Page 69 - 1954 VES Meteor

No. I Issued by the students of the Virginio Episcopo! School, Lynchburg, Virginio, monthly during
the school term.
Entered os second-doss molter September 28. 1928, ot the Postoffice ot Lynchburg, Virginio, under the Act of Morch 3, 1879.
Subscription for one school session-Two dollors ond fifty cents.
MEMBER, SOUTHERN INTER-SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOC.
EDITORIAL BOARD FRANK BYNUM ond DICK SHANKLIN
Editors-in-Chief
STEVE COWPER ..... ....... .. ......•..............................Monoging Editor MARSHALL LONG ......................... . ..... .....•......•....... Sports Editor STEWART ELLIOTT . ........ ....................... ...................Alumni Editor JAMES WOOLERY . ....... ........... ................ ......... Associote Editor MR. ERWIN HESTER ... . .. .... . . ... ...... Foculty Advisor
BIRTHDAYS
September: Atherholt-19th Dillard-lith Dunn-21st Harper-27th
W ebb, P .-13th Cannon-27th Jenkins-26th
Mittendorff-22nd Moss-7th Waddell-lOth
Ward, P.-26th
October:
Arnett-! Ith Bonney-27th Dulaney, E.-IOth
Long-23rd
McKee-lith Roe-14th London-14th Neamand-17th Ourednik-12th Ashton-17th
New
grees Carol he is Fares
M
burg
B.A.
Wilm
M.A. majo litera
ness ginia.
Univ~
DE
son was bur bee~ at H just The five gra Thor who has
a pi to t
T
Volume XXXIX
OCTOBER, 1954
ARTISTS FRED DAUGHTRY STEVE COWPER
J. WOOLERY R. STONE
A. DICKENSON F. DUNN
PH OTOGRA PHERS CHARLES HAMEL PAT McNULTY JIM BAILEY
REPORTERS
C. JONES J. McKEE J. BARE P. WARD
BUSINESS BOARD
TYPISTS PETER WARD DAVID CANNON
S. ELLIOTT
J. REEBALS
J. BRADY
F. DAUGHTRY
them. W e have
of the responsibilities of a person in the world and the acceptance of them. We have also begun to learn about and to practice a true religion of God. A machine or even a person could exist with just the three com- mon R's, but a person to really be a person and to live must have the
three greater R's. The amount of these three that is saturated into the system of a person determines the greatness of that person.
We are soon to leave V.E.S. and to be scattered about the country. We have spent many memorable and significant hours here on these 160 acres, hours that will never be for- gotten. Some of us will return often, in person, during the years ahead and some of us won't, but it is a sure thing that all of us will return innumer- able times in memory and thought to our life here at V.E.S. We've been instructed in many ways here and have set up, from these instructions,
certain goals. We will use our abili- ties that have been developed here with those which we hope to develop in the future in an effort to achieve these goals. We hope that we may uphold the honor and standing of our school through the record that we will make in life. It is in this frame of mind that we depart from V.E.S.
Charles R. Spencer, Jr. THE METEOR
FRANK DUNN ..•........•..............................•........ .Circulotion Manager JOHN WARD .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. ..... .................. Business Monoger
Valedictory Address 1954
This is a great moment in the lives of the members of the class of 1954 and we enter upon this occasion with a spirit of pride and humility. We are proud to have attained the goal of graduation, a goal for which we have strived many years. W e are humble, knowing that we are yet far from perfection, but also realizing that we are advancing into another stage of life . W e are not leaving
anoldwayoflifeforanewwayof life, but we are completing a foun- dation for further advancement. Just as in constructing a building, when the foundation is laid and it is time to start erecting the walls, the foundation can not be forgotten. The quality of the finished product will depend largely on the strength of that foundation. This is true in the building of character and knowledge as well as in the realm of physical and tangible things. A good founda- tion is not a guarantee of success in either field, for there is no guaran- tee of success in anything, but a firm foundation is generally a good sign o~
what is to come.
4
This foundation is not easily ac- quired, sometimes the goal of gradu- ation seems almost beyond reach. Everyone has times when things look glum and dismal. Say it's the night before a History V quiz, you haven't cracked the book all month, and you are expecting a lot of terrible ques- tions. It is remarkable how ra pidly you build up a large dislike for his- tory under these conditions. In fact, after a few hours, you wonder why anyone ever bothered with the stuff. It's dry, full of names, dates, and
complicated details, and has no in- teresting factors at all. It's easy to look back on something like that and get a certain amount of pleasure from the remembrance, but it's far from pleasant at the time.
Here at V.E.S. we've been taught, naturally, along the lines of reading, writing, and arithmetic, the three R's. These are taught in any school. However, here we have also started to learn and appreciate three greater R's, respect, responsibility, and re- ligion . W e have learned to respect another's rights and to submit to
.................................................
learned
something