121 the following tribute was recorded in the minutes: It was in August of 1979 the Board of Directors of the Bank of Clarke County received a communication signed J. G. Burch, a life-time resident of the southern area of Clarke County, a successful businessman and a member of the Board since 1935. His cordial note, expressed in telegraphic brevity with a style characteristic of his life; simple, direct and sincere, that the time had come for a more active person to replace him. The ninetieth year of his life had limited the contribution which he could make to the Bank as a Board member; and, that he be retired from the Board forthwith. It was with reluctance the Board acquiesced in the request of this Gentleman who had contributed much to the growth of this financial institution because of his profound perception of the financial structure of banking as it related to this agricultural community. His interest in the Bank, its growth and his willingness at all times to be available to accept an assignment which could create a good climate for the Bank; yielded only to his paramount thoughts and most important to him, his love and devotion of his family. With deep sadness this community of Clarke County learned Friday morning the 2nd day of January, 1981, that Mr. Burch was dead. The realization that death had come for Mr. Burch was especially a cause for sadness to the Staff, Officers and Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Clarke County who had worked with him. He was a person who accepted and lived the truism the poet, Tennyson wrote: “I am a part of all that I have met” Mr. Burch was acutely sensitive to the innate worth of dignity of each person. This thought was fully confirmed when one considers the cross sections of society in great numbers who stood in reverence beside his grave on a late Winter afternoon, bitter cold, with a numbing chill factor. At the conclusion of the Burial Service it seemed that Green Hill Cemetery was full of people as they departed from their l ast act of honoring this Gentleman, who was rarely referred to by his fellow man without the Anglo-Saxon prefix of “Mister”, Mr. Burch. We honor this Board member for his ability, his integrity and his wisdom of experience. Mr. Burch is dead, we love him, we miss him and it hurts. Robert Iden “Bobby” Boyd, 33, of Front Royal, was apprehended 30 minutes after robbing the Boyce Branch, on January 6, 1981 at 9:20 A.M., of approximately $1,700. He had stopped for gas in Waterloo after perpetrating the robbery and was spotted. He was arrested 4 miles north of Front Royal. Clarke County Sheriff Albert Nicodemus stated in the paper that “most of the money was recovered along with a toy or plastic pistol.” Boyd entered the