DATE: Friday, July 11, 1997                 TAG: 9707110645

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MILESTONES

CHESAPEAKE

Darryl A. Tapp, 12, of Chesapeake, is one of 20 students from across the country chosen to participate in an intensive monthlong Molecular Biology Enrichment for Youth Program, held each summer at Iowa State University in Ames.

The program, now in its ninth year, is supported by the National Science Foundation, Ed Lily & Co. and Iowa State University. Tapp was selected on the basis of academic achievement in the sciences, successful completion of an essay test and a teacher's recommendation.

Tapp, the son of Ruth and Charles Tapp of Deep Creek, joins his schoolmate, Danyelle M. Hunt at the four-week laboratory science program.

Both Tapp and Hunt are seventh-grade students at Deep Creek Middle School. Both will attend the Hugo Owens Middle School in September as eighth-graders.

Tapp and Hunt will return home July 20.

PORTSMOUTH

Lt. Brenda Lundy of Portsmouth has been chosen as the Virginia Cops Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for the Portsmouth Sheriff's Office.

Lundy, who has been with the Portsmouth Sheriff's Office for more than 12 years, is in charge of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education/Crime Prevention Unit.

Past awards presented to Lundy include the state's Deputy of the Year award for her work overseeing the DARE and elderly watch programs, and the Virginia DARE Association's Michael Bentoski Memorial Award.

Virginia Cops is a statewide association of police and deputy sheriff unions and associations representing working and street-level law enforcement.

VCOPS sponsors an Annual Law Enforcement of the Year Award in every city and county for every police department throughout Virginia.

NORFOLK

Jason McCrory, a student at Norfolk Technical Vocational Center and the son of Robert and Linda McCrory, won first place in the National Robotic Workcell Technology contest sponsored by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. McCrory was honored at VICA's 31st annual Skills USA Championships, held last week in Kansas City, Mo.

An 18-year-old Granby High School graduate, McCrory won using a programmable logic controller to write a program to run a work cell. He then combined a turntable, robot arm, drill and linear slide to perform a multi-task activity.

``It was very difficult and challenging, but a lot of fun,'' he said.

McCrory was one of more than 3,500 vocational students from throughout the nation who competed in the 8 1/2-hour hands-on competition in 57 different trade, technical and leadership fields. Working against the clock and each other, participants proved their expertise in job skills for occupations such as electronics, technical drafting, precision machining, medical assisting and culinary arts. McCrory, whose goal is to be a prototype specialist at a robotics firm, plans to attend Tidewater Community College while working as an apprentice at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

SUFFOLK

The Charles City County, Va., Board of Supervisors selected Kenneth L. Chandler of Petersburg as its new county administrator at the June 10 board meeting. He assumed the position July 1.

Chandler was among 50 candidates who applied for the position, said Gilbert Smith, chairman of the Board of Supervisors.

Chandler graduated from Smithfield High School in 1983 and received a bachelor's degree in public relations at Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1987. He served as assistant to the Isle of Wight County administrator, and later held the positions of personnel officer in Hopewell and director of human resources in Petersburg.

Chandler earned a master's degree in public administration at Old Dominion University in 1996.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Edward Sykes, president of the Joy of Education Inc. in Virginia Beach, recently won the Toastmasters International District 66 (Virginia) speech contest in Richmond and represented the district in Birmingham, Ala. Sykes, who has been a member of Toastmasters International for two years, is a member of Virginia Beach Toastmasters and the advanced Toastmasters Club - the 3 Letter Club. He is also a local spokesman for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters School Mentoring Program.

Macon F. Brock, CEO of Dollar Tree Store Inc., has been elected chairman of the Virginia Beach Foundation, a community foundation serving nonprofit groups within a 60-mile radius of Virginia Beach. Brock, who has 27 years of retail experience, is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va.

The Virginia Beach Foundation's goals and objectives are to meet critical and emerging community needs through the development of endowment building.

Others elected to the board: Joseph A. DiJulio, Morris H. Fine, Stephen Gaskins, Linda Inman, E.A. ``Ned'' Langhorne, Rod Rodriquez, Edward Snyder, Dr. Paul Walker and Dorothy L. Wood. ILLUSTRATION: Photos

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