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THE METEOR
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, VirJinia, approximately 9
500 copies given by hand to students and mailed to alumni and friends of the school. Published and owned by Vtrgmta Episcopal School. Entered as second·class matter September 28, 1929, at the Post Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March .3, 1879. Subscription for one school session-Two dollars and fifty cents.
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Vol. XLXI
Virginia Episcopal School, May 17, 1968 No.7
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This issue of The Meteor has been produced by members of the junior class in a trial run for 1968-69. Contributors are James Roediger, Richard \Vard, Godfrey Cheshire, Peter Daniel, Macky McCleary, Jim Sutherland,
Jim Thomason, and Robert \iVise.
An Open Letter
Much is written and read today about today's "unique" breed who stand
Dear Editor:
by apathetically as a young woll)an is shot to death, pleading for someone
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to help her, or those who walk by a man beaten half to death and lying for hours in a subway station, or those who drive by a car-wreck victim who lies bleeding and dazed, trying for six hours to find one, compassionate soul.
We hear about these things and say to ourselves and aloud to others, "How can people be so cruel and callous? What is the world coming to that people have so little regard for their fellow man? I could not do that!"
And yet could you? . . .
The little boy could hardly wait to leave the evening meal to play the "game" with his "pals." "What game?" his mother asked. In his excited way he tried to describe what sounded to her like a game of dodge ball. She let him go, confident that his "pals" would look out for him. The little boy was six years old, and in all those years he had never met a boy he didn't idolize. The trouble with the little boy was that he didn't know he was only six. He thought he was fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen, like his "pals."
He dashed off' to play. Across the field his mother could hear peals of laughter and stopping, she watched the "game" her son was playing with his
·"pals." Her heart broke. Her eyes filled with tears. All heartbroken and sick - but not angry! The trusting, little boy and others of his young friends were "goats" in a rather brutal game of slam-ball not dodge ball. The little boys
were hit again and again as the on-lookers laughed. Her little boy fell with a thud in the dust, and the on-lookers laughed, but the little boy got up and ran again when his "pals" urged him on. He was hit again and stumbled and
Monogram Club.
Next year Tom will attend
University of the South.
HAYS G. VAN NOPPEN His genial manner and upsta Juu
character have made many for Hays over three years; in his
year he earned counselorship.
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fell, and the on-lookers laughed. The little boy sat down to rest the "game" for a few minutes.
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DAVID SHYTLE
Hailing from Silver Spring, Mary-
land, 'Brother Dave,' as official senior advocate of the system, has kept
many boys in line with his soft, sadistic tactics.
He has been a great success ath- letically, playing varsity football for two years, and he was a notable mem-
ber of Mr. Goggin's winter weight group. Academically, Dave has man- aged to maintained an industrious attitude. Next year he will head back home to the University of Maryland.
TOM SMYTH
The friendly VES atmosphere
quickly set in on T.J.C.S., Jr. three years ago. Greensboro is ((Spicy's"
stronghold when he's not tackling the problems on Third Jett.
Tom is known to sports fans as one of the bouncing Bishops on the basket- ball court. ·He is also coach of the unheralded exercise group, taking this upper echelon position from ex-
coach Mr. Silas Daugherty.
Because of his interest and talent,
Tom was voted President of the Choir- Glee Club. Tom has also served on
THE METEOR staff for the past two years, and he is a member of the
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His mother said to herself, I must stop this, but I can't discredit his pals
in front of him. She would try to coax him away. She called, and her little
boy came away, and when he reached her side he said, "I don't like that
game!" And the mother said, "It doesn't look like much fun. Come on with
me, and let's look for your sweater." But as they passed by the "game" her son ran off to "play" again.
The mother stood, watched, and debated what to do now. What should she do? She walked off and passing a group of on-lookers, heard one say it was
a cruel game. Still she said nothing to stop it.
Not one single person said, "ENOUGH!" It was brutal. It was cruel. It
was callous. And yet, not one soul would say, "STOP!"
Was anyone out there that day any different from today's "unique" breed?
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I wonder.
Senior Salute
A Mother ROSS ST ANSFIELD
In only two years at VES, Ross has contributed much to school life. His active participation in the athle- tic program has ranged from football
to the exercise group. He has worked as a reporter for the METEOR, and
he has introduced us all to the unique Standfield wit.
Having been accepted on early ad- missions at William and Mary where he plans to spend his next four years, Ross was able to escape from the tensions of waiting for the college "letter ." "Kinky" travels nightly to
the senior lounge with a stack of 45's under his arm and a gleeful expres- sion on his face. He plans an excit-
ing summer in Alexandria.
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Hays has been a perennial basket star; but, above all, he will be membered most as one of the grea trackmen VES has ever had.
Next fall he will attend the Uni sity of North Carolina.
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