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hope there’s someone at the school who will take the torch and continue to work to have salaries improved,” said high school teacher Don Bomberger, who resigned last month, along with his wife Judy, after 13 years in the Rappahannock school system.
“We’re leaving because we feel we weren’t financially supported for the wrork we were doing in the schools,” explained Mr. Bomberger, adding that he had decided two years ago he couldn’t wait any longer for that support.
An activist in the Rappahannock County Education Association who worked ceaselessly to upgrade school facilities, programs and pay scales, Mr. Bomberger taught advanced mathematics and art, directed two high school plays every year and introduced computers and computer classes at RCHS.
Judy Bomberger taught music at both schools, directed the Rappahannock High School Chorus and various musical programs at the elementary school and worked with her husband on the high school’s spring musical.
Selected by The Rappahannock News as its Citizens of the Year in 1983, the Bombergers gave as generously of their time and talents to the community at large, in the Rappahannock Players, the Rappahannock Singers and the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community.
“I don’t like to think I’m giving up,” said Mr. Bomberger in an interview Tuesday. “It’s my family I’m looking out for,” he'explained, adding that he wanted his wife to be able to take off work a few years to raise a family. “That was financially impossible in Rappahannock County
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