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OPINIONS
Our Responsibility
One of the gravest problems fac-
ing America today is whether we
Normandy Campaign, and donor of the Benjamin R. Kearfott Memorial Cup, the annual presentation of which was begun at V. E. S. last year.
1925
Major Harrison T. Nicholas, Jr.,
U. S. Army, and Mrs. Nicholas are now living in Lynchburg with Major Nicholas's mother.
1927
Oakley Hill, of Lynchburg, pre-
sented several violin solos at the evening chapel service on Sunday, May 12th.
1931
Mr. Holberton is an alumnus of V. P. 1., and has recently returned from 38 months of service overseas, where he part icipated in the Afri- can, Sicilian, and European cam- paigns. He is now connected with the DuPont Co., and is living in Wil- mington, Delaware.
1932
Lt. Comdr. Eugene Eutsler, U. S.
N. R., of Goldsboro, N. C., was re- cently married to Miss Virginia W es- ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Faunce Weston, of Mobile, Ala.
Comdr. Eutsler was graduated from the University of North Caro- lina and did post-graduate work at Cornell University.
1934
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eugene Sim-
mons of Raleigh, N. C., have an- nounced the birth of a daughter, Cynthia Brown, on April 6th, 1946.
1935
The Rev. George Martin Bean,
formerly a naval chaplain serving in the Pacific area, is now assistant pro- fessor and acting chaplain a t Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. His ad- dress Drown Memorial Hall, Lehigh
U., Bethlehem, Pa.
1937
The engagement of Herbert Bar-
row Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawson W . Turner, of Old Elkton, Bedford County, Va., to Eleanor Bur- dick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus- tav H. Stalling, of Lynchburg, Va., was recently announced by the bride's parents. The wedding will take place in May.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Doniphan Owen attended recent graduation exer- cises at the University of Virginia,
where their son, Earl Owen, received his degree in medicine.
William Joslin was married on May I8th to Miss Mary Caher, of Hartsville, S. C.
1938
Venable Lawson has returned from
army duty in Alaska and will re- enter the University of Alabama in September.
1939
Following his graduation from the Harvard Medical School, George D. Penick went to Chicago, Ill., on May Ist to begin his interneship at the Presbyterian Hospital.
1940
Mr. Robert H. Bellamy, of Wil- mington, N. C., has been notified by the W ar Department that his son, Staff Sergeant Preston B. Bellamy, Army Air Corps, has been awarded posthumously an Oak Leaf Cluster, representing an addition to the Air Medal. This award was made by di- rection of the President, "for meritor- ious achievement as radio operator while participating in an aerial flight to Saipan, on May 29th, 1944."
1940
Donald D. Cross, of Concord, Va., will be married on June Ist to Miss Gloria Lee King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude King, of Lynch- burg.
1942
Phil Hines, John Farabow, and Gordon Heath have returned from overseas service and are now at- tending the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill.
John Hinsdale Joslin has been dis- charged from the U. S. Marines after two and one-half years of service, eighteen months of which were spent in the Pacific Theater, where he was stationed in Hawaii, lwo Jima, and
Japan.
Joslin, a native of Raleigh, N. C.,
has recently signed a professional baseball contract with the Boston Braves.
1943
Berkeley Williams visited school during the past month, and was at that time applying for admission to
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bounden duty and responsibility to our country and to ourselves.
When we enter the world on our own-and for most of us this will be within a pitifully few years-we will be faced with a world poisoned by racial prejudice, hate, distrust, and the other vile sperm of world war. Besides this, the competition
of thousands of veterans will be so great as to destroy all those who are poorly prepared. Then too, the post- war world will soon be stepped up to a higher pitch than has ever yet been known. The next year or two will be a transition period while the world "shifts gears." By the end of 1948 one may well say, "Heaven help the unskilled!"
Consequently, we have a solemn obligation to ourselves and to our country: To get a good education, a concrete foundation for what is in- evitably to follow in forthcoming years. This is our primary duty above all else. No one has a right to shirk this obligation. The problem lies in making us realize that it is there. It is upon our shoulders that the job of rebuilding this ravished world will fall. Let's see if we can't do a better job of permanent patching than our fathers have done.
ALUMNI
1924
John M. Goldsmith, Common- wealth's Attorney for the City of Radford, has announced his candi- dacy for the Congress of the United States from the Sixth District of Vir- ginia, subject to the Democratic pri- mary.
After leaving V. E. S., Mr. Gold- smith attended the University of Vir- ginia and was graduated from the law school of that institution in 1930.
Aubrey Strode, of Amherst, Va., married recently Mrs. Thebo Jen- nings Kearfott, of Lynchburg, Va., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jen- nings. Mrs. Kearfott is the widow of Benjamin Kearfott, V. E. S., '38, killed in action in 1944 during the
engagement of
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Holberton to Miss Anne Harris War- riner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Warriner, of Blacksburg, Va., was recently announced.
the
Virginia
Polyt echnic
Institute.
Jack Carpenter has been ap- pointed Editor-in-Chief of "The Meteor" for the coming year.