John Marshall High School - Marshallite Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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! 5151 aff- J , I we 4 Ks ea f P .W rd if . his-ef' I :Alf fnzg wfzyhxq 5-,Qui I lm 1 , 3 , Q 'V yn lx ai:- , ,fa .:H. graze ., I- . w -' ' -ew.. -ff-film, ' if -..,., Hia.. gi' ' -'F' -'f X Q f-has Rc-. lr! 'f ft L 5 fs- A ' - H, -.1 'Xb 1- A 'ff fw,.1.'M, 'I ' i - f' ,gf -7' .1 5,1 2' f A34-W-'J' ifg- '4L',J' I: A' ' if-XL-sw -MSX, Y W I I ' k.,-'fe - . George Marion Betty George Marion Betty, son of the late Rev. Louis B. Betty and Lucy Warl- dill Betty, was born in the city of Danville, Va., September 12, 1889. He was a graduate of J olni Marshall I-Iigh School -and Randolph-Macon College, and studied law at Wasliiiig- ton and Lee University. In 1912 he began the practice of law in Nor- I folk. Wheii our Government declared War O11 Germany in 1917, Mr. Betty offered his services to the Y. M. C. A., and was accepted by that organiza- tion as a Camp Secretary. He gave ' up the practice of law and was sent to Camp Gordon, Ga., Where he made an enviable record in the Y. M. C. A. service. After a year's Work he re- turned home, and entered the service as a private at Camp Lee. In e three Weeks' time he had been assigned to an Officers' Training School. While in training he contracted Spanish influenza, and after a few day 's illness, died September 24, 1918. His captain Wrote of him: We have never had anyone connected with the organization who won so completely the admiration and respect of everyone as George M. Betty did. A cleaner, nobler, finer gentleman I have never knownf ' E71 n