Article: MADALINE MARSHALL BUNN: THE GREAT DEBATER

You mention Madaline Marshall Bunn to most people who've lived here a while and they recognize the name of the lady who brought fame to this county with her James River High School student team's multiple debate trophies.

No newcomer to the area, she missed being born here only because her father's job working as an agent for the railroad took the family to Maryland's Cumberland Gap, where she was born in 1912. "I was supposed to have been born in Cloverdale but I was stubborn and was born a month late," she said.

She's the product of a purely Cloverdale romance. "My father was one of the first telegraphers at Cloverdale station." And her mother, a Lankford, was a Cloverdale native who ...

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