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THE METEOR
April 22, 1968
Continued from Page 1, Column 1 exciting times. After concluding this year's business responsibility and after an interlude to refresh and recharge, I look forward to the
most useful role I can have in this fascinating business of education." Mr. Montgomery's resignation be-
comes effective August 1. His imme- diate plans have not been made pub- lic but he has indicated a desire to travel with his family and perhaps study abroad.
The Executive Committee ·of the Board of Trustees has been authorized to seek a successor to Mr. Mont- gomery and an announcement will be
made as soon as a qualified candidate has been selected.
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formed Parents Committee. The offi""-
cers are: Dr. Thomas B. Dameron, President; Mr. George Box, Vice Presi- dent; and Mr. Lapsly Hamblen, Sec-
retary-Treasurer.
Mter a buffet lunch at one o'clock,
the afternoon activities began: a track meet and a tennis match, both against Blue Ridge. Although the tennis match was lost, the track team fur- nished color and excitement by win-
ning the meet in the last event. Preceding the evening banquet, a reception for fathers, sons, and mas- ters was held on the Headmaster's
front lawn, and at the close of the banquet, those present were enter- tained by the Choir-Glee Club. The fonnal weekend program was con- cluded with a sermon by the Reverend Hugh Agricola, Jr. in the service held Sunday morning in the chapel.
Mr. Montgomery, commenting on the weekend, said that he had wanted for a long time to set aside a time dur- ing the school year for boy's fathers
to be with their sons. There are indi- cations that it will become an annual
event.
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to trap the humid heat within and keep the summer's luminescence from
penetrating the inner dimness. There is the Negro section of town with its small stores and restaurants. Within the restaurants there are again the aged, dingy, unadorned walls, un- shaded windows, and the wooden benches bearing the scars of decades of idle knives. Outside of Oxford there are the shanties, hosting a life which
seems almost untouched in fifty or a hundred years. An old Negro woman and her daughter, busily occupied in
Varsity Track
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Despite the heavy loss of last year's
track stars, V.E.S. has been workingL-- - -
hard to plug the gap; and Coach Hor-~oLUME ton has been impressed by some of thei . - - - new runners. This year the track team
is much larger than the one of last
year, and it is led by co-captains Haysc:-h---.:•
their morning pursuit of boiling the
wash and laying it out upon the
branches of a nearby tree, are por- defensive mistakes, the Bishops took
The Bishops came back stron.g h
trayed against a background of small rolling hills covered with a light sec- ond growth of scrubby pine with the
bleak sky occluding the sun. Faulkner's writings have made Yok-
next contest, and capitalizing on many advantage of their five hits to steal
ten bases (not to mention the twelve taken on passed balls) and scored ten runs. Defensively Steve Shelton, pitching for the first time, held Rock
against Fishburne with an eig ty-slX to thirty-two romp in Waynesboro on the Fishburne track. Hayes Van Nop·
napatawpha County a part of the Hill to two runs until the bottom of world's history, and the photographs the sixth inning when fading light, of Faulkner's County perhaps go a several costly errors, and contested step further, depicting graphically calls by the umpires compounded by those things which Faulkner depicted an offensive spark in Rock Hill led to so richly in words. five quick runs by that team. The
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Lynch Christian scores first run of season.
game ended 10-7 VES, but any Bishop
Baseball Meets Tough Opposition
VES baseball1968 may be the sport that everyone at school has been hop- ing for. In every game so far the pre- dicted fortes of the team have come out well, with a fabulous defense in both infield and outfield and improved hitting all around. What has proven so far as most outstanding, though, is pitching: an expected weakness has turned into a strength with knuckle- balling Charlie Green and speedsters
Frank Johnson, Steve Shelton, Lee Lumpkin, and Geoff Norwood. Bishop hurlers, with the exception of a walk problem against Lynchburg College, have been strong in every game; and most of the runs scored against them
have been on tense first game errors of the defense.
In two exhibition games against more powerful teams, the Bishops lost 7-5 and 12-0 against Glass and Lynch-
burg College respectively. Although a lot of runs were scored by the oppo- sition, most of them were because of first game tenseness.
The first season game came at St. Christopher's on March 29, a mere two days after spring break, and
thanks to the one hit pitching of St. Christopher's, the Bishops lost 3-0, with pitcher Charlie Green making the only hit of the game. The day proved tile value of the defense, how- ever, which did rob St. Christopher's of many scoring opportunities and made each of the three runs hard- earned. Pitcher Charlie Green proved his knuckleball too, allowing only four
hits.
Rock Hill hosted the Bishops in the
team member will say it should have been 10-2.
Facing Rock Hill again, this time
on their home field, the Bishops
blasted seven hits, including three
doubles, against strong pitching to win
the game 7-3. The winning spark was
provided by pitcher Charlie Green were downed 82-54. when he belted a double with two on
in the third inning and scored twice more himself; Steve Shelton and Bill Mesick each had two hits, and AI Williams and Lynch Christian each
ond inning, and by a shoe-lace catch in the first inning by Lynch Christian, robbing a base hit and possibly pre- venting an early inning rally.
Co-captains for this year's team are Geoff Norwood and AI Williams, both of whom are seasoned veterans and who are dependable on both offense and defense. Top hitters so far are Steve Shelton ( .364 ), Charlie Green
(.333), and Bill Mesick (.250). The outlook this year is good, especially considering the unexpected strength in pitching; and with new Coaches Rod Goggin and Bobby Lynch com-
plementing Mr. Lee, the mood is op- timistic.
Sporting a 2-1 record, VES trav- eled to Collegiate where they met a strong Cougar team for a double header. In the first game Charlie
Steve Shelton then came in to hold them until the fifth inning while VES scored two runs on a homer by Green;
but in the fifth all hell broke loose as Collegiate came up to score thirteen runs. The game was called after six innings in order to make time for the second game; the final score was sev-
teen to four.
Green started again in the second
game only to find that the Cougars had been practicing on knuckleballs all week. They scored ten runs in the first inning to put the game on ice. The game ended fifteen to three.
Returning to their home field the Bishops were downed by Episcopal High School 7-3. Green pitched for
VES the entire game.
On Father-Son Weekend V.E.S. defeated Blue Ridge School 61-57. Again, Hays Van Noppen was high
scorer with 2~~ points. He finished first in the broad jump, high and low hurdles, 100 yard dash, took a third
from for
had one.
a double play, Geoff Norwood-Frank Johnson-Willie Von Hacht, in the sec-
D efense was
Green experienced
pitching off a foreign mound, and Col- legiate scored four in the first inning.
four Dameron with three and oneill'\,._ ) , 'thPIIU:I;
highlighted by
some troubl e
· their home track 63 - 55. Desp1te
his knee Van Noppen picked up eight points with a first in the hundred yard dash and a second in the two hun· dred-twenty yard dash. Also with eight points was Bob Connelly, tying with Van Noppen to lead our scor· ing. Other scorers for VES were Ba~· ham with six, Frye with five, Dough~e
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Noppen and Doughtie were valuable! , letterman last year, and the two ofl " them account for most of the team's points this year. I
In the first meet with Collegeiate, Hays Van Noppen displayed a great individual performance by account- ing for five of the seven first places •
V.E.S. got, and totaled over 32 points himself. He won the broad jump, triple jump, high and low hurdles, the 100 yard dash, ran a leg on the vic- torious 880 relay team, and got sec-
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onds in the high jump and pole vault. Despite this perfonnance, the Bishops
in the high jump, and ran the opening The '67 leg on the winning 880 relay squad. with V.E.S. swept the shot put with Rich· wi ard Frye, Bill Nexsen, and Rhae By Adams in that order. cluttE
T. Barker Dameron placed secondJ.;hoir-1 lee in the broad jump, and Barham picked hare up third. Rip Wilson took second 1ted ma1
place in the discus throw, and Frye
got third. Robert Connelly finished The wiJ
third in the mile run.
Losing most of Van Noppens ser·
lleen very hare
vices through a knee injury,theBishopPl\1An harriers were beaten by Liberty on
fourth Nexen with three, Wilson WI three 'Whitehead with three, Sprunt
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with two and one fourth, and Box, Parsons, and White with each.
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pen marked up twenty-six and o~e · san fourth points, taking first place:1Il uy• a:
every event he entered and ruJUllllj~g
Bishops were Frye and Connelly ea
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with ten points, and White an 'th ton each showed improvement Wl d winning efforts in the "four-forty" an
low hurdles respectively.
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