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

DATE: SATURDAY, May 8, 1993                   TAG: 9305080201
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
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VET SCHOOL HONORS FORMER TECH LEADERS

Former Virginia Tech President William Lavery and Dr. Richard B. Talbot, founding dean of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, were inducted Friday into the John N. Dalton Society.

Dalton, former governor, signed the legislation with the state of Maryland that created the veterinary school. The society was created this year.

Lavery was appointed Tech's 12th president in 1975 and now is the university's Preston Professor of International Affairs.

Talbot was hired in 1975 to build the veterinary college and was its dean through 1984. After spending two years directing the Food and Drug Administration's Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation, he now teaches and conducts research at Virginia Tech.

Following the ceremony, the veterinary college presented 84 degrees and two certificates to its class of 1993.

The college includes the main campus at Virginia Tech, the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center at Morven Park in Leesburg and the Avruym Gudelsky Veterinary Center at the University of Maryland College Park.

by CNB