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In the 15 years since the school opened its doors in a modest, frame building, its name has spread far beyond Rappahannock County. Wakefield students routinely place near the top in state and national examinations, and its graduates go on to studies in the nation’s finest colleges and universities.
Dr. Lynn’s philosophy of education, that students should be fluent not only in English and mathematics but firmly grounded in their cultural heritage, continues to be the cornerstone of Wakefield’s curriculum. “His effort and his desire,” Mrs. Anderson said, “was to provide an education which would help them in life. For the most part it has worked out.”
And although his duties as an administrator increased as the school grew, Dr. Lynn refused to give up his place in the classroom — teaching history, English and British literature to Wakefield’s students. And, his students recognized that was where he really felt at home. They recounted memories of a mesmerizing storyteller who was equally at home teaching ancient Roman history, the Middle Ages or modern European history.
But through word of mouth from older students, his charges looked forward especially to the weekend field trips each fall to the area’s Civil War battlefields. They would spend the day walking the fields and scrambling up hills and across fences, listening as Dr. Lynn recounted the battles which had played across the countryside.
Although he was a rabid Confederate when he played on Rose Hill, as an adult Dr. Lynn became an equally committed Unionist. He said that he “recognized that only a united nation could confront modern problems and provide the leadership so desperately needed in an uncertain world.”
Mrs. Anderson praised his total dedication to Wakefield. “He would work a full day, teaching and tending to the school’s affairs, drive the children home on the bus, then go home and eat with his family. After dinner, he would return to school and grade papers and prepare for the next day until the wee hours. He would sometimes sleep at Wakefield, waking up early to drive the school bus on the run to Gainesville the next morning.”
On the weekends, she added, people arriving early for an event at the school “would find Dr. Lynn busy polishing a windowpane which didn’t look quite right. And Pam was right beside him — and the children too. They were not above doing
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