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Volume LX
VIRGINIA
EPISCOP AL
SCHOOL, L YNCHBURG,
VIRGINIA
PAID
PermitNo 659 Lynchburg, Va
Non-Prof1t Org
November 4, 1977
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to activities. The highlight of this
year's Homecoming will ~ the
headmaster at VES spanning a period from 1946 to 1974. Following the dedication will be
the chapel by the Reverend Thomas W. Bauer. The highlight of that service will be
BY RODDY MOORE November 5th and 6th are the
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dates set for the 1977
•ber Homecoming. This year's a buffet luncheon served in the baptism of the Culbertson's
Homecoming activities feature a
poster contest, various athletic
events, and other alumni
Banks-Gannaway from 12:30 pm until I:45.
After lunch , at 2:30, the varsity football team will meet Episcopal High School on Johnson field. This is possibly
baby boy; Randy.
Monday' morning in chapel
the winners for the poster contest will be announced. This contest will be judged by Art Department Director Mr. Wolf, Chaplain Bauer and Roddy Moore. Posters will be judged on creativity, humor and artistic ability. The prize is twenty dollars which is being given by
the student vestry and the a!umni office. Also to be announced in chapel Monday morning will be
the Most Valuable Player award given to the football player who has an exceptional performance in Saturday's varsity football game.
dedication of the new dormltory
as the "Wyatt House". The the last time the two teams will
dedication w i l l t a k e p l a c e o n Saturday morning.
Homecoming gets under way Saturday morning at 9:30 am with registration for alumni and
an open house at the Ainslie's home. at 10:45 the Glee Club, directed by Mr. Norman Blake, will present a concert in Langhorne Memorial Chapel. At II:30 the dedication of the
new dormitory will be held in front of the new structure. The building will be dedicated to Mr. William Larkin Wyatt who is a former teacher, coach, and
meet as Episcopal is planning to drop out of the Virginia Prep League. During half-time of the football game, the varsity and jayvee cross-country teams face Episcopal. Following the game, from 4:30 to 6:30, is a reception for alumni, parents, and friends of the school at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Jameson
VES Road. At 8:30 p.m. a dance for students will be held in the gym featuring the band "Skylighter" from Norfolk.
Mr. William Larkin Wyall
Bishop fans watch intently as VES dominates
Parents Weekend Successful
Reverend
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Bauer will
BY SHOWELL BLADES
There are numerous breaks in V.E.S othe routine school life at VES
this year, one of which was
Parent's Weekend. After weeks of ~:::::::J planning by the Alumni Office and many other people, this
Parent's Weekend was a great success. All day Friday parents crowded into Lynchburg to visit theu sons at VES. Friday afternoon the parents of the Deacon and J.V . Football team members watched their sons' games. At 7:30 p.m. the parents
Cooper showed the film continuously all morning. At 11:45 the Glee Club gave a fine performance which was complimented by many. After the Glee Club concert Mr. Ainslie and Mr. Paul Fulton, the
President of the Board, gave their commen ts to the parents. Following their remarks, a
splendid roast beef buffet was
served at 12:30.
One of the highlights of the
day was VES's victory at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. The Varsity Football team defeated St. Christopher's School10-2 for the first time since 1969. This set a fine pace for the remainder of the weekend. The crowd and team were "psyched up" and this was following classes. This went on evident in their cheering and until about ll :00. enthusiasm. Following the
met in the chapel and were formally introduced to VES, and afterwards the parents ran
through their sons' classes until 9:45. A reception was planned by Mr. Danz in the library
The Ladd estate in scenic Elon, Va.
The school looks forward to seeing alumni and friends and Sunday morning at 9:45, hopes for a successful
officiate at the service with a few prayers. Afterward Mr. Fulton will introduce a Board member, the Reverend George M. Bean, who will make the formal dedication.
Mr. Herbert I. Lewis, a member of the class of 1927 and an honorary trustee of VES will conduct the presentation of the plaque in honor of Mr. Wyatt.
Mr. Max Meador, who is responsible for the Latin phrase on the plaque, will make the principal address to Mr. Wyatt.
Mr. Wyatt is at present a consultant for Hargrave Military Academy. He has a wife, Kay Wyatt and two daughters, Susan and Caroline. The dedication of
the new dorm will be a way of expressing the school's appreciation for Mr. Wyatt's devotion and services to VES.
Morning Prayer will be held in
Homecoming 'Weekend. Estate Settled
BY RODNEY TAYLOR
VES has received a bequest beloved faculty member and
~aturdaymorning, while their football game, a reception was
Parents, if they desired, ' had William E. Sanford. Many Mrs. Ladd, attempted to show quick wit, characteristics which
beneficiary. The lawyers for her
children walked demerits the held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. greatniece, who had never met woman of keen insight and
conferences with their son's
parents commented on this that the eccentric lady had not For the parents that reception as being a great success been of sound mind when she
~achers.
1;•led to see the journalism class· and were thankful for the signed the will. Mrs. Ladd had
1 m the previous night, David Sanford's hospitality. been very peculiar in her manner
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of housekeeping, but the lawyers
BY TOM CLEMENT
On Homecoming, November
5th at 11:30 am the new dormitory, recently completed in September, will be dedicated to Mr. William Larkin Wyatt, a
former headmaster of VES from
valued at approximately $95,000 coach of the school began from the estate of the late Mr. and teaching at VES in 1946. Mr. Mrs. John Ladd. Mr. Ladd, a Wyatt had been at VES for
faculty member at VES for seventeen years, resided in the Lynchburg area after his retirement, paying frequent
visits to the school and to his former colleagues. Mrs.
Ladd, a native of France, also served on the faculty and would ofter return with her husband to visit the campus. Mrs. Ladd outlived her husband by seventeen years, and upon her death the entire Ladd estate was left to the school. The estate consisted primarl y of one
hundred acres of land situated at
the foot of the Blue Ridge
Mountains in scenic Elon,
Virginia. Shortly after the death
of Mrs. Ladd, the land was sold
and is now being incorporated
mto a massive subdivision •
proJect.
Soon after the death of Mrs.
Ladd the course of events took an unexpected turn when a distant relative of Mrs. Ladd went to court in an attempt to break the will on the grounds of Mrs. Ladd's incompetency and undue pressure on the part of the school. The testimony of a local resident, who witnessed the will, and a former VES headmaster,
Mr. Montgomery, apparently
discounted the allegation that
the schooi had pushed Mrs. Ladd
into signing the will which
named VES as the sole
twenty-eight years as Master and Acting Headmaster. On June 30th, 1974 after serving as headmaster for five years Mr. Wyatt resigned.
The ceremony for the Wyatt Dorm dedication will begin with an introduction from the master of ceremonies, Mr. Ainslie. Then Mr. Paul Fulton, President of the Board of Trustees, will make some personal remarks. The
Wyatt House T o Be Dedicated
1968 to 1974. Mr. Wyatt, a
for VES showed that eccentricity
does not necessarily prove
incompetency. Though a
certainly do not indicate incompetency. In the end the
jury ruled that the will was sound and legal, thereby
granting the entire estate to VES. The cost of the trial absorbed approximately $20,000 from the bequest leaving $75,000 to the school. Mr. Ainslie has expressed a desire to utilize these badly needed funds to further the
academic and physical environment of the VES
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commumty.
nonconformist to the norms of our society, Mrs. Ladd was a