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The American dream of earning a college degree has no expiration date.
Older students — those who got a late start or had their plans for earning a degree interrupted — may find a very workable alternative at Virginia’s community colleges.
Elizabeth Martini, 40, of Opal postponed her college plans while she raised three children.
Now, with one year of studies completed at the Fauquier campus of Lord Fairfax Community College, she is making her dream of becoming a teacher come true.
When her husband retired from the U. S. Air Force and the family moved from California to Fauquier County four years ago, she took a job as a teacher’s aide in special education at Cedar Lee Middle School.
When her children became more self-sufficient, Martini started back to school at LFCC in the fall of 1995.
She enrolled in the “three-quarter load” program, which will earn her an Associates degree in education in three years — by the end of the spring semester of 1998.
From there, she plans to transfer to Mary Washington College in
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