THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, January 5, 1995 TAG: 9412300192
SECTION: NORFOLK COMPASS PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Vicki Lewis
LENGTH: Medium: 59 lines
IN THE COMMUNITY
Norfolk Festevents Ltd. received five medals, including two golds, in the 1994 International Festivals Association Competition. The medals were awarded at the IFA's annual convention in St. Paul, Minn.
More than 600 entries were submitted in the competition, which featured 48 different categories. Competitors included the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, the Kentucky Derby Festival and the Fiesta Bowl.
Festevents received gold medals in the categories of sponsor solicitation brochure and festival schedules for its 1994 calendar of events. It received a silver for its sponsorship solicitation video, and bronze medals in the original poster for sale (for the 1994 Bayou Boogaloo Poster) and general festival video production categories.
MILITARY PEOPLE
Navy Seaman Recruit Brian K. Howard, son of Kenneth J. and Barbara E. Howard of the 3100 block of Dunway St., recently completed Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. A 1992 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, Howard joined the Navy in September 1994.
OFFICERS
Paul deCourcy Holt Jr. of Norfolk has been elected governor of the Virginia Society of Mayflower Descendants.
CAMPUS NOTES
Two Norfolk graduates of Old Dominion
University received Alumni Association Outstanding Scholar Awards for holding the highest grade point averages in their individual colleges. They are Karen K. Gallahan in the College of Business and Public Administration and Leslie D. Dunbar in the College of Education.
The Norfolk State University Army ROTC Spartan Battalion commissioned five senior cadets as second lieutenants in the Army during its 1994 fall commissioning ceremony held in the Scott-Dozier Dining Hall on campus. They completed all university re quirements for graduation in their respective academic disciplines.
They are Robert Davenport, a history major who will become a part of the judge advocate general's corps through the delayed entry program; Thyrane George and Michael Johns, interdisciplinary studies with emphasis in kinesiology majors who will go on active duty with the military police corps; LaTricia Taylor, majoring in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in accounting, who will be in the air defense artillery branch, and Arrington Young, an interdisciplinary studies with emphasis in business management major who will go into the infantry. MEMO: If you have news about a Norfolk resident, please send it to Vicki
Lewis, care of The Norfolk Compass, P.O. Box 449, Norfolk, Va. 23501.
ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Leslie D. Dunbar
by CNB