
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991                   TAG: 9104110293
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

FUND-RAISING ARM POSSIBLE FOR SCHOOL

Education, industry and business leaders will be invited to help start a fund-raising foundation this fall for the Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Science, Mathematics and Technology.

Gov. Douglas Wilder will be invited to be keynote speaker for invitation-only, black-tie festivities at New River Community College on a date to be announced.

Joel Williams, a Montgomery County stockbroker, told the school's governing board Tuesday that the foundation would work for long-term endowments, short-term financial needs, sponsoring student trips and getting school equipment.

The board also decided to ask Giles County Superintendent Robert McCracken to become the school's superintendent-in-charge. He would succeed Galax Superintendent Jimmy Stuart.

McCracken, reached at his office in Pearisburg, said he would have to know more about the time involved and other aspects of the job before commenting.

The school has 36 students commuting for a half-day from the counties of Pulaski, Floyd, Giles, Carroll, Bland and Wythe and the city of Galax. They all are high school juniors this year, the first year the school has been in operation.

by CNB