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VOLUME XXVIV
Nt.::\IBER 4
CLAy THOMSON DAVIS RIANHARD WILLIAM LONG HENRY TREVATHAN \VIIARTON GAt.:L
Photographer
JA:\fES BALLOt; PERRIN GowER ROBERT ARTllt:R CHILES LARSON TIIO:\fAS MADDUX
Staff Artist
BILL THO:\IAS
respect for the efforts of those wl~r•
• • (1lit)] dlh
would help us enJOY our spare ttm
Chairs have been broken, part cobert W one of the sofas has been torn of ll•nnc : <; ash tray stands have been broke,a.
and used as playthings, and cigar Birthday: ette butts and newspapers litter th ( ·ustomar floor. In short, the place has beell hl' a di used more as a substitute gymna .\mhition sium. We've got to stop all this be:dt.:l'd Jml.' fore it goes any further. The fac l'<'t !late: ulty can't stop it, and the counselor ~JMre Ti can't stop it. It will take the who!• ''ay..; t school as a group to do it. Let' l.sually . stop the roughhouse, and use tht <;reate t Recreation Room as it was intendestfir~!·n.1
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FEBRUARY 21, 19-+5
OPINIONS
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va., monthly during the school year of 1944-45 except holidays.
Subscriptions, 25¢ per copy; $2.00 per year
EDITORIAL BOARD
JoHN HENRY PARROTT, II
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCISGwYNN TowNES..........................................................Mattaging Editor RALPH HousTON ALEXANDER....................................................Associate Editor RoBERT IsAAC LEE............................................................................Sports Editor .MR. JouN D. FoLLETT................................................................Faculty Advisl'l
Cutting Off Your Nose
When he came back to schc in September, the first thing aim every old boy did was to go do into the basement of W est Dor to take a look at the new Recreati Room. 'vVe had all heard a rum toward the end of last session th we would finally have a good pia to loaf. After a good look, we we amazed. It had been reported be good, but compared to the "u derground" of la!!t year, this w wonderful! The walls and floor h· been painted, chairs, sofas, piru pong tables and even ash trays hi been provided. It was a dream con true. Later on in the year, fluore cent lights were put in.
But during the last few month
there has been a great deal of dt- - - - ---1
DR. GEORGE L. BARTON, JR.
BUSINESS BOARD
Reporters
FRANCIS GwYNN TowNES......................................................Business Manager JACK WELLFORD......................................................Assistant Business Manager JoHN C. WILLIAMS................................................Assistant Business Manager L. RAY RrciiARDSON..............................................................Circulation Manager
Entered as second class matter September 28, 1928, at the Postoffice at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
1938
Private James Edward Smith of Raleigh, North Carolina, is playing baseball in a Marine Corps unit somewhere in the Pacific area.
Captain John H. Thompson of V irginia Beach, has been in New Guinea and in the Dutch East Indies for eighteen months. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Lieutenant Thomas Winborne, who was forced down in Switzer- land and interned in that country for several months, appeared un- announced in Raleigh recently.
1941
Lieutenant T. S. Robinson's ad- dress is now:
Lieut. T. S. Robison 0-2063477, 777th Bm. Sqn. (H),
464th Bm. Group (H),
APO S20,
%P. M., New York, N. Y. 4
Private First Class Robert A. Abernathy, Jr., who was wounded recently, wrote his parents lately that he is "very fortunate in having all his facilities."
194Z
Private First Class John B. Jen- kins, III's address is now:
Pfc. John B. Jenkins, U .S .M .C.R., Hqs. and Sqd. Battery,
7th ISS MM Gun Bn.,
%A. P. 0., San Francisco, Calif.
Private First Class John Hins- dale Joslin of Raleigh, North Caro- lina, is playing baseball with a Ma- rine Corps artillery unit in the Pa- cific.
Mason Thomas and Wharton Gaul have been elected by the faculty to fill vacancies in the cottnselor body.
to be used!
Last year, TnE METEOR made aic~ntrol effort to sponsor a beauty contest•\"tll be
to find which of the students ::\Teant women was the prettiest. Anyon~.'ross offic that wanted to enter his gal's pic:each tl:c c ture was to turn it in to the editor:\[rs. l•rai But only one picture was enteredl>ecatur, 1 The contest was a complete failure ::\lr. Zii
Now we try again. Once morcot·ated ir the contest is opened. Pictures mustBurrouKh~ be turned in to the editor. md was tl
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