
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 17, 1993                   TAG: 9306170374
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-14   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

DEIDRE MATTOX, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry R. Mattox of Troutville, was given the Civil Rights Rule 11 Award by the Concerned Citizens for Justice USA at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Banquet.

Mattox, a junior at Hollins College and graduate of Lord Botetourt High School, has been a dean's list student, was president of the College Democrats and is incoming senior class president.

\ STU PEARMAN of Roanoke won the inaugural Southern National Bank Industry Analysis Competition.

Pearman is a master of business administration student at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and another student investigated public generic pharmaceutical firms to determine their potential for investors. The students won a $1000 award.

\ DORIS LOWE, a kindergarten teacher at Eagle Rock Elementary School, has won first place in the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation's Agriculture in the Classroom awards program.

Lowe was recognized by the state organization for her "outstanding teaching efforts," integrating lessons about agriculture throughout the kindergarten curriculum.

She won a $500 cash award and an expenses-paid trip to Washington for a national Agriculture in the Classroom conference.

\ John Easley, formerly of Roanoke and currently a band director at North Stafford High School in Stafford, recently received the Legion of Honor Award from the John Philip Sousa Foundation.

Easley, a graduate of the former Lucy Addison High School, has taught instrumental music for 31 years, the past 12 as band director at North Stafford. The school's band has won the Virginia Honor Band Award five of the last six years.

by CNB