
DATE: Friday, September 26, 1997            TAG: 9709260736

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MILESTONES

CHESAPEAKE

James Chellew, a district agent for The Prudential Insurance Company of America, has received a Prudential Community Champions Golden Star Award of $5,000 in support of Chesapeake General Hospital's Vacation Diabetes Camp.

The awards program recognizes Prudential employees and retirees who volunteer service to their communities.

Chellew has served as a volunteer with the Vacation Diabetes camp for more than 12 years and is involved in year-round fund-raising for the camp. The camp, which is for children ages 4 to 18 who have diabetes, combines recreational activities with teaching diabetics how to maintain normal lives despite their illness.

The Prudential Community Champions Awards program will recognize 523 employees this year, providing $472,000 in grants to the organizations for which they volunteer.

Chellew has been a Prudential agent for 22 years. He lives in Great Bridge with his wife and two children.

Chesapeake Police Officer James J. Brown, 37, has received the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Award for Valor.

The award is given in recognition of an officer who in the line of duty and at his own personal risk performs an act of heroism while engaged with an adversary.

On May 1, Brown and two other officers were asked to investigate a domestic dispute. The officers were met by two small children, a battered woman and an angry ex-husband. Before Brown could complete an arrest for assault, the irate man grabbed a loaded handgun and pointed it at his own chest. But as Brown alerted the other officers to the gun, he wrestled the weapon away.

Chesapeake Police Chief R.A. Justice said because of Brown's quick response a suicide and possibly other injuries were prevented.

NORFOLK

Karen A. Hughes has been named Outstanding Norfolk Police Officer for the second quarter of 1997 by The Fraternal Order of Police Associates.

Hughes, a 15-year veteran of the Norfolk Police Department, has served in many law enforcement fields, from patrol to investigations. She serves in the Youth/Sexual Assault Unit of the Detective Division and is assigned to investigations involving Child Protective Services.

PORTSMOUTH

Portsmouth Mayor James W. Holley III recently was named 1997 alumnus of the year by the West Virginia State College Alumni Association.

Holley received a bachelor of science degree in 1949 from West Virginia State and earned a doctorate of dental science in 1955 from Howard University College of Dentistry in Washington, D.C. He also was presented an honorary doctor of laws in 1996 from West Virginia State.

Holley will be the keynote speaker at the William L. Lonesome Awards Dinner at 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at West Virginia State, which is in Institute, W.Va.

SUFFOLK

Richard Davenport, a senior project engineer at Allied Colloids Inc., was elected to a four-year term as g1richard Davenport chair of the professional engineers section of the state Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects Board.

Davenport, 37 and a Chesapeake resident, was appointed by Gov. George Allen. He is among the youngest members ever appointed to the 13-member board, which was established in 1921.

The board is responsible for granting licenses to design professionals and for hearing and adjudicating complaints of unethical, incompetent, unprofessional or unsafe services in those professions.

Davenport, licensed as a professional engineer for 10 years, has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in business administration from Old Dominion University.

He has been with Allied Colloids since 1989.

Allen designated Sept. 11, 1997, Davenport's birthday, as Richard Davenport Day in Virginia in recognition of his positive character and respected leadership.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Dr. Mitchell B. Miller, founding partner of Princess Anne Family Practice, was installed this year as president of the Virginia Academy g1miller Miller of Family Physicians, an organization representing more than 1,600 family physicians across the state.

The installation took place at the annual Scientific Assembly of the state organization.

Miller is past president of the Virginia Beach Medical Society. He is also a past president of the medical staff of Virginia Beach General Hospital and served as an attendant on the Neptune Festival Royal Court in 1996.

Arlene Berrios, a teacher at Ivy League Academy in Virginia Beach, has received the Wal-Mart teacher-of-the-year award for excellence in teaching.

Berrios was honored at a local Wal-Mart, and her school received a $500 grant.

She was one of 1,500 teachers across the country to receive the award, and winners were selected by a panel of local community leaders. MEMO: SUBMISSIONS

Milestones appears every Friday in the Hampton Roads section. If you

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for your city:

Chesapeake - Deloris Moyler, 547-9761.

Norfolk - Kathryn Darling, 446-2286.

Portsmouth - Debbie Markham, 446-2612.

Suffolk - Shirley Brinkley, 934-7550.

Virginia Beach - Patty Jenkins, 490-7200. ILLUSTRATION: Brown

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