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Named Citizen-of-the-Year
(The following is an editorial from Waynesboro News-Virginian. Lewis O. Barksdale of Waynesboro is a brother of a former county agent of Rappahannock, H. S. Barksdale, of Flint Hill.)
Selection of Lewis O. Barksdale as Waynesboro’s Citizen-of-the-Year for 1953 was both a wise and a popular choice. During his residence of 30 years in Waynesboro it is altogether doubtful if any man or woman has rendered more consistant, unselfish, and varied service to bis community.
He is a man of many facets. He has served his church, his community, his home and his business. It has become almost routine, when a civic campaign is to be launched, to count. Lewis Barksdale as one of the surefire, top-flight workers. We have never heard him even intimate that he was tired working for others ... or have we ever heard him refuse to accept a responsibility designed to improve his community.
He has served his church . . . the First Presbyterian . . . as deacon, elder, treasurer, and Sunday school superintendent He has served twice as president of the Waynesboro Retail Merchants Association and has long been active in its operations; he is a past director of the Waynesboro Chamber of Commerce and long active in its' operation; he is a past president of the Waynesboro Rotary club and long active in its operations. His name has' been linked, as an active participant, with virtually every civic campaign waged in the community for years.
At the present time he is President of the Southern Retail Furniture Association; Chairman of the Waynesboro Selective Service Board; and Chairman of the Waynesboro Board of Assessors.
It was primarily for his unswerving devotion to his duties as Chairman of the Board of Assessors that his choice as 1953 Citizen-of-the Year was made, according to report of the judges. He has plunged into this thankless task with selfless dedication to the cause of equalized assessment. Against opposition, limited to be true, but bitter, nevertheless, he has directed and inspired the Board to abide by the mandate of City Council.
It is peculiarly fitting that his work in this field should bring the recognition that it has. This present reassessment work may well write out the final answer to Waynesboro’s hope and desire to become a first -. —J
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