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

DATE: THURSDAY, June 17, 1993                   TAG: 9306170411
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-12   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

THE JUNIOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SOCIETY of the Roanoke Valley Governor's School for Science and Technology won its division at the state academic competition for creative problem solving in mathematics, science and computer science.

This is the third consecutive year the group has won on the state level.

Team members are: Andrea Barnhart, Christy Clarkson and Jason Davis, Franklin County High School; Jeffrey Ford, Craig County High School; Mike Ford, Elizabeth Maxwell and Amy Starr, Patrick Henry High School; and Traci Pietron, Cave Spring High School.

\ VICKI WOOD, head teacher and associate director at Highland Park Child Development Center, recently was named teacher of the year by the Southwest Virginia Association of Early Childhood Education.

\ JANE W. COOPER, a teacher at Roanoke Catholic School, was named one of four secondary school teachers in Virginia to receive the John Marshall Foundation's award for excellence in teaching the U.S. Constitution. A $1,000 award was presented to each winner.

Cooper, a teacher for 20 years, teaches U.S. government to 12th-grade students.

\ BRENDA HALE and LINDA LIVENGOOD were honored recently at a meeting of the International Management Council.

Hale, a William Fleming High School student, and Livengood, a William Fleming teacher, were honored as outstanding business student and most closely associated teacher.

\ TALENT SEARCH honorees from the Roanoke Valley have been announced by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth in Baltimore.

The students, all seventh-graders, took the Scholastic Assessment Test in January. Those who scored well above the mean for high school seniors received certificates of merit in mathematics or verbal skills at the state or regional level.

Roanoke Valley students honored were: Joy Appel, Jennifer Rudolph and Christine Tien (regional verbal), Andrew Lewis Middle School; Ashley Atkinson (regional verbal), Cave Spring Junior High School; Tracy D'Souza, Abby Fifer (regional verbal) and Sarah McCorkle, James Madison Middle School; Shana Edwards, Lauren Moore and Elizabeth Nelson, Hidden Valley Junior High School; Rosa Garza (regional verbal) and Andrew Zuraw, Roanoke Catholic School; Virginia Weckstein (regional verbal), Woodrow Wilson Middle School; Michael Willems (regional verbal), Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle School; Steven McGraw, Northside Junior High School; and Benjamin Ward, Roanoke Valley Christian Schools.

The Center for Talented Youth also identified several Roanoke Valley fifth- and sixth-graders in its 1993 Celebration of Talent.

They are: Allyson Ayers, Mary Darby, Robert Jennings, Alton Knighton, Elizabeth Matthews, Katherine Preston and Mary Rude, James Madison Middle School; Jonathon Cohen, Andrew Finnell, Adam Lunnie, Shannon MacMichael, David Sharrer and Emily Whichard, Hidden Valley Junior High School; Christopher Dutrow, Roanoke Catholic Lower School; Hunter Elliott, Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle School; Eli McAllister and Kristin Weary, Cave Spring Junior High School; Joshua Mundy, Burlington Elementary School; David Wilson, Cave Spring Elementary School; and Aaron Dalton, West Salem Elementary School.

by CNB