Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 21, 1994 TAG: 9404220084
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-7 EDITION: METRO
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Claytor, daughter of Dr. Walter and Kim Claytor of Roanoke, also recently helped the nursing school win a national award for successful retention of minority students. Last fall, she also had an article published in the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, a national publication.
Claytor is a graduate of Roanoke Catholic High School and an honors graduate of the nursing undergraduate program of Mary Washington College and the University of Virginia. She earned a master's in nursing from Catholic University in 1981.
NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL VIKING BAND and the CAVE SPRING HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC BAND were chosen as the 1994 Virginia Honors bands at the Virginia Band Orchestra Director Association District IV competition.
The bands won superior performance ratings in competition with 22 school bands.
ROANOKE COLLEGE has named the following students to the fall term dean's list: Christy Balthis, daughter of Carolyn G. Balthis of Roanoke; Valerie N. Hale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Hale of Roanoke; and Michael E. Fadorick, Jr., son of Charles and Eula Huffman of Troutville.
WILLIAM FLEMING HIGH SCHOOL students who were honored at the All District Chorus competition include: seniors Archie Collins and Lindee Whitworth, who were selected as representatives to state choir; and senior Amy Moffit who was chosen as the first state alternate.
Twelve students in the Fleming magnet vocal program participated in the competition.
VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE has announced the names of recipients of several scholarships.
Computer information systems students Linda N. Polhamus and John C. Plunkett won $500 Atlantic Mutual scholarships. Polhamus of Roanoke is a Salem High School graduate, and Plunkett of Hollins is a Northside graduate.
Yolanda L. Weaver of Roanoke, won the $500 Alice Becker Hinchcliffe Williams Dental Hygiene scholarship.
Roanoke resident Julie White also won a $500 dental hygiene scholarship, made possible by a fund established by the Lynchburg Dental Auxiliary.
SALLYE T. COLEMAN and SHIRLEY EMILY HENN, both of Roanoke, have been selected to appear in the fourth edition of ``Who's Who in American Education.''
Coleman, who received a Woman Achiever Award in 1986, taught in Roanoke public schools from 1941 to 1970 and was a member of the Roanoke School Board from 1984 to 1992. Henn was a librarian at Hollins College from 1943 to 1984.
W. SCOTT THOMASSON and ROBERT W. SPESSARD, both of Roanoke, have been named to the dean's list for fall 1993 at Hampden-Sydney College.
Thommason is the son of Judy N. Ross; Spessard is the son of Hesta Spessard.
EDWARD S. AUSTIN, son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Austin of Roanoke, has been named to the dean's list for the fall 1993 semester at the University of Richmond.
LYNCHBURG COLLEGE has anounced the names of Roanoke Valley residents named to the dean's list for fall semester: Paula Collins, Susan Davis, Kathryn Franke, Angela Jefferson, Robert Lamano, Beaufort Martin and Michael Wolf.
JENNY SIGEL, daughter of Steven and Karen Sigel, has been named to the dean's list for the fall semester at the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences. Sigel is a freshman.
AVERETT COLLEGE has anounced the names of the Roanoke-area students who are enrolled in the Adult Curriculum for Excellence program and made the 1993 fall honor roll.
Those on the on the president's list are: Paulette Diane Akers, Susan Elaine Arbogast, Barbara Lynn Bias, Samuel David Bond, Robert Daniel Bowles, Kenneth Wayne St. Clair, Gary Wayne Davis, Rebecca Lee Farmer, Andrea Korona Flora, Michael Anthony Gagnet, John Burton Goff, Ann Margaret Harvey, Gary Donald Jones, Melanie Leigh Mabry, Danny Leon Musselman, John Hencel Myers, Robert Matthew Poole, Denise Carol Prillaman, Leon Maynard Prillaman, Linda F. Spicer, Cassandra Hope Traylor, Harriet Marshall Wallace and Debra Jane Walters.
Those on the provost's list are: Denna Shively Austin, Robert H. Bowers, Flora Tan Cantor, Hugh Lynwood Clark, Kimberly Dawn Dooley, James Michael Guilliams, Ralph Lewis Hayslett III, John Franklin Kubecka, Helen Louise Lovern, Frederick Dale Martin, Paulus W. Moore Jr., Sharon Kay Moore, Nancy Bell Thomas, Rhoda Kay Ware and Carol T. Weeks.
Those on the dean's list are: Steven Ray Alderman, James Franklin Armstrong, Richard David Caccia, Sara Lee Dow, Joyce Susie Hamm, Ralph Hendrikus Pietersen, Lester Williarn Price, June Elizabeth Price, Donna Gay Sams, Mark K. Stafford, Edward Neal Stevens, Julie Ellen Tucker, Bonnie Gay Walker and Ronald Eugene Williams.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA students participating in a volunteer program, Alternative Spring Break, includes Steve Harman, David Penn and Laura Wertz, all from Roanoke. The students went to impoverished areas to help build houses, tutor and do other relief work.
Harman was a site leader in Baldwin, La., a rural community still recovering from damage caused by Hurricane Andrew. He also tutored elementary school children and prepared meals at a homeless center in New Orleans.
Penn traveled to Merida, Mexico, where he helped repair a clinic and day-care center, distribute clothing and food to the needy and assist in educating the community about health care and nutrition.
Wertz worked in Dungannon, one of two Appalachian sites where volunteers repaired homes, cut firewood, dug ditches, helped teach adults to read and worked with youths at risk.
Students paid for their own trips including housing, travel, food, a donation to their site, first-aid supplies and construction materials
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