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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 20, 1990                   TAG: 9004200422
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: RICK LINDQUIST SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD-NEWS
DATELINE: RADFORD                                 LENGTH: Short

EX-MAGNET SCHOOL MEMBER RESOLUTE

Radford's representative on the New River Governor's School for Science, Math and Technology governing board may be down, but he's not out.

"I'm going to go to the meetings," said Radford School Board Vice Chairman Guy Gentry, who was demoted Wednesday to non-participating status by the governing board. The move followed Radford's February decision not to send students to the Magnet School, set to open this fall on the Pulaski County High School campus near Dublin.

Montgomery County's representative, James Hassall, had to step down Wednesday as governing board chairman after his School Board also voted not to participate in the Magnet School this year.

Gentry has represented the city's schools on the governing board for about two months. He told his School Board colleagues Thursday that the other governing board members, representing Wythe, Giles, Pulaski and Floyd counties, were "very interested in having us remain."

"They asked me to sit at the table, but I told them I'd sit in the audience, since I wasn't on the board any more," Gentry told his colleagues.

Gentry also said some questions have now been raised "as to whether the school can succeed without Montgomery and Radford."

by CNB