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Volume 64, Number 40 • October 3, 2019
Goochland student discusses experience at leadership program. Page 3 G
Descendant of famous orator, educator set to visit students
Veteran to be inducted into Va. Aviation Hall of Fame
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Goochland students will have the chance to hear a unique perspective on American history next week. On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., the Co-Founder and President of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, will be speaking to students at Goochland Middle School and Goochland High School. The great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass and the great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington, Morris will share a perspective related to the legacies of his forefathers. Some county residents may have previously heard Morris speak during the 100th birthday celebration for Goochland’s Second Union Rosenwald School last year. One of a handful of surviving Rosenwald Schools, Second Union’s Rosenwald School was the result of a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and famed educator Booker T. Washington in the early part of the see Morris > 2
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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Photo by Roslyn Ryan
Goochland WWII veteran Floyd Callihan, holding a photo of one of the many planes he has flown over the years, will be honored on Oct. 19 for his decades of service to aviation in Virginia.
f all the things he has accomplished over the past 93 years — and the list is long indeed — Goochland resident Floyd Callihan says the one of which he is most proud is having led the charge in 2004 to have Virginia’s Route 288 designated as the World War II Veterans’ Memorial Highway. see Callihan > 5
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