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The Farmville Herald
Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia
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The 12th annual Shenandoah Knights Templar School of Instruction began at Longwood College, Virginia, with about 80 participants from across the state attending classes on sword drills, orders, and more, plus entertainment like a watermelon feast and picnic. Walter H. Stanford welcomed attendees, and Sir Knight G. J. Butcher visited.
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The 12th annual session of the Shenandoah Knights Templar School of Instruction began Sunday at Longwood College.
Approximately 80 Knights Templar, their wives and children, from throughout Virginia, were welcomed to the session by Walter H. Stanford, President from Falls Church.
Classes will be held throughout the week in Manual of Sword drill movements, conferring of orders, Prelate's work, etc. The final session will be Thursday morning, with a business meeting and election of officers concluding the program. The Grand Commander of the Virginia Knights Templar, Sir Knight G. J. Butcher, of Norfolk, is visiting the instruction school.
The School of Instruction has met at Longwood College for the past three years. In addition to the class schedule, a program of entertainment will include a watermelon feast, sight-seeing trips and a picnic dinner at Longwood Estate.
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12th Annual Session Began Sunday
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The Shenandoah Knights Templar School of Instruction's 12th annual session at Longwood College features classes on sword drills and orders, entertainment, and ends with elections; hosted there for three years with 80 participants welcomed by Stanford and visited by Butcher.