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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 26, 1990                   TAG: 9007260620
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: BEN BEAGLE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

CLASS GIVES AGAIN TO SAVE JEFFERSON

Jefferson High School's class of 1940 has given an additional $1,800 to save the old school.

Becky Locke, class president, gave the money today to Beverly Fitzpatrick Sr., president of the Jefferson Center Foundation.

Fitzpatrick said the donation came after a recent class reunion. Members of the class already had given $21,560, he said.

The foundation has raised $1,412,000 of a goal of $2 million as its share in renovating the old high school on Campbell Avenue Southwest.

It would become a center for the performing arts and also provide social service and education offices.

The foundation has to raise the $2 million before Roanoke City will release its $3.5-million share for renovating the building.

The city's share will come from a bond issue that was approved in May.

Fitzpatrick, a 1939 graduate, said today that a new mailing is going out to 10,400 alumni of Jefferson - telling them that individual gifts of $50 will raise the amount the federation needs.

Fifty classes graduated from Jefferson between 1925 and 1974, when it closed as a full-time high school.

by CNB