Norfolk Academy - Horizons Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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WORLD AND LOCAL LEADERS fx-I llll I 9.-.J It's just plain fun, said Arthur MacConochie, an English teacher and UVA graduate. One of the happy things is to teach a man and then to teach :1is son. Teaching at the Academy is a labor of ove. The faculty is as loyal as the students. Of the school's 72 staff members, 27 have more than a decade of tenure. They have remained despite a salary lower than public schools and double-digit inflation. l don't know if pay is really a factor, Arthur MacConochie said. It's a very satisfying job. You see people go through college and come back and make their mark in the community. It is the caliber and fidelity of the faculty that has made the school what it is, Tucker said. .ggol N4 my Teaching in the fine arts - music, painting, pottery - has increased markedly under Tucker in hopes of promoting greater creativity among the students. Students will also learn computer science for the first time this year, for school officials have finally surrendered to the reality of technology. 3

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If there is a bond which cements the 25-member board together, it is shared experience-in business, community endeavors, even college memories. Of the 25, ten are alumni and twelve have children attending the Academy. The board is a very prestigious group, Welton said. There's no getting around it. But we make it very clear that if you're on the board, you're going to work hard. But the board is not all work and no fun, for humorous stories abound. Take for example, the story of how girls first came to the school. It fell to Welton and two other trustees to convince C.F. Burroughs that coeducation was for the future. Frank Batten, Harry Price, and I went to him and told him about the girls, Welton recalled. He said, 'Don't want no girls.' We said, 'Mr. Burroughs, what if we put girls in one building and boys in another?' He said, 'Well, maybe, if you put a fence down the middIe. ' BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joshua P. Darden President W. MacKenzie Jenkins, Jr. Vice-President Mrs. Virgil F. Laws Vice-President John B. Syer Vice-President Thomas H. Willcox, Jr. Secretary John M. Ryan Ass't. Secretary Mrs. Theodore Adler Alex T. Mayo Frank Batten Mrs. Robert C. Nusbaum Mrs. James N. Bell, Jr. Hugh L. Patterson Mrs. Charles F. H.B. Price lll Peter Eustis Richard F. Welton Ill Henry Clay Hofheimer Robert M. Stanton Doyle E. Hull Craig L. Slingluff Robert A. Lawson, Jr. Wendall L. Winn W. Peyton May John O. Wynn Thomas V. Rueger

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