THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, December 30, 1994 TAG: 9412280250
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 14 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ERIC FEBER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 45 lines
Buy a 1995 calendar and help send a Chesapeake student to medical school.
Mark Carey, the artist whose ``Mark Carey's Chesapeake'' appears in The Clipper each Sunday, has designed a calendar to help raise funds for a medical scholarship fund in the name of his wife Sharon Marie Wheelbarger Carey, who died last year.
The fund will be used to provide scholarships to medical school to Chesapeake students or children of employees of Norfolk Naval Shipyard, where he works.
Since the fund's inception, Carey has raised more than $4,000 for the fund, which is administered by the Chesapeake General Hospital Auxiliary.
Money has been raised through sales of Carey's limited-edition prints of Chesapeake scenes. He now hopes sales from his 1995 calendar will bring in more money.
Each calendar, printed on acid-free archival paper, features a drawing of a Bowers Hill farm still life showing stacked bushel baskets, one filled with farm tools. The design was taken from one of Carey's Clipper columns which was published this year.
``Sharon's mom picked that one out,'' Carey said. ``She and Sharon had similar tastes, and it looked like something my wife would like.'' MEMO: Mark Carey's 1995 Chesapeake Calendar sells for $3. It can be purchased
at the Chesapeake General Hospital Auxiliary gift shop, 736 N.
Battlefield Blvd., or at Frames by Margood Ltd., 1700 Hayward Ave. For
more information on the fund or to help with the upcoming car show and
benefit, contact Carey at 543-5373.
ILLUSTRATION: Drawing
Each calendar features a drawing of a Bowers Hill farm still life
showing stacked bushel baskets.
by CNB