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MR. BANKS AT ONE OF HIS MANY DUTIES
Thirty years ago-and that is a long time in the life of a man as well as in the life of a school which is just completing its thirty-fourth session-there came to Vir-
ginia Episcopal School to begin his teaching career a young man from Tennessee by the name of Banks. This year that young man rounds out his thirtieth year as a Master in the School, his seventh year as Senior Master. To summarize his c a r e e r a t V. E. S., his services t o V. E. S., would be impossible within the limits of this article and it seems most likely that the sentiments of those who have sat under him in his classroom are best expressed by a resolution adopted April 25 by the Board of Trustees, a Board which now includes among its mem- be;s several men who in their boyhood studied under him. That resolution reads as follows.
WHEREAS, Joseph Kentworth Banks has been a master in Virginia Episcopal School since the year Nineteen Hundred Twenty and for thirty years has given himself wholeheartedly to the discharge of the duties of his posi- tion,
MR. BANKS
An Appreciation
BE I T T H E R E F O R E R E S O L V E D , t h a t t h e B o a r d o f Trustees of Virginia Episcopal School record in its minutes its appreciation of the loyal and devoted service which he has rendered to the School. Always has he had its best interests at heart and ever has he given unstintedly of his time and effort to further and promote the welfare of its boys in every phase of their life in the school. Fair and impartial in judgment, yet tempering justice with a kindly mercy, he has endeared himself to generations of
Virginia Episcopal School boys not only in the classroom but also by his sympathetic understanding of the problems of their daily lives.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be delivered to the said Joseph Kentworth Banks at the Final Exercises of the School on Tuesday,
June 6, 1950.
As a further mark of their vppreciation, the Board of Trustees presented to Mr. Banks at the Final Exercises a silver platter, upon which is engraved the following:
To
JOSEPH KENTWORTH BANKS
From The
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
of
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
In appreciation of thirty years of loyal and devoted service
1920- 1950
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