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(known as has been described by nearly all "Holidays" in British schools) of the 1600 alumni of this ESU provide unparallele d op-
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THE METEOR
On Saturday night December the music hour of nine Doug
(I don't think new-wave really appealed to Mr. Z's taste). When
The Circle Jerks tune "Birds Fly" wa~ being cranked "Jerry"
Dawson started a slam session for some reason; but it looked like fun anyway. (By the way you might want to check out Doggie's
first article elsewhere in this issue.) But anyway, back to the
original subject all in all the '85 Christmas Dance was a big suc- cess and a lot of fun. I would per- sonally like to thank Mrs.
Hackett, Mr. McCormick, and the Seven Hills- VES activities
committees.
By Turner Moore Aesthesia is the school
literary magazine, published an- nually by students of VES and Seven Hills. It began as Ex Cathedha under the supervision of Jim Hopkins in the mid-60's.
Ellen Brown became advisor in· 1982 when she published the first issue in over ten years of dor- mancy. In 1983, when the magazine became a joint review with Seven Hills, the name was
changed to Aesthesia. Rosemary Douglas has been advisor for the
past three years.
For the first time in tis
history, Aesthesia will be a com- munity publication: open to faculty, staff, faculty spouses,
and all students. Anyone in- terested in either submitting work or joining the staff, please contact Rosemary Douglas, Albert Pollard, or Turner Moore.
Later in the year Aesthesia willstageacontestforb stwork submitled to the magazine. The categories are pros , poetry, black and whit photographs,
and drawings. Prizes will b an nounc data alter dat .
This yean production staff in clud 1 Ro mary Douglu,
Albert Pollard, Turner Moor , Chria K lly and Andrew Bond.
"Dudley" Grimm and hi~ gorgous date Paula arrived to dance the night away. When the classic tune "Twist and Shout"
began "Basil" Tydings led his
saw them at Chatham can ap-
preciate them even more no!) gatoring session. (Among those
Although the dance did get off to gaterers were E .E.M., S.U.F., a slow start at 8:00 (due to the and B.C.T.) Chris Goodhart fact that only two girls schools managed to survive the night
were in attendance) around 9 without his beloved M.R. who things started to pick up. Sounds was back at Chatham on restric- of U2, Modern English, R.E.M. tion. Ut's ok Raymond) Winn
and the Lift themselves echoed Maddrey who went to the dance
through the night air and at- without a date ended up dancing
tracted an impressive corwd of a little bit with Mrs. Zimmer. listeners and dancers alike. At
7, VES helditsannualChristmas dance for the 1985 school year. The music for the dance was pro- vided by the excellent new-wave band, TheLift.(Thoseofyouwho
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Since 1928 the English Speak- ing Union has offered selected American Secondary school stu-
separated by two four -wee vacation periods: at
To anyone who has left home and
stands
shivering before the stage, or even
to the child running homeward, that one smell is so bittersweet.
it's morose; melancholy.
Wood smoke perfume
issuing from a now covered chimney,
is caught by the red no
of a wonderer.
He is sudd nly struck,
with Christma memori ,
and childhood' innocenc .
A tear fr eze on hi check. Thoughts
ofawarmfir ,
snap of pine ne die , drift
in tribute to " ryth1n1 that once wa .
Rem mb r,r m mher. Wh n whit hlank t ro
ground, ev ry h art i aglow. t,
and in the spring (approximately dents, v. .o : 1tt>.,d inrependent mid-March to mid-April). The
;,t: ..har.~e t.. SJ•end a third and last term ends in July, year at school in Great Britain. school rules are in some ways Successful candidates are of- more informal and in others fered full scholarships including more strict than in American
room and board if at a boarding schooL It is an opportunity that
program as "the most portunities to see the British
scho')l~.
Isles and London at first hand, plicants who have been selected way places that tourists never
Day Bert is looking for a few good writers.
By Turner Moore
Cool breezes blow among th branches
of naked trees
Stirring gold leave .
Dewy lawn.
Autumn strips them,
memorable time" of their lives.
This year VES has five ap- with tim<' lo 1ravel toout-of-the-
to apply to ESU. They are Troy
Furr, Albert Pollard, Douglas graduate and Head Coun Grimm, Chris Goodhart and selected by the English Speak- Mark Puckett. Over twenty ind- ing Union spent time all over
pendent schools including VES, Europe including places like Woodberry Forest, Lawrence- Paris and the Greek Islands dur-
ville, Harvard, Episcopal High
and many other school• are Clark ('85) is i11 England with the allowed to present five ap- ESU.
phcanta each, but ESU only ar- An ESU "graduate" simply cepts approximately fifty 1tu· d 1cribe1 his experience: d nta each year. "I made a r evaluation of what I
Scholan are chosen primarily wanted to do with my life and on the basil ohcholastieachi ve how I waa going to do it. I r c- ment,extra urricularartivitiea, ived an entirely new way of
and p nona) character. Emo looking at Amerlran interna tiona! 1tabllity and rPadine• to tiona) political actlon1. Looking adopt to n w aituation1 ar at th US through th Europ an
1ntial. pre11wunllghtnng.In ~h .1el. rted 1tuden~1 fly to joyed myaelf thoroughly and J
8rttatn 1n a group In mid· havem morinofgoodtlm aand p mber. Jf hool b not yet fun that I will rh ri1h forever. I open d, th y w1ll the tn hav mad fri ndah1p1 that will tervala th guataofa8rttJthIatandmtpeopl thatJwill
1. T ~hool year in Britain n ver f11tl t ." term a
crew of good ol' boys in a big
schools.
V acations
see. In 1984, Dill Battle, a VES
ing his vacations. Currrently Bill
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