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Bv THOMAS :Is one near Crank Lake.
Meteor this
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again for a few hours. I made a
wrong.turnandwasheadedback
to Grand Lake before Mr.
destination of Bear Lake. Needless to say we wasted little time reaching the bottom. Along the way we stopped by an
anxious man who asked us to
look for his camera and return it
DramaatV.E.S. BY jOHN WELLS
the snow atop the highest peak in the and had a chat with an switchbacks. To our relief we Lake my pack broke with a mile comparable to last year's "Of
Colorado Rockies.
Englishman who was traveling across the country.
Thursday, August 12 - This was our last day of hiking and it also happened to be one of the rougher sections of the trail we
encountered during the trip. We left one by one as soon as we had packed up our gear. Bill Loftin
got an early start and wasn 't seen
finally reached higher and more level ground. Here the trail was marked by many stone pylons.
Mice and Men". T he group been rehearsing into the hours on the half-completed
Lake
Tuesday, August 1 0 - We got
off to an early start and
backtracked the steep seven miles
back to Grand Lake in just two hours.
leaving
morrung.
Alter
eating
lunch at
Grand
the trails in snowstorms.
The Continental Divide was finally reached and we found Bill
patiently waiting for us there. Now all we had to do was hike
Park. During the hike we had
visions of the van sitting on cinderblocks in the parking lot, or, even worse, having had it disappear while we were gone.
In Estes Park we ate lunch and made arrangements for dinner at the Wilson's house that night. We found a campground to
spend the night and cleaned both
our gear and ourselves. Before
going to the Wilsons' for supper
we filled the van with multiple cases of liquid tastes of the West
to take back home. That night we had a wonderful meal and the whole group ate until we could not eat anymore. Then we learned all about the big
Thompson River Flood and also we were told that it had snowed while we were in the park and
temperatures had dropped to twenty-nine degrees.
Friday, Saturday, August 13- 1 4 - We bade farewell to Long's Peak and the rest of the Rockies'
front range. From Estes Park we
left for Boulder as early as we could. In Boulder we ordered some equipment for 'V.E.S. 's Outward Bound program. From Boulder wedrovealJ day until we reached Columbia, Missouri. It was about I:00 A.M. when we
arrived. We had to wake up the owner of the campground there and we ended up spending the night for free. The next day we woke up abo ut 6:00 A.:\1. and
drove to L ynchburg. We arrived
in the V.E.S. parking lot about
1:30 A.\1. but it was still nice to be back "home."
powerful, polished ,.fn Hopkins has selected Arthur
Miller's " Death of a Salesman" for this year's play. The written in 1949, is ce[tten
around the tribulations, mental decline, and eventual demise of
the salesman, Willy Loman,and l- - - of the anguish his family suffers.
Cast in major roles are Michael Blakey as Willy Loman, Juha Owen as his wife Linda, Bill
Sanford (who played a .
role in last year's play) as thetr'-::---
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picture and packed up the van
The pylons' purpose is to mark before heading down to Estes giving promise of
Verna in the
to go, but nothing could stop us.
At Bear Lake we took a group
Pettyjohn corrected my ways in back East a day earlier than the nick of time.
The V.E.S. Drama Club, under the guidance of Mr. · Hopkins, is preparing for what
planned. So it was decided that we would hike the next day. Mr. Pettyjohn took off on a small
We soon broke out of the
timberline as the trail
Gathright. He is shown here relaxing in accompanied by a series of done. Before we reached Bear excellent dramatic production,
to the ranger station. We did this
explorer and beloved author T. M. hikewhiletherestofusrelaxed steeply. The trail was asanyV.E.S.studentmighthave should prove to be another
Pictured here is the world famous
four miles down
to our
rose
The End
son Biff, and Mike Sankovich as their other son, Happy. Also 1n the cast are Carl Danbury, John
Schlichting, Ann Dill,and Bruce
Thomasson. T h e p i a y,
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OffiCE
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presente
acts, will be performed 1n1.....
William King Field House 0~ Thursday and Friday, May 261 and 27th, and on Friday..June
3rd. There will be no charged.
Episcopal School The Meteor staff extend a
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