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Nicholses which has included family camping on the outer banks of North Carolina during a severe windstorm. When a pole on the dining fly over the picnic table came loose, Mrs. Baines was outside in her nightgown trying to get the two pieces of a pole reconnected. Mr. Nichols, seeing that she was on the job, said he would go back to bed. “We’ve had a lot of good times camping,” she said.
“One New Years’ Eve we spent behind his house with a campfire and ice skating. He’s a very plain and simple kind of person with extremely deep values, and that is what he has spent a lifetime passing on to his children as well as his Scouts.”
Mr. Nichols exaggerated his age to get into the Navy, Mrs. Baines said. “He had to grow up in a hurry.” Following his years in the service he and Mrs. Nichols were college sweethearts at Lynchburg College. They came to Rappahannock County where Mrs. Nichols taught music at the many small schools in the county at that time, and Mr. Nichols got a job as a chemist with the state veterinary lab in Warrenton. Both are now retired.
Besides their three sons and several grandchildren, their family includes a daughter Leslie who recently graduated from Bowling Green University in Ohio with a master’s degree in music education.
She said he is ultimately responsible for many of the children in the county learning how to swim. He taught his children and many others to swim, using county pools and the waterfront facilities at Camp Rock Enon. His children in turn became swimming instructors and passed their skills on to others.
Every one contacted for this story commented on what a fine job the Nicholses had done in raising their own children. “He’s treated his Scouts like his own children,” Mrs. Baines said.
Mr. Nichols has spent a lifetime passing on a strong religious faith, abiding family values and a huge sense of fun to his own children, his Scouts and ultimately all of the county’s children. For these reasons, he is Rappahannock County’s Citizen of the Year for 1995.
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