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PAUL McFARLANE
Rappahannock News staff writer
Headmaster William Lynn is considering cancelling all athletic events between his Wakefield School and Rappahannock County High School beginning in 1986 as a result of a rash of vandalism that began with the theft of the school’s sign and escalated to a rumored threat to commit arson.
The advice of the trustees to the 13-year-old private school located near Huntly was to immediately discontinue competing athletically with the larger, county-rival public school.
Lynn considered breaking immediate ties with the public school, but on Tuesday said he decided to fulfill the schedules of the current school year. He added that a decision to schedule the public school for 1986-87 school year would be made at a later date.
Lynn said he suspects the acts of theft and vandalism are the result of school rivalry, fueled by the Wakefield School Homecoming on Oct. 5 when the public school was beaten by the private school in a traditional soccer match.
Lynn said he “suspected the theft of the sign was related” to the pre-soccer match furor which was fueled by what he called a “Beat Wakefield Dance.”
He said it was reported that the walls of the public school were “covered with ‘Beat Wakefield’ posters.”
Rappahannock County High School Principal Robert
Sppell said preparation for the Wakefield Homecoming
“nothing out of the ordinary” and that he “would
e a hard time dealing with that statement” that the
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