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LIX. No.8 VIRGINIA EPISCOP AL SCHOOL. L YNCHBURG,
Five Teachers Leave V.E.S.
VIRGI.NIA
June 2, 1977
Introduction to Article on Departing Teachers
Editors note: At the end of this five teachers will be leaving
V.E.S. for other pursuits. Mr. Billman only recently
learned of his acceptance into the administration graduate at Ohio University,
he will attend next year. other four - Mr . Bobby Mr. Bill Anlyan, Mr. Turnbull and Mr. joe -discussed with The
their future plans and about the school.
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Mr. Bobby Lynch, math- teacher for 12 years and head basketball coach for 10 years, announced his resignation
during spring vacation.
. Lynch had been contemplat-
mg leaving since the '75-'76 school session, but he did not make up his mind until last March. Lynch decided to leave due. to numerous reasons, the mam one being that his association with the school has been too time consuming. He ~id that once he gets some free
Ume, something else pertaining
to school needs to be done. He
also wants to spend more time
~tth his family and have more Ume for himseIf.
Another reason for leaving is that he has two friends who coach public school teams and do a lot less work than he does but still have a better salary. He satd that he has not been getting nearly enough pay, especially
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Extravanganza" and the "Grub Steak Sweep Stakes". The final month of his stay here has been
marred by an unfortunate illness which rendered him temporarily incapacitated. Prior to his illness, he had planned a day of student-faculty activities culminating in a Bluegrass concert and picnic. Mr. Anlyan was also an active coach, instructing the Freshman
Football and Basketball teams
and the J.V. Lacrosse team this
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spnng.
Mr. Anlyan says that he hopes
he will be regarded as a "strong and loyal friend of V.E.S." and adds that he will come back from
time to time to make sure that things are on an even keel.
Mr. Anlyan and his wife, Elaine, are expecting a child in July, and Mr. Anlyan looks forward to Baby Anlyan being a member of V.E.S. Class of '95.
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MR. MURCHISON BY fRANK ELDER
Mr. Joseph S. Murchison is leaving V.E.S. at the end of this session after a two-year stay. While here he taught English, Spanish, and Journalism and coached tennis and basketball.
Mr. Murchison said that he did not want a job immediately after school this summer. He is planning a vacation in Europe during .the summer and will return to Washington, D.C. where he will look for employment, preferably in
publications or the arts.
He voiced a couple of opinions about the school, saying that he is disappointed with a number of students who do not commit themselves seriously athletically
or academically. On the positive side, however, Mr. Murchison respects the standards of the school. "The Honor Code," he says, "even with its imperfect-
ions, is a valuable aspect of the school."
MR. LYNCH BY BILL WALLACE
alter teaching
math and
t e a c h i n g
When asked
leaving, Mr. Murchison replied: "I have taught public school in North Carolina for one year and at V.E.S.·for two years, and I just haven't felt comfortable teaching and have never gotten into the routine."
c~ching a n d drivers' education.
applied
of now he will not be teaching or
co h.
hac mg next year. He said that
Mr. . Lynch has
many JObs and it appears that as
insurance ha~ncoac?ing basketball, Lynch
omo lie or salesman.
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MR. ANLYAN BY jOHN WELLS
After a stay of one school year, Mr. Bill Anlyan is leaving V.E.S. to resume law school at Duke
University. While here he taught Art and History.
Mr. Anlyan re-vitalized the Art Department and brought to the school an imaginative approach. He pooled the talents of faculty and students and the results were
T o
li co'!~ptledan overall record of
th1 wms and 76 losses, 25 of ose losses coming in the last two years. From '71-'75 his teams
rapn up a 58-18 record including
arLe '
ep ague championship.
different and
for
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MR. TURNBULL BY ANDY OWENS
Mr. Malcolm Turnbull, the chaplain at V.E.S. this year, is leaving after his brief stay of one
year to become the Vicar at St. Bartholemew in Richmond, Va. His main reason for leaving V.E.S. is that he feels that he needs to have one-to-one relationships with people to perfmm his function as an Episcopal priest and that he cannot obtain that at V.E.S.. Mr. Turnbull also feels that there is
too much pressure at V.E.S., especially on the students. He feels the students have virtually no time on their own because they are always required to be somewhere at all hours of the
day.
Despite all this, Mr. Turnbull
says he likes the people at V.E.S. more than any other aspect of the school and that he has really enjoyed being associated with
them this year. He added that he will miss them a great deal next
year.
Mrs. Geraldine Wharry, regent of the Cum Laude Society, puosenu a certificate of induction to Mr. Blake as Mr. Donnelly, another faculty inductee, looks on.
Cum Laude Inducts
entertaining.
his credit are the faculty presentation of "The Gong Show,'' the ''Christmas
why he was
BY BRUCE THOMASSON
place on Parents' Day in Langhorne Memorial Chapel. The purpose of Cum Laude, which is the secondary school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, is
to recognize the academic excellence of upperclassmen in schools with strong academic
programs.
The students who were
inducted into the society were seniors Jack Barker, Clark Daugherty, Jack Evans, Paul Feinman, and Jim Hunter, and juniors Trent Dickerson and Parks Snead. Three members of our current faculty were
inducted. They were Dr. Norman Blake, Mr. Victor J. Kehrer, and Mr. Harold I.
Donnelly. Dr. George L. Barton, Jr., who served as headmaster of V.E.S. from 1943 to 1957, also became a charter member. Several distinguished alumni were inducted: Dr. James Hunter, Jr. (father of student inductee Jim), Dr. Stuart Harris, Dr. Bates Gilliam, Dr. Lawrence London, Dr. Milton Bourne, and
the Honorable Hardy Dillard. These particular alumni were chosen for their academic excellence and because most of them were Phi Beta Kappa in college. Gilliam was once a teacher at V.E.S.; he is now a
history professor at V.M.I. London overcame the handicap of blindness to become the
curator of the Rare Book Room at the University of North Carolina; he is now retired.
Bourne is presently the head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Rice University. Dillard, in a distinguished Jaw career, has served as Dean of the Law School at the University of Virginia and as a justice of the World Court at The Hague.
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inducted into the Cum Laude Society, a national academic honor society for secondary
schools. Mrs. Geraldine Wharry, academic dean of the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D. C. and a regent of Cum Laude for this section of
May 4,
1977, V .E.S. was
the country,
charter in a ceremony that took
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Watts Not To Teach
BY PRESTON BELCHER
Mr. R. C. (Bobby) Watts, currently a Core II History teacher, coach, dorm master and Director of Admissions, will
return next fall as Director of Admissions. He will also continue to assist Mr. Meador in
classroom duties. Mr. Watts commented: "All you juniors can give that sigh of relief now."
Next year Mr. Watts will devote full time to Admissions work in order to fill the roster of
boarding and day students with, in his words "scholar athletes." Past results indicate that such a goal is a distinct possibility.
turning out
in J.V. Football, but will not have any
presented the
victories