Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 29, 1994 TAG: 9405310149
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DUBLIN - Thirty-four students graduated last week from the Southwest Virginia Governor's School, and three of them received college scholarships.
A $500 scholarship from the school's Parents In Education support group went to Orion Scott, who will graduate from Giles High School.
Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. awarded another $500 scholarship to Suzanne Kirby, who will be graduating from Pulaski County High School.
Wythe County Community Hospital chose Sherri Armbrister, who will graduate from George Wythe High School in Wytheville, for its first $100 scholarship.
Pat Duncan, director of the Governor's School, said additional scholarships may be announced and awarded to other graduates in the next few weeks.
It was the third graduation ceremony for the school, to which students commute from their home schools for a half-day of advanced classes in science, mathematics and technology.
Parents attended the ceremony in the commons at Pulaski County High, as well as mentors with whom students spent one day a week for 12 weeks at job sites ranging from higher educational institutions and hospitals to judges' offices and industries. Duncan started the mentorship program last year to give students experience at actual job sites.
Duncan said this year's graduates have received scholarships so far with a total value of more than $150,000. Juniors and seniors were also recognized with awards for academic performance.
Widening set for June
WYTHEVILLE - Construction on widening a four-lane sixth-tenths of a mile section of Fourth Street from Monroe to Ridge Streets is scheduled to get under way in June.
Equipment has already been moved into the area, but the $1.2 million project will take at least a year to complete. Utilities must be relocated, and travel will be reduced to one lane in each direction for much of the time.
James R. Vannoy & Sons of Jefferson, N.C., is the general contractor.
A graduate's poem
DUBLIN - A Wythe County student expressed her feelings about departing to her fellow Southwest Virginia Governor's School graduates in a poem at their graduation ceremony here last week.
Bethany Hankins said she wrote the poem, ``Leaving,'' for her home graduating class at Rural Retreat High School but felt that the Governor's School was also ``her'' school. The poem went as follows:
Listen to the ghosts of a hundred voices.
The young came here to learn and be taught.
High school buildings crack under the weight
Of all the memories hanging in the halls.
They told of colorful glimpses of joy
And shadowy shades of solitary grief.
The false images broke too soon;
All the people left to find a true home.
The walls that were put up in self-defense
Were no longer needed in the stillness and silence
And anyone walking the shiny floor
Was surprised by the echoes of their footfalls.
The alma mater no longer rang out
Young faces uplifted with tears on their cheeks
They walked out the doors three months ago
The remembrance crushed by the summer's heat.
10 wanted for offenses
WYTHEVILLE - The Wythe County Sheriff's Office has released a second list of ten individuals wanted for various offenses.
They are Jessie Stuart, Wytheville, for threatening to bomb a house; Frank Charles Stinson, Galax, operating a motor vehicle after being judged a habitual offender; William D. Tolbert, Marion, felony bad check; Jeanette Waner, failure to comply with Community Diversion Incentive conditions for release; Shelia I. Kenny, Wytheville, and Deborah Ann Gill, Max Meadows, both for failure to appear in court on a shoplifting charge;
Also: Allen Conway Jones, Rural Retreat, CDI revocation; Pat Jackson, Pearisburg, failure to comply with court-imposed conditions; Flint Eugene Elliott, Hillsville, failure to pay child support, and Ranny Jay Hibbs, Max Meadows, failure to appear for sentencing after being convicted of a death threat.
A previous list of 10 fugitives resulted in some arrests, and the Radford Police Department has since started a similar list.
911 everywhere now
WYTHEVILLE - The town of Wytheville now has 911 emergency calling service available town-wide.
Citizens dialing 911 in cases of emergency will be connected with the Wytheville Police Department, Fire Department and Rescue Squad. Non-emergency calls should be made to 223-3300.
Anyone with questions about the system can call Sgt. Ray Richardson at 223-3324.
by CNB