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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 16, 1990                   TAG: 9005160118
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BIG STONE GAP                                LENGTH: Short


COLLEGE PRESIDENT NAMED TO COMMISSION

President Ruth Mercedes Smith of Mountain Empire Community College has been named to the Commission on Small and/or Rural Colleges of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges.

Her term will start in July and run through June 1993. The commission studies the needs and problems of small or rural colleges and suggests actions to meet them.

- Southwest bureau



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