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THE METEOR
THE
OPINIONS
The Meteor
Volume XXXV May, 1951 No.7
Issued by the students of the Yirgini11 Episcop11l School. Lynchburg, Yirgini11, monthly during the school term.
Entered liS second-clt~ss mt~lter September 28, 1928, 11! the Postoffic<~ 111 Lynchburg, Virginio, under the Act of Mt~rch 3, 1879.
Subscription for one school session-2 doll~~rs.
EDITORIAL BOARD
ALBERT SHORTT
Editor-in-Chief
V.E.S., as you can well imagine, has not always been just as it is now. In thirty some years many things have been added and many changed.
We haven t always had our fine chapel. for when V.E.S. was very young services were held in the hall- way of the Rector's apartment. Even with an enrollment of only sixty boys it must have been crowded! "Faculty Row" was nonexistent when the school was started and only the infirmary building, which has been greatly ad-
ded to, was standing. Believe it or not, V.c.S. has had three gymnasiums in as many decades. The first one, a wooden affair heated by coal stoves, was burned down by one of the boys. This was followed with the ' old" gym, built to the same dimensions as Solomon s Tempie. Then of course, there is our new and modern gym just completed in 1949.
Johnson Field was once nothing but a ravine. The builders had to cut away ground from the two sides and add it to the bottom to get the present effect. The water problem was hand led by an elaborate drain- age system consisting of fixtures crisscrossing at every fifteen feet under the field. The upper field also took much grading to mould it into its present shape.
The V.E.S. bridge, built in 1930, re- placed a very rickety affair which was extremely unsafe. After several very serious accidents on the wooden bridge, the present concrete and steel structure was built.
Today we enjoy rooms with tables and doubledecker beds, but this wasn't always so. In fact only recent- ly were the stall (cubicles) torn down and replaced by rooms. Each boy used to have his own stall with locker, bed, chair and a table that folded down from the wall. Only the head cou nselor had a room then , which
was on East Short Dorm. The cubicles which were open at the top afforded many excellent opportunities to hurl books and at more violent periods even chairs.
Our laundry, now handled by White Star Laundry Co., was once sent in town every Monday and taken care of by several Negro wom- en. A few boys were always needed to go along with the truck to help push it up Lynchburg's hills.
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ARTISTS
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FRANK CARRINGTON
JACK THOMAS
TYPISTS
JOSEPH LYLE JAMES HUNTER
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REPORTERS
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or mended every day! ask anyone in the fat boys' club) was once the store. Also the store was once located in the laundry room.
Now we are served from a very modern and newly built kitchen. This has not always been so. The lounge rooms were once storerooms and the original purpose of the dining room was a science lab. However, it seems that when the building was finished there was no place to eat so the
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functioned as such was converted into our dining room.
These are just a few of the cha nges which have taken place through the years, a process of improvement which we hope will never cease.
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