THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 27, 1996 TAG: 9609250189
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 20 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ELIZABETH THIEL, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 29 lines
The Chesapeake office of the Virginia Cooperative Extension has three new staff members.
David Vandergriff, who will oversee the office's horticulture programs, joined the staff earlier this month. Watson Lawrence, an agricultural extension agent, and Denise Shepherd, who will help oversee the 4-H program, came on in July.
Vandergriff is from Tennessee, Lawrence is from North Carolina and Shepherd is from Kansas.
The three new staff members bring to five the number of extension agents in the Chesapeake office - one specializing in horticulture, one for agriculture, one for family and consumer sciences and two for 4-H. The office also has five nutrition program assistants and three secretaries - for a total staff of 13.
Before Lawrence started in July, the extension agency went without an agriculture agent for three months.
The agency still is without a permanent leader. Carole B. Thorpe, the agency's specialist in family and consumer sciences, is interim unit coordinator. Thorpe said she did not know when a permanent coordinator would be named.
For more information about the extension office's programs or services, call 382-6348. by CNB