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OCTOBER 5, 1945 They Give 'Em
This year's counselor body consists of eleven members, three of whom form the Honor Committee. This goes bock to the practice of two years ago, before the committee was increased to five members. The en- tire staff is made up of new coun- selors. Heretofore there hove been a few holdovers each year.
The Honor Council is led by Head Counselor John Page, Brandon, Ver- mont, and Upper Marlboro, Mary- land. His assistants are Lewis Armis- tead, Churchland, Virginia, and Charles Weaver, Richmond, Virainia. The rest of the counselors are Fran- cis Aldred, Ivanhoe, Virqinio; Rich- ard F. Gundry, Catonsville, Mary- land: William P. Perry. Warsaw, Ken- tucky: Robert Scott, Lynchburq, Vir- ginia: Val H. Stiealitz. The Plains, Virginia; William H. Thomas, Ill, Bluefield, W est Virginia; Henry Tre- vathan, Fountain, North Carolina,
NUMBER I
Mr. Allison, a graduate of Tulane University, went to China in 1910. After a year's study, he was made principal of James Sprunt Academy near Shanghai. Although later dis- placed by a Chinese principal, Mr. Allison continued to serve the Chin- ese people and his church until he was interned by the Japanese and later sent back to the United States
on the last trip of the S. S. Gripsholm. V. E. S. and the Atomic Age
Among the "alumni" who hove visited the school recently ore Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Kehrer of Oak
Ridge, Tennessee. Mrs. Kehrer is the former Miss Margaret Banks, daugh- ter of the senior master. Mr. Kehrer taught science at the school from 1940 to 1943. The Kehrers were mar- ried in the V. E. S. chapel in January
1944 !"The Meteor," Feb., 1944). Both of the Kehrers are chemists. Mrs. Kehrer holds a degree from Randolph-Macon, Mr. Kehrer from Ohio Wesleyan. In the broiling heat of the summer of 1944 Mr. Kehrer toiled in the laboratories at Columbia University with many other chemists on what has come to be known as "the Manhattan Project," the gruel- ing research which later led to the
perfectinq of the atomic bomb.
In the fall of 1944 the experiments were transferred to the great secret plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Here Mrs. Kehrer joined her husband in the work. The result of the efforts of these and hundreds of other tech- nicians is now history--Japonese his-
tory.
Dances
Chairman
nounced to the Student Body a schedule of seven dances, the first of which will take place on October 6th.
The second dance is scheduled af- ter the E. H. S. game, on November 9. A majority of the student body has requested that this be formal with an orchestra. The usual mid- winter donee will be held in the rec- reation room, at a date to be set later. There ore to be two spring dances, followed by the customary two at finals.
thChanges
llff With the opening of school many
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re/he whole school has been repainted ":"6 jnside, both walls and woodwork, onewhich has given it an attractive ap-
1pearance. Another big improvement llrdhas been the recovering of the floors sn l't'ith asphalt tile, which adds greatly
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