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By joe McCullough
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Parents dream of sending their children to college. They see college as providing a path to a better life, and so many even begin saving money to pay for the dream before they have their first child.
For John Fudd of Flint Hill, the grandest of those dreams has come true. His youngest son Anthony is about to enter one of the most prestigious schools in America, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“MIT will never be the same,” said Helen LaCava, Anthony’s calculus teacher at Rappahannock County High School. “He doesn’t fit the mold of the typical MIT student. His interests are far too broad.”
Most of his teachers agree that Anthony Fudd, known school-wide for his great sense of humor, is not the type of person they’d picture attending MIT. But none of them are surprised at his acceptance.
And neither is Anthony. “I’ve always told myself that if you want to do something, it doesn’t matter where you come from. What counts is how you go about doing it. This may not be true, but it’s what I was thinking when I applied,” Anthony said.
When Anthony was a sophomore he saw a friend with an MIT sweatshirt, and the idea of attending the famed university was planted in his mind. But he became more interested in the school this past summer when they sent him a letter expressing an interest in having him apply. “They found out about rpe through the SAT Student Search,” Anthony explained.
With the support of his father, his brother Jeff, his sister Linda, and the faculty at RCHS -- especially Jon Heddleston ~ Anthony completed the application for the Massachusetts university. “It wasn’t too different from applications for other colleges,” Anthony said. The most exciting part was his interview with MIT graduate, Dr. John A. Stefano.
“It was a relaxed conversation and after we were through Dr. Stefano said he thought I had a good chance of being accepted,” reported the young scholar. *
Anthony added that hfe 'confidence was boosted when the school continued to send him piles of literature. Then on March 24th when he got home from school Anthony found a large manila envelope with big letters, M-I-T across the top.
“Nobody else was home so I ran into the house and sat at the dining room table. There were a whole bunch of papers inside the envelope. One was on a stiff piece of cardboard and on it said, ‘THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TAKES PRIDE IN ACCEPTING YOU TO THE CLASS OF 1993.’
“I read it over and over, then I yelled out loud. I paced back and forth in the living room with this thing in my hand. The only person I
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