ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, July 11, 1996 TAG: 9607110033
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-8 EDITION: METRO
ARDELL STONE SCHOOL OF DANCING students in the junior and senior performing groups recently competed in two regional dance competitions.
At the Tremaine Dance Competition in Winston-Salem, N.C, the junior group won first place lyrical and second place jazz in the junior line division. The senior group competed in the senior line division and won second place lyrical and third place tap.
At the American Dance Awards in Hickory, N.C., the junior group won silver medals in the jazz and lyrical categories, a high silver award in the tap category and a special award for patterns and formations in tap dancing. The senior group won gold medals in the senior line jazz and tap categories, a high silver medal in the lyrical ballet category and several overall awards: best precision award (lyrical), high energy award (jazz) and highest overall score for jazz dance.
The junior group members are Amanda Barnhart, Amelia Davis, Michelle Davis, Betsy James, Samantha King, Kara Morgan, Diane Newman, Samantha Nichols, Lyndsey Reynolds, Ashley Stuart and Jennifer Wilson.
Senior group members are Sarah Clyburn, Alicia Davis, Amanda Harpold, Melissa Kell, Ann Ball Lawson, Tara Lee, Maggie Light, Amber Mayhue, Misha Paiement and Shannon Stanger.
Both groups qualified for the national competitions that will be held this summer.
REGINA RACKOW of Salem was recently named to the board of directors of the Virginia chapter of the American Lung Association.
THE COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES has announced its officers for the 1996-97 year. The new officers are: Jan B. Garrett, president; R. Daniel Carson Jr., first vice president; W. Lee Wilhelm III, second vice president; Thomas B. Jones, third vice president; Robert Franz, secretary; and Michael M. Waldvogel, treasurer.
Other members, serving three-year terms are: Robert Scharpf; Marilyn Rigby; John B. Williamson III; Shelby Hamlett; and Faith Wilson.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS is sending four Roanoke-area disaster volunteers to St. Louis, Mo. where they will assist in relief operations in response to tornadoes and spring flooding. The volunteers are: Jim and Dorothy Hollandsworth, Fred Dooley and Paul Moore.
ROANOKE VALLEY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE FOUNDATION recently elected new officers. They are: Ellen Weinman, president; Carolyn Fidler, vice president; Uneita Anderson, treasurer; and Billie Wall, secretary.
New board members are Evelyn Manetta and Jan Garrett.
THE VIRGINIA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY recently presented awards to four Roanoke Valley artists who participated in its annual show. The winners from Roanoke are: Sue Ridgway, Kemper A. Dobbins Memorial Award, and Patricia T. Carr, Chesapeake Bay Watercolorist Award. The winners from Salem are: Judy Bates, Lynchburg National League of American Pen Women Award, and Beverly Darden White, Potomac Valley Watercolorists Award.
NELL COLLINS THOMPSON of Daleville has been elected president of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society.
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