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SR. WILLIAM BENJAMIN GATES A.B., A.M. President Randolph-Macon College, A.B., A.M. Gradua te work, University of V Irginia
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We Salute We, the Student Body, salute our President upon the completion of his 56th year of service in the field of Secondary Education. . .. as a classroom teacher, a public school administrator, and a junior college president. Born at Roseland, in Nelson County, Virginia, August 23, 1877, the son of a Methodist minister, he was educated at Randolph-Macon Academy, Bedford; at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland; and at the University of Virginia. In the fall of 1900 he began his career in education as a teacher at Ashland High School, later serving at Millersburg Military Academy in Kentucky, and as principal at Suffolk and Martinsville, Virginia, high schools. He was appointed division superintendent of Henry County public schools in 1915 where he quickly won recognition as an outstanding school administrator. In 1924 he became vice president of Blackstone College and two years later assumed duties as its president, serving with success until June, 1936, when he came to Waynesboro as president of Fairfax Hall. In Waynesboro he has worked for the community in many capacities—in business, in civic affairs, and as a loyal and devoted layman in the Methodist church. With the realization that we, as students, are very young in heart and experience; and with the knowledge that in age there is peace, and love, and a deeper, calmer faith for us to seek, we express our appreciation to Mr. Gates for his example to us and for his contribution to the education of succeeding classes of Fairfax Hall girls—by his instruction in the classroom, his sports- manship, his quiet humor, his unfailing good nature and geniality, his spiritual leadership, and his continuing interest in young people. THE STUDENT Bopy
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