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

DATE: TUESDAY, April 20, 1993                   TAG: 9304200241
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Medium

SEVERAL APPLY FOR SEATS ON SCHOOL BOARD

Four people have applied for the District E seat on the Montgomery County School Board, including incumbent Lou Herrmann. Only one person, however, expressed an interest in the Christiansburg seat on the board by the April 16 deadline - incumbent David Moore.

The terms of Herrmann and Moore expire on June 30.

Moore was named to the board earlier this year to fill the unexpired term of former Chairman Daniel Schneck, who resigned in December at the start of the controversy over the naming of school holidays. Herrmann was named to the board in December 1989 to fill the unexpired term of Karen Trear.

Also seeking the District E seat are Harold Dudley, Cynthia Massie and Claire C. McMillan.

Dudley, retired from Electro-Tec Corp. of Blacksburg, is an instructor of machine technology at New River Community College. He graduated from Blacksburg High School in 1947.

In the past, Dudley has criticized what he called waste and mismanagement within the school system. "I cannot think of a better way to serve my community now than to serve in the field of education," he wrote in his application to the Board of Supervisors, which will fill the two vacancies.

Massie, who lives in the Prices Fork community, was a founder of the New River Valley Hospice and currently works at the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Tech. Massie, a Staunton native, has lived in Montgomery County for 25 years. She will graduate from Tech, along with her daughter, with a degree in public policy.

McMillan, a business computer consultant, has lived with her children in the county for four years and has been a 4-H and Girl Scout leader and PTA member and volunteer at Prices Fork Elementary School. McMillan is a doctoral candidate in library and information science from Texas Woman's University in Denton. She holds a master's degree in mathematics and computer science.

by CNB