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METEORITES
ALUMNI
Obviously the Old Man has not been to mony chapel services.
Donovan's o ration in the dining hall on being naked during finals was looked upon as a great idea, but it probably will not get past the faculty.
"Blank" Hughes has finally learned how to hit with the left-handed bat tho+ he bought. It really had him foxed for a while.
"Spike" seems to be having trouble in Spanish II becouse someone keeps dragging in o rubber air hose.
As the old man passes east short dorm he hears, " Man the pumps, decks awash, man overboard!" Then he is bowled over by the Stieglitz boys making their get-awoy from an- other raid. Donovan said that he would have plugged the varmits, but the moonshine got in his eyes.
The "rats" get a real workout as the spring riots go into foshion. The trouble is that the old boys get roughed up more than the rats.
"Spid" Carrington was caught visiting during study hall hours. The nimble Spider quickly sna.tched up a nearby book and inquired as to the nature of the trig assignment.
He might have gotten away with it except that the book he picked up wos a bound copy of the Meteor. He was ordered back to study hall.
The annual pilgrimage to St. John's was o great success. The gentlemen did very well; so did Mr. Banks.
Down on the front campus he sees what appears to be another Ameri- can Revolution, but a closer look shows that the "Lobsterbacks" are just some of the sunshine and health boys with a little too much sunshine. It happens every spring. With oil this talk of spring he starts out for "bounds beach," but before he can getwellonhiswayheisnearIy drowned by the Carolina sunshine. This "sunshine" is all right for ducks but its rather hard on the athletic program.
The school was given a television set and the triumvirate can't. decide whether to put it in the faculty room or to circulate it around their respec- tive homes. Upon the accusation that he couldn't tune it the Gu sagely said that he could work it out with logs.
The word has just arrived from Doc Magill that spring is really here; his proof is that a few green shoots
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1919
Professor Hardy Dillard of the school of Foreign Relotions at U. Ya.,
Norfolk Alumni Meeting
On March 20, Mr. Gannaway was in Norfolk for a meeting of the Alumni in that Area.
James Elliott (Butsy) Heath, 1925 was elected President; Thorburn M. Graham, 1939 was elected Vice-
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visited t h e March 9th.
school with 1925
his son
on
Shan Morris visited the school on March 29th. H& is now living in
Staunton,
Cornelius Sullavan now lives in
President; Tom
was e Ie c t e d
Others present at the meeting were: Oscar J ames Baker, Beverly M. Owens, Dr. Beverly L. Holladay, Brans- ford Adams, Jr., Robert M. Arm- strong, John F. Doshiell, Robert B. Borco, John A. Fitzgerald, Jr., Page B. Clagett and Roderick Duckworth. The latter two are in the Navy and stationed at Norfolk.
We appreciate the interest shown
by those who attended the meeting.
This gives Y. E. S. Chapters of the A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n in t h e f o l l o w i n g cities: Lync,hburg, Raleigh, Baltimore, Charlottesville, Roanoke and Norfolk. We should like to get others.
Mr. and Mrs. John Suter Waller ('43), announce the birth of a son o~ March 24th in High Point, N. C. Mrs. Waller is the former Jean Dreifus of Philadelphia and Mr. Waller is a form- er resident of Lynchburg.
March I0, 1952. Dear Mr. Gannaway:
I received your letter regarding the Y. E. S. Alumni Association todoy and felt ashamed of myself for not paying my last year's dues sooner.
I've just been putting it off and for- getting it so long that your letter today. brought this oversight to my attent1on. So I am enclosing two
dollars to cover my last year's dues.
I will make every effort to see you at 8 o'clock Thursdoy, March 20th, at
the Atlantic Hotel in Norfolk.
I would also like for you to have my address changed to R. F. D. I, Box 192, Ports, Ya.
Sincerely yours,
0. J. Baker, Jr.
'47.
P. S. Forgot to tell you that I was
married to Jeanne Hathandy, Nov. II, 1950, and now hove a baby girl
born Jan. 19, 1952.
Greenwich,
Conn . 1932
Va .
Humric khouse, 1927 Secretary-Treasurer.
721 Main Street
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
1931
Wilmer Blackwell visited the school on April IOth. He lives in Amherst and is in the insurance business in Lynchburg.
1934
Gene Simmons of Tarboro, N. C.
visited the school on March IOth.
1945
Ensign Bull Hedrick visited the
school on his return from the Mediter- ranean area. He is now in Pensacola, Fla. for flight instruction. He grod- ~oted from the U. S. Navel Academy 1n June and is to be married in the fall.
1947
Robert Hamilton Nut+, Jr. will be married April 19th t o Evelyn Ann Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Harold Davis at High Point, N. C. 1948
Pat and Jack Murray are both out of the service now. They have been in Florida for the winter and will soon return to their home at Yirginio Beach.
1949
Jo Dent of the U. S. Air Force
dropped in on March IOth. 1951
Five Brother Rats from Y. M. I. visited school the week-end of April 51-h. They were Farmer, Glenn, Law- son, Locher, and Parrott. It was good to see them again.
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