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—or if not impossible, then extremely difficult. The opportunity I have now allows that to happen."
He’s working for a computer firm in Harrisonburg. “I’ll still be teaching,” said the 13-year classroom veteran. “Just the ages will change. I’ll be teaching the staffs at colleges and universities who will be using computer systems for bookkeeping, financial aid, admissions.” Part of the job is work as a system’s analyst— “I’ll be analyzing their specific situation and how the software can be changed to meet their needs”—and part is work as a programmer, making those actual changes in the software. “I’ll still be in education, using the experience I’ve gained in computers,” Mr. Bomberger explained.
And he’s spending the summer exactly as he did as a teacher at Rappahannock County High School. “I’m reading books, studying manuals, trying to figure out new software so I can teach it in the coming year—only I’m getting paid!”
Since coming to Rappahannock in 1973 as first year teachers, graduates of Eastern M( nnonite College, the Bombergers realized that salaries here presented a problem. “And that problem still exists,” Mr. Bomberger emphasized. “In 1973, there wasn’t the support in the community for teachers’ salaries to improve. And I still don’t really see that support.” .
He acknowledged that the county has a small tax base to draw on. “Yet there are a lot of people here who can afford higher taxes,” Mr. Bomberger maintained. “In Rappahannock, you have the very rich and the very poor and very few
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