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Young Taylor was also president of Central High School’s FFA club and vice-president of the FFA federation which encompasses 12 area high schools.
Ms. Saltonstall, in presenting the scholarship with Lord Fairfax’s president and the college’s education foundation chairman, remembered Ranee Spellman, who was shot from his bulldozer and killed in a right-of-way dispute four years ago.
She described him as “a man of contrasts, an enigma to this county,” someone who operated huge construction machinery with awesome skill yet was also ready to use draft horses and old fashioned farming equipment. “He preferred to work,” she said of her former farm manager at Points of View Farm. “I never saw a man who had so much fun at work, being outdoors with the animals, clearing the land, farming the land.” But he would leave a job for two or three weeks to give rabbits and birds time to rear their young and empty their nests, she said. “He was a fine marksman who hated to kill anything...even a snake.”
Ms. Saltonstall cited Mr. Spellman’s “enormous honesty,” his “passionate commitment to directness” and added that he loathed gossip and meaness. As she handed Phillip Taylor the scholarship plaque, Ms. Saltonstall concluded: “I’m commited to seeing the truth of Ranee s life known — not embellished or revised.”
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