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Dr. Lynn
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As a cadet at Randolph Macon Military Academy in Front Royal, Dr. Lynn rounded out his education, although history remained his passion. He graduated in 1959, capturing top honors as the class valedictorian.
After spending a year abroad in Lausanne, Switzerland, he returned to school at Davidson College in North Carolina, where he earned a degree in history. He then traveled abroad again, to Dublin, Ireland, where he graduated from Trinity College with a master’s degree in history. His doctorate was awarded by Oxford University in England for his research on John Balliol and the Reformation.
Dr. Lynn said that the untimely death of his father was the impetus for his entry into Harvard Law School, where he spent two years. His father, Dr. Lynn said, felt that history offered poor prospects for a living and urged his study in the law instead.
In the late 1960s, Cambridge was a hotbed of resistance against the Vietnam War, and Dr. Lynn said that although he found most of the activists had clear ideas about the war they were protesting, they had little historical perspective on which to base their feelings.
“I became worried that the best minds in the country were being so totally robbed of any knowledge of their civilization and culture,” Dr. Lynn said. So, after two years of law school, but still feeling drawn by history and education, he left Cambridge to attend Rosary College in Chicago. There he completed a teacher-training program modeled on the Montessori method of teaching kindergarten through sixth grade.
It was at Rosary Academy that he met Pamela Voeks, another teacher with similar ideas about education. Finding a mutual interest in history and education, the two soon married.
The Lynns next moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he taught for a year at the newly-opened Salem Academy.
After one year’s experience in teaching and administration however, Dr. Lynn decided that it was time to pursue his dream of founding a private school where the students would receive the education he had found lacking in public schools. Moving to Rappahannock County, he opened Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly in 1973.
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