school year of 1943-'44 except holidays.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
THE METEOR
3
VOLl.im; XXVIII
JU N E
3, 1944
NuMBER 8
RICHARD ANDERSON CLAYTOR
Editor-in-Chief
CARTER PERKINS......................................................Matfaging
W. SHEPHERD DREWRY........................................................Associate Editor MR. JoHN D. FoLLETT..........................................................Faculty Adviser Reporters
DA VID
Editor
ANDREAE HoDGSON BEVERLEY JONES GRAHAM KocH JACK PARROTT
CHRISTOPHER STOCKBRIDGE CLAy THOMSON
RALPH ALEXANDER
JAMES \;\/ORK
Photographer
DR. GEORGE L. BARTON, JR.
BUSINESS BOARD
ALLEN BRADFORD MAGILL r
DAVID C. PERKINS
JACK WELLFORD..............................................Assistant Business Manager
CHARLES JoNES................................................Assistont Business ?vfmW[JCr CuRTIS PERKINS, JR.........................................Assislont Business .Managrr
D A vis RIANHARD JOHN C• WILLIAMS
t c· z· M .............................................. lrcu altOtf anagers
CLAY THOMSON DAVIS RIANHARD WILLIAM LoNG HENRY TREVATHAN
EDWARD 'VALTER PERRIN GowER ROBERT ARTHUR FRANK SMITH
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B . M u s f n e s s
a n a g e r s
Entered as second class matter September 28, 1928, at the Postoffice at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
The staff listed above is the group that has published the twenty-eighth volume of TnE METEOR. Their work is completed with this issue, the eighth and last of the school year. Below are printed the names and offices of the 1944-'45 starr whose task hegins next fall.
EDITORIAL BOARD
jOHN HENRY PARROTT, II
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS GwYNN TowNES..........................................................Managing Editor RALPH HousToN ALEXANDEJL..................................................Associole Editor ROBERT IsAAC LEE............................................................................Sports Editor MR. JoHN D. FoLLETT................................................................Faculty Adviur
Reporters
Photographer
DR. GEORGE L. BARTON, JR.
BUSINESS BOARD
FRANCIS GwYNN TowNES......................................................Business Manager JACK WELLFORD......................................................Assistant Business Manager JouN C. WILLIAMS................................................Assistant Business Manager L. RAY RICHARDSON..............................................................Circulation Managcr