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

DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990                   TAG: 9006010289
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS CORRESPONDENT
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GRADUATES COLLEGE BOUND

School records show that 40 of the 41 graduates plan to go on to higher education. One will do some traveling, school officials said.

Those going to college plan to remain in the Middle Atlantic states, mostly in Virginia and North Carolina.

North Cross will award diplomas in a commencement exercise June 8 at 11 a.m. The speaker will be Dr. Linda Koch Lorimer, president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg.

Two graduates who discussed their futures said they think the Roanoke Valley offers adequate job opportunities for most people. But both indicated they probably will not stay here.

Kevin Garbee hopes for a career in professional golf and Nicole Basile is headed toward a career in medicine or social work.

Garbee said there are limited opportunities in Southwest Virginia in professional golf and he didn't think he could successfully follow such a career in the Roanoke area.

But for someone in a less specialized field, Garbee said he thinks the valley offers many opportunities for young people. "There is definitely a job market here," he said.

For the next four years, he will attend Davidson College in North Carolina and spend his summers in Roanoke with his parents, Richard and Linda Garbee of Salem.

Basile, 17, said she will attend Duke University and probably major in pre-med. She said she may follow a family tradition by entering the medical field. Her father is a doctor and her mother a nurse.

Basile said she may become a pediatrician or go into social work. She said she thinks the valley offers opportunities in both fields but admits she probably will not stay here.

"Larger cities offer more opportunities," she said.

She ranks the Roanoke Valley as "a great place to have a family but said that for someone her age "it is hard to find a job here paying above the minimum wage."

While attending Duke, Basile said she probably will spend the summers with her parents, Dr. Michael Basile and Bernardine Basile. They live at 3727 Heritage Road S.W., Roanoke.