THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, January 2, 1997 TAG: 9612290010
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MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AWARD: Clarence A. Holland, M.D., a member of the Medical College of Hampton Roads Board of Visitors, has become only the second Virginian to receive the American Medical Association's prestigious Benjamin Rush Award for citizenship and community service.
The award is named for Benjamin Rush, M.D., a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The only other Virginian to win it is Mason C. Andrews, M.D., EVMS professor of obstetrics and gynecology, who was honored in 1987.
A native of Windsor and a family practitioner, Holland is a former state senator and former mayor of Virginia Beach. He began serving a three-year term last January on the MCHR board, which is the governing body of Eastern Virginia Medical School.
The award was presented to Holland recently during the AMA's interim meeting in Atlanta, Ga. The award, which each year recognizes one physician for outstanding citizenship and community service, was first presented in 1973.
Over the years, Holland's contributions to the community have earned him a number of other awards, including the Commissioner's Award from the Virginia Department for the Aging and the William Patrick White Memorial Award for his work on behalf of disabled people.
ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENT: The Honorable Mills E. Godwin Jr., former governor of Virginia and Crittenden resident, is one of 27 prominent civic and religious leaders and eminent scholars from Virginia and outside the state who have been named by Virginia Wesleyan College to serve on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom.
The establishment of the Center was announced recently before a large gathering of students, faculty, staff, and guests. An anonymous gift of $1 million and a grant of $250,000 from the Alison J. and Ella W. Parsons Foundation of Norfolk have provided the seed money to launch the initial activities.
The Board will work with the Center Steering Committee and the Faculty Steering Committee in the development of programs and activities.
The Center will offer its first course in 1997, along with a number of lectures and programs, which will be open to the public.
CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM MEMBER: Michael Geiger, a 12th-grader at Fork Union Military Academy, was part of FUMA's prep football team which won the Virginia Division II Championship recently. The Blue Devils defeated Benedictine High School, 42-21, in Richmond.
The Blue Devils won back-to-back state championships in the Virginia Preparatory League, defeating Benedictine High School last year as well.
Michael is a receiver and linebacker for FUMA.
He is the son of Diane Geiger of Suffolk.
DELEGATE ELECTION: Peter N. Geilich, president and CEO of Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie, N.C., has been elected to a four-year term as a delegate of the House of Delegates of the American Hospital Association based in Washington, D.C.
Geilich joins 218 hospital executives from across the country to form the policy-making body of AHA as well as to elect national officers of the association. He succeeds Eric Munson, executive director of the University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill, in representing the interests of North Carolina Hospitals.
As an AHA delegate, Geilich will participate in all major policy-making issues of the national association that represents more than 5,000 health care institutions in the United States.
Geilich is a diplomate of the American College of Health Care Executives, a member of the Board of Visitors at Chowan College in Murfreesboro, N.C.; vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of Centura Bank in Ahoskie; and serves on the Board of Directors of the Ahoskie Chamber of Commerce. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Mills E. Godwin Jr. will serve on the Advisory Board of the Center
for the Study of Religious Freedom.