Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, October 10, 1995 TAG: 9510110022
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-9 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Hill received a bachelor's degree in 1992 from Ferrum College. A 1988 graduate of Radford High School, he is the son of Sonny and Sandy Hill of Radford.
Christiansburg resident Elizabeth Halberstadt has been selected to serve as a Gold Key Tour Guide for Randolph-Macon Woman's College for the 1995-96 academic year. Halberstadt is a sophomore at the college. She is one of 41 students selected to give tours.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Halberstadt.
Paul Tubach Jr., a fifth-year landscape architecture student in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, has been appointed the national student representative to the board of trustees of the American Society of Landscape Architects in Washington. He will serve a one-year term.
Blacksburg resident Heather Keister received a $1,120 Garland Gray Foundation Scholarship from Mary Washington College. The scholarship is awarded to outstanding students who are residents of Virginia majoring in historic preservation.
Keister, a senior, is president of the Preservation Club and assistant editor of the Vernacular Architecture Newsletter.
Maryam Khan, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, is a recipient of the 1995 Luray Caverns Grant from the National Tour Foundation. She is one of 20 scholarship winners across North America.
The $1,000 graduate grant was established in 1988 to defray the educational costs incurred by students conducting research on a thesis, dissertation or other project relating to travel and tourism. Kahn's research focuses on tourism and the environmental issues with emphasis on ecotourism.
Christina Clum of Blacksburg, a graduate student in broadcasting and cinema at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, had her film selected for inclusion in the series North Carolina Visions in September. The film was selected from a statewide competition held earlier in the year.
Clum, along with another graduate student, had her film "Spent" air on the show. "Spent," is a satirical, animated film whose theme is self-control in a world of chaos and violence.
by CNB