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By HELEN RUISI
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
John Timothy Viega, son of Margaret Doyle of Winchester, has earned the honor of giving the valedictorian speech at Wakefield School’s Twelfth Commencement Exercises this weekend.
Each course in Wakefield's Prep School is given a quality point rating, which reflects its level of difficulty. Quality points are then multiplied by the grade point average; the student with the highest combination average is the valedictorian.
Mr. Viega entered Wakefield School as a student in the sixth grade. His mother had decided that she wanted her son to attend the school at any cost even if it meant “wiping tables.” Fortunately, that wasn’t necessary as she was an experienced social science teacher; she accepted a job on the faculty and enrolled Mr. Viega. Mr. Viega in turn remembers being excited by the challenge presented by the Wakefield curriculum.
Mr. Viega describes Wakefield as a very conservative school, adding that he is not at all conservative and found it difficult at times growing up in such an environment. Signs of his non-conservatism are evident everywhere, especially in the 1991 edition of the school’s yearbook Virtus et Sapientia, of which he was the editor.
In designing the yearbook, Mr. Viega sought to combine philosophy, fantasy, and chaos within the book’s theme, “Perspectives.” Not unexpectedly, Mr. Viega and his staff present the students and the school through unconventional photos and articles. On his own “senior page” Mr. Viega’s quotes range from Nietzsche to Monty Python.
While at Wakefield Mr. Viega participated in many of the school’s extra-curricular activities. He worked on all three student publications; not surprising considering his love for words.
In addition to his contributions to the yearbook, he was responsible for the rebirth last year of the school newspaper The Hoot and numerous examples of his poetry and prose appear in the school’s literary magazine Talisman.
Other activities include compet
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