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

DATE: THURSDAY, June 23, 1994                   TAG: 9407200119
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Beth Macy
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

TEEN MOMS PAY THE PRICE FOR A DIPLOMA

Thirteen young mothers were honored in a special graduation reception in the Willianm Fleming High School caferteria last week.

Pictures were taken, hands were shaken. What was described to me as a gorgeous cake - with colors representing Fleming, Patrick Henry and the Alternative Education School from which the teens came - was donated by the women of the Mary and Elizabeth Project, a statewide outreach program of First Baptist Church.

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