Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, December 1, 1994 TAG: 9412240020
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W20 EDITION: METRO
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BRYANT D. HAIRSTON, son of Alfreda Hairston of Roanoke, recently was chosen as a Bonner Scholar at Ferrum College.
The Bonner Scholars are a group of 68 students who volunteer at various schools and agencies in Franklin County.
Hairston is a 1993 graduate of William Fleming High School.
TORINO RAVON JENNINGS, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hash of Roanoke, has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
He is a senior at Hampden-Sydney College.
NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE, has announced the names of Roanoke Valley students who completed graduation requirements during the summer term. They include: George McCarthy Stores Jr., Roanoke, bachelor of business administration degree in management; and Pongsak Siwapornchai, Roanoke, data processing program.
Earning associate degrees were: Melissa D. Agee, Tammy M. Edmondson, Michelle E. Ellis, Ernestine Hancock, highest honors; Annesia E. Perry, James R. Ring Jr., Melissa D. Rowan, Jodi A. Thomas, highest honors; and Donna M. Van Nattan, honors, all of Roanoke; and George R. Brogan Jr. of Salem.
Those who will receive certificates in professional data entry include: Carole Ann Dalton, Roanoke; and Belinda Ann Hager, Troutville, with honors.
Cynthia M. Moore of Roanoke and a medical assisting major was named to the dean's list of National for the late summer term.
OAK HILL ACADEMY recently announced the names of students on the B honor roll for the first quarter.
They include: Christie Abshire, daughter of Billie J. Abshire of Roanoke; Carla Fitch, daughter of Donna and Charles H. Fitch of Salem; Lauren Gregory, daughter of Gayle and Scott Stephens of Roanoke; and Dorie Vaugh, daughter of B.J. and David Vaughn of Roanoke.
ROANOKE COLLEGE has announced the names of Roanoke-area students who have been selected as scholarship recipients.
Receiving the Bittle Scholarship are: Lora Schwehr and Carrie Woods, Salem; and Russell Clemmer and Nathanael Gay, Roanoke.
Students receiving the Davis Honors Scholarship are: Lora Schwehr, Carrie Woods, and Lynn Schwehr of Salem; A. Christy Balthis, Valerie Hale, Michele Hamm, all of Roanoke; Jennifer Mullin and Nancy Beaman of Vinton; John Smith of Daleville; and Karen St. Clair of New Castle.
Stephanie Moore of Roanoke received the Beard Scholarship, and Stephanie Wright of Salem received the Fintel Scholarship.
Recipients of the Reach Scholarship are Philip Hatter and Cheryl Hopson, both of Roanoke; and Joel Hickerson of Salem.
DWIGHT HOLLAND, son of James and Darlene Holland of Roanoke, has been awarded one of seven of Virginia Tech's Cunningham Fellowships, which recognize a student's outstanding credentials and potential as a doctoral degree candidate.
Holland, who is working on a doctoral degree in human factors engineering, has dual bachelor degrees in math and physics from Emory & Henry College and master's degrees in geophysics and systems engineering from Virginia Tech.
THE PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL FORENSICS team recently won two individual trophies in the Catholic Forensics League tournament, which had competitors from 15 schools.
Gordon Lawson won third in extemporaneous speaking, and Susan Tran won third in declamation. Both students qualified for regionals.
The team members include: Shannon Basham, Belinda Duke, Cercy Petty, Kristin Surface and Abby Fifer in poetry/prose; Tanya Wade, Yarin Rachlin and Mary Kay Finucane in extemporaneous speaking; Drew Dowdy and Tanya Smart in duo interpretation; and Chris Avidano in dramatic interpretation.
Katherine Stuart is the team's coach.
PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL students recently won third place in the AAA Division of the Mathematics Rally held at Radford University.
Team members are Ivan Herman, Joel Nitchman and John Eure, who also won second place in the individual contest.
NIKI SNYDER, daughter of William and Judy Snyder of Salem, has been awarded a $250 scholarship from the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. She is a student at Emory & Henry College,
majoring in economics and business with a concentration in accounting. She is also a residence adviser and a member of the Accounting Club and the Blue and Gold Society.
GEORGE MILLER, principal of Coulter Hall, has been selected by the Virginia High School Coaches Association as the 1995 Virginia Wrestling Coach of the Year.
In addition, he is the state nominee for the 1995 National Wrestling Coach of the Year.
MICHAEL E. FADORICK JR., son of Charles and Eula Huffman of Roanoke, has been named a Collegiate Scholastic All-American by the United States Achievement Academy.
Fadorick is a student at Roanoke College and was nominated for this national award by J. Marvin Pippert, associate professor and chairman of sociology.
Fadorick's name will be listed in the annual Scholastic All-American Collegiate Directory.
THE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM recently announced the names of Roanoke Valley semifinalists in the 1995 competition for scholarships.
They are: Russell S. Heywood and Susan E. Hord, Patrick Henry High School; John P. Bird and Theresa Robertson, William Fleming High School; Katherine Norris, Cave Spring High School; and Catherine Airey, Northside High School, earned this distinction.
Vickie Farmakis, William Fleming High School, has been named a Commended Student in the 1995 Achievement Scholarship Program. Named from Roanoke Catholic School were Charles M. Gilliland and Patrick L. Sweeney.
Cobey H. Ferguson and Scharles C. Petty, Patrick Henry High School, are semifinalists in the 1995 program for outstanding black students. Richard Tillies is a commended student in this program
In each annual National Merit Scholarship Program, about 50,000 academically able high school students are honored, but only about 15,000 of them are named semifinalists. Students who qualify as semifinalists have an opportunity to advance to finalist standing and compete for approximately 6,700 scholarships worth more than $26 million. Winners will be announced in the spring.
More than 95,000 black students entered the 1995 Achievement Program by requesting consideration when they took the 1993 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Semifinalists were designated in geographic regions comprised of several states; they represent the highest-scoring entrants in each region.
PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL had three students named Advanced Placement Scholars by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level advanced placement examinations.
Ellen C. Harris, Susan E. Hord and Alexander C. Wade qualified for the award by earning grade of three or above on five or more AP examinations, with an average grade of at least 3.5.
Only 12 percent of the more than 459,000 students who took AP tests in May performed well enough to earn the award.
LOUISE FORSYTH and GARLAND LYNN were named to the academic High List at Episcopal High School in Alexandria.
Both earned an average of 90 or above in at least five classes in this year's first quarter.
Forsyth, a junior, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Forsyth of Roanoke.
Lynn, also a junior, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lynn of Roanoke.
JENNIFER RUTLEDGE of Roanoke was recently crowned as Bluefield College's homecoming queen.
Rutledge, a music education major, is a member of Alpha Sigma honor society, Alpha Delta sorority and the Greek Council.
JEFFREY P. JENKINS, son of Paul E. and Brenda W. Jenkins of Salem, recently earned a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown.
Jenkins, a 1990 Glenvar High School graduate, was also commissioned to second lieutenant through the Army ROTC program.
JO-LYNNE GUELICH, daughter of David and Connie Guelich of Salem, received a bachelor of science degree from Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.
A 1990 graduate of Salem High School, Guelich majored in elementary education.
SHIRLEY C. MEADOR and JIMMY WHITAKER, both of Roanoke, were chosen to serve three-year terms on Bluefield College's Alumni Council.
NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE has announced the names of students who will be included in the 1995 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges.
Among those honored are: Roanoke residents Anna Foster, Patricia Gray, Bunny Hancock, George Stores and Donna Van Natton; Kristine Iversen of Salem; Crystal Dudding of New Castle; John Howell of Blue Ridge; and Jerry Huffman of Daleville.
TAMMIE CAMPBELL, daughter of Patricia Gail Campbell of Roanoke, has been named historian of the Student Christian Fellowship at Ferrum College, where she is a sophomore majoring in preprofessional science.
JENNIFER J. WILSON, daughter of Patricia J. Wilson of Roanoke County, recently graduated with honors from Parsons School of Design with a bachelor's of fine art and from Eugene Lang College with a bachelor's of art.
Both schools are divisions of the New School for Social Research in New York City. Wilson's major at Parsons was product design, specifically glass design and glassblowing and metalsmithing. She also had a concentration in art history from Parsons. Her major at Lang was cultural studies and philosophy. She is the first graduate of Parsons' glass program and was on the dean's list.
RAMONA BURNS, a Patrick Henry High School ninth-grader, was the grand prize winner, in addition to being the Roanoke winner, in a school essay contest on Mark Twain. The contest was held in conjunction with a recent performance by Hal Holbrook.
Burns won an all-expenses paid trip for three to Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's home.
Other winners in the contest received tickets to Mark Twain Tonight! and met Holbrook, who portrayed Twain. Those winners are: Lauren Russon, Addison Aerospace Magnet School; Andrew Kosowitz, Cave Spring Junior High; and Grant Cartner, Cave Spring High School.
TERESA EDILLON, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Guido Edillon, has been appointed to the Associated Students Activities Board for Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, N.M.
Edillon, a junior at Virginia Commonwealth University,is attending the New Mexico university through the National Student Exchange Program.
CLAUDINE A. ANDERSON, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Anderson of Vinton, has been named to the "1995 Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges." She is a student at Southern Virginia College.
BETSY MILLER, daughter of Paul and Amy Miller of Roanoke County, has been elected to the Executive Council of the Future Panhellenic Council at Penn State University. Miller, a freshman, is representing Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority on the council.
She is a graduate of Cave Spring High School.
ANNA BIZAEVA, professor of psychology at the Pskov State Pedagogical Institute in Russia, has been named Roanoke College's Copenhaver Scholar-in-residence.
Bizaeva is teaching a course in "Russian Life and Culture" for the international relations program; working extensively with the Center for Community Research on the Annual Roanoke Valley Poll; serving as a guest lecturer in several courses in education; and conducting workshops for local educators, including those who teach Russian language and culture.
In 1995, Bizaeva will assist Harry Wilson, associate professor of political science at Roanoke College, with a public opinion poll in Roanoke's sister city, Pskov, Russia.
MARK HUNLEY and SIMA GILL, eighth-graders at Addison Aerospace Magnet School, recently participated in the Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., after being chosen to attend based on essays they wrote.
The cost of the trip and airfare was funded in part by the local Air Force Association Chapter No. 285 and also by First Union Bank, the school's business partner. Students from the school also helped by selling chocolate.
ROBERT TERRY PRINCE and DALLAS RAY RICHARDS, cadets at Virginia Military Institute, recently were inducted into the Virginia Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering honor society.
Prince is a junior in civil engineering and is on the dean's list, the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and the university's basketball team. He is a graduate of Lord Botetourt High School and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Prince Jr. of Blue Ridge.
Richards also is a junior in civil engineering and on the dean's list, wears academic stars, is a member of Rat Challenge Cadre and is president of the VMI Eagle Scout Association.
RYAN WICKSTROM and JIM FIELD have been named to the Grace College men's varsity soccer team in Winona Lake, Ind.
Wickstrom is a 1994 graduate of Northside High School and son of John and Linda Wickstrom of Roanoke.
Field graduated from Glenvar High School in 1990 and is the son of Don and Priscilla Field.
CHRISTY SMITH, of Roanoke, recently portrayed Diana in Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well," produced by the Indiana University Theater in early November.
Smith is earning her master of fine arts degree in acting at the university.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES, Roanoke, will receive a $1,741,901 Title III grant distributed during the next five years from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant is the culmination of college-wide planning and cooperative efforts started in fall 1993 and a review process conducted by the Department of Education. The grant will be used to buy computer hardware, to strengthen and develop academic programs to address health care changes and to expand college program offerings to accommodate 700 students.
by CNB