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CONTRASTS
The school store was originally in
what is now the mail room. Then it was mo\'ed to the basement of \Vest Dormitory. A fler several years there it was moYcd to where it is IIOW.
THE ~IETEOR used to be a quar- terly magazine. Then it was changed to a newspaper. 1\ow, once again, the student publication has returned m·arly to its original state.
The front Iawn was once a corn- fil'lrl with a road in the middle. The 'chnol cleaned it up, planted grass and trees. The more romantically inclined hoys find these trees a joy
to sit under.
There was once a small frame
g) mnasium on the upper football fil'ld. Tt underwent the sad fate of Imming down.
The school hasn't always had the bell now used. There was a smaller bell now used by the Presbyterian Orphanage. The bell now used at V. E. S. belonged to a Lynchburg church.
The Johnson Athletic Field, or the lower field, as it is generally called, was originally a ravine. It was dragged and worked until a vlane was obtained.
At first there was just a little wooden bridg-e across the stream at the entrance to the school. Then a larger steel bridge took its place. Finally the present fine new bridge was built in 1930.
Fields once Ia\· where the Ranks and Gannaway-Dawson houses now stand.
The present positions of the busi- ness office and the study of the headmaster were once re,·ersed.
Before the Chapel was built, the scnices were held in the Rector's hallway.
When the school was built no pro- rision was made for a dining room or kitchen. The present dining room was intended for a laboratory and th~: kitchen was a storeroom.
There used to be three terms, one starting in December, another in ~larch and the third in June.
In the new gymnasium there used to be the same kind of railing around the balconv as there is on the stairs. One day while a game was being played, thirty-two boys who ,,·ere leaning on the rail rather
hca,·ily, suddenly felt it go out from under them. They fell to the floor
THE METEOR
eight feet below. Strangely enough none was hurt
The faculty room was used at first as a lumber storeroom.
There were no stairs in the first floor reception room going up to the headmaster's apartments. It cost
about eight hundred dollars to put th(•m in.
\\'hen the school was still new there were no folding tables in the bunks. Each boy brought his own card table and lamp. \Vhcn beds were dumped-and they w cr e clumped then as now-the table iu- variabl v went over too.
In tl1e middle o( what is now the upper football field, there was once a good-sized hill. A steam
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Non-militory. Superi o r preporotion for oil col- leges ot moderote cost.
Accredited
High stondord in schol- orship ond othletics .• Gymnosium . . . 140 ocres heolthfully ond beoutifully situoted in Virginio mounrom$.
FOR CATALOGUE WRITE TO
George L. Barton, Jr., ~LA, Ph.D., IIcadmaster
V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va.
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shovel \\ orkt•d there for two months to level it off.
RECORDS
SWING
about
Duke Ellington's latest hits, "Sen- timental Lady," and "A Slip of the Lip," recently released by Victor are. not up to the usual par set by the great Negro band leader. How- ever, in times when good platters
are rarer than hen's teeth, both are better t h a n average. Johnny !lodges docs the vocal on "Senti- mental Lady," with Ray Vance blasting out a trumpet solo on the
reverse.
DANCE
Glenn ~!iller is still putting 'em out. Back from RCA files come "Blue Rain," and "Caribbean Clip- per," a reissue. These ditties bring hack memories of the days when l\Iiller \\aS at his best. Ray Eberle handles the vocal on "Blue Rain," while the rcYerse is a typical :Miller jump tunc.
Tommy Dorsey has really come through. The great band leader, re- nowned for his sweet and sentimen- tal music has released a truly hot tune, "Boogie \V oogie." A t this writing the number has already at- tained great popularity on juke b o x e s throughout the nation. ''\Veary Blues" is on the reverse.
NOVEL TY
AI Dexter's "Pistol Packin' :\la- ma" is a weird hillbilly tune that has swept the nation from coast to coast. This is sure bet to please you-that is, if you like corn.
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