DIRECTOR HOPES TO EXPAND RESCUE EXHIBIT

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

DATE: MONDAY, February 22, 1993                   TAG: 9302220069
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: DIANE SIMPSON STAFF WRITER
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DIRECTOR HOPES TO EXPAND RESCUE EXHIBIT
The new director of Roanoke's "To The Rescue" exhibit wants to raise money to heighten recognition of emergency medical services and to branch out into the schools to educate children.
The Julian Stanley Wise Foundation appointed J. Andree Brooks in December to manage the exhibit and to help support the new National Rescue Hall of Fame project through fund-raising and marketing projects.
Brooks plans to help the foundation expand the exhibit, which opened in June 1991, into the National Rescue Hall of Fame, a national recognition program for rescue volunteers and professionals. The exhibit highlights the legacy of Wise and his dream to prevent needless deaths that led him to establish what is said to be the first volunteer lifesaving crew in the world.
Brooks' duties include her hope to create school programs to expand on the exhibit's goal to interest children in the rescue movement and to train them to call 911 in an emergency.
Before her appointment, Brooks was regional director of the American Lung Association and regional public relations officer for Allstate Insurance Co.
The $1.2 million "To The Rescue" exhibit, sponsored through a joint effort of the foundation, the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads and the History Museum at Center in the Square, offers a hands-on approach in the appreciation of emergency medical and rescue services. It is located at the history museum.
Exhibit highlights include a full-scale crash truck, an upside-down crashed car, dramatic rescue videos and changing technology from 1928 to the present. "To The Rescue" also recognizes Virginians who have died in performance of their duties or who have made outstanding contributions to the service.
In April at Center in the Square, the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads will honor six Virginia rescue squad members - three of them Roanokers - who died in service. In the fall at the association's convention, "They're going to recognize people in the service nationally - the first step in recognizing people from all 50 states," Brooks said.
"To The Rescue" is the first permanent exhibit devoted to the history of volunteer rescue in America.
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