St Helena Extension School - Saint Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

 - Class of 1948

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ScU«tt BY Marvin W. Schlegel, Chairman Department of History and Government Saint Helena marked a milestone in the progress of American education. It demonstrated the soundness of the new concept, first formulated in the G . I. Bill of Rights, that every American should have the opportunity for a college education — that a college education should be, not the privilege of the aristocratic few, but the right of the democratic many. It proved that it was possible to teach not only the brilliant, but also the average student. In the years to come, when more and more of the average students would enter college, teachers would profit by studying the lessons of Saint Helena and learning that inspired instruction can be successful where pedantic dullness will fail. Saint Helena grew out of a campaign pledge by Governor William Tuck. The Governor had promised that every Virginia veteran would have the opportunity to go to college, and by the spring of 1946 it became obvious that the existing ' irginia institutions could not fulfill this pledge. As school after school closed its entrance lists, President John E. Pomfret and Bursar Charles J. Duke of the College of William and Mary rose to meet the emergency. In the Saint Helena corner of the Norfolk Navy Yard the Navy during the war had erected ten temporary buildings, including five barracks and a mess hall, as a berthing station. No longer needed by the Navy, these structures could be made available for use. Norfolk, moreover, was a good site for the location of Virginia’s veterans’ college because it was in the heart of a heavily populated area and because the departure of Navy personnel had made the housing shortage less serious there than elsewhere in the state. After a conference with Governor Tuck, President Pomfret and Bursar Duke arranged to take over the present site. The problem of setting up the college was solved by the return of an old friend of President Pomfret’s to the United States. Herbert W. K. Kitzroy had been assistant dean at Princeton until the war called him away in 1942 for four years of military service. In the Army he had found an opportunity to continue his career as an educator, having been head of the liberal arts division of the American University at Shrivenham. Now in the summer of 1946 he came home with the silver oak leaves of a lieutenant colonel on his shoulders and yielded to Doctor Pomfret’s request to create Saint Helena. A lesser man would have shrugged off the task as impossible. In six weeks Colonel Eitzroy was expected to collect a student body, assemble a faculty, organize an administration, and acquire laboratory equipment and a library. Plunging into the job with unbounded energy, he soon had all his plans underway. Two aides from Shrivenham provided a skeleton office staff which was quickly filled out with Norfolk personnel. Calls on universities’ and teachers’ agencies produced the names of available instructors who were selected by the shrewd Fitzroy instinct. W hen a prospective teacher demurred, the magical enthusiasm of the Colonel’s voice soon [ 66 ]

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