Blue Ridge School (Greene County, Va.)

found: Challenger, 1965:t.p. (the Blue Ridge School, St. George, Dyke, Virginia)

found: Blue Ridge Industrial School, 1938:caption title (Blue Ridge Industrial School Incorporated, Bris, Greene County, Va. "The post office gets its name from initials of School--B.R.I.S.)

found: Blue Ridge School website, Feb. 13, 2010:timeline (founded in 1909 as The Blue Ridge Industrial School by the Reverend George P. Mayo of the Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church, "to provide a vocational education for a coed student body which otherwise would not have had the opportunity to realize its rich potential.")

found: Blue Ridge School, samaritans of the mountains, 1982:p. 77 (in the late 1930's, the school decided to drop the word "Industrial" from the name of the school; after a period of time of searching for a name using the same BRIS acronym, "the School simply adopted the name The Mountain Echo had been using since 1939: Blue Ridge School. However it would take until March 1947 to get the charter amended to make the change official. The minutes of the board meetings began using the new name in 1942, and the name of the post office was changed to St. George in 1946." ) p. 144 (The school was closed for the 1961/1962 school year, and reopened in 1962 as a prepatory school for boys, at St. George, Greene County, Va.)