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

DATE: THURSDAY, May 27, 1993                   TAG: 9305270500
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-20   EDITION: METRO 
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AROUND TOWN

The American Sewing Guild has formed a chapter in the Roanoke Valley.

The guild is a nonprofit organization that operates through the American Home Sewing and Craft Association. Each chapter provides current sewing information to members at all skill levels through lectures, demonstrations, classes, seminars and fashion shows.

The Roanoke Valley chapter meets the second Thursday of every month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Cave Spring Rescue Squad building on Brambleton Avenue Southwest. For more information, call Jill Setchel at 989-8499.

Roanoke-area women join Girl Scout board

The Virginia Skyline Girl Scout Council has elected several Roanoke Valley residents to its 1993-95 board of directors.

Diane Baun, an attorney with Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, also is president of the Roanoke chapter of the Virginia Women's Attorney's Association.

E. Ann Hill, an attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Western District Office in Roanoke, also volunteers with Sexual Assault Response and Awareness, the Turning Point shelter for abused women and is a former member of the YWCA board of directors.

Wendy Moore, a current member of the Virginia Skyline council's board of directors, is president of the council's Diversity Analysis Task Force and former executive director of Roanoke Area Ministries.

Sarah Page is a senior Girl Scout and is working on her Gold Award. She participates in Mill Mountain Theatre's Youth Ensemble and is active in her church youth group and choir.

School names officers, honors employees

Greenvale School has announced several personnel changes and achievements.

New officers for the board of trustees are Elizabeth Holt, president; M.J. O'Brien, vice-president; and John Parrott III, secretary/treasurer.

Peggy Garland received the 1993 Child Care Professional award, and Susan Bowles was named employee of the year.

Greenvale is a nonprofit child-care center at 627 Westwood Blvd. N.W.

Boating enthusiasts install new officers

James L. Shugart of Blacksburg has been installed as the 1993 commanding officer of the Roanoke Valley Power Squadron, an organization of power boating and sailing enthusiasts.

Shugart replaces outgoing Cmdr. George F. Muller of Roanoke.

Bridge officers are: C. Robert Chamberlain, executive officer; George F. Fischer, educational officer and secretary; John M. Aldrich, administrative officer; and Shirley L. Gedettis, treasurer.

The group promotes education and water safety for recreational boaters. The Roanoke Valley unit, which primarily is involved with boating on Smith Mountain Lake, provides volunteer instructors for the Virginia Basic Boating Course, sponsored by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

For more information on safe-boating courses in the Roanoke Valley, call George Fischer at 345-8591.

Organists' guild names new officers

Emily Owens, organist at St. John's Episcopal Church, has been named dean of the Roanoke Chapter of the American Guild of Organists for the coming year.

Other officers include: James McConnell, sub-dean; Jeffrey Hummel, secretary; and Rebecca Kennedy, treasurer.