DATE: Friday, November 21, 1997             TAG: 9711210655

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MILESTONES

NORFOLK

Norview High School teacher Jean Booton has been named Virginia Secondary Art Teacher of the Year by the Virginia Art Education Association.

Booten was given the award at the association's annual convention held recently in Falls Church, Va.

Booton was selected for the award by a panel of judges who evaluated the portfolios of regional winners.

Jerry Tompkins, the state association's awards chairman, said Booton's portfolio was ``one of the most strikingly beautiful presentations seen in recent years.''

Booton's portfolio included photos of her students' completed work, of students working on class projects and of her own artwork in clay.

An art instructor at Norview for three years, Booton has had an influence not only on her students but also on the school's atmosphere.

``Her students' artwork is displayed in every corner of our building and has inspired the most reluctant students to develop their talents,'' said the school's principal, Marjorie Stealey. ``She has cultivated a climate of pride for art students at our school.''

PORTSMOUTH

One administrator and two staff members at the Portsmouth Campus of Tidewater Community College have been elected to statewide positions with the Virginia Community College Association.

They are Claudia Macon, the Portsmouth campus business manager; Alma Weatherspoon, an office services specialist in Enrollment Services; and Paula Wood, a program support technician in the campus library.

Macon, Weatherspoon and Wood will be joining two other Portsmouth Campus staff members who are serving the association.

Monica Terry, executive secretary to the Portsmouth Campus provost, and Gwen V. Smith, enrollment services assistant in Financial Aid, are serving the second half of their two-year terms as secretary and member-at-large, respectively.

Macon, who also was honored by her peers as an outstanding classified employee this year, was elected VCCA treasurer.

Macon, a Churchland resident, has been the Portsmouth Campus business manager since 1995 and serves as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserves.

Macon holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Old Dominion University and recently acquired a Realtor's license.

Weatherspoon, also a Churchland resident, was elected secretary of the association's Black Concerns Commission.

Weatherspoon, who has worked on the Portsmouth campus for 18 years, is also an adviser to the college's Minority Affairs Club and is a member of the Campus Council.

Weatherspoon graduated from Hampton University with a bachelor's degree in general studies in May and intends to seek a master's in counseling or business administration.

Wood, a Virginia Beach resident, was elected as a member-at-large of the Black Concerns Commission.

Wood, who has worked at the Portsmouth campus since 1986, is a member of the Portsmouth Campus Black History Month Committee.

SUFFOLK

Elizabeth Creamer has been named coordinator for Paul D. Camp Community College's Smithfield Center.

Creamer taught the first class at the Smithfield Center when it opened in August 1993.

An adjunct instructor of English and academic advising assistant at the college for five years, Creamer is an academic ``late-bloomer'' who began her college studies after spending years as a full-time mother and volunteer. She completed her graduate and undergraduate studies at Old Dominion University, William and Mary and Christopher Newport University.

The Smithfield center is housed in the Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight County Library.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Rene Perez-Lopez, vice president for information systems and director of the library at Virginia Wesleyan College, received the American Red Cross Volunteer Recognition Award for his 20 years of service as chairman of the Tidewater chapter of the American Red Cross Language Bank.

As chairman, Perez-Lopez helped compile a book of volunteers who are available to translate for non-English speaking individuals in the Hampton Roads community who find themselves in emergency situations. The language bank is able to provide translation services for 52 languages.

Dr. Howard N. Weinberg, a family practice physician at Little Neck Medical Associates in Virginia Beach and a member of the Sentara Medical Group, will have his work on asthma published in a national textbook.

He has written a chapter, ``Obstructive Airway Disease,'' that will be printed in ``Taylor's Family Medicine, Principles and Practices,'' fifth edition.

Weinberg, who received his medical degree from Albany (N.Y.) Medical College in 1976, is associated with the American Academy of Family Physicians, Virginia Academy of Family Practice, Tidewater Association of Family Practice and is a member of the Editorial Board of Postgraduate Medicine. ILLUSTRATION: Jean Booton

Dr. Howard N. Weinberg

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