Page 29 - 1946 VES Meteor

The Astronomical Calendar
Hoving finolly gotten around to writing this column, at least two days after the deadline, I find that there isn't o great deal to write about. However, be that as it may, I shall attempt to make it as un~nteresting as possible, so that you w1 I be able to skip over it without any sense of loss.
April 1-A pril
broted in a great way at the ~Mferent homes of V. E. S. boys. The biggest calamity was when someone sub· stituted round qoose eggs for pool balls in one of the Raleigh cue halls; even Crutchfield's couldn't get the egg stain out of John's drapes.
April 2- The qang's o'l back again, and thousonds of shovels are needed to shovel it out of the V-Ciub. Out of 93 boys, 92 requests. for week- ends were immediately fded. (Car- penter naturally wonted to stay here and study).
A p r i l 4 - B a s e b a l l prac~ice i s i n full swing again, what w1th .BOTH Blackie and Toby there. The a1r over the baseball fie!d is polluted for three days with pure nicotine extract.
April 10- The first baseball game of the season. We ore beaten by a team coming oil the way from .C:on- necticut just to see if Carol1n1ans actually do exist.
April 13- The briskball team sure is havinq a dismal start. We are even beaten .by Hargrave.
A p r i l 1 6 - L e p p ' s frien~. " B i g Jim" Bol'ou, is struck down 1n prac- tice by flying cleats owned by Grim~s Thomas. He wanted to have h1s wounded arm cut off, but then de- cided that he would need it to put the shot with in the coming track meet.
April 17- We are again humbled, this time by Staunton M. A. Just couldn't do a thing without "Our Boy" Ballou.
April 20-W e ore licked again on a windswept field by E. H. S. Every member of the squod knocked a ball that would hove been a homer in any other pork, but they were blown back so that the catcher had to run backwards to get them.
April 20-"Eggar" and "Jim" narrowly escape death under the wheels of a subway in that rousing metropolis of The Plains. " Pa! Val," being used to them, acts as 1f they
weren't even there. (The boys had quite an interesting time at Rock- wood on Saturday night).
April 27- The Bishops upset The Tigers on the Bishops' field. Edgar pitches a beautiful game for our first major win of the season.
May 1-A lonq trip is taken to Staunton, but the ball qame is rained out. To Toby and Ballou, however, the trip is very profitable.
CANCER SERVICE
\Vith increasing public awareness of the cancer problem there has arisen a growing need for various typ~s of serv- ice. T o fill ~uch need, the F 1eld A rmy of the ,\mcrican Cancer Society per- forms many such services within its program. !I ere are a few:
I. It stimulates the setting up of tumor clinics by bringing to light the urgent need for added facilities for care of advanced cancer pa- t:,ents.
2. It provides transportation for in- digent patients.
3. It supplies hospitals a Nd nurses w:th surgical dressings and other needed supplies.
4. It equips and loans cabinets of articles and equ'pment for needy cancer p:ltients.
5. It proyidcs Tumor Clinics, vention Clinics and Industnal llealth Clinirs with clerical and nursing aides.
Above all, the Field Army volunteers are constantly working toward the e\·entual breaking down of public fear, ignorance and prejudice through a pro- gram of cancer education. Cancer can be cured! IIELP TilE FIELD ARMY TO HELP YOU.
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May 7- W e journey to
only to be beaten again. This gets very monotonous, doesn't it??
W e final 'y get ano_ther Hyre pitches a three-h1tter to set down the Cadets from Fi5h- burne. It was a close game, being
won in the last of the last inning.
May 11--The trip to Woodberry ends in disaster. We are soundly trounced to the tunc of 15-1.
May IS- Due to North Carolina weather, we ore forced to postpone the qame with Hargrave. This north- ward moving rain is beginning to get everyone down.
May 7- We are beaten by Har- grave in a game that could only be termed lucky. Edgar pitched a beau- tiful game.
May 19- Well, baseball season is over now and what's that?-did someone mention a strange occu- pation called t r a c k? ? What's THAT??
Mav 20- Caro'ina weather still prevails, forcing everyone to wear raincoats to town.
May 21 - Pictures are taken!!! A t least a hundred tubes of lpana are used up in on effort to make the pictures as photogenic as possible. The photographer tries to get a spot off of his lens while taking the pic- ture of The Meteor Staff, but dis- covers that it is not actually a spot, but Mr. Follett.
Well, since this is the last writing that I will do for The Meteor, let me bid you all a fond farewell, and hope that you never have to go through the agony of reading another column like this one -So long!!
The faculty and student body wish to express their deepest sym- pathies to Jack Wiggins on the death of his father, Jacob E. Wiggins.
May 9 victory! II
Fishburne,
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