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

DATE: THURSDAY, December 9, 1993                   TAG: 9312090247
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-1   EDITION: METRO 
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GIFT HONORS 2 EDUCATORS

The faculty and staff of G.W. Carver Elementary School in Salem have long memories, especially when it comes to the school's family of employees.

This year, employees have memorialized two men important to the school with a gift to the Good Neighbors Fund.

Joseph T. Coleman Sr. was the father of the school's former principal, Joseph Coleman Jr., who is now the principal of South Salem Elementary.

Chauncey Harmon was the principal of Carver from 1953 to 1966. Harmon remained active at the school, still taking visitors on tours this year.

"His spirit still exists within the building here," says Diane Washenberger, Carver principal.

Both men died in recent months.

Asked why the school chose the Good Neighbors Fund through which to remember the men, Washenberger said, "Because both of them were good neighbors. We knew them as people who cared about others."

Checks should be made payable to Good Neighbors Fund and mailed to Roanoke Times & World-News, P.O. Box 1951, Roanoke 24008.

Names - but not the amounts of donations - of contributing businesses, individuals or organizations, as well as memorial and honorific designations, will be listed. Those requesting that their names not be used will remain anonymous. If no preference is stated, the donor's name will be listed.

Gifts cannot be earmarked for any particular individual or family. Gifts are tax-deductible.

by CNB