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

DATE: FRIDAY, June 22, 1990                   TAG: 9006220724
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

JOSEPH C. LAROCCO , Cave Spring High School government and history teacher, received a $1,000 award for excellence in teaching the United States Constitution. The presentation was made by Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry L. Carrico and sponsored by the John Marshall Foundation. LaRocco, who lives in Salem, was one of four teachers in Virginia to receive the award.

\ \ THE CAVE SPRING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS, under the direction of Sue Giles, won second place in the Busch Gardens Choral Festival in Williamsburg. Forty-five choruses from six states participated. The Cave Spring Junior High School Chorus performed two a capella selections.

\ \ CYNTHIA MARSHALL, received the highest teaching award bestowed by Rhodes College in Memphis. Marshall, an assistant professor of English at the college, won the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching and a $5,000 prize. Marshall is the daughter of Phyllis Marshall Burrows of Roanoke and the late Dr. David Marshall.

\ JOHN P. CARBERRY and WILLIAM W. COBBS have received the Roanoke College Medal for professional accomplishments and service to community and college. Carberry, formerly of Roanoke, is a 1949 graduate of Roanoke College. Cobbs, formerly of Rocky Mount, is a 1948 graduate of Roanoke College.

\ \ W. EDWARD BLAIN, chairman of the English department at Woodberry Forest School, has been chosen by the Council for Basic Education as a 1990 CBE Fellow for Independent Study in the Humanities. Blain, formerly of Roanoke, has been an English teacher at Woodberry Forest since 1982. He is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington and Lee University, and he earned a master's degree in English from the University of Virginia.

\ PHILLIP D. PORTER, has received a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Porter is the son of C. Vaughan and Peggy Porter of Roanoke. Porter graduated from Cave Spring High School and the University of Virginia.

\ LISA ZUBER,director of the physical therapist assistant program at the College of Health Sciences, has been elected chairperson of the Southwest District of the Virginia Physical Therapy Association. She will also serve on the board of directors of the association.

\ RICHARD L. CHUBB, of Roanoke, has been named to the St. Paul's College Board of Trustees. Chubb, a Roanoke City schools principal who is on assignment in guidance, oversees a program dealing with at-risk children. He was principal of Hurt Park Elementary from 1971 to 1986. Chubb has had a counseling and consulting service since 1982.

\ \ ROANOKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY DIVISION OF MUSIC has received a grant from the Edgar A. Thurman Charitable Foundation for Children. The $1,200 grant will provide scholarship for children who are unable to meet the costs of music lessons through the Prep Division.

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