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810-X-RAY John Ashemore Gower
Born: He denies it.
Pet Hate: Track men.
Customary Expression: "Don't
dingle dangle in the dirt." Ambition: To drown out the organ
in the chapel.
Favorite Pastime: Laughing at
Stymie.
Pet Love: Just being a Tar Heel.
Johnny is finishing a four year stretch at V. E. S. and is naturally headed for Carolina next year. He has shown up well on the football field for the last two years and is now doing his part for the Bishop ntne.
Eli B. Springs
Born: Pat won't tell us.
Customary Expression: "Au shsh· shoot."
Pet Hate: Exercise.
Favorite Pastime': Talking Greek with "the Doc."
Ambition: To fly everything but a kite.
Pet Love: Being odd places with Carty.
Springs has been two years now on "Agravatin' Acres" and in said time has become one of the most popular boys on the campus. His origina lity and easy going manner have become the prime factors in his everyday life.
Emory Shannon Gray Shirley
Born: Sho 'nuff.
Customary Expression: "What!" Usually Seen: Stopping anything
thrown by V. E. S. pitchers.
Pet Love: Has he got one?
Pet Hate: Being called "What!" This ends Shannon's second year
at V. E. S. He has done outstanding work on the Baseball team both this season and last. A member of the V club, he is well respected by both boys and masters as shown by his recent election to the counselor body.
METEORITES Through The Telescope
By the Old Astrologer
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As the old astrologer prepares for his annual summer journey to Mars, he pulls the old telescope out of a dusty trunk and takes one last look at the celestial bodies. Gazing through the stardust, he begins to see the planets come into focus.
There is "The Moon" down on the campus rolling up the demerit track and placing it in mothballs. This will keep it in good shape for Harper and the Robertson brothers next year. In the gym the boys are beginning to decorate for finals. Finals is the torture through which every boy must go before he can return home to mother. It is even rumored that the innocent victim is made to dance with those horrible creatures called girls!
By lowering the optical tube a few degrees, we can see the old study- hall. Everyone has a happy smile on his face as he answers on Guru's exams. (Small has the biggest smile of all) After such minor obstacles have been passed, the selected few (namely those lucky dogs called sen- iors) will be able to get those golden sheepskins and head home. Hastings and the rest of us can grasp one too after nine or ten years and two thou- sand miles of demerits.
Up North the bright lights are shining and down at Virginia Beach around July or August about Two
"moon-struck." (Look what happened to little Willie.)
As the old man climbs into his twenty cylinder delux rocket ship, he waves goodbye to the boys and yells that the stars hold plenty of luck for them. Then he scratches off in a cloud of dust. Whoppee!! Shower Sense¥
The boys who t ake showers a t V. E. S. can be grouped into four classes: "sitters," "singers," "ad- justers," and the boys who take a shower as they should.
First there is the boy that takes a chair into the shower, sits down, and makes a day of it. This is the boy who uses all the hot water.
Next there is the boy who sings in the shower. He is not too bad, but just bothersome. If you are trying to talk to someone, you had better give up because it's no use trying to be heard over his voice.
The boy who spends his time trying to adjust the shower is the most troublesome. If you are trying to take a shower when there is an "adjuster" in the crowd, you had better dismiss the idea, because you'll be burning up one minute and freezing the next.
Last there is the boy who takes a shower as he should. There aren't many in this school, but these few are to be congratulated.
Lavoyat
Some people inherit a fortune, others make one one over-night, still others accumulate one over a period of years. Unlike any of these three but not unlike millions of others, Lavoya never had a fortune or hopes of making one. He would be con- tented with a family and some land of his own. It is around these simple, yet not always easy-to-get, things that his story is built.
Lavoya is a "wet-back" from Mexico. That's the name commonly applied to those who wish to avoid the tedious procedures of the customs by swimming the Rio Grande in order to get into this so-called "land of opportunity."
Now, there are two things not yet straight to me about his story. They are: how Lavoya got by the border
*An editoriol by Eorl Johnson furnished The Meteor by the English deportment.
tAn originol story by Chorles A. North- rup submitted by the English Deportment.
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The old man ends up his sweep of the heavens by looking southward to the "Carolina Moon a~ he shines over a land of lonesome girls. He seems to be waiting for all the males to come home. The old astrologer now warns the boys to take along chaperons for protection, and to always be prepared less they be
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