Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 6, 1990 TAG: 9005040572
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Cochran has been an instructor at New River for 25 years and developed its course on fiber optics in 1989.
\ WILLIAM J. DAWSON, professor of humanities and social sciences, received the faculty humanitarian award for community involvement.
He is a member of the Governor's Advisory Board on Aging, the New River Valley Community Action Board, the Pulaski County Advisory Board, New River Valley Community Sentencing and the Pulaski County Emergency Needs Task Force. He also is the college's representative to the Virginia Community College System Chancellor's Advisory Committee. Dawson, an instructor for 30 years, teaches government, world religion and history of the American Indian. He also teaches government at Pulaski County High.
\ BILLY FRIEND, professor of instrumentation, participated in the evaluation of Navy ratings at the Fleet Training Center in Norfolk as part of a team of experts put together by the Military Evaluations Program of the American Council on Education.
\ JEAN ANTHONY, adjunct faculty member in the Technologies Division, and co-adviser for the Asian Students Association at Radford University, is student adviser for a new community-based organization called "Global Society." The group will inform high school students about international issues.
\ ERIC BRADY, college photographer, won second place in the Paragon Awards color photography category. The photograph was on the cover of the spring 1990 schedule of classes.
\ LINDA CLAUSSEN, coordinator of the Early Learning Center, and\ LISA RYAN, lead teacher for the center, attended the Children's Rally in Washington, sponsored by the Children's Defense Fund.
\ ANNE BOYD, an Early Learning Center teacher,\ LINDA CLAUSSEN and\ LISA RYAN attended the Virginia Association for Early Childhood Education conference in Charlottesville. Ryan conducted a workshop on "See the Connection: The Learning Environment and Behavior." Boyd presented "The Unpopular Child" and Claussen led "Networking with Professionals in Early Childhood Education."
\ A. WILLIAM CLAUSSEN, professor of drafting and design, presented "Human Rights and Artistic Freedom: The Nazi Closing of the Bauhaus" at the Virginia Humanities Conference at George Mason University in Fairfax.
\ CATHERINE CLOUGH, assistant professor in the Interpreter Training Program, has received provisionally qualified certification from the Sign Instructor's Guidance Network.
\ JANNA ANDERSON, TODD KING, RITA LYONS and DAWN SHEPHERD, Interpreter Training students, and KIM BENNETT, AVIS QUINN and LORI REYNOLDS, training graduates, have passed the written assessment portion of the Virginia quality insurance screening for interpreters of the deaf.
\ JEANNANE DIXON, coordinator of the Center for Learning Disabled, served on the "Expanding/Specializing Services for Special Population Groups" panel at the New Horizons Conference in Richmond.
Dixon also had an article published in the Virginia Community College Association Journal titled "Working with the Learning Disabled College Student."
\ MURRAY BOSNIAK, adjunct faculty member in the English Department, conducted readings from his "Sonnets and Such: Poems for My Father at Morning Star Bakery's Coffee House Nite." The series of readings continues today at 10:20 a.m. at the Metaphysical Chapel in Blacksburg for the Blacksburg Literary Group.
by CNB