Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 2, 1995 TAG: 9508020016
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Todd Clayton of Dublin recently graduated from the College of Law Enforcement at Eastern Kentucky University with a bachelor's degree in police administration.
Clayton works with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department. He is the son of Daniel and Barbara Clayton.
Reine Lea Speed graduated with high honors from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati with a degree in flute performance. Speed also attended Ohio University for two years. She graduated from Christiansburg High School in 1991 and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Speed Jr. of Christiansburg.
Amy Barnard of Radford graduated summa cum laude with honors in history from Wake Forest University.
Barnard was recently awarded a Rotary International Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship for study in the Caribbean this fall.
A Carswell Scholar at Wake Forest, she also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board, Phi Alpha Theta history honor society and Delta Delta Delta social sorority.
Barnard graduated in 1991 from Radford High School, where she was valedictorian of her class and recipient of the Whitt Memorial Scholarship. She is the daughter of Jack and Susan Barnard.
Christiansburg resident Vanessa Holman graduated magna cum laude from National Business College with an associate's degree in medical assisting. Holman received the Peer Award from the Medical Department and the M.A. Smythe Award for Academic Excellence from the college. Holman is the daughter of Janice Holman Atkinson.
Blacksburg resident Michael John "M.J." Dougherty received a Ph.D in environmental design and planning from Virginia Tech. He received a bachelor's degree in government in 1985 from the College of William and Mary and his master's degree in urban affairs from Virginia Tech in 1989.
Dougherty will be an assistant professor with extension services, division of community and economic development, at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Most recently he was a research associate with the Institute for Community Resource Development at Virginia Tech and a sports writer for The Roanoke Times.
Amy Shanks of Christiansburg was selected for membership in Fleur de Lis honor society at Berea College. The society recognizes students who achieve high scholastic records during their freshman year. Shanks is working toward a degree in nursing.
A graduate of Auburn High School, she is the daughter of David and Rebecca Shanks.
Linda Bond of Christiansburg recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a master of education in curriculum and instruction. Bond will continue working as a kindergarten teacher at Shawsville Elementary School. She received her bachelor's degree in 1977 from Radford University.
Bond is the daughter of William Bond Jr. and Eunice Bond.
RECOGNITIONS
Radford University's Public Information Office has received several national and regional awards.
Three awards were earned in the visual design and print category in a national competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support. The awards include a gold for the Selu Conservancy fund-raising brochure, a silver for the New College of Global Studies student recruitment publication and a bronze for the College of Arts and Sciences information tabloid.
In addition, the university's Radford Night Program received a bronze in the Special Student Recruitment Projects category. The project was jointly developed with the office of admissions.
The office also received two awards sponsored by the national publication "Admissions Marketing Report." The Selu Conservancy brochure received a gold award and the New College of Global Studies search publication received an award of merit.
Eric Wiegegreen, associate professor of interior design at Virginia Tech, received an honorable mention award in the 1995 American Society of Interior Designers' Virginia Chapter Design Specialty Award competition.
The award was for the design of Dr. and Mrs. William Isenhour's residence in the Laurel Ridge section of Blacksburg.
by CNB