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Six Confirmed
A Confirmation Service was held ·n the Langhorne Memorial Chapel •ere on the V.E.S. campus on Janu- a'Y 20.
Those confirmed were Mrs. J ohn B. Fritz, Hardy Dillard, Arthur Dela- grange, David Gawler, Frank Dunn , and Calvin DeVese Hughes.
Bishop Phillips, who was attended by the V.E.S. Chaplain, the Reverend Ernest Forster, delivered a brief, meaningful sermon on "Almost Being Good. " The regular Confirmation Service followed with the laying on of hands.
This visit of Bishop Phillips was his last official one to the school while he is still Bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.
V. E. S. Averages For The
Term Ending January 30, 1954 I. 97 Woolery
2. 95.8 ...... ..........Delagrange
3. 93.6 ...........................Shanklin
4. 93.3 ................................Spencer
5. 93 ............................Wallace
b. 92.8 ..............................Daughtry
7. 92.4 ....... .... ..... .... ..... ............. Dunn
8. 92 .....................................Mohr
8. 92 ........................Webb, P.
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Our Bishop-Elect
A t a special Diocesan Council which convened at St. John's Church, Roanoke, November 18, 1953, for the purpose of electing a successor to our retiring bishop, the Reverend William Henry Marmion, Rector of St. An· drew's Church, Wilmington, Dela- ware, was elected third Bishop of Southwestern Virginia. Mr. Marmion has accepted his election and it is expected now that he will be conse- crated in St. John's Church, Roanvke, in M a y o f t h i s y e a r . U p o n his consecration he becomes ex offici:;, a Trustee and the President of Virginia Episcopal School.
The Bishop-elect was born in Hous- ton, Texas, in 1907 and received his education at Rice Institute and at the Theological Seminary in Virginia, be- ing graduated from the latter in
1932. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1932 and to the priest- hood in 1933. After serving churches in Georgetown and San Antonio, Texas, he was for twelve years Rector of St. Mary's Church-on-the-High- lands, Birmingham, Alabama. In 1950 he became Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Wilmington, Delaware. He was a deputy to the Gen~ral Conven-
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The Midwinter's Dance was held January 30th from 8:30 to 12 mid- night. The dance was eagerly wel- comed by the whole school as a life- saver after the hell week of exams. Music was provided by Connor Phil- lips band from Charlottesville. The Hop Committee, thinking of the Raven's pet Crusade, provided an un- usual setting for the dance, with the theme being gambling. This theme was a little unsettling to my date's nerves as she kept hearing dice being rolled on "ole Solomon's" roof and wanted to join the game. Dr. Bar- ton, however, took the gambling idea with a grain of salt.
Music ranged all the way from Stardust to a hot drum solo. Fox was seen drooling over the drummer; quoth our local whiz, " Nothing like Krupa." Mr. and Mrs. Fritz were seen among the dancers; immediately after the Bunny Hop Mr. Fritz was seen under a pale blue light. He looked rather green in the gills and said, "The army isn't nothing after this."
Many alumni o f 1953 were seen with various southern belles. Among the returning alumni were Richard Hines, Bill Fore, Tal Kemper, Brant Snavely, "Spider" Carrington, and others .
There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth when the "younger ones" discovered that only seniors and cou nsellors could have cars. However, no V.E.S. boy was held up, and remembering every V.E.S. boy's motto at a dance, which is "I shall get through" many hued taxicabs. The one outstanding example of a cool transportation-minded kid was "20,000 Chryslers and noonetodre- mearound" Trichel. It is rumored that he left his glasses on a sun visor in some "hired" "GMC" product (a Chrysler convert ible.) When asked about it Triche! said "I didn't want anything to get between me and my destination." W e wonder about. this.
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LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY, 1954
No. 4
Gambl ers' Gala Gambol
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