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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock N*w« Staff Writer
Dr. William Eugene Lynn Jr., headmaster and founder of Wakefield Country Day School, who transformed his personal dream into one of the most highlyacclaimed preparatory schools in the Commonwealth, died of Legionnaires’ disease Aug. 27 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. He was 46.
“I feel a tremendous loss,” said Father Albert Verbeke, Dr. Lynn’s pastor at St. Peter’s Catholic Mission in Washington, Va. “He was a tremendous asset to his church and his community. People looked up to him. He was a terrific guy to be with — always an inspiration.”
A native of Front Royal, he was the son of Clydetta E. Lynn and the late Dr. William Eugene Lynn Sr. The younger Dr. Lynn had made his home in Washington, Va. for many years.
It was in Rappahannock County that he chose to locate Wakefield Country Day School, which he founded in 1973. That school has grown from 30 students in the primary grades to more than 400 students from the United States and abroad, who range in age from pre-kindergarten through high school.
Father Albert remembered Dr. Lynn as “a humble man, although he was a great scholar in his field. But he was never pretentious or self-asserting. . .He was a man who used his brains and his heart, a man as solid as a rock.”
Dr. Lynn was always eager to share his knowledge, of history and of other fields of study, with his students, Father Albert said. “He was a man who loved truth, and who shared it. He patiently led his young people to the truth.”
Roberta Anderson, past president of the school’s parents’ association and former member of its board of trustees, said of Dr. Lynn, “I don’t know of anyone who worked as hard for academic excellence. He pushed each child to their limits in hopes that he could improve their ability. He has been the most dedicated educator I have ever met.
“I don’t know how we will fill the void. There’s no one person who can fill his shoes.” she said. “We just have to hope that what he started will continue. It won’t be easy, but if he were here, he would ask, ‘When has it ever been easy?’.’’
Mrs. Anderson told of the extended field trips he took his students on, to New York City, Baltimore and Philadelphia, as well as extended six-week summer programs in England where they studied British history and literature. “They were not play trips,” she said. “They were all educational — part of the learning
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