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Shenandoah Area Council’s Statuette and Silver Beaver Awards and the Shenrapawa District Award of Merit. He is a member of the Shenshawpotoo Lodge of the Order of the Arrow.
Outgoing School Board Chairman Beverly Massie said she has known Mr. and Mrs. Nichols since before het, marriage. Of his School Board service, she said, “You could always depend on Paul for looking at both sides of any question. He was always very fair. He has always had the children of Rappahannock at heart....His whole family has done so much for the community.”
Mr. Nichols was a charter member of the Rappahannock Lions Club. He has done his share of making and selling apple butter, working on the auction and working with the sight and hearing van. “We kid one another all the time,” member Robert Anderson said of their joint activities.
Mr. Anderson said Mr. Nichols has been instrumental in steering Lions funds into improvements for the public schools such as the curtain in the high school auditorium and the scoreboards in the gym. More recently he helped see that the Lions contributed for the lumber Jim Clark needed for his Eagle project of organizing the construction of bleachers for soccer fans at the high school.
In keeping with his interest in children, for the past five years Mr. Nichols has taught rocketry at 4-H Day Camp. Helen Smith says he is very patient with the young children at camp and a “good teacher. He’s really concerned about the welfare and future of the children,” she said.
Lynn Baines, a former teacher in Rappahannock County whose son Lee is another of Troop 36’s Eagle Scouts, said, “He’s one in a million.”
She said she and her husband Rufus value their friendship with the
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