
DATE: Friday, September 19, 1997            TAG: 9709190847

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MILESTONES

CHESAPEAKE

Jennifer Peacock, a senior at Hickory High School in Chesapeake, placed second in the Book of Job category in ritual competition for her age group at the Supreme Guardian Council of the International Order of Job's Daughters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Peacock, who represented Virginia in the 17-19 age group, competed with young people from throughout the United States, Canada and the Philippines.

NORFOLK

The Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau, part of the city's Department of Marketing and Communications, has received The Susan Allen Cultural Tourism Award for the 1997 Virginia Waterfront International Arts Festival.

The award is one of four given annually by the first lady and The Virginia Tourism Corp. for excellence in travel and tourism marketing.

The award was presented to Rob Cross, the festival's executive director, and Sam Rogers, Norfolk's director of marketing and communications, by Virginia's first lady, Susan Allen, during the ``Virginia Is for Lovers'' Marketing Symposium at the Richmond Hyatt Hotel.

Rogers said the festival was designed to generate increased tourism revenue by appealing to new visitors and to extend the travel season into the spring.

``The festival was a resounding success,'' Cross said. ``The event exposed the strength and quality of our arts community to new audiences in both the region and the nation.''

PORTSMOUTH

Kadisia Archer, student activities coordinator at the Portsmouth campus of Tidewater Community College, recently was selected as president-elect of the Virginia College Personnel Association.

The VCPA is a statewide organization that seeks to facilitate the professional development and growth of employees who work in college student personnel positions by providing an informal communication network and forum for sharing research and ideas.

Archer will become president of the VCPA in February 1998.

The president's duties include coordinating the annual spring conference, which this year will focus on the topic ``The Real World: Are Your Students Ready?''

SUFFOLK

Two friends who have devoted years to improving Suffolk public schools are being honored by scholarship endowment funds of the Suffolk Education Foundation.

They are Joseph H. Barlow Sr., former School Board chairman and owner and operator of Cotton Plains Farm, and Elgin M. Lowe, a veteran educator and former personnel director for the school system.

Hoping to raise at least $25,000 for each fund over five years, the foundation will invest the full amount and award scholarships from income. The goal is to present two $1,000 scholarships to Suffolk public school graduates each year.

Lowe has written and published a dozen books on the history of local communities and education in Suffolk.

The Suffolk Education Foundation was established five years ago to raise money to enhance the quality of public education in Suffolk and provide increased staff development and instructional technology as well as scholarships and mini-grants for special classroom projects. The foundation is managed by a 31-member volunteer board of directors.

For information on contributing to the scholarship funds, call the foundation executive director, Terry Shulz, at 539-3973.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Sidney A. Rader, chairman of the Technology Education Department at Princess Anne High School, has been named the city's Technical and Career Education Teacher of the Year for 1997.

He has taught in the city school system since 1974 and has been at Princess Anne since 1979. He also serves as the Technology Student Association adviser and as sponsor/coach for the National Engineering Design Challenge. He is on the national board of directors of the Technology Student Association and the National TSA Curricular Resources Committee, which writes, edits and publishes the Curricular Resources Guide and competitive events guidelines for the National Technology Student Association.

Rader was chosen recently as a TSA classroom teacher representative on the newly formed American Technology Honor Society Board of Directors. Princess Anne High is one of the pilot schools in the country chosen to participate in this new student technology honor society.

This year he also has received the M.O. Tetterton Award for more than 20 years of service to his field. During the summer, he accompanied six Princess Anne High technology education students to the Technology Student Association national conference in Washington, D.C., where five students placed as top 10 finalists in their events. MEMO: SUBMISSIONS

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Norfolk - Kathryn Darling, 446-2286.

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