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and Judy,” said Roger Flinchum. “They’re so generous with their time. Don did a lot of traveling back and forth between Eastern Mennonite and Rappahannock to borrow equipment for plays. He went out on a limb many times to get things we needed. And then he went back and forth making deals to buy the equipment after he’d raised the money through the drama productions. 1 doubt if any other school our size has the lighting system and other theatrical equipment of the high quality that he’s collected.
“I can’t think of a good cliche that doesn’t apply to them,” Flinchum continued. “They’re contortionists. They keep their shoulders to the wheel, their eyes on the ball, their noses to the grindstone — all at the same time. I don’t see how they do it all.”
Roger Flinchum expressed the same concern that many of those who were interviewed voiced: that someday Rappahannock and its young people may lose the resources that Don and Judy bring to the county. “Whenever I think of them leaving, I remember what Thomas Jefferson said when he arrived in Paris. Someone asked him if he was replacing Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson said no one could replace Franklin. It’s the same with the Bombergers. They cannot be replaced. Someday, someone else may do their jobs but they’ll never do them to the same degree or with the same dedication and spirit of giving. They’ll never do them as well.”
For that reason, for what they’ve given the young people of Rappahannock County, Judy and Don Bomberger are the Rappahannock News’ Citizens of the Year for 1983.
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