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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 18, 1993                   TAG: 9302180396
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-2   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

THE ARTS COUNCIL OF THE BLUE RIDGE has selected 26 students to participate in the 1993 Center Scholarship Program.

They are: Ellen Brenner of North Cross School; Brandi Barber, Amy Lester, James Powell and Jennifer Stokes of Salem High School; David Dalton and Brian Minter of William Byrd High School; Patrick Derriso and Jennifer Spigle of Glenvar High School; Shaleigh Wright, Colleen Luci, Christine Boutilier, Will Karr, Alycia Phoenix and Huyen Campbell of Cave Spring High School; Erin Thomas, Richard Beal Jr., Sarah Honer, Mariana Abraham, Ellen Harris, Andy Marchal, Mark Feldman, Melanie Swiercinski, Jonathan Hunley and Lindsay Carmichael of Patrick Henry High School; and Elizabeth Jones of Staunton River High School.

This year's program integrates writing with hands-on experiences in theater, drawing and photography.

DAVID CURTIS, an art professor at Virginia Western Community College, is an artist-in-residence at Sang Ji Junior College in Wonju, Korea.

Curtis is the third member of the Virginia Western faculty to participate in the exchange program between the two sister colleges. Roanoke and Wonju are sister cities.

Curtis lectures, through an interpreter, on various American artists and is conducting research on contemporary Korean artists through studio visits and photo documentation.

Byoung-Ryong Lee, a landscape design professor at Sang Ji, recently completed six months in residence at Virginia Western. Lee conducted research, lectured, worked with Friends of the Arboretum and designed a Korean garden for future installation on the Virginia Western campus.

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