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Finals
THE SCHOOL
an extra day to study during that time. Saturday night the final dance will be held from eight to twelve and we plan to have the biggest and best the old school has ever known. Sun- day morning at eleven the Rev. H. A. Donovan will deliver the final sermon in the chapel and that night the final service of the season will be held at 7:30. Monday morning at I0:30 the Final Exercises will begin and at about
I I:30 the school session of '50-'51 will end. Cars will be heard roaring out over the old V.E.S. bridge and some with students for the last time. The Meteor takes the opportunity here to wish them all Good Luck in the years ahead. Yes, there is going to be a gay old time here this "finals." The ivy has come down at last.
G. A. A.-
The men on this months cover, John Thomas, Doug Van Noppen, Mr. Gannaway, Jim Winston, and Len Muse are the members of the V-Ciub that the student body elected last fall to serve on the G.A.A. They decide with the coaches who wins his letter in the four varsity sports, football, basketball, baseball, and track.
Mr. Gannaway takes care of the relations with the schools that we play, and makes out the athletic schedule.
In the three meetings to decide the lettermen, the coaches hand in a list of the boys who they think have earned their letter. Then the boys of the G. A. A. subtract or add to that list and vote on it. Mr. Ganna- way votes only in case of a tie. The hardest decision to make is when a boy doesn't quite play half the season before being put out for the rest of the season by an injury.
Three of these boys are from North Carolina and the fourth is from Vir- ginia .
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Friday, April 6, 1951, was a usua
spring school day, so it seemed. Bu it was the night of the senior ban· que+, and wit h cool, devastating pre· cision, the "Night Raiders" struck leaving behind a tale of unmatched criminal cunning.
The a f f a i r was p la n n e d well. "Shockeyes," "Spim," "Junior,' "Hoc" and "Pretty Boy" were to skip out of study ha ll right after " Nails" Magill checked up. But an unforeseen incident presented itself. "Nails caught the plague and was therefore assisted in his nightly patrol by a number of other wardens, who combed the cell blocks at nine min- ute intervals.
The mob shoved off at 8:03 from their top secret meeting place be- hind the chapel. After a hazardous journey through the swamplands sur- rounding the pen, t hey reached their destination, the Peakland National Bank. Then with unfailing efficiency, they layed a screen of cigar smoke and cracked the safe. Then they va nished, it seemed, into thin air leaving behind a yet unsolved case t h a t w i l l le a v e a n u n m i s t a k a b l e i m · print in the annals of crime.
Upon returning, they were dis· covered by the sensitive radar system we know so well, slipped into chains and dragged before Senator Barton's crime investigating committee. They were therein submitted to hideous torture, and sentenced to one month in solitary, not to mention four years probation. Still suffering from sore feet de boys doggedly claim that "We'll get away with it ... some· day."
-One of de boys.
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a dither, for that was to be the last full day before the summer vacation. That night the final dance would be- gin at eight o'clock and swing on until one. Ten hours later would find the boys assembled for the com- mencement exercises, which would close school for that season at about
I I :30.
About three weeks ago somebody
got the bright idea of ending school sooner. It was brought up in the faculty meeting and they decided to find out what the student body thought about it. (Need they ask such a question?) So, Monday, April ninth, the head-counselor put a plan up to the boys and a vote was taken. The vote came out 88 to 6 in favor of it.
He proposed to have the R. I. exam on Monday, May twenty-first, a week before the other exams, which he proposed to run between Monday May twenty-eighth and Friday, June fi rst. The counselor-letterman ban- quet was to be Friday night and then Saturday night we were to have the final dance. Sunday morning we were to have the final sermon given in the Chapel. Sunday afternoon we were to have the commencement exercises and get away about 3:30.
The faculty had a meeting the fol- lowing Friday night ond discussed the matter as the head-counselor pro- posed it. They decided against it for several reasons. First of all they said, that there would not be enough time to get up the final grades by Sunday afternoon. Also, they did not want the boys to leave school so late on Sunday with so much traffic.
The follow ing Tuesday morni ng, Dr. Barton told the boys. Everyone looked sick. He then told them of o new plan that the faculty had made and took a vote on it. The vote came out 86 to 8 for it. The following Wednesday the faculty made their
final decision and decided to loose the ivy from an old tradition.
Here's the new plan and we are all looking forward to it with great in- terest. Monday, May twenty-first the R. I. exam will be held. Monday, May twenty-eighth the other exams will begin and will run through Sat- urday, June second, giving everyone