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By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS
Rappahannock Ncm Staff Writer
Wakefield School teacher Ron McRaw will be giving more than a hoot about The Hoot when classes resume next month.
“Wakefield has outstanding students fully capable of producing an award-winning newspaper,” he said. McRae—an author and former contributor to Jack Anderson’s nationally syndicated column—will serve as faculty sponsor for The Hoot and have final say over the newspaper’s content.
McRae has promised students a newspaper professionally written and printed. The latter made possible by the father of sixth grader Ryan Vigurie—conservative fundraiser and columnist Richard Vigurie.
The Hoot isn’t the only aspect of life at Wakefield slated for improvement this school year. Facilities for the school’s athletic, library, typing and computer programs should improve the floor space for them increase as a new multi-purpose building now under construction will be completed by January.
School headmaster Bill Lynn said the new building would double the amount of floor space now enjoyed by Wakefield. He added that floor space to be emptied by the transfer of facilities to the new building would be converted to classrooms.
According to a newsletter distributed to students and alumni, classes in physics, computer science and typing will be held in the new building when school reopens September 10.
“But some finishing touches, including a stage in the gymnasium, may take until January 1, 1985,” the newsletter reported.
Improvement is also slated for many of Wakefield’s already rigorous academic programs. Lynn said students in grades 8-12 will now have to take a full school year of typing instruction. An additional 10 computers were recently purchased, giving the school a total of 16 computers, he added.
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