Woodberry Forest High School - Fir Tree Yearbook (Woodberry Forest, VA)

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A History T T N the days of readjustment follow- ing' the close of the VV ar Between 4 'A:'4 H the States many were the problems facing those men who had been the heaviest sufferers from a movement which so sud- denly swept away their means of existence. The landowner, with his many acres lying idle from the lack of man power, bore a burden even greater than his urban brother. Wfith no money, and no facilities for re- claiming more than a bare existence from his war-devastated and long-neglected helds, such matters as the education of his children i and their development along the lines of C P . S, VV, cf . . . APTMN XOBFRT in EK proud tradition, were placed entirely beyond the reach of thousands of Virginia's devoted sons. The more remote country districts felt the heaviest part of the burden- armies of occupation, whether friend or foe, had devoured the instruments of peaceful farming, man labor was sweptlaway, and the lirst institutions to feel the lowered standards of living were, of necessity, country schools. So that along with the struggle for existence the inadequacy of the educational out- look for the young generation presented an almost hopeless outlook. There were no schools of even second-rate quality in the country neighborhoods, and in the great majority of cases ready money was lacking with which to send the children away from home to established schools, Such were the conditions which faced, among so many others, Captain Robert Stringfellow VV'alker, the son of John Scott Walker' of Madison County. twenty-two