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.VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, JUNE, 1964 NUMBER 6
FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN BEGINS
On Tuesday evening, May 5, the kickoff meeting for the Lynchburg
Eadie, Rose, Smyth Head New HC
The Meteor is happy to be the first to publicize a list of next
year's student leaders as elected by the students and faculty.
Robert Eadie will serve as chairman of the Honor Committee and head dorm counselor. Eadie is from Charlotte, North Carolina, and has served this year prominently in "Vestige" and Meteor en- deavors. He will be assisted on the Honor Committee by Jeph Rose, of Rocky Mount, N. C., and Bill Smyth, of Greensboro. Other rising seniors elected to counselorship are Mike Agelasto, of Virginia Beach; Frank Booker, of Halifax, Virginia; Henry Bowen, of Bluefield, West Virginia; Bill Carper, of Princeton, West Virginia; Frank Har- rison, of Rocky Mount; Clark Smith, of Raleigh; and Lawson Turner, of Little Rock.
These boys have established themselves as leaders in vanous organizations, and will "carry the load" of student leadership next year. The Meteor will run a feature article on these boys next year in the first issue.
area campaign to raise funds for cur- rent building at V.E.S. was held in Banks-Gannaway Hall. Presiding over the meeting was Yuille Holt, Jr., newly elected member of the V.E.S. Board and chai1man of the building fund campaign. During the meeting tactics of the campaign were dis- cussed and slides depicting V.E.S. life were shown. Following the early evening meal, entertainment was pro- vided by the choir-glee club of V.E.S.
By the first of September, the School will have spent one and a quarter million dollars on a prog1am which began in January 1961 to im- prove the physical plant of the school. Improvements have been made in- cluding the construction of Banks- Gannaway Hall, the renovation of both Jett and Pendleton Halls, and laboratory facilities in these halls. At present, work is being done on the new Randolph Hall and Langhorne Memorial Chapel.
To finance these improvements a building fund campaign was con- cluded in 1961. This fund netted $260,000, most of which came from the Lynchburg area. The present campaign, about which this kickoff dinner was concerned, has as its goal $300,000, which, in the words of the Headmaster, is not according to the need, but rather according to the realistic amount available from a campaign of this type. The School hopes that this amount will be ex- ceeded, because even with this large contribution, the School will be left with an awkward debt.
THE METEOR
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