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

DATE: THURSDAY, September 23, 1993                   TAG: 9309230368
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-15   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

Recipients of the $2,000 scholarships are: Makia Pierson, a William Fleming High School graduate who is attending Virginia Western Community College; Lam Tran, a Patrick Henry High School graduate who also is attending Virginia Western; Amina Al Hindi, who is attending Virginia Western but plans to transfer to Radford University; to Erika Smith, a Patrick Henry graduate who is attending East Tenneessee State; Kenneth Burns, a Patrick Henry graduate who is attending Allegheny College; and Felicia White, who is attending Virginia Western and planning to transfer to Radford.

The housing authority, in conjunction with the Roanoke Branch of the American Association of University Women awarded the $300 scholarship to Brenda Dillon who is attending Virginia Western.

\ JOHN R. PATTERSON of Fincastle has been appointed to represent Botetourt County on the Local Advisory Board at Virginia Western Community College. He will serve a four-year term.

\ CHARLES E. "CHIP" KONRAD II, son of Charles E. and Karen L. Konrad of Roanoke County, has received his doctorate in geography from the University of Georgia.

Konrad, a graduate of Northside High School, is on the staff of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech and his master's from the University of Virginia.