THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, December 5, 1995 TAG: 9512050272
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A11 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 92 lines
Name: Joan Perry Brock
Age: 53
Occupation: Assistant secretary and treasurer of the family-run Dollar Tree stores based in Norfolk
Background: She is a current member and past chairwoman of the president's advisory council at Virginia Wesleyan College. She is active in various arts organizations, including serving as a docent at Chrysler Museum.
Name: Robert H. Callis Jr.
Age: 64
Occupation: Retired harbor pilot
Background: He served on the City Council from 1970 to 1976; was a member of the Virginia Beach School Board from 1978 to 1986; also served on the Virginia Beach Development Authority, the Eastern Virginia Medical Authority, the Virginia Resources Authority and is active in Galilee Episcopal Church.
Name: Robert A. Dardenne
Age: 61
Occupation: Certified public accountant; retired managing partner in the Price Waterhouse accounting firm
Background: Not available
Name: Anne Evans Gorry
Age: 53
Occupation: Certified public accountant in private practice
Background: She taught math in the Virginia Beach school district from 1968 to 1978.
Name: James K. Gregory Jr.
Age: 54
Occupation: Retired vice president of commercial lending at NationsBank
Background: He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves. He also is a member and past president of the Virginia Beach Exchange Club, a 20-year-old community service organization; and member of the advisory board of the Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum.
Name: Richard D. Guy (jury foreman)
Age: 64
Occupation: Attorney with Shuttleworth, Ruloff & Giordano
Background: He serves as a Virginia Beach Circuit Court Commissioner in Chancery. He and Circuit Judge Robert B. Cromwell Jr. were former law partners. He also led a 1985 committee that examined the size and selection of the Virginia Beach City Council and served from 1970 to 1971 in the House of Delegates.
Name: Chester B. Long Jr.
Age: 49
Occupation: Senior vice president of Commerce Bank in Portsmouth
Background: As community service chairman for the Rotary Club of Hampton Roads, he hatched a successful fund-raising plan to buy the regional Red Cross a bloodmobile. An alumnus of Old Dominion University, he serves on the board of ODU's Intercollegiate Foundation and has served as a trustee on several other ODU boards.
Name: Arthur G. McGowan
Age: 57
Occupation: Attorney in private practice
Background: Retired Navy master chief petty officer
Name: Martha Kellam Stone
Age: 44
Occupation: homemaker
Background: Daughter of semi-retired U.S. District Court Judge Richard B. Kellam. Attended T.C. Williams Law School at the University of Richmond but did not get a law degree; was a substitute teacher in Virginia Beach for a brief period.
Name: Earl M. Tebault
Age: 66
Occupation: a semi-retired Blackwater farmer
Background: He served on the City Council from the formation of the city in 1963 through 1972. He was named Man of the Year in Agriculture in 1993. His wife, Laura H. Tebault, was a public health nurse who served on the Virginia Beach School Board. He was a member of the Blackwater Volunteer Fire Department and is active in the Creeds Ruritan Club, the Virginia Pork Producers Association, the Princess Anne Lions Club and the Virginia Beach Farm Bureau.
KEYWORDS: VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD GRAND JURY PROFILES BUDGET
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