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The
oumeXXXV L YNCHBURG,
THE SCHOOL
VIRGIN IA,
APRIL, 1951
April 6 .April 7 April 10 April 14 April 17 April 22 April 22 April 28
Annual Visit To St. John's
On April I everyone who stayed
~woy from St. Johns was an "April Fool.' For on that day the world enown V.E.S. choir with Mr. Banks, •rgonist and director, sang for the ~M-packed church. Dr. Ba rton reoched his ever enjoyable sermon, ~nd Rev. Dr. Magill presided at the
Holy Communion service.
The church was so full, it took an ~our and fifty minutes for the whole :ervice, and dinner was held up fo· ·~"minutes. The choir members rode w'th the masters and the rest of the boys got there the best way they
~ould. ( I t w a s a b e a u t i f u l d a y f o r wolking.)
Both Dr. Barton and Mr. Banks re- ce;ved many compliments on the service. Certainly it was enjoyed by e.
We wish to congratulate Dr. Bar- +on and Mr. Banks, and the members cr the choir, and wish to thank Rev. Dr. Magill and the members of the St. John's for receiving us so kindly.
Life Savers Graduate
Sometime before Christmas, the !oculty got together for their weekly crap game. Someone, just to shoot 'ne bull, brought up the fact that ,,ere were no life guards at "Bounds Beach" and the swim ming season would soon be upon us. The matter wos so absurd that they immediately too~ it up.
Gathering behind that smooth •olker, no other than, John Wallace Gonnaway, the way was soon cleared for a life saving course down at the
Y on Mondays. Of course at the low cost of one dollar per person. It is not known just how much of this
made its way back to the G.A.A. The boys who had demerits, saw an easy way to town on Monday, out due to circumstances beyond their control, they were allowed to go only on the first day. Of the few
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that remained out of seventeen origi- nals half of them went A.W.O.L. when they found out that the dollar was to come out of their pockets• instead of the school's.
Mr. Blankenship, the pool instruc- tor, was very kind and considerate in giving up his spare time to the class, and the boys who finished are very grateful to him.
After many Mondays of work, and near drownings six lucky and happy boys emerged from the pool with their Senior Y .M.C.A. Life Saving completed. They were "Abe" Frye, Frank Farmer, Lamson, Sam Nixon, Owens Jones, and the last but not least Ben Parrott.
The Ivy Comes Down
The year is coming to an end and there is only one more hurdle left before the exams will be upon us. In the past years the exams have always started with the last Monday in May and run through the following Sat- urday. Saturday at noon, school work was over and the fun began. Saturday night there was always the "V-Ciub" dance in which the presi- dent and his date led the figure of a "V" on the dance floor. Sunday morning the boys would scramble out of their beds, after the "long" night's sleep, and would listen to the final sermon given by some visiting minis- ter or bishop. Sunday night there was the final service in the chapel for the season. Monday morning the boys would rise out of their beds in
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S. I. P. A. at W & L
The foursome listed above is the group chosen from the Meteor staff to attend the Southern Interscholas- tic Press Association Conference at W&L this weekend. The boys are: Shaw Smith, John Heyward, Phil Braxton, and Joe Lyle.
More than 500 are expected to attend this three-day round of criti- cisms, meetings and entertainment features.
The boys are chosen from the ranks of those who show promise in the fields of art, business, and jour- nalism, all of which are essential to a good publication, and from those who expect to be on the staff next year.
Nixon Wins Jeb Stuart Essay Contest
A few months ago there was an article in the Meteor about a Jeb Stuart Essay contest by the U. D. C.
Last week the two finalists, Sam Nixon and Tom Creasy, attended the U. D. C. meeting where the winner was announced . The winner received five dollars and the runner-up two- fifty. Sam Nixon's essay, which was written in the first person, won first place. It will be published in this
year's final Meteor. He read it before the U. D. C., and a Randolph-Macon English professor judged the essays.
Congratulations boys, way to go: