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(Once again, we're happy to pub- lish an original theme from one of the English IV classes.)
The Spirit of V. E. S. By Evarts Opie
Please allow me to introduce my- self. I am the Spirit of V.E.S. In the past few years the boys have not shown much interest in me. Now there was a time, not many years ago, that every boy in school knew me. I have been around a good many years now, as a matter of fact, since the founding of the school in September of nineteen hundred and
sixteen.
Why, I can remember when a cer- tain math teacher arrived here at V.E.S. some thirty-odd years ago, just out of college. He came here with a lot of ideas and ideals. He still holds firmly to those ideals, but the
ideas, well they've changed a bit. For instance, at that time he had no use for the "opposite sex," but now, well just ask one of his daughters.
As for those ideals, he and I have been close friends during those thirty-some years and not once dur- ing this time has he failed to stick up for me, nor has he ever passed up a chance to introduce me to the boys of the school.
So far this year I have made it to only one athletic event, and that was only a J. V. football game. The boys played wonderfully, considering that they were supposed to lose this game to the other team, which was much bigger and more experienced. The final score was twenty to twenty! This was a great moral victory for the boys, and do you know that they attributed this victory of theirs to my presence. Can you imagine that? Attributing their hard-won vic- tory to me, the School Spirit, just
because I was present for the event.
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The Old Astrologer
The Old Astrologer is awakenec! by the smell of burning flesh and the wail of grimey goats. In a flash he realizes that it is a new shipment of goat meat via the football season. He gleefully springs out of bed and grabs his bloody cudgel ancl iakes off for the 160 with fire in his eyes.
Arriving on the campus he finds that the boys are just getting C.ack from Thanksgiving.
"Abe" Frye somewhere over ~he vacation seems to have picked up some beast of bourbon ca lled " Fang." The old man thought Abe was crazy until the creature joyfully took d chunk out of his leg.
Out on the front campus he sees Miss ClarY. A steam-roller ran over one of her cats, but she didn't say anything, she just stood there with a long puss.
Down on Main Street coming into Lynchburg he saw "Child" Farinholt with his greasy little nose pressed against the plate glass window look- ing at the new Christmas toys.
Once at the school the Old Star Gazer makes a bee-line for the old gym. He climbs over the bodies of a few goats and then with great gus- to tears into the remaining few. One more year and he will have enough goatskins to upholster the observa- tory.
Mr. Magnuson is heard telling the bounds boys thai there are only II walking days left before Christmas. Bull Smith tears a door off the hinges getting out on the track. What a ball o' fire!
The old man was up by the North Pole awhile ago and got the dope on what some of the boys were get- ting for Christmas.
All the goats are getting skin
grafts where they'll do the most (Continued on page I0, col. 21
People In The Public Eye
Scrooge McDowell learns Doc is
giving out "cheap demerits," so he bets I won his share.
Gibby Roe marked another evil step in the career of "Nails" Magill. Gibby's finger was smashed while at- tempting to invade the privacy of Doc's sanctuary.
Chauncey Hutter exclaims glee- fully that this injured ankle only hurts when he walks.
The Riot Squad has returned to the mild game of poker since the biq break of their renowned leader, Tac~ Jones.
McCracken, Stokes, Sibley, and Wiley send Dr. Barton a wire advis- ing food be put in oven to keep warm as they are "stuck in a hole" up north and can't make it to supper.
Lowe's and Kester's falling body experiment fails due to the unwilling- ness of the subject, namely Mr. Shore.
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McCracken and
a dollar a week to clean out their room and make their beds. Harris clears out with a debt of two-fifty.
"W it" Simmons: (quote) "Stick me as many as you like. I ain't comin' back after Thanksgiving." Now he's giving Geek a hard fight for ' De- merit King."
E'farts Opie suffered a tremendous political defeat as his petition, for the good of mankind, is pidgeon- holed.
Don is like a child with a new toy as basketball begins.
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