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Behind a camera, behind a stethoscope, behind a firehose, behind the wheel in a drivers’ education course — it seems that most of what Rappahannock County’s Ann Spieker does is behind someone else, a silent force whose presence is noticed long after she has moved on.
Her formal titles are Chief of the Washington Volunteer Fire Department and Chief of the Rappahannock County Fire and Rescue Association.
A former teacher at Rappahannock County High School, she began a track team in 1972, and was responsible for the building of the track that is still exists at the school.
As Rappahannock County High School principal Roger Mello says, “She is just one of those people. Wherever good things are happening, you look for Ann.”
For all she has done behind the scenes to make the Rappahannock community a better place, the Rappahannock News salutes Spieker as its 2004 Citizen of the Year.
Although she no longer teaches at RCHS, Spieker remains involved with its athletics. She is the one who has taken the photos of school athletes, enlarged them to postersize and placed the display on the walls of the athletic department of the high school.
She is the coach responsible for 14 of the banners for wins in cross country and track district, regional and state competitions that hang in the gymnasium at RCHS. Started girls’ track team
Spieker began teaching physical education and driver’s education at the high school in 1971, just after graduation from Radford University.
In 1972 she began the girls’ track team at the school with only
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