Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 4 · column 6 of 9 · from the scan, no model involved
age, the reflexes aren’t so good,” he smiled. Williams said he talked to his professor and admitted that he just might be too old for college after all. “The instructor pooh-poohed it. He treated me just like one of the kids instead of like an old man and I did all right." John Williams did more than just all right, judging from the framed certificates and diplomas that hang in his Tiger Valley home. In 1978, he earned his certificate in real estate sales and followed that up the next term with certification in supervision and brokerage. Armed with the expertise he gained at Lord Fairfax. Williams attacked the color barrier in real estate, the county’s biggest business. An associate with Peggy Clark's Rappahannock Realty in Flint Hill, John Williams is the first black agent licensed in the county.
Although he’d achieved his goal to be ‘‘more knowledgeable about real estate and land,” Williams still wasn’t through. "I took some mechanical courses—I was having trouble with my chainsaw and I wanted to learn how to fix it.” This year, he completed the requirements for another course of study and earned his diploma in general business.
An Expert Himself
A tour of the Williams’ back yard is enough to convince the beginning gardener that John Williams knows more than enough to teach a course or two himself. “I’m just an old country boy," Williams modestly responded when complimented on his green thumb.
With the greenhouse he built as centerpiece, the family vegetable plot extends in row after row out to every side, all neat and weed-free with enough produce to stock two or three farmers markets. Everything is grown from seed, the extra plants parceled out tp neighbors,
89.3%