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New Coach
Walter H. Galliford, Jr., is to be the football and track coach next year. He is the holder of letters in both sports, not just from one college, but from three ... Virginia Military Institute, University of Virginia, and University of North Carolina.
During the war Mr. Galliford served as an officer with Fourth Marine Regiment of the Sixth Division on Guadalcanal, Okinawa, a n d Guam. Later he was an infantry officer in Japan. During three months of the war's bloodiest fighting he had the amazing good fortune never to lose d man. He was slightly wounded himself. In Japan he was in charge of recreation for enlisted men, coaching a football team and running a club.
Mr. Galliford's athletic record in- cludes achievements both before and after the war. In track he holds both "Big Six" sprint records and the Vir- ginia A. A. U. hundred yard dash record. At North Carolina he was Southern Conference indoor sprint champion. He is the only man to win two ' Big Six" championships for three different years. This past sea- son he has been co-captain of the University of Virginia track team.
But Mr. Galliford's triumphs have not been confined to the athletic field. In high school he was a mem- ber of the high school debating team
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Dancing in Brobdingnag
Designer Paul Taylor reduced the V. E. S. boys and their dates to the physical stature of insects by his decorations for the final dances. The walls of the gymnasium were newly painted for the occasion. Against the pale greer. walls were thrown the shadows of the huge flowers and toadstools, which were painted in brilliant colors on cut-out panels two or three feet out in the room. Gargantuan insects were perched on the flowers, some of them with wiggling legs and wings. Overhead
stretched Brobdingnagian spider webs with spiders large enough to carry Miss Muffet away should she ven- ture too close.
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Among lhe dates were Miss Anna- bel Arthur, Raleigh, N. C. with Trun- bull; Miss Harriet Blackwell, Harrison- burg, with Weaver; Miss Margaret Bozarth, with Barrett; Miss Jean Bryan, with Low; Miss Nancy Cobb, Chapel Hill, N. C. with Gower; Miss Virginia Cobb, Durham, N. C. with Thomas, G.; Mi ss Ann Davis, Charles- ton, W. Va., with Battle; Miss ~ary
Ann Ea st with Jackson, W .; Miss Evans W. Evans, Bluefield, with Clary; Miss Nancy Ferguson, Lynchburg, with Lewis, C.; Miss Patsy Gatlis, Raleigh, N . C . w i t h T h o m a s , J . ; M i s s Be t t y Gwaltney, Lynchburg, Va., with Verne Dawson; Mis s Diana Hall with Mc - Clung; Miss Betty Hitch, Norfolk, with
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burg, with Albers; Miss Nancy Mallon, Lynchburg , with Waller; Miss Pat Mateer, Greensboro, N. C., with Nutt; Miss Nancy Prostor, Raleigh, N. C., with Will; Miss Martha Rascoe, Windsor, N.C., wifh Joe Cherry; Miss Marianne Robeson, Haddonfield, N. J., with Bullington; Miss Tempie St. Clair with Jackson, W .; Miss Virginia Shroyer, Crozet, with Marvin; Miss Sue Terry with Akers, M.; Miss Betsy W ood, Edenton, N. C., with McMullan; Miss
Jean Wranek, Lynchburg, with Leitch.
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which won the state championship
for Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth. That same year he was sports editor of both newspaper and yearbook. He also wrote a column for the Norfolk News-Index. Before the war he was a member of the staff of College Topics at the Uni- versity of Virginia, and he has contrib- uted to the Richmond newspapers.
In addition to coaching, Mr. Galli- ford will teach history and elementary subjects.
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