ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, December 31, 1995              TAG: 9601020126
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 


NAMES ON CAMPUS

Other Schools

A student from Dublin is a George C. Marshall Undergraduate Scholar for 1995-96.

R. Darden Freeman, a student at Emory & Henry College, was recognized for the award by the George C. Marshall Foundation. He is one of 20 students from Virginia colleges to be selected for this award.

A history major, Freeman will do research at the Marshall Library to develop a paper relating to the Berlin Airlift and post-Word War II diplomacy and foreign policy. Freeman's paper will be on display at the library for several months before becoming part of the permanent collection of the library. He will receive $200 on completion of the research paper.

He is the son of John and Jackie Freeman of Dublin.

A local student has been selected as a committee member of the Student Government Association at Lynchburg College.

Skip Ashbrook, a 1993 graduate of Christiansburg High School, is a junior studying child development. He has been selected to the campus facilities committee. He is the son of Herber and Betty Ashbrook of Christiansburg.

Susan Lough of Blacksburg has been named to the 1996 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges. Lough is a student at Southern Virginia College in Buena Vista.

Christiansburg High graduate Sarah Slikker is a new member of the Berea College, Ky., swim team. Slikker is a freshman biology major. She is the daughter of Bart and Karen Slikker of Christiansburg.

Jennifer Ferguson of Blacksburg is a recipient of the Radford University College of Business and Economic Accounting Department Scholarship for fall 1995 and the First National Bank Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship includes an internship with the bank.

Scott Habeeb, a senior at Virginia Tech, has been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, a national honor society that promotes the pursuit of excellence in all fields of higher education. Habeeb, a history major, is a 1992 graduate of Christiansburg High School. He lives in Blacksburg.

Christopher Burns has been selected for the Jefferson-Pilot Fellows program at Elon College. The program recognizes upperclassmen who are in the college's business school and excel in scholarship. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Burns of Dublin.

An Elliston resident is one of 13 people to be awarded a Greensboro Graduate Scholar Fellowship for graduate study at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Chris Bachelder is working on a Ph.D. in the Department of English.

Nancy Glass, a 1986 graduate of Radford High School, recently completed requirements for master's degrees in public health and nursing from Johns Hopkins University. She received an undergraduate degree in nursing in 1994 from Furman University in Greenville, S.C. She is the daughter of Richard and Suzanne Glass of Radford.

Rhonda S. Lytton of Radford was recently initiated into Kappa Delta Epsilon at the University of Georgia College of Education. Lytton is majoring in middle grades mathematics education. She is the daughter of Ethel Lytton and the late Roger Lytton of Radford.

Tracy Cramer of Blacksburg is a member of the team of engineers and computer science students from Virginia Tech to place first among 74 colleges and university teams in the Association for Computing Machinery mid-Atlantic regional competition.

Cramer is studying computer engineering.

Tina Matusevich of Christiansburg has been selected for membership in the International Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau. She is a senior nursing student at Radford University. Matusevich lives in Radford with her husband and two children. She is the daughter of Nyoka Albert and James Bowden Jr. and the stepdaughter of Jon Albert.

Blacksburg resident Dorothy Porter was one of more than 500 student musicians who will participate in St. Olaf College's "Christmas Festival Concert," broadcast recently on public television. Porter is an alto in the St. Olaf Cantorei at the Northfield, Minn., college, which is affiliated with the Evangeleical Lutheran Church in America.

Radford University

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded fellowships to two Radford University nursing professors for 1996-97.

Mary Hope Gibson and Janet McDaniel are the only Virginians to win this award. They are among the 15 Family Nurse Practitioner Fellows chosen from tenured, doctorally prepared nursing professors across 15 states. The fellowship will help prepare them to train family nurse practitioners.

Radford plans to open a faculty practice clinic in about two years. McDaniel and Gibson are involved in establishing the clinic, which will be staffed by nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses, and will be open to the public.

Gibson will study at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and McDaniel has been assigned to the University of Tennessee, Memphis.

New River Community College

A Radford resident was honored at the state board meeting for community colleges as one of 23 outstanding local board members in the system.

Lewis Sheckler has served on the New River Community College board since 1986. A retired music professor from Radford University, Sheckler also serves on the Virginia Student Assistance Authorities Board and the Governor's Commission for Champion Schools.

Several New River Community College employees were recognized for their years of service to the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this program, service time is based on total service with state agencies.

Those receiving five-year awards include: Linda Brillheart of Dublin; Deborah Gerberich and Frances Mitchell, Christiansburg; Teri Moore, Galax; and Bridget Sayles, Wytheville.

Those receiving 10-year awards: Bonna Beamer, Gary Bryant and Marian Lockard, Dublin; Margaret Bryner and Juanita Linzey, Blacksburg; and Naydine Shenk, Galax.

Those receiving 15-year awards: Monica Carden and Bridget Franklin, Dublin; Donald Oliver, Christiansburg; and Iva Jean Edmonds, Pulaski.

Two employees, Ann Folsom and Helen Stumbo, both of Pulaski, received 20-year awards. Margaret Smith of Dublin and Bonnie Wynn of Pulaski received 25-year awards.

Virginia Tech

Several faculty members were honored at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine's 12th Annual Awards Night in November. In addition, Mary Leach, who established the Clarence and Gertrude Leach Memorial Scholarship, the college's first endowed scholarship, was inducted into the College's John Dalton Society. The society is named after the late Virginia governor who signed legislation that created the college.

Faculty award winners include:

Stephen Holladay, recipient of the school's teaching award and a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Virginia Tech's Academy of Teaching Excellence;

Bonnie Smith, class of 1998 teacher of the year;

William Chickering, class of 1997 teacher of the year;

Spencer Johnston received the national Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes teaching excellence, leadership and high moral character in veterinary college faculty members.

Other faculty who have received awards recently:

Stephen Smith, an assistant professor at the college and director of the Aquatic Medicine Laboratory, is recipient of the Pfizer Animal Health Award for research excellence. The award recognizes researchers at American veterinary colleges whose work has advanced the scientific understanding of veterinary medicine.

Gregory Troy, an assistant professor in the department of small animal clinic sciences, has been awarded the Dr. E.E. Thompson Professorial Award for 1995. The award honors Tommy Thompson, a Salem practitioner who was involved in the development of the veterinary profession in Virginia.

Harold Burkhart is the new head of the department of forestry in the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources. Burkhart, a 26-year veteran of the college, was interim head during the past year. He will serve a five-year term.

Burkhart has brought more than $2.7 million in research grants to the university and has supervised more than 50 graduate students. He is editor of the Forest Science and Southern Journal of Applied Forestry and is involved with the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, having held every office.

Kent Holliday, associate professor of music, received first prize in composition for the New Music Delaware Festival of Contemporary Music. Holliday won for his solo piano composition "Four Evocations."

Holliday, who has been at the university since 1974, received $500 and will perform the winning composition at the 1996 New Music Delaware Festival in March.


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Gibson, McDaniel, Sheckler, Holliday, Matusevich, Lytton, Burns,

Bachelder.

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