Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 4, 1993 TAG: 9305040384
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Short
Blanchard was recognized for her two decades of volunteer service, which includes church work, Girl Scouts and human relations.
She and her husband, Ben, an assistant engineering dean at Virginia Tech, have three children and three grandchildren.
Blanchard has served as one of 35 national Lutheran Brotherhood unit advisers for Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland, and as president of the Virginia Skyline Girl Scout Council. She also has been a national Girl Scout delegate and a scout volunteer.
Blanchard, who was a paid employee of Lutheran Brotherhood during the 1980s, also was a volunteer trainer and was on the boards of the Lutheran campus ministries of Virginia Tech and Radford University, and was president of the Tech faculty women's club.
She also was on the Virginia Center for Volunteer Development Advisory Board and the Medical Clinic of New River Valley Advisory Board.
Blanchard also has been a workshop facilitator for the NAACP of Montgomery County and has volunteered with Friends of the Library in Clifton Forge, the Alleghany Arts Center, the Docent, schools, hospices and groups working with domestic violence and rape prevention.
This is the first such award given by the Rotary since 1987, when Mary Lou Orr was given the Community Safety Award as the founder of the Blacksburg chapter of MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
by CNB