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Athletic Cup, Mr. Walker attended son o Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Ly~ch Capt. Clifford W . Peeler visited
Un1te~ the school during the past month. He 1tre o wos o member of the school's foot- 'en fo boll, basketball and baseball teams
and captain of the first and last. Also
he was head counselor and a member m, A, of the German Club, "V" Club, and sferrec Hop Committee. Copt. Peeler joined ington the air force in 1941 and was com- msefor missioned in 1943. He went to the
of the Southwest Pacific in 1944, and served Jotbol as o member of the "Jolly Roger" ain o• B·24 outfit, in New Guinea, the Phil-
P. I. ippine Islands, and Okinawa. He re- lree i~ turned to the United States, after d en eighteen months overseas, in August
1945, and is now waiting to be re- hburg assigned. Among alumni of the school 1soline whom Copt. Peeler has seen during
V. E. his air force service are: Mason letter· Blonford, '39; Roderick Perry, '40;
track ond "Buck" Thompson.
lSS of Another member of the Class of
1941 who recently visited the school
is Lt. Charles R. W. Schoew, Army 1 the Air Forces. He was, while at V. E. While S., a prominent athlete, being on the 1f the AJI.State football team of 1941, and
each CO·captain of the All-State basket-
home ball team of the some year. Within
ais 0 the school, he served as captain of
State the football, basketball, and tennis
over· teoms, managing editor of "The Me-
antry teor," president of the General Ath-
earn· letic Association, head counselor, and
Pants parts
and, a member of the Hop Committee. ~
~d in He attended the University of Vir- ~e of ginia.
ited 1942
He A 200-mile taxiing trip across
SMASH! "...hisdelicate 14-3E..."
pos·
Biker nd, ~ed. was let-
choppy Pacific waters by a twin- engined Navy Dumbo seaplane was reported by the Associated Press. The plane's right wing tip and verti- cal stabilizer were broken by a wave when it set down to rescue six crew members of a Mitchell B-25 bomber in the water off Kyushu Island. Among
Sayer, Jr., of Queens, N. Y. Lt. Sayer left Virginia Episcopal School, where he hod been assistant business manager of "The Meteor," in 1942 to enlist in the Army. He received his wings in November 1943, and is a member of the 47th Bomber Squad- ron, in which he is a pilot. He re- ceived the Air Medal in 1944, and has been in the Pacific Theatre of o~e~ation since receiving his com- miSSion.
Kenneth Leith was discharged from the U. S. Navy in June, 1945.
Jack Reed, former counselor, mem- ber of the Honor Committee, and twice winner of the Big Brother Prize, visited school recently. He entered the U. S. Navy in July 1943, and is signalman, second class, in the Signal Corps of that branch of service.
Disaster¥
"We were all (about 20 of us) sit- ting on ye ole "bull and song bench" running the regular "After Supper" routine when "Our Foots" comes run- ning up from the rear and slams his delicate 14-3Eon the beloved Green Gopher mode of wood and decoyed nails (but a symbol of many a good story and equally as many knocked out songs). Then it come,-crack,- crack,-and the bottom fell out of everything. Boys come tumbling down out of the sky for the next IS minutes. Finally we heard a weak cry from up in the blue and glanced skyward to see "Skinny" Bowen (for the benefit of outsiders: Bowen, 4 ft. 60. 198 pounds) stuck in a limb of a tree. The only casualty was the "main" part of a pair of pants, utterly ruined."
--.;o;;; eye witness ~ccount.
:. S. those
rescued was Lt.
The
Arnold
C .
Peoples National Bank
EIGHTH AND MAIN STS. LYNCHBURG, VA. Member F. D. I. C.
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