Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, December 8, 1994 TAG: 9412300046
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-11 EDITION: METRO
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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. They were 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" at Indiana University Theater in November.
Smith is earning a master of fine arts degree in acting.
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 results from college-wide planning and cooperative efforts started in fall 1993, and a review process by the Department of Education. The grant will buy computer hardware, strengthen and develop academic programs to address health care changes and expand program offerings to accommodate 700 students.
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