
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 29, 1995                   TAG: 9511290020
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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NAMES ON CAMPUS

Neil Wohlford, a 1990 graduate of Radford High School, graduated from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy in March.

Wohlford passed the Virginia licensing exams and is now working with Revco Drug chain in Winchester.

He is the son of Connie and Guy Wohlford.

Virginia Tech

Terry Wildman, a professor of education and educational psychology in the College of Education, was appointed director of Tech's Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in September.

The center advocates the importance of teaching excellence in a land-grant university.

Wildman has been at Tech since 1976 and has worked with several colleagues to develop mentoring programs statewide for beginning teachers and participated in establishing the Beginning Teacher Assistance Program.

Fred Foldvary of the Department of Economics won the 1995 Atlas Foundation's Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for his 1994 book Public Goods and Private Communities. The award was submitted by the Locke Institute in Fairfax.

The 1995 Meek Award from the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education has been given to Michael Olsen, a professor in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism in the College of Human Resources.

The award recognizes an individual's lifetime contributions and outstanding service to hospitality education. Olsen is the founding department head of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management.

by CNB