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THE METEOR
THE SCHOOL
The Meteor
October, 1952
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginill, monthly during the school term.
Entered as second-clllss mll'ter September 28, 1928, at the Postoffice at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Headmaster's Study
The thirty-seventh sessio n of Vir- ginia Episcopal School opened Mon- day, September 8th, with a very gratifying enrollment. The Counse- lors had arrived the day before and on Monday they were kept busy assisting new boys find t heir rooms and settle into the School. It was a busy day for everyone and, when the big bell rang the session in by sum- moning us to supper, I0I boys were in the dormitories while 25 day boys had been enrolled and were ready to report for classes the next morning.
This increase in our numbers is the result of a slow but steady growth and should be reflected in a strength- ening of our morale. The competi- tion for honors becomes keener- honors in the classroom, on the ath- letic field, and in the various other phases of our School life. The whole group can profit thereby.
This strengthening of morale, how- ever, cannot be had without adequate leadership and it is to the old boys in general and to the Senior Class in particular that we must look for this leadership. It is not something that can be legislated into existence.
Surely V.E.S. has a right to expect that the boys who have lived under its influence for one or more years will have acquired a loyalty to and a belief in its principles and standards that will make them wish to lead others toward the attainment of the same goal. Upon the Senior Class rests a heavy responsibility in lead- ing the School to higher accomplish- ments in every phase of our life. Its members, individually and collec- tively, set a standard by which new boys measure the School and to which they will readily aspire. No material gift from a Senior Class on the day of graduation can ever equal the gift of a quiet, persistent leader- ship which has been exercised throughout the year. And as we be- gin this new session together, it is our hope and trust that the Class of 1953 is going to present to its School an example of inspired leadership such as the School has never known before.
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Geo. L. Barton, Jr.
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