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DECEMBER 15,1979 Ainslie Cont.
THE METEOR
Crusader Discovery Day
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brought home to me agalD recently when I was watching 60 MiDute.son television. The story focused on a black lady in Chicago's inter-city who was run- ning a small private school in her
own home. H~r results had been tremendously positive under unusually adverse cir- cumstances. When asked by the interviewer how she bad been so successful with such limited facilities, she replied quietly, but firmly, "Buildings don't teach;
people do." How true, how true! Neither buildings, nor academic programs, nor dress
codes, nor dormitory hours, nor
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dements, nor gymnasmms, nor
any other edifice or system ac- tually, in the final analysis, teaches anything by itself. AU of the aforementioned items can assist in the learning and teaching process, but the primary ingredient in the educa- tional process is people. Notice, I
did not say that teachers teach students. In a good school both students and teachers teach - and conversely in a good school, it should be both teachers and students who are learning. I have never known an outstan- ding teacher who did not declare that he always learned more than he ever taught.
One of my old coaching friends ~ a very successful coach i f evaluated by the won-lost col-
umn - used to say that his team
made-him a good coach. He was . trying to suggest two things. The talented athletes on his
teams had compiled some
outstanding records which made
him look as if he were a great
coach. And that the strong com-
petitive spirit generated by his
athletes required that he work
even harder to be a more profi- cient coach each season. The
same is true throughout the educational process. Good
students made good teachers - and good teacher make good students.
Perhaps as we near the Christmas season, an old
thought worth remembering is that the greatest gift which we
can give is ourselves. Each of us possesses certain special talents.
Sharing these talents with each
other enriches the experience of
the whole community. Nowhere
could this sharing of talents be
more beneficial and more effec-
tive than in a small community such as VES.
I believe that VES's greatest
~t~ength and greatest resource
IS 1ts people. By sharing our col-
lective talents with each other,
we shall continue to be a great school.
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On November 5, the seventh
and eighth grades took a field
trip to Mediera School, near horizontal parallel cables. One Washington, participating in a put one's feet on the inside,
by T. Moore .
Once again this year Coach Susan Rash is sponsoring a
project called "A day of quest." This project was designed to help the groups learn the values of teamwork, cooperation and
trust.
When the bus arrived, the sisted of a cable on which one
VES students were divided into crawled on one's ·stomach, with
smaller groups of seven. Each one leg down to balance the group received a guide who other.
~inter Art Sports teams. This highly competitive Episcopal
year the young artists will be High School team. Steve working on several different Templeton's adept fingers will
aspects in the creative world. lead the Bishops throughout the With Mrs. Rash's excellent season. The all-prep contender
leadership the Winter Art team stated, "EHS will probably be is destined for a successful our stiffest competition of the
season. Steve Templeton, a season, but if we can get mental- Lynchburg journeyman, will be ly ready for the opener we'll
would conduct them to and then
demonstrate the certain events
the group would participate in.
Some of the events the groups determine which was the' worked on were provided with hardest.
fol•io will consist of cartoons, still-lifes, portraits, etc. He has just completed a portrait of.a yacht on an open sea. Jack Gwinn, also a Lynchburg native, Brian Matheson, of Rocky Mount, and Tommy Moore, of Washington, D.C., are all compil- ing portfolio's in print making. This group will work on silk screens,linolium blocks, etching,
scenarios, such a~ escaping from .
~lcatraz or bemg chased by · form,yourguidewouldstrapyou gtant ants. up to the pulley, then you take a
There was one event that deep breath and jump. The flying almost all students liked even , se_nsation tended to be very though it was the most frighten- short, but you only got to do it ing. It was called the zip-wire. It once. At the end of the cable two consisted of a platform on which other members of your group
you start off. This was about would ' catch and unhook you twenty five feet off the ground from the Pflley. A rope was and could be reached by using given to one of the spotters to any one of three approaches. The take the pulley back and the cy- first one was called the cable cle would start over again.
wire, it was two cables, one up- . At the project they.had no per, and one lower about three events that were too hard for so- and a half feet apart. To use this meone and all they asked was to approach one held onto the upper at least try the event. Almost
cables as you walked along the everyone finished the events and lower one out to the platform. were pleased by the day.
You were held to the upper cable
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to keep from falling off. The se- cond approach, called the
Christmas cards.
The team opens its season in a
nonconference contest with a
leopard crawl consisted of two
knees on the outside, and elbows on the outside. This surprisingly made a person look like a leopard. The third approach, call-
ed the commando crawl, con-
None of these approaches were too hard for anyone, and it depended on the participant to
good, the Bishops will be tough to hang with. Coach Rash told the Meteor, "Though we lack ex· perience we are at no loss in talent. With Steve leading Jack, Brian, and Tommy, we will cer- tainly be a top contender for the title." The Meteor would like to wish Mrs. Rash and her artists the best of luck this season and
anticipates seeing much of their work.
A fter one reached the plat·
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