Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 10, 1994 TAG: 9412300022
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-6 EDITION: METRO
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Weaver, a Russian studies major, has appeared in several other plays. She is the daughter of Holly L. H. Weaver of Roanoke.
THE SALEM HIGH SCHOOL BAND recently won the Grand Champion trophy and a $250 cash prize in the Lynchburg Classics Contest.
Dennis Reaser, director of the band, said the Salem group swept its whole class in the competition that included 13 bands in three classes.
The Salem band has participated in more than 24 competitions this year.
AMY MARIE WOODS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Woods of Salem, has received the Kenmore Merit Scholarship as a senior at Sweet Briar College.
The scholarship was established by the J. Wilson Newman Family and is awarded to a junior or senior selected by the faculty of the government department.
Woods is a graduate of Glenvar High School.
ANGELA WHATELY, daughter of Travis and Mary Whately of Roanoke, has been selected to the honors program at Longwood College.
Selection to the program is based on high school grade-point average and SAT scores. Students in the program must take at least eight honors courses and maintain a 3.25 grade-point average.
Whately, a freshman liberal studies major, is a graduate of Northside High School.
CAVE SPRING and PATRICK HENRY high schools recently placed in the 21st annual Radford University Math Rally. Schools were judged on an individual and team basis. Certificates were awarded to the top three individuals and top three teams in classes A, AA, AAA, and a $100 prize was given to the top individual winner in each class.
The Cave Spring team was second in the AAA division. Team members were: seniors Mary Dunne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dunne; Rimjhim Sarkar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Subhas Sarkar; and Gina Nasca, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nasca.
The Patrick Henry team of seniors John Eure, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Eure Sr.; Ivan Herman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Herman; and Joel Nitchman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Nitchman, was third in the AAA division. Eure also placed second individually in this division.
CLAYTON S. HIGHBERGER of Salem and JULIA E. SLEMP of Roanoke, both students at Randolph-Macon College have been recognized by Zeta of Virginia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for earning a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or better through their sophomore year.
KATHERINE E. GARRETT and NATALIE BUSHKAR, both of Roanoke, were among the winners in First Virginia Banks Inc. 1995 Annual Student Art Calendar Competition. Their work will be featured in the 1995 Virginia Student Art Calendar, which will be distributed at all Virginia branches at First Virginia member banks. Each winning student received a $150 First Virginia Statement Savings account. Each school with a winning student received a $250 contribution.
Garrett is a fifth-grader at Penn Forest Elementary, and her work will appear in the calender on the month of March. Bushkar is a sixth-grader at Cave Spring Junior High, and her work will appear on the month ofApril.
MARGARET TYREE HARDING of Roanoke has been awarded the Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award by Averett College. Harding, who is minister of education, youth, and administration at Grandin Court Baptist Church in Roanoke, was honored for her contributions to her church and to her community.
Harding holds a bachelor's degree in church ministries from Averett and a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina. She is past president of the Roanoke Area Ministers of Education Association, past president and vice president of the Virginia Baptist Religious Education Association, a member of the board of the Religious Education Association of America and a member of the Averett Ministerial Advisory Committee, and holds a leadership position in the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association.
She also is listed in Who's Who in Religion, Who's Who Among College and University Students and Who's Who Among Women.
ELIZABETH POFF, an English teacher at Patrick Henry High School, recently was recognized by the Governor's School for the Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Richmond.
Nominated by Patrick Henry junior, Kelly Rosenberger, Poff was honored "for having a positive influence on the educational development of gifted and talented students while fulfilling the usual duties of a teacher, for demonstrating a caring, empathic attitude while assisting students to achieve their educational goals, and for mentoring, advising and inspiring the youth of the commonwealth of Virginia."
NANCY ROSENBAUM, an English teacher at Patrick Henry High School, has been elected president of District P, Virginia Association of Teachers of English. The organization serves Roanoke and Salem, and Roanoke, Franklin, Craig, Botetourt and Allegheny counties.
Rosenbaum also is affiliate chairman for the Virginia Association of Teachers of English.
APRIL A. SMITH, daughter of Carole Gibson and Roger Smith of Roanoke, recently received the Jane Addams Scholarship from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.
Smith, who is pursuing a master of social work degree, graduated from the University of Richmond in 1993 with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology.
The Jane Addams Scholarship is awarded to an outstanding incoming full-time student with potential for leadership in the field of social work. The scholarship carries an award of $14,000 over two years, or four semesters at $3,500.
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