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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 12, 1990                   TAG: 9007130533
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W8-9   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

MARK THOMAS RUGABER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rugaber of Roanoke, graduated from the Blue Ridge School, a college preparatory school for young men in grades nine through 12 in Dyke.

\ NANCY CHRISTINE KEATON, daughter of Evelyn Keaton of 808 Mississippi Ave. N.E., received the 1990 Douglas C. Dowe scholarship.

Keaton, a 1990 graduate of William Fleming High School, attended the Magnet School of Technology as a member of the aviation class. Keaton will attend Ferrum College in the fall.

The scholarship was named in honor of the retired Lincoln Terrace Elementary School principal.

\ ROANOKE COLLEGE has been awarded a $43,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will be used to develop a program designed to expand the study of both international relations and foreign languages. Patricia Jordahl, professor of foreign languages, is director of the project.

\ THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES has awarded a summer stipend to Gerald R. McDermott, assistant professor of religion at Roanoke College. McDermott will use the $3,500 stipend to revise his dissertation for publication.

\ JAN MINTON, a visiting instructor of mathematics at Roanoke College, has been selected to be a co-leader of two week-long math workshops at Southwestern University in Marshall, Minn.

The workshops, funded by The National Science Foundation Young Scholars Program, are entitled "Awakening Women to Science," and are for eighth grade girls.

\ PATRICIA JORDAHL, chairman of the Roanoke College foreign language department, has received the Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Language Education from the Foreign Language Association of Virginia. The honor is given to an association member who is judged meritorious in the foreign language field. Jordahl was cited for her work with the Elementary Language Fundamentals (ELF) Program that she developed.

The program gives elementary school students the opportunity to learn French, German and Spanish.

by CNB