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Rapp Boyd Faculty Residence Dedicated
The Rapp Boyd Faculty Residence was dedicated on September 9, 2016. Located beyond the water tower, the new home carries the name of two families whose generosity to Woodberry Forest School has focused on the school’s need for faculty housing.
Among those on hand for the ribbon-cutting were Bob Rapp ’44; Ty Tysinger ’62; Blair Gammon ’44; Headmaster Byron Hulsey ’86; and several members of the board of trustees, including its chair, Sion Boney ’74. In his remarks, Mr. Rapp, who attended Woodberry for one summer school and one academic year, honored his parents, Robert C. and Eunice Jerome Rapp. “Whatever I have done for Woodberry, I have have done it in my parents’ honor,” he said. “When my son Robert ’92 was three or four years old and had done something that pleased me, he would look up at me and say, ‘You so proud of me, Daddy?’ And I say today, ‘You so proud of me, Dad?’”
Janie and Alex Boyd ’43 made many gifts, including a scholarship fund and the Boyd Faculty Residence in Terry Hall, both before their deaths and through estate planning. The Rapp Boyd Faculty Residence is Bob and Jean Rapp’s second gift of faculty housing; the Rapp House was dedicated in 2010.
History teacher Robert Kendall and his wife, Ellen, and science teacher Jim Reid and his wife Cindy, are the first residents of the new home.
See more photos of the ceremony in the Woodberry Forest School Album.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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