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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 18, 1993                   TAG: 9302180535
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

DAVID W. THOMPSON, son of Betty H. Thompson of North Spring Drive, has received one of Roanoke College's Solomon Community Service awards.

Thompson, a junior mathematics major, has been active in Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics, the American Red Cross Bloodmobile and Appalachian Plunge. He also is treasurer of Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity.

Other nominees included M. Hunter Burrow, Edward W. Harper and Erica A. Lipps of Roanoke; Forest I. Jones, Richard F. Sarver and April Thompson of Salem; and Hubert P. Firebaugh of Daleville.

JEFF FORD, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Ford of Craig County, has been named a semifinalist in the 1993 Presidential Scholars Program.

Scholars are selected on the basis of superior academic achievement, leadership quality, strong character, and involvement in community and school activities.

Ford is a senior at Craig County High School.

ERIN HUGHES, a student at Madison Middle School, was one of 50 winners in the "Bill of Rights for Drug Independence" essay contest.

Hughes was invited to attend the first Convention of the Bill of Rights in Colonial Williamsburg, where she was one of the original signers of Virginia's "Bill of Rights for Drug Independence," which will be sent to schools statewide.

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