Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991 TAG: 9102220610
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-5 EDITION: METRO
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In celebration of Black History Month, the College of Health Sciences will present a display honoring black Americans who have made significant contributions in the field of medicine.
The display will be open to the public Monday through March 1 in the college's sixth-floor Learning Resources Center, at 920 S. Jefferson St. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. until 9 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Pioneers in the medical field and current contributors, national and local, will be featured. Those from the Roanoke Valley include:
Dr. Anthony Remson - private-practice internist and vice president of the Salem branch of the NAACP.
Shelvey Bratcher-Porter - registered nurse, president of the Roanoke Valley Black Nurses' Association and assistant professor of nursing at Radford University's program at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Conrad Claytor - physician and adjunct faculty member at the College of Health Sciences.
Miriam Smith - founder of the nurses aide program at Burrell Memorial Hospital in 1957 and founder of the school of practical nursing at Lucy Addison High School in 1958. She died in 1989.
Valley veterans council elects new officers
Dan Karnes has been elected president of the Roanoke Valley Veterans Council.
Other officers elected are Corky Coughlin, vice president; Dallas Proax Jr., secretary; Shirley Hudson, treasurer; Tom Berger, chaplain; and Waynard Carlwell, sergeant-at-arms. Family Service elects officers, directors
C.T. "Butch" Meredith has been elected president of Family Service of Meredith Roanoke Valley for 1991.
Other officers are Mary Meade Winn, first vice president; Christine Harkness, second vice president; Robert M. Brown Jr., treasurer; A. Taylor Todd, secretary; and William H. Lindsey, immediate past president.
Eight new directors were elected to serve on the board for terms beginning this year. They are Margie Childres, Ashby W. Coleman, Dana Martin, T. Christopher Moore, Greta Rikard, Barry Simmerman, Phillip F. Sparks and Linda L. Steele.
Family Service is a non-profit agency that provides counseling and homemaker/home health aide services to Roanoke Valley residents.
Zoological society elects new officers
Tom Hanes has been elected president of the board of the Blue Ridge Zoological Society of Virginia, the governing body of Mill Mountain Zoo.
Other officers elected are Christy Izard, vice president, and Bill Hopkins Jr., secretary.
by CNB