
DATE: Friday, November 28, 1997             TAG: 9711280038

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MILESTONES

CHESAPEAKE

The Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association has selected Chesapeake resident Paul Vestal to receive its 1997 SGMA Heroes Award for Virginia.

The association selected Vestal for his work with youth sports. Vestal is president of the B.M. Williams Baseball Association. He recently completed a $188,000 field renovation near B.M. Williams Elementary School. The field now has new lighting, electronic soundboards, batting cages and fences. Vestal has volunteered with youth baseball for 31 years.

Vestal will receive $100 in cash, and a $400 donation will be made toward the Greenbrier Athletic Association. He is eligible to become a national award winner.

NORFOLK

Donnie E. Baines of Chesapeake and Donald J. Nachman of Virginia Beach, two members of the Norfolk Scottish Rite Bodies, were honored with the 33rd Degree during the biennial session of the Supreme Council, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction.

The session was held in October in Washington.

Baines and Nachman were among 103 candidates from around the world to receive this honor at a banquet with Dave Thomas, head of Wendy's, as the keynote speaker.

According to Baines, most Masons are 3rd Degree Masons who then join either the Scottish Rite or York Rite where they can earn up to 32 degrees. Baines said very few men achieve the 33rd Degree.

Also at the biennial session, five members of the Norfolk Scottish Rite Bodies were selected to receive the Rank and Decoration of Knight Commander Court of Honor. They are Lyle L. Corcoran, Michael D. Scott, Theodore T. Sakis, Carlton L. Gill Jr. and Kenneth R. O'Bryan.

Darleen Anderson of Norfolk was awarded a 1997 Governor's Award at the Virginia Emergency Medical Services Symposium in Norfolk.

Randolph L. Gordon, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health, presented Anderson with the award for Nurse with Outstanding Contributions to Emergency Medical Services.

Anderson, a vice president of Sentara Southside Hospital and site administrator at Sentara Leigh Hospital, was recognized for her service on the EMS Advisory Board, Tidewater Emergency Medical Services Council board of directors, EMS Financial Assistance Review Committee and the EMS Public Information/Education Committee.

She was cited for coordinating a two-year state level project that resulted in legislation to study trauma center funding.

PORTSMOUTH

Richard McCarty, a Portsmouth native, was approved recently by the American Psychological Association's board of directors as the group's new executive director for science.

McCarty, chairman of the University of Virginia psychology department, will begin his three-year commitment to the APA Jan. 1. He won't be on-site in Washington full time until the end of Virginia's 1998 spring semester.

McCarty, whose training is based in the biological sciences, has bachelor's and master's degrees in zoology from Old Dominion University and a doctorate in comparative animal behavior from the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

McCarty, a 1965 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, also spent some time at several institutes of the National Institutes of Health as a research associate, a senior fellow and a visiting scientist.

McCarty's research on stress and behavior led him to the University of Virginia psychology department, where he studies the physiology of stress in animals.

Last year, McCarty sat on the APA's commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training, which deals with issues related to affirmative action.

Although McCarty is moving to Washington for his new appointment, he will keep his house in Charlottesville and will continue to maintain a lab at Virginia.

SUFFOLK

Dr. George J. Carroll, who heads the pathology department of Obici Hospital, has been presented the Dr. Clarence A. Holland Award for contributions to medicine and betterment of public health through political service in Virginia.

The presentation is made annually by the Virginia Medical Political Action Committee.

Carroll, who served on the Virginia State Board of Medicine from 1967 to 1986, was instrumental in developing and writing regulations for physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

He helped guide the separation of the boards of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing from the Department of Health Occupations and the drafting of legislation to create the new Department of Health Regulatory Boards.

During Carroll's tenure, the Board of Medicine also established the Psychiatric Advisory Committee to aid and advise in the management of sick and incompetent physicians.

Among Carroll's many publications are his 1976 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ``Drug Addiction Among Physicians, The Virginia Experience,'' and his 1978 book, ``The Care and Management of the Sick and Incompetent Physician.''

VIRGINIA BEACH

Dr. Richard A. Craven, medical director for the Virginia Beach Department of Emergency Medical Services since 1995, has received the Governor's Award to the Outstanding Operational Medical Director from the Virginia office of EMS.

He was recognized for his contributions at the annual Virginia EMS Symposium and Award Banquet held last month at the Norfolk Marriott Hotel.

Craven, who supervises patient care procedures, training and quality assurance for each of the city's rescue squad emergency medical technicians and paramedics, has been dedicated to emergency medical services in Hampton Roads since 1984.

He is also involved in the American Heart Association advanced cardiac life support programs.

As an instructor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Craven implemented a rotation program for emergency medical residents that allows them to refine their skills while also training rescue squad medics.

SUBMISSIONS

Milestones appears every Friday in the Hampton Roads section. If you have an item to suggest for this column, please call the person listed 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: Photos

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