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THE METEOR
ALUMNI
THE SCHOOL
groom, was best man. Robert P. Shook, '41, of Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the groomsmen.
1941
Mr. and Mrs. Evans Willson Lind- sey of Salem, Virginia, onnounced the engagement of their daughter, Eliza Willson, to Armistead Jones of Richmond, Virginia, on the first of January, 1950. Mr. Jones is a grad- uate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and served in the Army Air Corps for three years during the last war.
1947
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Oscar Reeves announced the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Beverly Lake Barge of Durham, North
Carolina. The ceremony was per- formed on the first of January.
Phil Harmon of Christiansburg, Vir- ginia, visited the school on the week- end of January 14.
John M. Page of Hanover, New Hampshire, visited the school during the Christmas vacation. While at V. E. S. he was head counselor for two years and now goes to school at Dartmouth.
1948
Austin Saffer, Jr., of Arlington,
Va., was here over the weekend of February 3. He is attending Hamp- den-Sydney.
1949
Widdie Fennell of Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, stopped by the school while home on a weekend from William and Mary.
The following alumni were here over the Mid-Winters weekend of January 28. We were glad to see them and hope to see them again soon.
Graham Koch, '45. Frank Aldred, '46. Tuck Maddux, '47.
Matt Akers, '48. George Lewis, '48. Ronald Marshall, '49. Bill Stephenson, '49. Stuart Hannis, '49. William Field, '45. Gray Carrington, '42.
Correction
In the last issue of The Meteor, in
reporting the death of Herbert Dal- ton Thompson, we erroneously stated
The "Meteor" Congratulates
A t the
the boys in school, each being a let- terman, and two of the boys, Parrott and Farmer, expect to be back next year. Again, to these three, our heartiest congratulations, and luck for success ai their new job.
The new
ning of this term, it was onnounced that three boys had been appointed to counselorship by the faculty. The group is composed of Fred W ood- ward, of Covington, Virginia; Ben Parrott and Frank Farmer, both of Roanoke. The "plebes" rank high with
counselors.
that he was known as "Buck." This is incorrect. "Buck" Thompson is John H. Thompson, Ill, who gets his mail at Bay Colony, Virginia Beach, Va. We are very sorry for this error. Buck wants his friends to know that he is
still with us.
Mr. Lamar
And the Meteor would like to use a different title on this one. It goes something like, "The Meteor thinks a lot of ..." The picture of him here is a familiar one, both real to the stu- dents, and in the memory of the alumni. It would be impossible to name all the favors he has done for the boys, and for the school, itself. Rather, we'd just like to take time- out to express our very sincere grati- tude for everything, broad, though that may be.
IN LYNCHBURG-IT'S
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YOUNG MEN'S FASHIONS
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