Dick Roppé and his wife,
Lynn. When they were viewing the quiz show’s Teachers Tournament last June, the telecast raised one question for them that wasn’t answered.
What was so familiar about the competitor from Virginia a high school band and choir instructor named
Will Satterwhite Jr.?
It soon dawned on Roppé that he possessed a dog tag, military medal and other memorabilia that belonged to a World War I soldier named
Gilbert H. Satterwhite. These items had been passed down by his grandfather’s second wife,
Helen Eggers Satterwhite, who was Gilbert’s widow.
With that last name, could Will and Gilbert be related, wondered Roppé. If they were, it would be nice to get the items back into the hands of an actual family member.