Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 27, 1994 TAG: 9411120025
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N5 EDITION: METRO
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The Melrose/Rugby Neighborhood Forum is opening its new office and community center at 1501 Lafayette Blvd. NW. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Sunday at 4 p.m.
The building, donated by Dr. and Mrs. Maynard H. Law, will be used for monthly meetings, held the fourth Tuesday of each month.
Officers are Estelle McCadden, president; Walter M. Fizer Sr., first vice president; Charles Anderson, second vice president; Clarice Walker, treasurer; Shirley Bethel, assistant treasurer; the Rev. Paul E. Johnson, chaplain; and Dennis Galloway, assistant chaplain.
For more information, call Mary Allen at 344-1960 or Evelyn Fizer at 344-0124.
T-shirt design winners
Becky Horn, 11, won the T-Shirt Design Contest held during the Roanoke Festival in the Park.
Horn's design will be printed on T-shirts distributed at the festival's alcohol-free New Year's Eve celebration - First Night Roanoke.
Horn is a student at H.L. Horn Elementary.
Other winners in the contest included: James Peery, 11, Cave Spring Junior High, second place; Allison Walthall, 10, Mount. Pleasant Elementary, third place; and Jessica Elliott, 12, Forest Park Elementary, fourth place.
Valley Kiwanian elect new officers
Rogers Jones was recently elected president of the Kiwanis Club of the Roanoke Valley for 1994-95.
Other officers elected were: Andrew Slemp, first vice president; Henry Kruse, second vice president; Robert Turner Jr., treasurer; and Tom Hahn, secretary.
Elected to the board of directors were: Larry Edwards, Bob Gasparoli, Mason Miller, Ray Carr, Jack Sale, Jim Tapley, Loy Self and Ed Kuzas.
Kiwanians of Roanoke elect new officers
Stephen A. McGraw was recently elected president of the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke for 1994-95.
Other officers elected were: Robert E. Brailsford, president elect; Vernon A. Danielson, vice president; John M. Shumate Jr., secretary-treasurer; Jacqueline S. Bledsoe, past president; and Howard C. Zerbst, president of the Kiwanis Foundation.
Roanokers pass state bar exam
Several Roanoke-area residents recently passed Virginia Bar Examination.
Those from Roanoke who passed were: Keller Houck Bivens, Louann Legnaioli Black, Mary Ellen Blaney, John Daniel Bonderman, Thomas Edward Bowers, Phillip Edward Brown, William Edward Callahan Jr, Erna Elizabeth Downs, Julie Elizabeth Ernst, Sarah Elizabeth Hawkins, Harry Isaac Johnson III, Christopher Edward Kaczmarek, Rodney David Malouf, Keith Richard Marino, Elizabeth LuAnne Darden Niles, Apur Rohit Patel, Geneann Knight Rich, Michael Adrian Stakes, John Henderson Turner III, Joseph Franklin Vannoy and George Matthew Warren.
James Kenneth Cowan Jr. of Cloverdale also passed the exam.
Humorist to address Valley Writers
Humorist Mary Wakefield Buxton is scheduled to address the Valley Writers group at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at Elm Parks Estates near Tanglewood.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Buxton is the author of "Help! I'm Being Held Captive in Virginia" and "To Love a Virginian." The title of her lecture is "The importance of Humor to the Writer."
For more information, contact Rodney Franklin, 982-1654.
by CNB