Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 20, 1990 TAG: 9003202424
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: ABINGDON LENGTH: Medium
The opening night banquet at the Martha Washington Inn will feature a talk by former congressman Don Bonker on international education as a factor in world trade. Bonker, now a senior trade consultant at Arnold & Porter Consulting Group in Washington, D.C., is the author of the recently published "America's Trade Crises."
The second day of the conference will start with a continental breakfast and session at 8:30 a.m. at the college. A luncheon address on perceptions of American education abroad will be given by Franklin Randolph Stewart, a retired U.S. senior Foreign Service minister-counselor who now practices law in Marion.
Other speakers will be Sasha Sarri, associate professor of Russian and Swahili at Ferrum College; Donald Corbin, chair, foreign languages and literature, James Madison University; Jim Hayne, University of Virginia Center for Russian and East European Studies; Carol Conway, acting executive director, Southern Growth Policies Board based in North Carolina; Ed Schaffner, international sales manager, Fibercom Corp., Roanoke; and Beverly Thurston, special assistant for international education, Virginia Department of Education.
The deadline for registration is April 13. Full conference fee is $30 for the public and $17 for students. The fee for the April 26 seminar is $10, but there is limited seating so early registration is recommended.
The conference is sponsored by the Southwest Economic and Educational Development Center at Clinch Valley College. It will be videotaped for classroom use, and published proceedings will be furnished to those in attendance. It is being coordinated by the Southwest Office of the University of Virginia Center for Public Service and the Powell River Project. - Southwest bureau
by CNB