GRETNA, Va. â In 2017, Mrs. Vera Glass made a promise to the eighth-grade class of Gretna Middle School, where she served as principal until making the decision to retire. Four years later, Glass is making good on that promise to provide five of the now-high school graduates with a $1,000 scholarship.
On that day in 2017, at the Gretna Middle School end-of-year assembly, Glass looked out on the eighth graders who were about to embark on their high school journey and was struck by the notion that she wanted to make a difference in their lives.
âI was just look at them, thinking, âI hope their futures are going to be bright.â I wanted them to have such a good future, but thereâs no guarantee. Then, I started thinking, âif they just had the chance to optimize their opportunitiesâ¦to maybe go on to a two-year school, or get a career certificate, or maybe just start going to a four-year schoolâ¦I wanted to be a part of what theyâre going to do,
Wilbur Clarence Daniel was born on May 12, 1914, in Pittsylvania County and was the son of Reuben Earl Daniel, a sharecropper, and his second wife, Georgia Lee Grant Daniel. He attended Mecklenburg County public schools until age fifteen, when he went to work as a store clerk to help support his family. In 1933 Daniel (called Clarence until adulthood, when he acquired the nickname Dan) joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in Spotsylvania County. He married Daisy Rivers Greene Fines on June 2, 1934, in Hyattsville, Maryland. The childless couple separated three years later. By 1939 Daniel had discovered that Fines’s divorce from her first husband had not been made final at the time she married Daniel. He sued for a declaration of annulment, which the Stafford County Circuit Court granted on September 16, 1939.
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DANVILLE, Va. â Averett University and Appalachian School of Law (ASL) are teaming up to help students seeking a law degree complete their education sooner.Â
The new partnership agreement between the two institutions, made official at todayâs signing event at Averett University in Danville, consists of two pathways: a three-plus-three dual-degree option and a four-plus-three traditional pathway. Justice (ret.) Elizabeth A. McClanahan, president and dean of ASL, and Averett President Dr. Tiffany M. Franks ceremoniously inked the agreements in front of representatives from both institutions and special guests at Averettâs Violet T. Frith Fine Arts Center.
âWe are thrilled to partner with Appalachian School of Law to bring a structured, seamless path to our students who want to pursue their law degree,â said Franks. âThis partnership is a shining example of how two student-centered institutions are working together to fulfill workforce needs and dem