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At Sunday’s dedication of the addition to Rappahannock County High School, the theme was pride of accomplishment and optimism for the future of public education.
“This has been a long time in coming," said Supervisor Chairman Hubert Gilkey, the keynote speaker for the ceremonies, referring to the 15 year stop-and-go history of the RCHS capital outlay project. “I know some people thought it would never get here!”
The high school expansion, with its new science labs, library, classrooms, offices, gymnasium, cafeteria, and auditorium, is “the work of a whole community and a whole county." Mr. Gilkey said. “The feeling I got when 1 walked through it for the first time is the same feeling I get when I hear someone singing ‘America’ - pride to have been part of it all, ’ he said, adding that everyone in Rappahannock should share in that same pride.
To the students, he issued a challenge: use this opportunity for education in the fullest extent. “Be all that you can be . . . The future of this county, this state, and this nation lies in the hands of our young people. The key to all things is education.”
“This is the dedication of an idea that’s been in the minds of people for such a long time,” said Anthony Fudd, president of the RCHS Honor Society. The high school has always been “a place of many memories and growth and change” for the county’s young people, “but last year, it wasn’t only the students who went through changes. It was the school itself,” he told the 200 some teachers, former teachers and administrators, parents, and students 1 assembled in the new gymnasium. <
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