Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 4, 1993 TAG: 9305040389
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: JOANNE ANDERSON
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Ten class members act in the show and 16 others helped write the script, compose the music, design the stage set and lighting and decide on costumes and props.
Admission is free. Shows are this morning at 9:30, Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and Thursday at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
\ FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL plans its second spring festival Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. All events will be indoors. Admission to the festival is free; tickets for games and other activities are 25 cents each or five for $1. Games, crafts, food, a cakewalk and music are planned for all ages.
\ Pupils and staff at HARDING AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL will exercise Wednesday with 6 million or so others in 15,000 schools in 40 countries.
It is ACES Day - All Children Exercising Simultaneously - and pupils Ashley Slagel and Annie Moore are inviting everyone to participate in walking outside the building for 15 minutes starting at 10 a.m.
\ BARNETT J. CARR, a seventh-grader at Shawsville Middle School, has won a national award in mathematics from the United States Achievement Academy. He is the son of Carroll and Susan Carr.
\ The after-prom party at SHAWSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL starts at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, after the Friday night dance, and will last until 4 a.m.
The country and western theme will be evident in decor, dancing and music. There also will be a karaoke contest, skill and chance games and prizes for everyone.
Drawings for a VCR, color television set and portable CD player will be held, along with the end of the scavenger hunt that began Monday.
Parents interested in helping should contact Pam Bandy at 268-5761 or Joyce Spangler at 268-6372.
\ A Student of the Month is selected at Blacksburg High School each month based on leadership and citizenship qualities and academic performance.
REBECCA FARKAS was April's student of the month. Farkas, daughter of Daniel and Wendy Farkas, plays in the band, participates in the International Club and is a member of the National Honor Society.
ANN CASSELL is the May student. Recently crowned Miss Blacksburg High School, she is a cheerleader, member of the band, student council, National Honor Society and several other school groups. Her parents are Dr. and Mrs. S.K. Cassell of Blacksburg.
JENNY SCHUETZ, daughter of Arnold and Verna Schuetz, will be June's student of the month. She is active in forensics and debate, the German Club and symphonic and marching bands.
\ This is NATIONAL TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK. Each day at Margaret Beeks Elementary School, the teachers will be given pastries and coffee and small gifts of appreciation. On Friday, a special luncheon for the teachers will be held to acknowledge their devotion and hard work.
\ PULASKI COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL juniors and seniors have been invited to an all-night after-prom party Saturday at the Pulaski YMCA. The theme, "Tropical Luau," will be in full swing from 11:30 p.m. until 6 a.m.
A disc jockey will provide music for dancing. Also planned are swimming, carnival games, indoor golf, rapid-fire basketball and food, right through to breakfast. Door prizes include $500 and $300 in cash, a Fisher dual-cassette and CD "boom box," a Sony Walkman, a Hitachi VCR and a color TV.
\ RADFORD HIGH SCHOOL placed first in division II competition at the regional high school programming contest at East Tennessee State University. Students on the team were captain Hayes Morehouse, Tammy Blackburn, Jenny Kopf and Tina Tynan.
\ Performances of the timeless drama "OUR TOWN," written 55 years ago by Thornton Wilder, will be staged by Blacksburg Middle School on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $2.
And if Blacksburg Middle School Principal Gary McCoy is in the audience, it will not be the first time. McCoy also saw the school's 1963 production of "Our Town," which starred local artist Diane Porter Goff as Emily and New River editor for the Roanoke Times & World-News, Elizabeth Obenshain, as Mrs. Smoakes, the town gossip.
\ ARTIST LAURI CROW will use live animals as sketching models at the drawing workshop, "Animals Observed: Drawing from Life," at Christiansburg High School today.
Crow shows workshop participants how to work quickly and accurately to capture the animal on paper. Observing and understanding animal anatomy and movement also will be addressed.
\ The U.S. Experiment in International Living of Brattleboro, Vt., has chosen Blacksburg High School junior BRIAN KUBIN as an exchange student in Germany next year.
Kubin is active in school athletics and several clubs, including the Science Club and German Club.
"I would like to experience the differences in school systems, and also the changes the European Community is going through in dissolving all borders between member countries," he said.
World Learning, the group that administers the exchange program, is seeking American host families for German students scheduled to arrive in August. For information, call (800) 448-9944.
\ The Business Leaders of America at AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL will sponsor the sixth annual Miss Auburn High School pageant Saturday at 7 p.m. "Central Park in Spring" will be the backdrop. There will be door prizes and performances by the high school swing choir and jazz band. Admission is $2.
\ Illustrations by DARCY MAY will be showcased at Price's Fork Elementary School, 4237 Prices Fork Road, all month. May has illustrated several books, including "The Little Mermaid" and "Jim Henson - The Story Teller."
\ AUTHOR Joanne Anderson is filling in for Melissa DeVaughn, who is hiking the Appalachian Trail. If you have an interesting news item from your school, write to the New River Current in care of the Roanoke Times & World-News' New River Valley Bureau, P.O. Box 540, Christiansburg 24073.
by CNB