ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, July 25, 1996 TAG: 9607260002
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N5 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 each of the national competitions which 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 sent four Roanoke-area disaster volunteers to St. Louis, Mo., to 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 was recently elected president of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society.
JOHN H. PARROTT JR., of Roanoke, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, Roanoke Division. Parrott is vice president of Thomas Rutherfoord, Inc. in Roanoke.
KATIE SCHROEDER, daughter of Rick and Chris Schroeder of Salem, has been selected to participate in the fourth annual Virginia's Future Miss Scholarship and Recognition Program to be held in Richmond in August. Two Virginia students will be selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship and the right to serve as a state youth ambassador for one year.
Shroeder is a seventh-grader at Glenvar High School.
TERRY M. PHELPS, president of PMI, Roanoke, was recently added to the Board of Directors of Prevent Blindness Virginia, also known as the National Society to Prevent Blindness.
THE SALVATION ARMY-TURNING POINT ADVISORY COUNCIL has elected new officers. They are: Mary Lou Reynolds, chairwoman; Ellen Weinman, vice chair; and Kitty Landis, secretary.
New Advisory council members are: Judy Buck, Linda Craft, Andrea Haley, Tina Rolen and Teresa Woolwine.
THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE WORLD WARS, Roanoke chapter, has elected officers and staff members for the year.
They are: David Caldwell, commander; Hartley Gaston, senior vice commander; Norman Jasper, junior vice commander; John Eberhardt, adjutant, Richard Caldwell, finance officer and Frank McFadden, assistant finance officer.
THE ROANOKE VALLEY MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION has elected the following officers for the year: Margaret Kidd, president; Kathleen Merrell, president-elect.
Also: Carolyn Philpot and Mary Bowman, vice presidents; Shirley Fike, recording secretary; Donna Boles, secretary; Joyce Woods, treasurer; Ronda Clark, historian. Immediate past president is Carolyn Winborne.
SALEM SHERIFF'S OFFICE, led by Sheriff E.B. Obenshain Jr., recently won first place in the 1996 Law Enforcement Week Bowling Tournement held in Bristol, Tenn.
The proceeds from Law Enforcement Week activities will go to Virginia Special Olympics.
AMY MOORE of Salem won the $2,500 America's Junior Miss National Council Spirit Award at the America's Junior Miss pageant in Mobile, Ala. The award is given to the most spirited contestant.
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