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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
“All welfare programs are experiments in finding a way of easing people's problems.”
That's the conclusion Elizabeth Buntin has reached after 35 years as superintendent of Rappahannock County’s social services. This week, she announced her retirement effective September 1, ending a long career of helping those less fortunate attack their problems.
Betty Buntin came to Rappahannock with her husband when he was assigned here as a new Virginia State trooper in the summer of 1946. A teacher with several years experience, she worked for a few months in the county schools before swapping jobs with Gelia Miller who resigned as welfare director to go back to teaching. “I went from the frying pan into the fire!” Mrs. Buntin joked.
When she took over on February 1, 1947, welfare was
82.8%