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BEFORE MRS. BUNDREN
We were just over talking to two of our favorite contemporaries about the School and the people who make i~ up (which in a sense can be a very dangerous game), and came up with some very interesting dis-
And yet, were all these opportuni- ties for growth and education ac- cepted as such? And were they taken advantage of as they could have been? This is what we were asking. (We tried to throw in Senator Gold- water's resounding victory here, and overwhelming defeat nationwide, but that wasn't allowed by our friends !).
They seemed (for once, anyway) to be for the most part in agreement with us, to our astonishment. But we could not pry from them a reason for our isolationist policy. W e took another shot and claimed that it arose from our practically uniform background of Southern aristocracy, and again our amiable companions rose in protest. They claimed that ihis could not be the reason behind our willing intellectual exile.
NMSQT
Every spring juniors in high school
throughout the land take the Notiona
Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests.
cussion and
particular friends of ours we do not always (perhaps often!) find allied in opinion with our own, but their sensitivities and judgments ore cer- tainly of notable regard, and al- though we may not have discovered any new and universal truths, we did find out something about the com- plexion of the School.
In perhaps demagogic tones, we asked if this were not a School unto itself; that is, did we not limit our world to the confines of the School, and extend it intellectually no further than the bridge over Judith Creek? W e hastily pointed out that was through no fault of the administra- tion or facu lty. Indeed, there have been more visiting lecturers in the past two months than in all of la5t year. Masters and boys have been urged, and on some occasions, have taken advantage of outside lectures and cultural opportunities at the sur- rounding colleges. As far as the School's becoming an integral part of the Lynchburg community, we viewed the Youth Symposium of the Notional Conference of Christians and Jews, held here, as a very Im- portant step in this direction.
Mike Sheble
MOCK ELECTION
On Election Day, November 3 t~e school vestry sponsored its own mod presidential election for the twc candidates, President Johnson ana Senator Goldwater. The week before, supporters of each candidate helc rallies and elected representatives to speak on the issues and the good points of his candidates in chapel the morning of the election. Chan Chandler spoke on behalf of Senator Goldwater and Bill Smyth on beha:: of the President, Lyndon Johnson.
The voting took place a t various times throughout the day and the final tabulation was Goldwater 130 and Johnson 76. The voting broke down as follows:
How V. E. S. Voted
Goldwater Johnson 8th Grade 12 I 9th Grade 25 13 IOth Grade 33 14 IIth Grade 22 24 12th Grade 30 IS Faculty 8 9
T otal 130 76
The election showed the sectionol popularity of Senator Goldwater and also reflected a strenuous campaign wuged by the Goldwater supporters at school. The 93.2% turnout at the polls shows that V. E. S. lacks the apathy which is so characteristic of many communities.
Bob Hodgman
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THE METEOR
conclusions.
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asked the question in a half-serious vein, but still maintained that this nascent unity made us more content to accept the concepts our parents had given us, and less willing to ques- tion them.
From there, of course, we went to bigger things. But the hour at last grew late, and amidst threats of be- ing bodily thrown out of the room, we escaped to our own cold den and
laughed since
we had only
settled down to tricacies.
Faulkner's In- W. E. S.
A THLETIC DIVERSIFICA TION : PING-PONG!
The purpose of these tests is tc 1
identify able and promising studen and to encourage them to continue their education. One out of 38.00C students receives Letters of Com mendation, and these together wit 14,000 Finalists who receive Certifi cates of Merit, constitute about two percent of all secondary school se~ iors. These students may obta'· financial aid and other scholast' benefits at colleges they choose lc attend. This year there were nc merit semi-Finalists, but Bob Eadie Mike Sheble, and James Hotelling re- ceived Letters of Commendation.
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life have V .E.S.? from whi out?