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«y LOU HATTER
unwhannock News Staff Writer
■ * °Vg*1 most People will assocwte the names Pat Foster and Lanrulle Harris with the Foster Harna House Bed and Breakfast, Camille also has a “blossoming” cut flower business which supplies commercial and residential customers both m the county and outside.
And Pat has taken the skills acquired during many years in the construction business and is applying them toward the restoration of homes and their furnishings. He is presently working on the restoration of part of one of the old homes in Georgetown.
Though it’s taken a few years, and several false starts, the couple is becoming comfortable with the niche of multiple small-businesses which they have carved. Camille explained that it was not a planned evolution, but one which just came about over time, and seemed more like a natural progression rather than a iSeries of planned moves.
Pat was born and raised in Flint Hill. His father, Randolph Foster, still farms in the county. Camille moved to the county in 1973, after receiving a teaching degree and experience teaching special education classes. She taught seventh grade for two years at Rappahannock County Elementary School, then taught another year at Wakefield School.
At that time, she explained, she and a number of other parents with young children on the verge of school age shared concerns about the quality of education their children would receive if they attended public school. “So, I decided to start my own school, offering children a progressive, alternative education in kindergarten through third grade.”
That decision became Sursum Corda, the Child Care and Learning Center, which was conceived as an innovative school offering a broad range of subject matter of interest to children, according to Ms. Harris. CCLC, which originally occupied a converted farmhouse in Tiger Valley, eventually outgrew its roots and moved into a much larger, customdesigned building on its present site outside Washington on Rt. 211.
Though Ms. Harris is no longer connected with CCLC, she said that the experience provided her with exposure to a variety of business tasks which she has found extremely helpful in the years since. “Running a school is one of the most complicated things you can do administratively, and after teaching all day, then I would do the books, the taxes, and ,t riie accounting.” It was another Revolvement - through running the school I found out about zoning, taxes, bookkeeping, lawyers...” At the time, Pat and Camille were renting Pat’s grandfather’s house, which was becoming too small for their growing family. Camille remembered that “we needed
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