Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 14, 1995 TAG: 9509150001
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-11 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Paden-Travers of Community School and Smith of Cave Spring High School studied topics in Virginia history for re-certification and graduate credit, attended lectures and participated in scholar-led discussion groups.
CARLA TOMS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Toms of Roanoke, received a 1995-96 Stuart T. Saunders Scholarship at Roanoke College. The scholarship honors the late Saunders, a Roanoke College graduate and former Norfolk and Western Railway president. Preference is given to students who are sons and daughters of Norfolk Southern employees.
ROLANDA MOORE of Roanoke has been invited to attend the U.S./Spain Joint Conference on Education in Barcelona, Spain in December. The conference is a joint effort by the University of Barcelona and the Citizen Ambassador Program of People to People to bring together U.S. educators and their Spanish counterparts to share ideas about learning and teaching.
WENDY L. CONNER, daughter of Andrew R. Conner and Claudia Jenkins, has been named a United States National Collegiate award winner in nursing by the United States Achievement Academy.
The criteria for selection include academic performance, leadership qualities, responsibility, motivation to learn and improve, attitude and cooperative spirit and a recommendation from a professor or director.
DABNEY ELIZABETH EDWARDS, daughter of John and Cathye Edwards of Roanoke, recently participated in the Presidential Classroom's 1995 Senior High School Program in Washington, D.C.
Edwards and students from 42 states and various foreign countries spent a week with government leaders and transition officials learning about the democratic process.
Edwards also has been named a United States National Award winner by the United States Achievement Academy.
CAVE SPRING HIGH SCHOOL students Mary Lynne Hasty, Missy James, Susanne Bell and Nathan Gleiner attended the 1995 Ball State University Jounalism Workshops in Muncie, Ind. The students participated in a workshop program dealing with issues confronting scholastic journalists.
Hasty won the workshop's overall improvement award. James won the outstanding writing portfolio award and the outstanding writing award.
CHRISTOPHER HERRING HANCOCK, son of Kathleen McMillen Hancock of Roanoke and William H. Hancock of Union W.Va., will serve as prefect during his senior year at Woodberry Forest School.
As a prefect, Hancock and 18 other students will administer the honor system and assist with dormitory supervision.
THE ROANOKE REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY recently presented six $1,000 scholarships to assisted housing residents.
The recipients are: Chuong Hong Nguyen, Kenneth Dewayne Burns, Robin Leigh Patsel, Jennifer Marie Widener, Leda Marcell Sapp and Taheerah Ni'mat Muhammad.
To be eligible for the scholarships, applicants must be an assisted housing resident and accepted into or already attending a college or university as a full-time student.
LEE ANN McPHAW, daughter of Bill and Ann McPhaw of Roanoke, recently graduated from the physician assistant program of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. She has a bachelor of science degree in dietetics from Virginia Tech.
JAMES YANCY of Roanoke was among a team of accounting students from Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business who won first place in a national case analysis competition sponsored annually by the Institute of Management Accountants.
GERALD A. DeMASTERS, a student at Salem High School, was the winner of the Trig-Star Competition, a trigonometry test sponsored by the Western Chapter of the Virginia Association of Surveyors and the National Society of Professional Surveyors.
Individual school winners are Brandon J. Simpson, Cave Spring; Sarah Rene Hudson, William Byrd; Meghan M. Templeton, Northside; Kelly A. Solesbee, Glenvar; Luke Taun Chong, Patrick Henry; Darsha Stevens, William Fleming; Theresa Mai, The Governor's School; Cory Key, Liberty; Jennifer Tindle, Staunton River; and Lesley Bowne, Jefferson Forest.
DeMasters represented the Western Chapter at the state competition in Norfolk in July.
ANTHONY JAMES CARTER of Salem, recently graduated from Clinch Valley College in Wise.
JOHN ELLIOTT III of Roanoke was among 20 housing residents who received $1,500 educational scholarships from the Virginia Housing Development Authority.
The scholarships, part of VHDA's new $30,000 education scholarship program, were available to residents or their dependents living in rental housing financed by the Virginia Housing Development Authority.
Elliott plans to study electronics at Virginia College.
by CNB