Page 4 - 1955 VES Meteor

Volume XXXIX
January-February, 1955
No. 4
CHATHAM DANCE
On the night of January 15, thirty six screaming banshees travelled ove· to Chatham for a dinner and dance with the girls at Chatham Hall. A but eight climbed into a "modern bus and hit the road. The lucky eigh· rode in a station wagon (much to th• chagrin of Goon and the Cradle Crowd) and arrived at Chatham a fresh as poppies at spring opium gathering time.
A s t h e g r o u p e n t e r e d t h e fro~· door, a flock of dames-uh, pardor me, young ladies-descended up01 them and began pairing them off wit their dates for the evening. As mas- of the girls spoke a northern foreig• language it was difficult at first fo the dates to understand each other However, two young things manage· to get through and asked Mr. Heste- who his date was. Mr. Hester quiet informed them that he was a cha~ erone and was not supposed to hav one, whereupon the senorita panicked and stampeded down th! hall laughing loudly.
The elegantly served dinner wa topped off by C. R.'s blowing smoh into the faces of the tobacco-starver females. The ladies of the facult looked at Jones and thought nast thoughts.
The dance was highlighted by cool quintet supported by a +remer dous laugh by one of the gentlem& present. It was quite amusing to om "Git It Boy" Marley.
Our All American football playe was particularly happy when gir asked for his autograph. After Bla had given 1650 autographs, h smiled at his female fans and utterec the word " Peasants." W e might ad that Ace is now writing his date ever day. Ah, how sweet true love i, By the way, she's called the Okeefe nokee Swamp Girl.
One of the Amazons cut in on Mr Hester and, failing to notice that b was elderly in appearance, mistoO<
him for a student and told him ho she had turned out the lights earlie in the evening.
At eleven thirty, the boys (excep the station wagon eight, who amuse themselves on the way back with var ous dinner party games) climbed inr the 1920 version of the 1910 bus an came back to school.
We all agree that we had a grec time, and we hope that we can g agam soon.
THE METEO~ THE
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 ...• . ... ••........................................ Faculty Advisor
ARTISTS
STEVE COWPER
J. WOOLERY R. STONE
F. DUNN
PHOTOGRAPHERS
CHARLES HAMEL PAT McNULTY JIM BAILEY
J O H N BRADY REPORTER S
C. JONES J. McKEE P. WARD
E. THOMAS
BUSINESS BOARD
TYPISTS
PETER WARD
DAVID CANNON
S. ELLIOTT J. REEBALS J. BRADY
FRANK DUNN .................................................... Circulotion Monoger JOHN WARD ..................... . ................................ Business Monoger
LIBRARY NEWS
As the students might gather from the current exhibit of book covers in Study Hall, the Library has recently purchased a considerable number of new books, selected to be of interest to the casual reader as well as of value in connection with course work.
One book, Floyd Clymer's Treasury of Early American Automobiles, has been in such demand that the libra- rian has found it necessary to place it on reserve for the time being. It is a picture history of first American
motor cars, illustrated with photo- graphs and advertising matter de- scribing the steamers, electrics, eight- wheeled cars, and other automotive
pioneers which seem so strange to us now. In contrast to this backward glance is Arthur Clarke's Going Into Space, a factual account of the prob- lems which must be faced when man starts interplanetary fli_ght and the ways in which these problems may be overcome. It is written in non-techni- cal language, but represents the best
opinions of modern science.
Another book which has already
proved popular is Allen Ludden's 4
Plain Talk for Men Under 21 !, a book of practical etiquette written for high school boys.
A large number of additions were made in the field of history. Of spec- ial interest are additions in the Teach Yourself History series, including such titles as Agricola and Roman Britain, Louis XIV and the Greatness of France, Gladstone and Liberalism, Richelieu and the French Monarchy, Cranmer and the English Reforma- tion, Robespierre and the French Re volution, and various others cover- ing different periods of history.
Additions were also made to the biography section. One of the out- standing of these is Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. Others, from the Brief Lives Series, give accounts of the lives of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Isaac Newton, Queen Victoria, and Cecil Rhodes, Great Britain's famous empire builder in
Africa.
One of the most interesting of the
new novels purchased was Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. This story, originally published in Life magazine, has b e e n well-
(Continued on poge 6, col. 2)