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1924
Mr. and Mrs. George Barlow, 24,
came by school on March 2 on their way home from South Carolina and Florida. They found Nickie and Jack free to have dinner with them in town.
1927
Scaisebrook Abbott, a p o r t r a it
painter of p rominence, came out to see his nephew, Bill J ohnson, who is a student in school.
1917
Lucien Abbott, 17, the first gradu-
ate of the school, was here to see his nephew, Bill Johnson. Lucien had a story to tell about the awarding of the first diploma at V.E.S.
1949
Quigley Bennet, 49, now at the
University of Virginia, was here for a short visit.
1949
Hugh Caudill, 49, paid us a visit
as he was on his way to the Far Ea~t as a member of the U. S. Air Force. We wish him a safe return.
1951
Duke Taliaferro, 51, was here from the University of Virginia.
1951
Jack Thomas, 51, from V.P.I., was
here for the week-end cf March I. 1949
Elliot Braxton is touring Europe in preparation for a career in writing. At present he is in lnnsbruck, Austr·a.
Van Gilliam has just become the proud father of a baby girl. This is his second child, the first being a boy. Congratulations Van.
1947
AI Craft is the father of a ten
month old baby daughter. Congratu- lations to you and your wife on this fine addition to the family.
1945
William Bull Hedrick has become
engaged to Miss Joan Hays of Sig- nal Mountain, Tennessee. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and she is a student al Pur- due University.
Chiles T. Larson, of Norfolk, former V.E.S. student now in the U. S. Air Force, has just been awarded a num· ber of outstanding prizes for press nhotography done last Summer be- fore he enlisted. He was a camera- man with t he Norfolk Virginia n-Pilot. In the 1951 Virginia Press Association
competition, Larson took first prize and an honorable mention in the spot news class. "Storm Ends Holiday" was his winner. In the Associated Press contest for the State, " Guts," as he was known at V. E. S., took first prize with a series of pictures show- ing the capture of a gunman in a swamp. He also took prizes in the sports and feature classes. In the National Press Photographers Asso- ciation competition for the 7-State Middle Atlantic section, he took both second and third awards in the spot news class with the storm and man- hunt pictures. After winning his letter in track at V.E.S. he entered Maury High School, where he became state champion in the high hurdles. Last year he attended Hampden-Sydney College, where he won his letter in
football.
At V.E.S. he was on the staff of the
Roanoke Meeting
On February 25th, Mr. Gannaway went to Roanoke to organize the Alumni of that area . The meeting was held in the Parish House of St. John's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Richard Beasley, an Alumnus of the school, is Rector of that church. Dick had arranged for the meeting but was unexpectedly called out of the city and could not attend. A very enthusiastic group of A lumni a t ten- ded the meeting and all enjoyed talking over old times at V.E.S. with Mr. Gannaway.
Cameron Wiley, Jr., of Salem was elected President, James M. Satter- fi ei:J of Roanoke was elected Vice- President and Thomas A. Scott, Jr. was e Ie c ted Secretary-Treasurer. Others attending the meeting were Francis P. Michael, Thomas R. Wir- sing, Jr., Jack Gray, Francis C. Dil- lon, John R. Garrett, and Murray Coulter. Charlie McNulty was in a hospital and could not attend and his brother-in-law, Sam Glenn had just married himself a wife and could not attend. Several of t he younger Alumni of that area are still in col- lege.
It is planned to extend that area to include Martinsville, Rocky Mount, Christiansburg, Pulaski, Radford and Blacksburg and others.
Mr. Gannaway plans to go to Nor- folk on March 20th to hold a similar
meeting. Alumni of that area will be notified by letter at a later date. We hope that all the Alumni around Nor- folk will try to attend the meeting. We feel that they will enjoy keeping in closer touch with the school and can do the school a great service in keeping up the enrollment.
How about it, Norfolk Area Alum- ni, make it a big night for V.E.S.
Ed Hotchkiss, Campus Representative
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