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

DATE: SATURDAY, June 2, 1990                   TAG: 9006020023
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WISE                                LENGTH: Short

156 GRADUATE FROM CLINCH VALLEY COLLEGE

The 156 students graduating at Clinch Valley College this week was the largest number in the 36-year history of the University of Virginia branch.

They heard from outgoing UVa President Robert M. O'Neil, who said he believed that his successor - John Casteen - would continue to strengthen ties between the university and Clinch Valley.

O'Neil will step down later this year to become the founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville.

Other predictions he made in his commencement speech for Clinch Valley's future included a football team, a new fine arts center, expansion of graduate-level programs broadcast by satellite from the UVa and Virginia Tech, and growth of the Southwest Economic and Educational Development Center in promoting economic and community development in Southwest Virginia.

- Southwest bureau

by CNB