
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 17, 1994                   TAG: 9501130002
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S3   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

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."

by CNB