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VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VA., FEBRUARY, 1972
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Mr. Meador and fifteen second and third year Latin students plan to leave for Italy March 30. They will visit Rome, Florence and Pisa and return to the U.S. April 9.
Spencer Cash will accompany the group for the second time.
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A number of VES persons re- cently enjoyed Mr. Hopkins' leading performance as Linus, Jr. (the boy who gets the girl) in the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center production of Sabrina
Fair .
Mrs. Jenkins assisted with the sets for the performance.
January 24th through 26th, Dr. Parrish attended a conven- tion at the Trinity Institute in New York City which was spon-
sored by Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches throughout the United States. Dr. Parrish said that topics for discussion
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and Bo Thomas astray?
Mr. Garmey's name must be ganized in the future.
By Louis T. March
VES has already received subscriptions for over $206,000 in
the first phase of the capital fund raising drive. Initial support has come principally from trustees and those in the advanced gifts division in Lynchburg.
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social and reception areas, study is pleased with the sue- and locker rooms for day stu-
Alumni Director, Mr. George of the campaign to date and
dents and additional office space. The second phase of the Plan for Progress calls for $1,100,000 for the construction of a field house and swimming· pool at a
cost of $400,000, a fine arts cen- ter and auditorium for $400,000, a new infirmary and faculty apartments for $200,000, and
$100,000 for faculty housing. Honorary chairman for the Plan for Progress is alumnus,
Hardy C. Dillard, a judge on the International Court at The Hague.
The general chairman is Lewis B. Goode, Jr. of Lynchburg.
W orking on the VES campus is Mr. Thomas Scott of Atlanta, Georgia, whose job it is to co-
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and alumni meetings have
n planned along the Eastern
Several
!eu'ngs have already been
board from New tlanta.
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The capital fund raising drive
VES is divided into two Phase I consists of plans the construction of a new building at a cost of
000, the modernization of Hall for $50,000 and the nstruction of a student activi-
center for $50,000.
The proposed academic build-
will consist of a lecture hall ting seventy-five persons, three
students have been slipping away from campus on Mondays, Wed- nesdays and Thursdays in the new van. Rumors have been
reading and writing one major paper.
"kickoff"
Mr. Garmey and Mrs. Clark discuss Le Barbier de Seville in the joint Seven Hills-VES French class meeting at Seven Hills.
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By wm Martin
It has been reported that the circumstances surrounding it and
head of the VES French de- the philosophical ideas it con- partment and several of his prize tains. This involves extensive
ordinate solicitation efforts and nee classroom-laboratories, a tend to the mechanics of the
This is the first time that a French class of this sort has spreading. Is Mr. Garmey lead- gotten together, and Mr. Gar-
n rooms, a faculty lounge and department offices.
The modernization of Jett all will provide more student
YES May Get New Computer Terminal
By Blount Williams
A teletype computer terminal
y be installed at VES next . Mr. Wyatt said that the ibility of hooking up with computer system in downtown
chburg is being explored. · Earlier in the year, Mr. gherty and Mr. Reimers
isited the Educational Com- Center in Lynchburg. The,
is run by three local : Lynchburg College, ndolph-Macon Woman's Col-
and Sweet Briar College. college keeps four teletype
off to? The Cavalier? The they thought of the class. An-
n.
:entPr, All twelve terminals can
study. Sam selected to return to VES for the month.
Asked about his return, Sam said, "I am very interested in teaching at a prep school like VES for a couple of years after
graduating from college."
At present he commented that
Having been away from VES for less than a year, he noted that "There have been a lot of
rule changes since I left, but on the whole, the school has re- mained the same. The school spirit in the athletic program
has picked up somewhat more than last year."
Commenting on any differ-
ences between being a student
and having the freedom of an Continued on Page 8, Col. 5
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ntcate with the downtown
which they use to com-
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In use at the same time.
Th.e computer can solve prob- tn less than a minute. Many
can be stored in the dealing with such dif- . courses of study as science,
nghsh, math and history.
while he is in the classroom here ly attends Austin College in he likes "students to think of
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Sam Guerin
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commented that "It is a good
change of routine to have in-
tellectual intercourse with minds
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such as those at Seven Hills," and that "It is really an exhili- arating experience to contem-
plate and examine the upper extremities with the young
ladies."
Parrish has ordered a tape of the Archbishop's talk.
Neil Hammerstrom won first
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place for his tabletop tap danc- ing in the Thunder Thornton Amateur Hour Friday, January 28th.
Proofs for the first half of the Vestige have returned, but the
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staff is having difficulty meetmg the last deadlines.
Again this year, athletic team pictures must be purchased through the athletic department, as they will not appear in the
Vestige.
Quite a few VES students and faculty families still get up to enjoy a morning meal since op- tional breakfasts were instituted over a month ago. According to Mr. Boatwright, the number of persons at breakfast varies from
fifty-five to one hundred and twenty-five.
By Larry Tilley
Sam Guerin, a 1971 VES alum-
nus, returned to the campus dur- ing January for an independent study project as a school admin-
istrative aiel. He worked with Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Lewis on the fund raising campaign as well as with Mr. Crenshaw in his economics and modern history
classes.
on a four-one-four term basis, better and make the student with the middle term of one feel more at ease with such a
month used for independent small age difference."
A native Texan, Sam regular-
Sherman, Texas, where he is a me as a college student, not as
freshman English major with an interest in teaching. Austin is
a teacher. This outlook seems to make it easier to communicate
ing Jim Amburn, John Harman mey hopes that similar YES-
Seven Hills projects can be or- cleared. Where is he sneaking VES students were asked what
the J es us
the charisma of Christ and the
influence of Christ in the modern world.
A featured speaker was the
Most Rev. Michael Ramsey,
Dahlia? No! It's Seven Hills. Mr. Canney and Mrs. Eileen Clark, French teacher at Seven Hills, are trying to familiariZe
several French IV and V stu- dents with Le Barbier de Seville, an eighteenth-century French
play which will be presented by a French dramatic company at Randolph-Macon February 15th.
Besides reading the play, stu- dents are studying the historical
swers varied from "Huh?" and "What course?", to one scholar's
more extensive evaluation. He Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr.
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