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In a formal ceremony featuring prayers, anthems, and a procession of flags and faculty, Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly opened the 1986-87 session, the 14th in the school’s history.
Headmaster William Lynn, in remarks made to the assembled student body, the largest in the school’s history (including 75 new students), called Wakefield a “regional school,” serving the entire area of rural Northern Virginia. Attending the assembly were students from ten counties of Northern Virginia as well as from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, several other states, and from six foreign countries.
According to Mr. Lynn, the average Wakefield student travels more than 50 miles a day to and from school. The school currently operates bus service to Charles Town, W.Va., Berryville, Winchester, Woodstock, Luray, Warrenton, Manassas, Orlean, Front Royal and Culpeper. A new bus line to the Middleburg-Upperville area has just been opened this year.
Introduced to the assembly were new students from Japan, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, Spain and England.
Also introduced at the opening ceremonies were five new faculty members:
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