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VOLUME XXVIV
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MAY 19, 19-1-5
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THE SCHOOL
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va., monthly during the school year of 19-1-4-45 except holidays.
Subscriptions, 25¢ per copy; $2.00 per year
EDITORIAL BOARD
JoHN H ENRY PARROTT, II
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS GwYNN TOWNES..............••................•••...••...•.............•Managing Editor
RALPH HousTON ALEXANDER........•..•...•...............•..•...........•...••Associate Editor RoBERT IsAA C LEE.................................................... ..................... ...S ports Editor ~h. JoHN D. FoLLETT................................................................Faculty Advisn
KeartoH Memorial Cup Pro aris et focis
When the troops of the United States stormed ashore in Normandy June 6th, 19-J.-1-, one of the first to reach French soil was Lieutenant Benjamin R. Kearfolt, 116th In- fantry, a V. E. S. boy from 1936 to 1938. In that first assault he fell mortally wounded by the withering German fire that our troops faced. By his untimely death Lieutenant Kearfolt helped to prepare the way for the victorious march of our troops into Germany toward the eradication of Nazism and the re- storation of peace in the world.
1\frs. Kearfott, long interested in the Virginia Episcopal School and wishing to keep green the memory of her husband's student days at the School, has offered to present annu- ally a cup to that boy who, in the opinion of the athletic stafT, has shown the greatest athletic ability in the School during the year. This trophy will be known as the Benja- min R Kearfott Memorial Cup and to succeeding generations of V. E. S. boys it will serve as a constant and afTectionate reminder of one who carried with him the ideals he had learned and practiced upon the playing fields of the School and who upon the battlefield laid down his life in the service and defense of the ideals of his Country.
- - - ()•- -- V. E. Day"Observed
In the middle of the first class period on :\lay 8th, the school bell rang to herald for the second time* the victory in E urope. The student body and facully gathered in the study hall to hear the proclamations by President Truman and by Win- ston Churchill. Dr. Barton an- nounced a general holiday for all the school, including the boys on hounds.
At 10 o'clock a short service of thanksgiving was held in the chapel. Dr. Barton gave a brief address on the significance of the great day. llis text was the closing line of the 46th Psalm: "The God of Jacob is our refuge ... " lie closed by quoting two stanzas from Kipling's great Reccssiollal.
*The first ringing was for the now famous false V-E Day, April 28.
CLAY THOMSON DAVIS RrANHARD WILLIAM LONG HENRY TREVATHAN \\Tn ARTON GAUL
Photographer
JA:UES BALLOU
P ERRIN GowER HOBERT ARTHUR CnrLES LARSON THOMAS MADDUX
Staff Artist
BILL THOMAS
DR. GEORGE L. BARTON, ]R.
BUSINESS BOARD
Reporters
FRANCIS GwYNN TowNES......................................................Bttsiness Manager JAcK W ELLFORD......................................................Assistant Business Managr!r JonN C. WILLIAM S................................................Assistant Business Manager L. RAY RICHARDSON..............................................................Circulation Manager
Entered as second class matter September 28, 1928, at the Postoffice at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
OPINIONS
To the Sons of V. E. S.
This issue of TnE UETEOR is devoted principally to news of our alumni and to such news of the School as will be of especial interest to them. Upon the cover appears a picture of one of our youngest boys to give his life for our country, one who was in the School with some of our present boys. Walter Gibson is, therefore, a link between those who are still here and that valiant hand of boys who have Jived and fought and sometimes died that we might remain free. Within the cov- ers you will find the names and pres- ent addresses of many of our former hoys, all we have been able to gather up to May 15th, and personal notes about some of them.
To everyone who returned our
questionnaire and thus gave us his correct address, goes a copy of this issue. With it go our best wishes for your happiness and prosperity, and with the hope that the bond of afTec- tion existing between you and your old School will ever increase and that through the loyalty of its a lu 111 n i the V irginia Episcopal School may ever enlarge the sphere of its influence upon succeeding generations of boys.
GEORGE L. BARTON, ]R., Headmaster .
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The following are the officers and speakers of the Senior Class of 19-1-5:
V aledictorian
ROBERT ISAAC LEE,
'vVM. WYATT FIELI)..Vice-Prrside •t ]AlliES J.W n i TF..................Secretary }ESSE l\I. WALLER............Treasurer ]OliN IT. PARROTT......Class Propltet FRANCIS GWYNN TOWNES
J R..... President
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