Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 4, 1995 TAG: 9504040109
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DISTRICT B: Bob Goncz currently holds this seat on the board which covers parts of Christiansburg and Ellett Valley.
"My position has been that I haven't been able to see myself running as a politician for the office," Goncz said last week. "I'm not saying that I can't [run], but I've never had any desire to do that sort of thing." So far, no other candidates have emerged.
DISTRICT E: Board member Lou Hermann said she, too, has not decided whether to run for District E, representing the Prices Fork area of the county. "I've given some thought about it, but I'm just not quite sure yet what I should do," said the retired music teacher.
Like District B, no one has announced intentions of running yet.
DISTRICT F: Two Blacksburg men, retired Army Col. Richard Edwards and Virginia Tech philosophy professor Jim Klagge, plan to run for the District F seat. "I'll just decide here and now that I'll run in the fall," said Klagge, who had previously considered applying for the town of Blacksburg seat, currently held by School Board Chairman Roy Vickers. Klagge was one of six applicants to apply for the District F seat last year. Klagge, 40, has two children, one at Kipps Elementary School and one at Blacksburg Middle School. Edwards has three sons, one of whom attends Blacksburg High School.
DISTRICT G: Perry Arrington, a relative newcomer to the School Board having been appointed last July, was in San Francisco for a national school board convention and could not be reached for comment.
District G covers areas in and around the Woodbine subdivision and North Main Street.
Wat Hopkins, a Virginia Tech communications professor, applied for District G last year, and has been asked by a number of parents and teachers to run for the position again. Hopkins said he is considering the request, but has made no final decision.
School Board Districts up for appointment in July.
BLACKSBURG: School Board Chairman Roy Vickers holds this seat which will be appointed one more time in July before being abolished in 1998. "I plan to apply for re-appointment," Vickers said last week.
Tom Sherman,a professor in Virginia Tech's college of education, also has applied.
"Several people suggested that I might be a good person and I have a long-standing interest and association in the schools," Sherman said. "This is a way to continue that association."
DISTRICT C: CUrrent board member Becky Raines said she plans to seek re-appointment for her seat which covers Shawsville and Elliston.
Her term would last for 18 months, then would be up for election in the fall of 1997.
"I thought if they choose me I could finish the commitment," Raines said.
So far, no one else has applied for the Distric C seat.
by CNB