William C. Kappes Jr. ’52

Bill served his community in the Shenandoah Valley — Waynesboro, Va. — in many roles, professional and personal. A pediatrician, he help found Waynesboro Sheltered Workshop, now Vector Industries, which offered employment to young adults with disabilities, and was a consultant to Commonwealth Center in Staunton, the only psychiatric hospital for children in the state.

He came to the class from Episcopal High School. He was a member of Quadrangle and captain as well as coxswain of the 150-pound crew. Bill graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1956 and served as a captain and chief of pediatric service in the Air Force at Chennault Air Force Base from 1959 to 1961.

He then moved with his wife, Shirley (now deceased), to Waynesboro to open his practice and continued in it until 1999. His community activities included the Boy Scouts, Rotary Club, and St. John’s Episcopal Church, among others.

Bill died July 2, 2012. He leaves his children, Kathryn, William III, and John, to whom the class extends sympathy.