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The Master-in-Charge had taken a comparatively short time in checking Second and Third Main, and now as he descended the short flight of steps to the hall connecting the Main Building and West Dorm, he was in a hurry to finish his rounds and get to bed. As he opened the door into the hall, he thought he smelled smoke.
Inquisitively, he cont inued down the hall, seeking the smoke's source. Turning to the right, he opened the door leading to the stairs that lead to Second and Third West and the passageway below. He was at once engulfed in smoke and, choking, he staggered back into the hall. The fore was rampant now, having spread through the deserted classroom and down through the passageway into the Rec Room. The wooden front of the school store was a living sheet of flame, ond it was beginning to seep up through t he ceiling. An open window beside the door to Third West had acted as a chimney, draw- ing the flame upwards. Fanned by the wind, it lit on and destroyed anything that would sustain it. Two other masters, living in hallway apart- ments, were summoned to help, but the fire had grown too big. By this time students had smelled smoke and had tried to go down the steps. Find- ing them to be blocked, the counse- lors herded the boys to the fire es- cape ond, some anxiously, some half- reluctantly, the boys left home.
Now the fire had eaten its way up to the second floor. It raced along the cardboard walls and feasted upon the lockers. Soon all West Dorm was a flame and the Main Building was being ottacked from that direction. Second and Third Main counselors had been omazed when the master
had rushed in and told them to rout everybody from their dorms, but when they had done so and the stu- dents were in a group around the gymnasium, they realized the situa- tion. Soon the fire engines arrived, announced by the screaming wail of the sirens, which seemed to be the anguished cry of the burning build- ings. The firemen managed to check the fire in its mad dash down the spacious halls of Second and Third Main . As the student body and masters looked on, the eastern part of Main Building was saved. But all of West Dorm, all of the western half of Main Building, and all the posses- sions, equipment, and school material
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ARTISTS STEVE COWPER
J. WOOLERY R. STONE
F. DUNN
PHOTOG RAPHERS CHARLES HAMEL PAT McNULTY JIM BAILEY
JOHN BRADY REPO RTERS
C. JONES J. McKEE P. WARD
E. THOMAS
BUSINESS BOARD
TYPISTS PETER WARD DAVID CANNON
S. ELLIOTT J. REEBALS J. BRADY
MEMBER, SO UTHERN
EDITORIAL BOARD
PRESS ASSOC.
April I, 1955
No. 5
INTER-SCHOLASTIC
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
FRANK DUNN ..................................... , . , , , , . , , .. , , , .Circulotion Monoger JOHN WARD ..................... ................... .. ..........Business Monoger
was ruined. The library was a total loss. But no one was injured. And as the crowd of boys stood around watching, the greater part of their personal possessions consumed by flames, one of them, who had not long ago finished a cigarette and flipped it away, stuck another be- tween his lips and lit it. For a mom- ent he watched t he yellow-orange blossom spread among the dead vines clinging to the sides of the buildings. Then he turned and said to someone standing beside him, " I wonder how it all started?" (What an April Fool!)
V. E. S. HEADMASTER'S LIST Averages For The Month Ending February 26, 1955
I I. 90.6 12. 90. 13. 89.6 13. 89.6 I5. 89.4 16. 89.3 17. 88.6 17. 88.6 19. 88.4
20. 87.6 20. 87.6 22. 87.5 23. 87.4 23. 87.4 23. 87.4 23. 87.4 27. 86.8 27. 86.8 29. 86.4 30. 86. 30. 86. 30. 86. 30. 86. 34. 85.8 34. 85.8 36. 85.6 36. 85.6 37. 85.4 38. 85.3 39. 85.2 40. 85.
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