ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, December 15, 1996 TAG: 9612160015
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
BLACKSBURG - Mary Miller, who owns Blacksburg-based Interactive Design and Development, and Linda Fleming, another Blacksburg multimedia designer, have been recognized as two of the top 100 multimedia producers in the country by AV Video & Multimedia Producer magazine.
Multimedia systems take advantage of today's fast computers to provide a combination of text, graphics, sound and moving pictures on almost any subject. A recent title by Fleming on the history of American music offers hundreds of complete songs, plus photographs and written information. Miller has made systems on good nutrition for primary-school students, chemistry for middle-school pupils and on cancer for medical students.
Multimedia's effectiveness in allowing students to learn at their own pace, to learn interactively, and to motivate themselves to continue learning may be the next best thing to having a private tutor, Miller says.
3 to be elected to Chamber board
CHRISTIANSBURG - Three new members of the Board of Directors of the Christiansburg-Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce are scheduled to be elected Wednesday.
They are Brent Besson of First National Bank, Shirley Collins of Blue Ridge Cellular, and Ray Lyons of American Electric Power Co. Returning to the board for another three-year term will be John Overton of Columbia Montgomery Regional Hospital and Karen Travis of Travis Broadcasting.
Current board member and chamber president Jerry Higgins of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg & VPI Water Authority will become an ex-officio board member. Litz VanDyck was recently promoted at First National Bank and will leave the board. Jo-Anne Verron of Blue Ridge Sign and Banner Co. will continue to chair the chamber's marketing committee.
Blacksburg hospital installs MRI unit
BLACKSBURG - Columbia Montgomery Regional Hospital installed a new magnetic resonance imaging unit this week, becoming the first hospital in the New River Valley to have an in-house MRI unit.
The unit is used for advanced diagnostic imaging of diseased tissue. Having the machine in the hospital means patients will no longer have to go to a nearby trailer for the procedure, which is inconvenient for some patients, said Suzanne Nagle, coordinator of marketing and public affairs at the hospital.
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