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HOMECOMING
Homecoming was a huge success although Hurricane Hazel made it im- possible for many of the old boys to attend.
When we had gathered in the din- ing room, Dr. Barton, the Head- master, welcomed the alumni back to the school. The Secretary made a report on finances. Over twelve hun- dred invitations were sent out to the alumni whose addresses are known. Two hundred, sixty-seven made con- tributions in the amount of twelve hundred, eighty-one dollars. A t pres- ent the association has on savings four thousand, two hundred, forty-five dollars and fifty-one cents. That is the amount of the educational fund to date. Interest on that amount is not enough to be of much assistance to the son of an alumnus. We have on checking account two hundred, forty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. It cost one hundred, twenty- one dollars and twenty-one cents to print and mail all the invitations and then pay return postage on your re- plies.
President Stuart Carter was un- able to be present because of an earlier engagement.
Peyton Winfree, Jr., 1928, was elected President for the coming year with Edwin Penick, Jr., 1937, as Vice- President and J. W. Gannaway as Secretary-Treasurer.
There must be many more of our alumni who are willing to make some contribution to the Alumni Fund and for the expense of printing and mail- ing the Meteor.
After the luncheon, the picture was token on the front steps. It seems that some of those at the luncheon did not get to the front in time to get in the picture. We are sorry.
The next event was the football game with Woodberry Forest. This was very delightful for V. E. S. won 7-0.
Many of the alumni and their wives left after the game but some stayed over and attended the dance that night and chapel the next morning.
W e app reciate the interest that many of the Alumni are showing in the welfare of the school. We should like to urge every Alumnus to take it upon himself to try to interest some good boy in attending the school each year. Some are doing just that.
Front row, left to right: John Owen, Robert T. Ellett, Williams E. Massie, Eric Price, Bruce Thomson, Bobby and Arthur Heald, Ed Penick, Frank Couch Ed Penn. Middle row: Bob Ike Owen, Bob Atherholt, Chas. McCormick, Scott Russell, Hill Norfleet, Peter Barker, John Muir, Mason Thomas. Back row: Rober! Wayland, James Cook, J. W. Gannaway (Alumni Secretary), Beverly Hutter Bus Roe, Dick Donovan, Bill Thompson, Jerry Parker.
Freeland Kinnier, Oscar Cranz, Peyton Winfree, Vernon Dawson, PembrokE Nash did not report for the picture.
The following alumni were at the game but not at lunch: Brown Farinholt Jimmy Farinholt, Marion Cowper, Scott McCracken, Billy Gallop, Milton Barber Ill, Charles Carrington, Cary Carrington, John Thomas, Billy Nutt, Clarence Keefer, Val Sowder, Bill Stokes, Aleck Dirom, Jimmy Post.
WHO'S WHERE
1938
Tom Fox Apperson is in the Marines, home address, 3826 Peakland Pl11ce Lynchburg
Lawrence E. Blanchard, 5305 Tucbhoe Avenue, Richmond, Va. William Joseph Blanton, 3808 Hawthorne Avenue, Richmond, Va. William M. Boylan, 163 Craven Street, New Berne, N. C.
Henry K. Burgwyn, Woodland, N. C.
Henry Alexander Carrington, 1907 Ardsley Place, Tampa, Fla.
Lt. Douglas Robert Copeland, Miller School, Va.
Mason C. Deaver, WPUV, Pulaski, Va.
Angus R. Echols, 145 Bollingwood Road, Charlottesville, Va.
Clayton Willard Eley, Jr., 7200 Hampton Blvd., Meadowbrook Apt. C-6
Norfolk, Va.
Wistar M. Heald, Jr., I00 Oakwood Place, Lynchburg, Va. Edgar Harrison Hegner, 58-60 Light Street, Osh Kosh, Wise. Dr. John P. Henderson, Jr., Jacksonville, N. C.
Dr. Richard L. Kendrick, 726 14th Avenue, Monroe, Wise. Edward 0. Krauss, 165 Ninth Ave., N. E., St. Petersburg, Fla. Samuel W. McGann, Jr., 834 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk, Va. Everard Kidder Meade, Boyce, Va.
Thomas Wright Meade, Boyce, Va.
Clayton Moore, Jr., 780 Arbor Road, Winston-Salem, N. C. Ben F. Park, Times Bldg., Raleigh, N. C.
Laurence L. Prince, 717 C