Faces of Hollins President Nancy Gray has become almost as much of a fixture as the historic quad. portant players in the education system. As if to emphasize the importance of VWCC to the Roanoke Valley's educational system, Dr. 24 | JULY/AUGUST 2016 Charles Steger, the retired Virginia Tech president largely responsible (with Dr. Ed Murphy) for Virginia Tech-Carilion, is the chairman of the Virginia Western Community College Foundation. Nearly 177,000 community college students were enrolled in degree programs in the Commonwealth's community colleges last fall and another 70,000 were in workforce training or non-credit programs. Fifty years ago when Gov. Mills Godwin talked the General Assembly into applying a sales tax for education, the two new THEROANOKER.COMhttp://www.THEROANOKER.COM