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THE METEOR
Prizes and Awards
1962-1963
V-CLUB PRIZE FOR THE BEST NON-LETTER ATHLETE
John Wade Wentz
SCHOOL TENNIS TROPHY won by
James Brown Barber
SOFTBALL LEAGUE CUP to Second Main Dormitory Steve Hicks, Captain
THESCHOOL ATHLETIC CUP William Burwell Harrison, Jr.
FOR EXCELLENCE IN:
from Bausch & Lomb Superior Scien- tific Scholarship and American Asso- ciation of Physics Teachers.
MATHEMATICS-
Claude Franklin Cassady, Ill and George Hairston, Jr.
HISTORY (American}- William Henry Wood
GERMAN William H. M. deRossett LATlN Edward Plummer Tompkins
ENGLISH COMPOSITION-
June, 1
Volume XLVI
No. 7
Adams, Jim
Adams, J. Boone
Choate
de Rosset
Helsabeck Hodges Hortenstine
Graduation Day
Willis W hite
Ya tes
Hayward Clark Smith, Jr. Claude Franklin Cassady, Ill; award
June, 1962
Issued by the s.tudents of the Virginia Episcopal Sc1hool,
Lynchburg, Virginia, mont-hly during the school •term.
Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Postoffice at Lynchburg, Virginia., under the Act a£ March 3, 1879.
Subscription for one school session-Two dollars and fifty cents.
EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITORS-IN-CHilEF ...............................BILL WOOD, ROBERT BERRY MAINAGING EDITORS .......LEE CLARKE, RlCHARD WHITEHEAD SPORTS EDITOR .....................................................................GLENN DAVIS
PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR ...........................CLAIBOURNE DARDEN FEATURE EDITOR ..........................................................CLAUDE CASSADY A D V E R T I StiNG M A N A G B R ..................................................... B I L L W A R D EXCHANGE EDITORS .................,JOHN BOTTGER, BRUD REESE FACULTY ADVISOR ...................................................MR. LIN LUNSFORD
STEPHEN HUBERT HI_"· from
Snow Hill, North Caroli was awarded
the School Medal •'IC for character, leadership, latle
and service to the school. VES Trims And
Primps
For quite a while the ~--· of the whole school towards
appearance of the school g rrllll1! h as been o n e of indiftt>rP"'
E ight janitors could not efrecur, ly clean up 160 acrl'-. and them clean. \Vhen ~fr. Lee
came in charge of the appea of the school bui1dings grounds, he sought a \\'ay to· prove the attitude of .the body and also help the janitor
As a result the school g vuu w e r e d i v i d e d i n t o ~ections each student \Yas given an help keep clean. lt is hoped be ides a iding the janitors, plan will make the ~tudent more re pectful of the apJ.~...
of the school. One of the hi objectives at this tim<' is to grass planted in all the ground and .to keep the cxi gra. s cut and trimmed.
After the initial \\'ork has clone, the studenb -.lwuld
doing only regular pulicing After a period of about
weeks of this J)lan hcitw in :--.
the 1huilclings and grounds al
s h O'vv a m a r k e d i111prrnrP n11
There is also. as plttnned marked improvement in the tude of the student 'hnch· tO\\ t h e s c h o o l . Tt i s , , . o , : k i n g now and \\'e of thi!:> paper that this will last.
TROPIC OF CANCER
THE TROPIC OF C.\N \\"h ich gained •tremendous larity th rough the contrn"K that grew up aroun d it, reaohed •t'he lbes.t seller li t
long ago, and thus became of the most widely read •books t'he year. The book is by no
a new one, ·being written in
a year after its author, Miller, arrived in Paris to for a newspaper. T he plot unique in that it is simply an
count of Henry Miller's
ences in Paris. Miller made
attempt to cliso·ui'se himseJ,f
t t h u s •s i m p l y ~-emainecl
MiHer. This is only the first
n u m e r o u s d e v i c e s "~hich
Miller uses to achieve an al •
super-realism whioh he "'~'rf"ll~ emphasizes throug1hout the
One other device of great pontance which Mr. Miller ploys ~takes s•hape in a multi
STAFF
Exum Poe Fitzpatrick Sandidge
Gibson Tarplee
CHEMISTRY PHYSICS-
School is over now. We can look back over this year and decide for certain whether it has been a year of bull sessions and play or whether it has been a well organized year of good hard ,.vork with intervals of good hard play. ~rad~s
supposedly tell this story, or, at least, many educators mamtam this. But do five two-digit numbers tell the real, the true
story?
This year has been the final decisive year for seniors. Now they will not only be subjected to using their store of facts gained in the twelve years preparation needed to go into the
world and be able to hold their own against the masses, but they must now, more than ever, be able to use the wisdom and maturity gained ov·er these years.
These last two things, maturity and \\'isdom, are what a person's final grade really is. Seniors are reminded of the line of Tenneyson in his "Locksley Hall" in which he said: "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." This is the essence
of learning. This is, in reality, our grade. If we have merely let mast·ers dictate their courses to us, and if w·e have taken no interest in private study lo fill some gaps left in the course, or to broaden ourselves on a related subject, then we havre not passed. We have merely reached the end of prep school teaching. We have not gained admission to the world of the
sage and manly.
For the seniors who have not reached this stage of develop-
ment, college is likely to be a rude awakening. They will find themselves in trouble many times because it lakes maturity to stay away from a fraternity party the we-ekend that was originally planned to be used to study for that bio- test on Monday. It ta~es a lot of wisdom to realize you ~:>won't be "Biggesl.Man on Ca.mpus" the first year and it takes maturity to restratn from trymg to prove you are a potential candidate.
The final exams and grades this year marked the end of a long p~riod of "preping" but these are only the preliminaries. Co.llege ts the real test. There every faculty is taxed, from bemg able to control yourself at a party, to even having the strength to be able to get out of bed in time for that early
class. Yes .... v-.:e have only begun-can we carry on like mature and mtelltgent gentlemen or will we take the road of many others -and fail.
The Fact Finder
(Setting: 'IIhe V. E. S. lirbrary. "Don't you see it ? That old T here are two stude-nts seated at telephone? T hat's the first one a taJble. One is thumbing t hrough 'vVestern Electric made, way 1back copies of "Li~e," "National in 1882, and since then tlhey've
Geographic," and "Field and made 1,729,348 'phones. T1hart: old Stream" magazines. The other is one must be at lea t three times writing in a notebook.) as •big as a modern 'phone! Boy.
"Hey, look at -this! It says here I wouldn't mind having that tape that in 1954 there were a hundred recorder! It only weighs seven and >Sixty...two sets of twins born and three-quarters pounds, and in rthe state of New York!" with the new '.1\rfagic-Tape' you
"Reallyi>." get up to one and a thalf times
"Yeah. Just think, that's uh as muoh recording time per roll. . . . three hundred and uh ... I really do like 1tlhe ocean, don't t!hree hu~dred and twenty-four you? Most people do. I'm gonna
English 11-
English IV
English V Justin Smith White, Ill
lbabt~s !
good for JUSt one state, isn't it ?" tening ? I said I'm gonna try
Living Church Bronze Medal for Essay on IIA Well-Informed Christian~~­
Cornelius Caleb Tarplee, Jr.
Mathematical Association of America Citation for National Examination-
George Hairston, Jr.
John Motley Morehead Foundation Scholarship to University of North Caro-
lina Henry Glassell Hortenstine. SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES:
In lower 3 classes:
Medal to Edward Plummber Tompkins;
2nd prize: Ervin V. Meluleni In Junior Class:
Medal to Hayward Clark Smith, Jr.; 2nd prize: James Caldwell Adams
In Senior Class:
Medal.to Claude Franklin Cassady, Ill;
2nd pr1ze: George Hairston, Jr. Warren Armstrong Seager Memorial
Medal and Prize to: Joe Exum.
Big Brother Prize, jointly to: William Burwell
Harrison, Jr., and William Henry Wood. Headmaster's Award to:
Kevin Walsh Fitz Patrick.
The Elmer Irving Carruthers, Jr. Memorial Medal and Trophy to:
Henry Glassell Hortenstine.
The School Medal to: Stephen Hubert Hicks.
The Valedictorian:
Claude Franklin Cassady, Ill.
new
Boy, that's pretty try somevhing new. Hey, you lis-
"Yeah, that's pretty good." "Hey! Looka !here!"
something new." "Oh. What?"
"Where?"
"Right here. No, page fifty- hunting 'n fi'S'hing magazine. I'm
seven."
"What aJbout it?"
"Something I read about in a gonna trim a royal coaohman
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English VI
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION-
Richard Green Cowper Cornelius Caleb Tarplee
Lee Tilson Clarke William H. M. deRosset