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Two letters in The Chronicle evaluate race relations at EHS in 1968. The headmaster, A.R. Hoxton, Jr. asks the student body to accept the 2 incoming African American boys with the same dignity they accept any new students.

A letter from V.T.S. published in Southern Churchman that described the sermons and lectures given by visiting clerics.

Years ago, ‘Juan Crow’ laws, patterned after American Jim Crow laws, enforced the racial discrimination practiced against Mexican Americans. Signs reading ‘No Mexicans Allowed’ dotted numerous restaurants and other public accommodations. (From the…

Photograph of Robert D. Cronly and Francis O. Roller sitting in a classroom.

A photograph of Robert D. Cronly Jr. on the track, who created this Scrapbook; after graduating from Episcopal, he attended University of Virginia and became a First Lieutenant of 81st Division, AEF during the war.

A photograph of Charles Lunsford, an Episcopal alumnus who later fought in the war; he became a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery and a member of the 104th Ammunition Train and Field Artillery Replacement.

A photograph of Leigh D. Williams, an Episcopal alumnus who later fought in the war; he was a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery assigned to Fort Sill.

A photograph of Francis O. Roller climbing down the fire escape, an Episcopal alumnus who later fought in the war; he became a Second Lieutenant of the 313th Machine Gun Battalion, 80th Division, AEF, before being wounded in action during the…

A photograph of Conway W. Cooke, an Episcopal alumnus who later fought in the war; he became a Captain in the 317th Infantry, 80th Division, before being promoted to the position of Major.

A photograph of Lucien D. Burnett, an Episcopal alumnus who later participated in the war; he served as a Private of the AEF at Base Hospital 41 during the war.