Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 17, 1994 TAG: 9409200020
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
The senior was chosen from five nominees on Friday at the school's annual "Investments in Learning" assembly.
DeHaven is a member of the National Honor Society, concert choir and other school organizations. She is active in church activities, serves as a part-time assistant at the county library and goes out of her way to help others, said Principal Tom DeBolt. She is the daughter of Harry and Rebecca DeHaven.
The school also named six graduates to its newly created Hall of Fame:
Thomas G. Baker Jr., who was in the school's first graduating class in 1975. The Washington and Lee University Law School graduate has practiced law since 1982, has been Dublin's town attorney since 1992, and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1990;
Gary Clark, class of 1980, who graduated from James Madison University before earning professional football honors with the Washington Redskins and later the Phoenix Cardinals. He started the "Why Say No?" sports camp and has testified before Congress about drug abuse prevention;
Karen Kay Cecil, a 1976 graduate who teaches at the school and was named the state's Outstanding Earth Science Teacher this year. She graduated from Virginia Tech, earned a master's degree at Radford University, and also teaches a geology class at New River Community College;
Cathy Hankla, another 1976 graduate, is an associate professor of English at Hollins College where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees. She is the author of five books, has twice won the University of Missouri Press Breakthrough Prize and in 1989 won the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize;
The Rev. Mark S. Hearn, pastor of a 2,000-member congregation at Grace Baptist Church in Indiana, graduated in 1977 and said he sensed his calling as a senior here. He holds a doctor of ministry degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is the author of a book on witnessing;
Dr. Robert Smith III, class of 1979, is pediatric services coordinator at the Department of Respiratory Care at the University of Virginia where he earned his bachelor's and medical degrees, and where he received the Outstanding Employee Contribution Award this year.
All the recipients except Clark attended the assembly.
The motivational speaker had little to say. That's because Larry Goldstein works as a mime or pantomimist who entertains without words.
His presentation at the assembly was an account of how "the Wrong Brothers" actually made the first airplane flight in Pulaski County. Senior Brian Vaughan volunteered to help with the flight, and Goldstein led him in and out of the "plane," up some invisible ropes, and into a spin.
Goldstein, whose performing sites have ranged from the Lincoln Center and Atlanta Arts Center to orphanages and psychiatric hospitals, later spoke informally with the school's drama students about the acting profession.
by CNB