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Volume LIX, No. 4
VIRGINIA
EPISCOP AL
SCHOOL, L YNCHBURG,
VIRGINIA
February 8, 1977
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several speeches for the Congressional Record.
While at Andover, Mr. Billman played three years of varsity soccer, two years of varsity tenpis, and two years of junior varsity hockey before graduating in the spring of 1972.
From Andover he went to Yale where he majored in American History with an emphasis on the Progressive Era. While at Yale he played three years of varsity soccer, including a tour of England in August of 1975 with
the Yale soccer team. He also
their enrollment significantly.
Probably the main reason for
this enrollment growth is the
widening concern among
parents for greater attention to
academic performance and for
the personalization of education.
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a part of education is also an important factor. Other concerns are lack of discipline, reports of declining grades, and racial conflicts in public schools.
V.E.S. is obviously experienc- ing an increased enrollment, much to the credit of the
V.E.S. Selected for BY DAVID MAY
an eight-page report to the
Recently Virginia Episcopal
annual meeting of regents in School was elected to Boston, Massachusetts. Mr.
membership in the Cum Laude Society. Cum Laude is a national academic honorary society for outstanding upperclassmen in secondary schools, equivalent to
Ainslie was notified of the school's admission into the Society on December 15.
Mr. Ainslie reported that V. E.S. 's acceptance was an honor the Phi Beta Kappa society on for the school as well as a the college level. Its charters for personal gratification. . "Being new chapters are granted to those accepted into this society reflects schools with strong academic the quality of the school's
programs.
Ms. Geraldine Wharry, the
Academic Dean of the National
Cathedral School for Girls in
Washington, D.C., is the regent
representing the Society in this
academic program and gives us a chance to recognize various students who have done an outstanding job academically here at V.E.S. The personal satisfaction that I have gotten is
that this is the first time our school has been evaluated so thoroughly since my coming here. Obviously the Society was impressed by its findings, which makes me both happy and
proud."
In the spring V.E.S. will be
installed as a new chapter, and
Ms. Wharry will attend. Until that time, the school will be selecting past graduates and qualified juniors and seniors of the 1976-1977 session who
qualify for Cum Laude.
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section of the United States. Ms.
Wharry visited V.E.S. in the fall
to inspect the school's
qualifications. She began by
interviewing Mr. Ainslie, Mr.
Donnelly, and Mr. Kehrer about
the school's background and
stability. She also analyzed many
files, ranging from V.E.S.'s
financial statement to the records
of SAT scores and colleges to
which past seniors have been accepted.
After surveying the school Ms. Wharry presented her findings in
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MOREHEAD NOMINEES
,_ Maul Feinman and Jack Barker have been nominaled to represent V.E.S. in the
orehead Scholarship program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
V.E.S. is selected to participate in a new scholarship program (p. 2) and builds new student housing (p. 2)i
The student vestry begins a memorial fund for Thomas Duncan Moore (p. 3).
SNOW
The campus has received an unusual amount of snow in the month of January, as shown in the above picture.
Post as V.E.S. Faculty
ember
BY jiM HUNTER
The newest addition to the faculty here at V.E.S. is Mr. Douglas Billman. Mr. Billman is replacing Mr. Peebles who has returned to Princeton to
continue his studies.
Mr. Billman, a native of Oyster
Bay, New York, grew up next door to the Theodore Roosevelt
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mansiOn.
No stranger to prep school life,
placement service for teachers interested in teaching at an independent school. His duties here at V.E.S. include teaching the 7th grade Ancient and Medieval History. He also teaches Latin I to the 7th and 8th
gtaders.
In sports Mr. Billman is
Mr. Billman attended Phillips
Academy at Andover, Massa-
chusetts. During his junior year
at Andover, Mr. Billman took a
semester off to serve as an intern
for Congressman Louis Stokes
(D-Ohio). As an intern, he
helped with casework,
correspondence and wrote played three years of junior and academies are increasing
Mr. Billman
varsity hockey; serving as co- captain his senior year.
Upon graduating last spring, Mr. Billman lived in Washing- ton where he served as Assistant to the Marketing Director for the Washington Capitals at Capital Center in Landover, Maryland. While in Washington he played for the Independientes, the Premiere Division Champion in
the National Soccer League. Mr. Billman found out about V.E.S. through the Independent Educational Services (I.E.S.) of Princeton, N. J. This is a job
Despite a decline in the school- age population, inflation, and high tuitions, private schools
assisting Mr. Pettyjohn in junior varsity soccer this winter. In the spring he will help in the tennis program. V.E.S. is certainly lucky to have a man as well qualified as Mr. Billman.
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Admissions Office.