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Volume XXXI
No. I
THOMAS H. ALLEN.. .
JAMES W. BALLOU....... .. . MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT..
ROBERT FIELD PERRIN GOWER STANLEY SMITH PHIL CRAFT
Artist
PAUL TAYLOR
G. SCOTT TAYLOR ROBERT J. FlELD.
M~noging Editor Sports Editor F~culty Advisor
ANDREW RAMSEY RICHARD DUFFEY JOE CHERRY
Photographer
DR. G. l. BARTON, JR.
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alumnus of the school. The Jones Memorial Library of Lynchburg has presented us with a collection con- sisting mainly of mystery stories. In a slightly different field, Mr. and Mrs. Waller Wills of Lynchburg have donated complete files of the Na- tional Geographic Magazine, begin- ning with the year 1910. This collec- tion also contains many old copies of Fortune and Life magazines.
THE SCHOOL
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ball and will assist Mr. Milton in
coaching track in the spring. Mr. Barnum teaches science and lives, with his family. in the house where the Dawsons had lived for 25 years.
Mr. Bates McC. Gilliam was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1918 but has spent his life in Lynchburg. He is a graduate of V. E. S., having been here from 1931 to 1936. He received a B. A. in liberal arts from V. M. I. in
1940, together with a reserve com- mission in the Cavalry. He was placed on active duty in the spring of 1941. He was an adjutant of the War Department General Staff and was with the 29th Division, the 8th Air Force Supply Division, the ETO Intelligence Headquarters, and the Berlin Distr ict Intelligence Divisio n. Half his period of service was spent in the last organization. He was dis- charged from the service in February,
1946.
Mr. Gilliam is married, his wife be- ing the former Miss Iris Massingham of Saltburn, Yorkshire. He does not live at the school, but comes out each day from Lynchburg for his classes.
Mr. Henry T. Holladay was born in Orange, Virginia, in 1902. He is a graduate of Orange High School and Hampden-Sydney College, where he received a B. A. in 1922. He did post-graduate work at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins Uni- versity and graduate work in Latin at the University of Virginia. He has taught at McGuire's University School in Richmond, Va., at Kentucky Military Institute, and was headmas- ter of St. Paul's School in Baltimore,
Maryland. Before coming to VES Mr. Holladay was teacher of Latin at EHS. He occupies the master's room on Second W est and teaches Latin and Spanish.
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The Rooters Also Serve
School Spirit!! That's what we need and plentf of it!!! Your foot- ball players wil play better ball if they know you are behind them and are rooting for all you're worth. It's bad enough to be getting hard knocks from the opposing team, but to know that your own schoolmates and bosom buddies have gone to Reusens, or to Peakland, or are off with some babes instead of being down on the field sharing what may co.me with their team is even worse. That alone is enough to make any one want to give up.
It has amused us very much to observe the keen interest taken in the outcome of the National League pennant race which means nothing materially to any of us. There is also a great deal of support for such schools as Carolina, N. C. State, Da- vidson, Virginia, V. P. 1., and others which comes mostly from state pride and maybe a little material or cash value. This is all as it should be, but we must devote more support and spirit to our own school, which is the most important at present.
To have to talk about school spirit may seem strange to some of you new boys, something that should be spontaneous; but the spirit last year was at a very low ebb and was no- ticed by numerous outsiders.
There's no reason why this subject should be brought to your attention again. Let's all get out and talk up the athletic contests, AND BY ALL M E A N S BE P R E S E N T A T T H E M WITH FULL SUPPORT AND CO-
OPERA TION WITH THE CHEER - LEADERS. Please, fellows, keep this thing of "school spirit" a voluntary, heart-touching affair.
For Making a Full Man
Friends and frequenters of the li- brary will no doubt be interested to know of several improvements and enhancements which have been made during their absence.
Due to the indefatigable efforts of Mr. Follett, many books out of circu- lation due to need of repair, have returned to the shelves. The library has also been the recipient of several gifts. One of these, of over ISO books, was made by Brig. Gen. J. M. Alexander, whose son, Mike, is an
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