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Volume XXXIII
No.2
F. WEBSTER MADDUX
CHARLES B. CARTY
J. RONALD MARSHALL. . . . . . . . . . .. . MR. JOHN D. FOLLETT..•.....
Managing Editor . Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Faculty Advisor
ALBERT SHORTT SWAIN STEPHENSON VERNON DAWSON
SCOTT TAYLOR Re-Write Man
BROWN FINCH EARL JOHNSON HUGH EDSALL
Artist
PAUL TAYLOR
Reporters WARREN KOONTZ
WALTER HASTINGS ROBERT BARRETT CHARLES NORTHRUP
Photographers THOMAS GATHRIGHT
DR. G. l. BARTON, JR. BUSINESS BOARD
TAYLOE MURPHY
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The Meteor
December rI, 1948
M ILESTONES
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia, monthly during the school year 1948-49 except holidays.
Entered as second class matter September 28, 1928, at the Postoffice at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Mrs. J. Ellison Loth, wife of Mr. J. Ellison Loth, V. E. S., class o f 1922, now o f Waynesboro, Va., died on November 18 following an illness of several months. Fun- eral services were held from St. John's Episcopal Church in Waynesboro on the 20th. Mrs. Loth was married in October, 1937, shortly fol- lowing her graduation from the University of Kentucky to Mr. J. Ellison Loth and has two children surviving her.
Mrs. Wilcox Brown, for thirteen years secretary to the Headmaster at V. E. S., died on November 17. Fun- eral services were held from the Church of the Good Shepard in Evington, Vir- ginia on the 19th.
Starting to work at V.E.S. in 1932 under Dr. Randolph, Mrs. Brown soon proved to be very efficient and was quite well liked by the boys. She sent two sons to V. E. S., Wilcox and Ambler, and she left school in 1945.
V. E. S. Scholastic Averages-Month Ending October 16, 1948
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A Simple Solution For A Difficult Problem
Seventy-five days have passed since the Virginia Episcopal School inaugurated it's thirty-fourth year. During this time most of the evils that exist in our society have been brought to light. Notable among these malignancies is the appear- ance of a common enemy known as picking. Actually if the word "pick- ing" is burned down we can clearly see that it is just a euphemistic name for "stealing."
We are not stating that the V. E. S. student body consists of a group of thieves, but we are plainly emphasiz- ing the fact that some of the stu- dents have a tendency toward that seeming harmless evil pickinq. Most boys never even stop to realize that prying into someone else's desk and borrowing a book for a short while is
·a form of picking. More serious than this is the act of breaking into an- other boy's locker. Indeed such an act as this is very wrong, but to a small per cent of the students it i$
neither a crime nor a matter which warrants concealment.
Leave alone things that do not be- long to you. The principal reason for the great number of lost books is that boys continue to borrow books which do not belong to them. This is hurting our "Honor System," and if such matters continue to flourish, our traditional code of honor may be completely a wreck. From little acorns do big Oaks grow. How true this is when applied to life! A small boy takes a toy soldier from a ten cent store counter and twenty years later that same boy has become an arch criminal.
This is a crude example, but it shows how a little infraction can grow and grow until a major disaster occurs. Are we doing what we can to prevent such a calamity? If not let us begin today!
The Meteor suggests that the boys take the following pledge and mean it: I promise on my honor never to open another boy's locker or to take anything from another boy's desk.
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STUART H. HARRIS Editor-in-Chief
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