All boys. All boarding. Grades 9-12.
1930-1939
Trent Ragland ’38
Lieutenant, United States Navy
Trent Ragland’s early life story can be told, in part, through the decisions his father made for him — decisions that turned out to have profound consequences. When his father informed him that he would be attending Woodberry Forest School, “I didn’t have a vote,” Trent recalls. “He just handed me a train ticket and told me to take the northbound train at Greensboro and someone would meet me in Orange.” His father had also decided that Trent needed to learn shorthand and typing — a decision that did not please the young man, who balked at being the only male among hundreds of girls in the class. And when war in Europe looked imminent, his father took him out of Woodberry before his senior year so that he could enroll at Virginia Military Institute.
Read more about Trent Ragland’s military career in the Woodberry Forest Magazine and Journal.
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