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The Meteor
June 8, 1948
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School. Lynchburq, Virqinia, monthly durin<] the school ye~~r 1947-48 except holid11ys.
OPINIONS
Volume XXXII
No. 7
VICTOR E. CORNETT
GEORGE H. LEWIS
CHARLES B. CARTY BROWN F. FINCH
MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT
STERLING ANDERSON HOMER BOWEN ELLIOT BRAXTON
CHARLIE CARDWELL VAL CLARY
Artist
PAU L TAYLOR
Associ11te Men11ging Ed,tor Associ11te M11n11ging Editor Associ11to Spor:s Edi:nr Assoc111te Spor s Editor .• . F11culty Advisor
ARMISTEAD WELLFORD STANLEY SMITH
o5WAIN STEPHENSON
GRIMES THOMAS JOHN THOMPSON
Re-Write Man
• JOHN W. PANCOAST, JR.
Subscriptions, 25c per copy; $2.00 per ye11r
EDITORIAL BOARD
PAUL TAYLOR Editor-in-Chief
Reporters
VERNON DAWSbN STUAR T HARRIS
MEREDITH LEITCH JAMES MARSHALL CHARLES NORTHRUP
Photographers
DR. G. L. BARTON, JR. THOMAS GATHRIGHT
BUSINESS BOARD
P a u l T ~ylor's c o v e r s h a v e b e e n a notable feature, as has the writing of Stuart Harris, Brown Finch, Charles Carty, George Lewis, and others. Perhaps the most valuable member of the staff has been Jack Pi!ncoast, who at various times has beer'! typist, re-write man, acting editor-in -chief, spark plug, and general burner of the midnight (and after midnight)
oil.
Again tho adviser takes pride in the fact that a managing editor re- ceives the Adair Archer Medal. Last year it was Tom Allen, this year Victor Cornett. Again a member of the stl'lff is valedictorian of the graduat-, ing class. Co- Managing Editor George Lewis has that honor.
I was proud of the way the dele- gates from V. E. S. handled them- selves at the S. I. P. A. convention. If I ever decide to run for public office, I want the team of Harris and rinch to handle my campaign.
Finally acknowledgement must be made to our efficient printers, The Mutual Press. Much o f t h e dis- cussion among advisers at the con vention was over printing difficulties. fhe V. E. S. delegate just sat back smugly and thought, "What a lucky boy I am.'
The Meteor did get a scare early in the year when it thought it had lost its ' mother," but she merely changed her name from Jacobs to Magri. They say that once you have printer's ink in your blood, even getting married can't keep you from coming back for more.
Yes, The Meteor has had a good year in spite of the remarks to the contrary which the adviser has made to the editor when the artistic temperament of the latter has clashed with the said adviser's mat- ter-of-fact desire to meet a dead line.
G. SCOTT TAYLOR................... .. .... .... .................... •.B'usiness M11n11ger STANLEY R. SMITH............................................ . Circul11tion Manager SWAIN STEPHENSON...............................•................Assistent M11n11ger DAVID WHITE.............................. • ... . .......•............ Assistent Men11ger
Entered liS second cl11ss matter September 28, 1928, at tho Postoffice 111 Lynchburg, Virgini11, under the Act of M11rch 3, I879.
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else except the printer will see it until the magazine is delivered.
Usually the final editorial is en- titled "30," the traditional sign-off number ;n news offices. But since this year's editor and several other staff members expect to return to the school next fall, the signal to the printer that the story is not all in
seems more appropriate.
Honors and Kudos. Again The Meteor has been a good magazine, as is attested by the evaluations of The National Scholastic Press Asso- ciation and the Southern Inter- scholastic Press Association. With a large part of the "letter-men" on the "team" returning we expect to shoot
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Meteor does the faculty adviser ordinarily get a chance to say any- thing in print. Usu ally his job ts simply what his title implies . . . to advise. Of course he has to wield
the blue pencil occasionally to keep tho exuberance of some of the staff from getting the school or the maga- zine "in bad."* But in general his is a talking rather than a writing role. Some of the friends (and enemies) of tho adviser say that he does a lot of talking.
Be that as it may, this final editorial is the adviser's very own. No one
*When 'he blue pencil is not sufficiently wielded, it is the adviser, not the editor, who has to do tho explaining.
THE METEOR
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final issue
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for top honors, honors, next year.
"All-American"
Happy Birthday June 5
June 6 June 7
Adviser.
Maddux White, M. .Clary
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