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Mrs. Frances Oveida Gravely Wingfield,
92 of Roanoke, Virginia passed away on Monday, January 18,
2010. She was the widow of W. Tupper
Wingfield, Jr.
Frances and Tupper Wingfield worked at Boys’
Home in the 1950’s. As a housemother, Mrs.
Wingfield is remembered fondly by alumni for
her gift of making others feel special, in
addition to making some wonderful hot
chocolate on cold winter days. Our
condolences to her family and friends.
Boys’ Home Alumni Newsletter
Summer 2010
Greetings!
Hello to all Boys’ Home alumni and
friends. Again, it is time to report to you
regarding our association.
I guess we all can tell some exciting
stories about the past winter! I am sure
that many of you are still suffering from
sore muscles and strained nerves from
dealing with the ice and snow. This past
winter may have reminded you of days past on
the Hill. The snowball battles with other
cottages, the snow forts and war games
played and how good it felt to finally get
back to your cottages for a chance to warm
up with a snack and hot chocolate. Ahh, for
a chance to relive those days!
Our Christmas on the Hill was enjoyable and it was good to see
friends of past years and to share fond
memories. Boys’ Home provided us with a
delicious lunch and a chance to visit with
the boys. Many of us enjoyed playing board
games, viewing the Christmas decorations at
each cottage and chatting with the boys
about school, the Hill and sports. It was
great to see many familiar faces of regular
attendees, along with some that we had not
seen for some time.
Those of you who were
at Boys’ Home during the late 50’s and 60’s
probably remember Mickey Caviness. It was
great to talk with him about his time at
Boys’ Home and his experiences after leaving
the Hill. Mickey, it was great to see you
again and we all hope you will come back for
our June meeting. It was also good to see:
Rex Hicks from Bristol, Gene Brower from
Fredericksburg, Bobby Via, John Dunn, Bob
Ramsey, Donnie Wheatley and Paul Siple from
Covington, Spike Felty from Greensboro,
Randy Powell from Wilkesboro and Dennis
Pinner and Bobby Mills from Richmond.
We all understand that
the Christmas season is extremely busy with
children and grandchildren, church
activities and family and friends. All of
your association officers including Melvin
Dove, Martha Terry, Dennis Pinner and myself
understand this. We want you all to know
that we appreciate all that you do to make
our gatherings fun. Without your support and
attendance, we will not be able to continue
with our long history of fellowship and
helping Boys’ Home with such functions as
Christmas Sponsorships, senior graduation
gifts/trips and special programs such as the
Outdoor Club.
All of these things
take money to operate. I also want to
express my gratitude and thanks to all of
you who, though you could not attend, found
it in your heart to mail a gift of money to
help us with our activities and expenses.
I want to thank Mr.
Wheatley and the Boys’ Home staff for
allowing us to have very appropriate meeting
places at the Chapel and the Martha
Terry
Museum. When I am sitting
in the museum with my brothers, I feel the
importance of what we are doing! It is
important that we all work harder at
continuing this tradition called the Boys’
Home Alumni Association. I realize that we
all have “pet peeves” or “negative feelings”
about our time on the Hill. Some of you
younger men were not on the Hill very long
and you may not feel the same closeness that
we older Alumni feel. To us, it was our
home!
You younger alumni from
the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s and up are the
future of this Association. We would love to
see more of you attending and give yourself
a chance to visit with brothers whom you
knew while on the Hill.
Let’s all try our best
to attend as many June and December meetings
as we can, beginning this coming June 26th.
Please mark your calendars as a special day
set aside to visit your old home. As usual,
there will be a full day of activities. We
will have a short business meeting at 1:15
p.m. At this meeting, we will need to
nominate and elect new officers for
2010-2012. These officers are President,
Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary and
Alumni representative to the Board of
Trustees. I encourage all of you to be
thinking of someone that you feel might
desire to serve as an officer. I will also
be calling on some of you for assistance in
forming a list of potential candidates or to
serve on a committee to help develop a list
of candidates. I will poll our current
officers to see if they would consider being
on that list.
Since this may be my
last formal letter to you, I would like to
say that I have really enjoyed serving as
your alumni President during the past 2
years. I have been serving the association
for some time and have always strived to
encourage our members to realize the great
importance and huge potential that each of
us have to make a positive impact on the
residents of Boys’ Home. When we work
together, we get things done.
My goals have been: (a)
to work towards making our gatherings fun by
adding activities that all of us can enjoy
(b) to continue with the same contributions
we have made in past years to the Boys’
Christmas sponsorship, the Seniors
graduation gifts, financial support to the
Outdoor Club when needed and reimburse Boys’
Home for the printing and mailing of our
newsletter.
Let’s
all try our best to be on the Hill on June
26th! Bring your old clothes and fishing
gear for outdoor fun or spend time with the
boys. Share your experiences with them.
BHAA
President, Jim Miller ‘66 “One of the
Few”
Schedule of Events 10 – 11 a.m. Social
gathering at Chapel for early arrivals, an
opportunity to visit and share memories.
11 –
Noon Free time to visit around the Hill &
Martha Terry Museum
Noon
– 1 p.m. Lunch at the Alumni Picnic Shelter
1
p.m. Presentation of recognition……
1:15
– 2:30 p.m. BHAA Business Meeting at the
Chapel conference room
2:30
p.m. Boys’ Home Singers at All Saints’
Chapel
3:30
– 4:30 p.m. Open activities (Bring your own
gear and old clothing)
Fishing, softball game, Open gym/basketball,
Outdoor Club Paintball skirmish,
Cottage visits to play cards/board games
with residents.
Campus tours - Greer Education Bldg. and
Wheatley
Center.
6
p.m. Dinner with residents at Ben Parrott
Dining Hall (If you plan to be here for
dinner, please let us know)
***Check out the BHAA - Boys’ Home Alumni
Association - page on Facebook and also
Boys’ Home, Inc. page on Facebook. ***
Links:
E-mail the Alumni Association
E-mail the President of the Alumni
Association
E-mail the Alumni Representative to the
Board of Trustees
Find us on the Web at: Classmates.com
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