Norfolk Academy - Horizons Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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n?.?4c1,,:,..Lvs7:Q,,,2 V. T, ,. .J , 1 i . Memoriam 1... This is a record of superb loyalty and accomplishment. lt is the of the place in the community for such a school as the Academy has obligation to develop its highest potentials. With fine intelligence and with educational conviction and business acumen, with cheerful spirit and relentlessly for these goals. His example moved other members of the Board the best kind of leadership. His generous personal contributions, always faith and determination. His warm and friendly spirit made all work easier This Board pays formal tribute to c Trustee, a Vlce-President, and o Norfolk Academy have been of an exceptionally high order and whose loss is measure. To a companion of many hours of conference and of hard effort, we, of this Board, seek also to express our sense of personal debt, our affection for our feeling for his memory, and our solemn pride in having shared in his good c of labor for a cause in which we all believed. Adopted June 16, i955 by The Trustees of the Norfolk Academy. We who are harvesting the fruit of Mr. Grandy's devoted labor feel that we can has been said by the Board. Yet, we do wish ta add our testimony-our affectionate by placing his picture here at the head of our classes. With humility and with gratitude footsteps into uncharted times, where we trust that faith and honor and industry will il as they did his. 11

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me., Q. MR. CYRUS WILEY GRANDY L i '-me . INET, lisa aa 1. 4. RESOLUTION The Board of Trustees of Norfolk Academy records with profound regret and sense of loss the death on May 21, 1955, at the age of 76, of its late President and its honored and admirable friend and leader, Cyrus Wiley Grandy. Mr. Grandy was a student at the Academy from 1888 to 1891 and forever afterward was a devoted alumnus. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1911, was elected Vice-President a few years later, and was elected President in 1927. He continued as President until 1950 and as a Trustee until his death. He was thus a member of this board for 44 years, its Vice-President for a brief period, and its President for 23 years. These years include notable chapters in the life of the Academy: its hnal period in its historic location on Bank Street, its removal to its present location, and its revival in 1946. They include periods of high achievement and other periods of discouragement and suspension of activities. Mr. Grandy saw them lived intimately with them all, and contributed immeasurably to the overcoming of dilticulties and to the continuity of this institution and its standing today. 10

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qs-........ GORDON MILLER Vice-President Rather than to rush into a sketch of this famous senior ourselves, we will first yield to a brief account given in the recently published memoirs of a one-time visitor to the Academy. The forenoon now being considerably progressed, l found myself in a schoolroom presided over by a singularly elongated gentleman given to instruction in ciphering. A pupil arriving tardily to the session arrested my attention directly. He was rather a sturdily built fellow, who wore his silvery locks after a curled fashion' and whose method of ambulation seemed Continued on page 99. 'W'-'pr ig-If 12 WlLLlAM SPICUZZA I Q r n President Bill came to the Academy as a Junior and one year found him as pres- dent of the student body and Monogram Club. If he stayed around another year, he'd likely take over as headmaster and dietician, so it's probably iust as well for all concerned that he will pursue his studies at V. M. l. beginning next fall. Who can forget the inspiring leadership Bill furnished to the Senior Class? Remember his history-making interview with Mr. Massey about the disappearance of Gina from the wall of a Sixth Form room? Seriously, Bill's the boy you went to see when you wanted something done. As president of the Student Council and of the Monogram Club, he furnished superb leadership, not only in initiating and backing student Continued an page 99. MENALCUS LANKFORD Secretary Mack is perhaps the most serious senior, working on the books tediously in study hall, and he has been turning in voluminous homework assign- ments in certain subiects since his initial appearance at this institution five years ago. However, Mack could be voted the senior most difficult to figure out because of his varying interests, They shift from Alec Guiness to the football fortunes of the Wahoos . Mack has a never-say-die spirit, as is shown by his three years on the J. V. basketball team. We feel however that Mack's athletic ability will be shifted to its proper perspective at college. Mack hopes to journey to ml: Charlottesville and the University next fall. Yet all is not serious with this boy, as he is often the culprit behind the strange disappearances of essential articles belonging ta Messrs. Reed and Miller. Also on Monday mornings when the past weekend is the chief i 12 topic of discussion among the seniors and Mack is confronted with, How Continued on page 99.