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Volume XXXIV
The
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, MARCH, 1950
THE SCHOOL
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Wulf, school chaplain, were going to attend a conference of prep schools at the Natural Bridge Hotel. This conference was sponsored by the Na- tional Preparatory Committee, a na- tional organization for directing and assisting the Development of the Stu- dent Christian Association Move- ment in Prep Schools. The area cov- ered by the conference included four- teen schools, some military and others non military, with about sixty odd student representatives and twenty adult leaders.
The theme of this conference was "Youth Looks at Communism" which pertained to how Communism affects Christianity, World Peace, an In- dividual s Freedom and other forms of government.
Besides having very complete dis- cussions on these topics, there was also a recreational side to the con- ference. A complementary tour to see the Natural Bridge at night and the pageant which is given with it. Also, a dance was given on the last night, with girls being brought from the nearby Southern Seminary which added greatly to the perfectness of the planning.
This conference was reported upon to the whole school by a representa- tive in a very apt talk by George Heyward in Chapel on their return.
Bloody Week
It was goat time again, and blood was flying. Paddles had been carved weeks in advance, and the blisters on the victims' hands healed just in time to rub blisters in more vulnerable places. All this lasted only one short (?) weekend, but left a vivid impres- sion on the minds of some boys.
When the dust cleared the corps were identified as Billy Albers, who was thus persecuted for being such an outrageously good basketball man- ager. George: Smith, Jim Winston, and Joe Crute, who similarly of- fended the V (Vermin) Club by acting as regulars on the varsity basketball tearn.
Big-Wigs, from left to right: Dick Corrington, Pres.; Bob Robinson, Vice-Pres.; Earl Johnson, Closs Prophet; Stanley Smith, Valedictorian;
Tom Battle, Treasurer; Charlie Brooks, Sect.
The Big Run-Off
It was a beautiful day for the races, and the machine was ready to go. The occasion was the Senior Class Officer Elections, and one fine- running thoroughbred, sponsored by the said ' engine, ' pulled through about half a track ahead of the rest of the field, in all six races (entitled President, Veep, Secretary, Treas- urer, Class Prophet, and Valedic- torian). However, there was a miscue in three of the six runnings, and a like number of winners had to be dis- counted because of some "ad just- ings" in the stable before the races. Therefore, those three were run again on another day, and the win- ners are as follows: in the Gannaway Room Handicap (for President), Dick
Carrington, out of Lynchburg. The second, for the Vice-Presidency, was won by Bob Robinson of Charleston. The third race of the day, for the esteemed prize of the day, the Treasurer Open, was won almost in
a walk by Tom Battle, also from Charleston. But not so in the fourth, a much disputed run, in which Char- lie Brooks, of T-on-the-Rappahannock, came through in a photo-finish. The last two races, billed by the bookies as the daily double (for Class Fore- caster, and a Speaker of Farewells) were won respectively by Earl John- son from "sun-filled" Raleigh, and Stanley Smith a Virginia Beach bred turfer.
After the major races, a few minor trots were run off for a Committee on the Senior Banquet, and another for the presentation to the Judges of a tentative list of desired Senior Class privileges.
Prep School Conference
A few weeks back on a rainy Friday afternoon, three people quietly left V. E. S. and turned toward Natural Bridge. These people, Morris W arn- er, George Heyward and Mr. Charles
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