Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 17, 1993                   TAG: 9306170389
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-17   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

She received the award at the John Fox Jr. Festival in April in Big Stone Gap. The contest is sponsored by Mountain Empire Community College.

\ SANDRA BOYES, a special education teacher at William Fleming High School, has been selected by the Center for Liberal Arts at the University of Virginia to receive a $1,000 Jessie Ball duPont Teacher/Scholar Fellowship to study at the Mountain Lake Biological Station this summer.

\ THE VIRGINIA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS has awarded a grant to the science department at William Fleming High School to help artistically talented biology students.

The grant is awarded to help students increase powers of observation and become more aware of scientific illustration as a tool for biology.

\ DR. RICHARD L. GUERRANT, formerly of Roanoke, wrote sections on gastrointestinal infections in the recently published Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.

Guerrant is the chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville.

\ CHARLES D. FOX III of Roanoke recently was awarded the doctor of humane letters degree from Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn.

Fox is president of the Chafrapre Co., a business and financial consultant company, and is a trustee of the Warren W. Hobbie Trust, a foundation supporting the civic arts curriculum at the college.

Fox also is an adviser to the Tusculum College Board of Trustees, of which his wife, Preston, is a member.