Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 5, 1992                   TAG: 9203050522
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-2   EDITION: METRO 
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AROUND TOWN

The Delta Kappa Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority has completed guidelines for a grant for Roanoke Valley high school seniors.

Two grants of $350 each will be given to students pursuing post-high school education. Applications, available from school guidance counselors, will be accepted through March 15.

The guideline committee included Lonnie Prillaman, Barbara Thomas and Carol Campbell, assisted by Linda Wyatt, a teacher and district representative of the National Education Association.

Vinton Baptist Church offers music classes

Vinton Baptist Church has begun its winter/spring music classes for children ages 2-6.

Classes meet three times a week and will continue through May. Scholarships are available.

Tuition is $20 per month, and classes include comprehensive music learning, singing, xylophone, rhythm instruments, piano and crafts.

For more information and class schedules, call 343-7685.

Mental health board has 3 new members

The board of directors of Mental Health Services of the Roanoke Valley has three new appointed members.

Anne F. Andrews, appointed by the city of Salem, supervises senior citizen programs for the Salem Parks and Recreation Department.

Susan Cloeter, appointed by the city of Roanoke, is a former teacher in the Roanoke public school system.

Sue Lehmberg, Botetourt County's representative, worked in the Roanoke school system from 1965 to 1988 as a principal, teacher and physical therapist.

Garden City School wins computer lab

Garden City Elementary School has won Wal-Mart's Class Award - an IBM Personal Science Laboratory, which includes the computer, software and several attachments that will enable students to conduct scientific laboratory experiments and save the results.

Wal-Mart and 13 companies whose products the retail store sells sponsored the contest last year. Customers who purchased these products were asked to filled out cards that designated a school to receive the computer lab.

Garden City's principal, Gary Galbreath, said his school's PTA "stacked the deck" by visiting Wal-Mart and filling out lots of cards.

The computer runs on PSL Explorer Software, a program that allows students and teachers to run sample experiments; gather data from light, pH and temperature probes that can be attached to the computer; scale and plot data; and analyze, store and retrieve the data.

The system is worth $4,000 to $5,000.