A ( oat h Moves I p: To know Phil Boepple is to like him. It is with pleasure that we note the Amelia county school board -, decision to promote-within tlr-ranks which elevated the Amelia coach of all sports to tlie place vacated by Principal O. A "Dick' Norton, who becomes county superintendent July 1. The 31-year-old Boepple has demonstrated a genuine interest in youth and has coached creditably under difficult circumstances. We've watched Phil work with-ins boys in a thimble gym made out of half an auditorium with the st ats removed and make-shift baskets stuck in the corners. When the Orioles took the big gym floors of opponents. Boepple never made excuses. Then while Ire was pitching in with oilier residents to make the new memorial gymnasium and recreation center possible at Amelia. Dick Norton and Phil Boepple give Amelia a fine one-two punch on in-i.aii young p opic W< 1! wager it will continue with strengthened . ffir n<-;, now that each of these educators has moved up a peg. A Superintendent Called ‘Butch’: Another sports emhisiast joins the superintendent ranks with. k : 27 vi ai s in education as Nottoway county superintendent, following the Amelia-Nottoway Division split-up. Blanton. 55. a native of Cumberland and graduate of Hampden Sydiiey and w.ilium and Mary stared off as teacher-coach and has never lost int-.u st in athletics. He has kept up after dropping coach mg for full-time principal duti-.s by officiating in several sports. 1: eqtt'-nt !v hardline: Farmvill*' Kish games here and there. H<- has b-- en principal at Victoria High, where all of his teaching vi r, have been spent since 1943 "Butch" Blanton was u football .standout at Hampden-Sydney back in the days when Virginia had no Bis is Lid - school distinctions in ports and the Tigers held their own very well.

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