Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 7, 1995 TAG: 9509080011
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N10 EDITION: METRO
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CLAY ETHA PETERS of Roanoke has graduated from Regents College of the University of the State of New York in Albany.
ELISABETH L. CARTER of Eagle Rock was named to the dean's list for the spring semester at Concord College in Athens, W.Va.
MATTHEW P. TOMLINSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Tomlinson of Roanoke, was named a national award winner in science by the United States Achievement Academy and will appear in the academy's Official Collegiate Yearbook, which is published nationally.
Tomlinson is an eighth-grader at Northside Middle School.
ANDREW J. SHERNOFF, son of Army Lt. Col. Alan F. Shernoff of Roanoke, has received a $500 college scholarship from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States.
The scholarship honors Henry J. Reilly, the late Army Reserve brigadier general who was a founder and the first president of the ROA.
Shernoff, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, received one of 100 scholarships given nationally.
MARLENE H. WINE, a sixth-grade teacher at Northside Middle School, participated in a four-week summer institute, "Personal and Social Perspectives on Sciences," at the University of Texas in Austin.
Wine was selected to attend by the National Science Teachers Association.
BRIAN SIMPSON, son of Johnny and Pam Simpson of Roanoke and a senior at Northside High School, attended the National Young Leaders Conference in July in Washington, D.C. The conference is a leadership development program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit. Three hundred and fifty students from across America were selected for the conference.
ALEGANDRO WILLE, son of Guillermo and Cecilla Wille of Roanoke, was among 174 students who participated in the 1995 Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth at Western Kentucky University.
Participants had to take a college admissions test in the seventh grade and achieve scores comparable to those of college-bound high school seniors. Wille attends Cave Spring Junior High School.
BRAD MOSER of Salem, was the winning student artist in the 1995 Congressional high school art exhibit, which opened recently in Washington, D.C.
Moser's art entries will be displayed in a corridor leading to the U.S. Capitol until May 1996.
JENNIFER NICOLE MARTIN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Martin of Roanoke, received a bachelor of arts degree in communication arts from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn.
CHARLIE BENNETT, son of Denise and Robert Bennett of Catawba, has been designated as a 1995-96 Tobias Smyth Scholar at Emory & Henry College. The $500 scholarship honors Smyth, one of Emory & Henry's founders and is given to first-year students who exhibit characteristics of leadership and academic excellence.
Bennett is a graduate of Northside High School.
MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE recently announced the names of several Roanoke-area graduates.
Those from Roanoke are: Linda Tracie Boothe, Betty Lou Carter, Susan Jones Davis, Micky Graham Gross, Melissa Jane Hoover, Mary Dillon Lyons, Karen Litzsinger Mays, Kathleen Finnegan Metzler, Stephanie M. Muska, Gina Duval Perez, Sharon C. Presley, Jacquelyn Arnold Stern, Veronica Viceroy VanDeventer, and Susan A. Walton.
Also, Gregory Todd Bowyer and Suzanne E. Robertson, both of Blue Ridge, Beth Montgomery Meador Saunders of Vinton, and Kerensa Lissette Waid of Salem.
HARRIS B. HUTKIN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Hutkin of Roanoke, and ELIZABETH C. LONG, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Long of Roanoke, both received degrees from the University of Richmond. Hutkin received a bachelor of science degree in business administration and Long received a bachelor of arts degree.
STEPHEN A. CLAYBORNE, son of Barbara H. Clayborne of Roanoke, was named to the dean's list at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga.
Clayborne is a graduate of William Fleming High School.
by CNB