Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, September 8, 1994                   TAG: 9409080051
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-11   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

MONTGOMERY SENDS DELEGATES TO BOARD OF GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL

The representatives attended their first meeting Tuesday, as observers. Montgomery County has not approached the regional school about sending any students to it so far.

The school has drawn students from the counties of Pulaski, Giles, Floyd, Wythe, Carroll, Grayson, Bland and Smyth. Its enrollment this year is 98, which is crowding its building on the Pulaski County High School campus.

``We are packed to the gills,'' Pat Duncan, the school's director, told the board.

Selected juniors and seniors commute to the school for a half-day of classes before returning to their home schools for the rest of the day. The home school systems pay their tuition.

Today, representatives from the state Department of Education will visit the school to gather information on whether new facilities are needed.

The board accepted the resignation of faculty member Woodrow McKenzie, who will be working on his doctorate at Virginia Tech, and hired Grace Hall as a new chemistry teacher. Hall has taught at Virginia Tech and Roanoke College.

The board also hired Sherry Pugh, who has taught at Radford University and the College of William and Mary, as a part-time mathematics teacher.