THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 14, 1994                    TAG: 9406140011 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A14    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Medium 
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NORFOLK

Four years ago, the foundation - a charitable trust chaired by Joan Dalis Martone - donated $100,000 for restoration of the 72-foot skipjack Norfolk, which is tethered at Nauticus, the new National Maritime Center on the Elizabeth River.

{REST} Built for oystering, the swift, shallow-draft skipjack, with its tall, raked mast, was a common sight in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries at the turn of the century and for several decades thereafter. They are far less common today - most watermen depend on motors, not sails. Norfolk is a cherished antique, beautiful at age 94.

Now the Dalis Foundation has contributed $198,000 to Norfolk for two projects: $100,000 to establish a computer-based job bank readily accessible to residents of the city's Park Place, Southside and Huntersville neighborhoods and $98,000 for renovation of the Colonial Avenue Boys and Girls Club.

The job bank will be used to match inner-city job-seekers to employment opportunities and to record individuals' education, skills and work experience.

The skipjack Norfolk, the Boys and Girls Club and the computer-based job bank are as unlike each other as anything could be. But the old port city is enriched by these disparate things. That they are the fruit of philanthropy - Norfolk was given to the city by the Allegheny Beverage Corp. of Baltimore, the contributions of many businesses and individuals made possible the Boys and Girls Club - is a welcome grace note. An inspiration, too, in an often inharmonious world.

by CNB