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(Continued from Page 1) sium as does at least one member of the recently organized steering committee for supporters of the RCHS building program. MI think athletics in this whole country are out of proportion to the place they should have in society,” continued Mr. Miller, emphasizing that he epjoys sports as much as anybody does. "But Virginia Tech is spending a half million dollars to get rid of a football coach. That’s crazy!”
The new gymnasium will cost county taxpayers $75,000 more per year than the academic portion of the capital outlay project, he said. “That’s not the proper priority.”
“We don’t build much in Rappahannock County,” acknowledged Supervisor Nelson Lane. He recalled that, as a member of the School Board, he’d been opposed to building new administrative offices until, first, the highway department condemned the old bus shop and, second, the administration was evicted “in spirit, if not in actuality,” from its former offices in Sperryville. Then, noted Mr. Lane, he led the effort that resulted in construction of the new pre-engineered building that houses both offices and bus garage. Architects hired for the work initially came up with a design that would have cost $500,000, according to the Stonewall-Hawthorne supervisor. “We brought it in for $127,000 . . . Pre-engineered buildings have quite an economy.”
“I support the building program,” Mr. Lane continued. “But it’s a little rich for what I think we can do at this time.” He recalled that he had formerly endorsed the expansion project, when the gymnasium was to be pre-engineered steel. “I became an opponent when the Board of Supervisors went for brick and mortar ... At that point, I fell
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