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MR. WYATT
Mr. Wyatt has been at V. E. S. for ow 19 years, longer than any
Monty White
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Editor's Note: This is the first in of articles on the old masters.
other Master. After graduating from Salem College, majoring in Latin and his+ory, he came to V. E. S. in 1946 as a teacher in both of these subjects. For sixteen out of his nineteen years Mr. W yatt has taught history. This year Mr. Wyatt was not able to teach this course because of the increase in his responsibilities as a result of the increase in school size. Mr. Wyatt does, however, teach several Latin courses this year. He enjoys teaching history and in previous years his History V course has been quite famous for being one of the hardest, but most interesting courses taught at V. E. S.
When the faculty was smaller, Mr. W yatt coached J. V. football, basket- ball, and baseball. He feels that when he coached athletics he got to know the boys better than he does now. It is not surprising that Mr.
Wyatt coached baseball, for when the student-faculty game occurs each year, he is one of the principle long ball hitters for the faculty.
Mr. Wyatt is jokingly known among the students as "Wild Bill" because of his famous left-handed pitching.
His chief interests are stamp col- lecting Dnd collecting politica l car- toons. For relaxation he will often read some type of book pertaining to history.
When asked how he has enjoyed the years spent at V. E.S. Mr. Wyatt commented saying: "All and all as I look back over the years it has been real fun. I receive a great deal of satisfaction seeing a boy graduate from V. E. S. and later making a suc- cess o f himself. I know o f very few boys who have graduated from V. E. S. and have not done well."
MR. ROBERT I. LEE
~Ar. -..:e was born on May 4, 1924, 1\.jorfolk, Virginia, approximately e•en days after Lindberg's flight c •he Atlantic. When only six
c"ths old, he moved t o Raleigh, w ere he played on the baseball team
at Raleigh High. Because of his de- sire to further his knowledge, he came toV.E.S.in1943asajunior.His leadership was soon recognized and he was elected as head counselor the following year. Aside from function- ing as a counselor, Mr. Lee was a three letterman starting on the foot- ball, basketball, and baseball teams. This built up his playing college foot- ball and professional baseball.
Mr. Lee entered the U.S. Navy on July 4, 1945, immediately after his graduation which took place on J une
Ist of the same year. After I year of service our "all around" man entered the University of North Carolina a t Raleigh where he majored in General engineering. During Dr. Barton's rectorship, Mr. Lee was asked to come and serve as both a teacher and coach in 1950. This threw somewhat of a monkey wrench into his plans, because he had
formerly decided to graduate in 195 1 and return in the same year to teach. However, through Dr. Barton's in- fluence, he was allowed to come to V. E. S. and teach in 1950. He finished his college career during that summer at Georgia Tech.
The only other job our faithful and conscientious master ever con- sidered besides that of teaching at his alma mater was of supervising a summer camp.
Aside from coaching football and baseba ll, Mr. Lee enjoys tennis and surf fishing; both of these only when he has enough spare time.
This past summer he spent some time at the beach and at Raleigh, but the maiority of his 3 months was spent working and caring for the ole' 160!
Theron Sain
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THE OLD MASTERS