Local and State Dignitaries Celebrate Opening of New DSLCC Rockbridge Center

Posted on October 8th, 2008

Local and state dignitaries joined in an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony on October 7 for Dabney S. Lancaster Community College’s new Rockbridge Regional Center in Buena Vista, VA.

Participating in the ceremony were: Lexington Vice-Mayor Tim Golden; House of Delegates member Ben Cline; DSLCC President Dr. Richard R. Teaff; Dr. Glenn DuBois, Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System; Mack Smith of the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors; State Senator Creigh Deeds; Debbie Garrett, representing Congressman Bob Goodlatte; and Buena Vista Mayor Mike Clements.

The 15,000 square foot, $1.5 million training center has been open to students since August and features a computer lab with 24 stations, two compressed video labs, a testing center with computers used for proctored testing, two traditional lecture classrooms, a conference room and two offices, a health sciences lab and a greenhouse.

This is the fourth and largest location for the RRC, since DSLCC opened a site to serve the Rockbridge area almost 13 years ago. The first RRC opened in March, 1996 but the facility space was quickly outgrown by the student population.

“For too long, the Rockbridge Regional Center hadn’t been able to meet the needs of DSLCC’s students in Buena Vista, Lexington and Rockbridge County,” commented Debbie Garrett, Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s representative, who spoke on his behalf. “This new facility accomplishes that task. …I applaud the regional efforts that resulted in this new center being built in such a cooperative fashion in just about a year’s time…This facility will provide benefits to this region for a long time to come.”

Posted by Lauren Von Herbulis

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