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couple has managed to save after years of thriftiness.
“I’d like to stay in Rappahannock but I don’t think we’ll be able to afford it,” said Titchenell, adding that he and Blondina have been looking at properties for several months.
As a second choice, the Titchenells are considering a move to a vacation development on the other side of Winchester. The area is close to a college—an important factor for someone as concerned with education as Titchenell. He plans, even at this stage in life, to continue studying. “I like the discipline of it,” he explained.
But there are colleges near enough to Rappahannock for Rev. Titchenell. He has given so much and still has so much more to give—it would be a shame to lose him now.
College Bound
After moving to Baltimore, Maryland, he got a job with Social Security. At the request of his pastor, Titchenell gave a talk to the church youth group. “Afterwards, he asked me if I’d ever thought about studying for the ministry,” Titchenell recalled. At 27, with only a sixth grade education, Titchenell protested that he’d be ip his 40’s before he could be ordained and besides, he already had a good job.
The pastor didn’t give up easily. He gave Titchenell an oral comprehensive exam on general knowledge and, impressed with the results, extracted a promise from the young man that he would go back to school. He told Titchenell that he knew of a college in Kentucky that would admit him on the pastor’s recommendation. “You can do college work,” Titchenell remembers his mentor insisting.
A few months later, Titchenell was enrolled in Georgetown College, on probation for the first semester until he proved his abilities with four “C’s” and a “B”. and after that, he never stopped.
Titchenell earned bachelor
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