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considered eligible for admission to college. As a matter of fact, I think I was the 

 first one to make this type of break. My folks sent me up to Arlington County, 

 Virginia, where I lived with my aunt, my mother's sister, and went to 

 Washington and Lee High School in Arlington County. In the following year, 

 virtually everyone in my class went to another school. Some of them went to 

 King George by moving out and living with somebody. Some went down to 

 Montross and Warsaw. A very good friend of mine went with me and also lived 

 with my aunt and went to Washington and Lee. We both graduated that year. 

 That was the prevailing practice. Some went to high school in Washington, D.C. 

 That continued until arrangements were made for students to go directly 

 from this Station to King George High School without the necessity of moving 

 out into the county. 



Were there any other unique situations? 



When I first came here, we had some expansion problems in programs and 

 other areas that caused opposition officially in the area. I felt it was because the 

 local people and the state people didn't know what we were doing and didn't 

 have enough appreciation of what we were doing. We couldn't live in a litde 

 world of our own; we had to work with them. So 1 started a program to get first 

 the Board of Supervisors of King George County acquainted with not only who 

 we were, but also what we. were doing. One thing led to another, and I attended 

 the board meetings and served as a command representative on matters of mu- 

 tual interest between this command and King George County. Then, eventual- 

 ly, our personnel became citizens and became involved in local government, 

 serving on the school boards and on the Board of Supervisors. A gradual 

 transformation took place where it became automatic to work together. Then I 

 concentrated more of my efforts down in the Richmond area to bring this 

 command in closer contact with the Governor's office and other departments 

 and agencies. In my capacity of being in an advisory service, I worked with such 

 organizations as the Highway Department, Federal Housing Administration, 

 and Small Business Administration, and indirectly with Social Security. That 

 led to others. 



Then in the I960's it became evident that something had to be done to create 

 some housing developments in the county. That's when I got involved in what 

 today is known as Bayberry Estates. At times I think I'd like to forget about it all. 

 One tremendous mess is what it wound up to be, but now, of course, things look 

 very promising and hopeful for the development of a nice community. But it 

 was government-needed and it was government-backed. The government 

 wasn't putting up any money, but the government was insuring loans. I think it 

 induced just about every rascal you can think of that professed to be a contrac- 

 tor to come down here because they all had the idea that they were going to get 



