Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, February 12, 1991 TAG: 9102120368
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Davidson, a reviewer for the American Business Law Journal, will oversee the computer labs in Whitt Hall, plan and organize the senior banquet and process student petitions and appeals. He also will teach two classes per semester.
Davidson received a business administration degree and a juris doctorate from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Before coming to Radford University in 1987, he was a professor at several colleges and universities, including California State University at Fresno and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
\ DENNIS COGSWELL, chairman of the social work department, and JANE SHANNON, assistant social work professor, have been trained as instructors for the Virginia Institute for Social Services Training Activities project.
They will train Western Virginia child welfare staff and supervisors in basic child welfare skills over a three-year period. Radford is one of four universities in Virginia taking part in the project.
Cogswell also was elected chairman of the Virginia Social Work Education Consortium, which consists of 13 nationally accredited social work programs in Virginia.
\ CARYL CONGER, an assistant music professor, has completed a series of seven recitals at colleges and universities across the country, including Indiana University, Penn State and James Madison University.
Conger performed on piano with tuba player Skip Gray, an associate music professor at the University of Kentucky. The recitals included three works and the two performed their own arrangement of Maurice Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite." They also will play at the 1992 International Tuba Conference.
\ CHARLES W. MCCLELLAN, an associate professor of history, had an article and book review published in African Studies Review. Both works discuss aspects of Ethiopia.
\ RAY PENN, an associate professor of speech, had a speech published in the December issue of Vital Speeches of the Day. His speech was titled "A Choice of Words is a Choice of Worlds."
\ MARGARET BASSETT, MARY HOPE GIBSON and SYLVIA ROOT, all nursing professors, have been recognized for excellence of their poster presentations at Sigma Theta Tau's Region 6 Assembly, the international nursing honor society. Basset and Gibson dealt with the elderly; Root looked at audio and teleconferences.
\ KENDALL KESSLER, an art instructor, exhibited his pastel painting, "Near Smithfield Plantation," in the Rappahannock Regional 1990 in Fredericksburg.
The PHI DELTA KAPPA chapter received a $1,000 grant from the national organization for their Collaborative Learning Across School Settings project, designed to involve students, teachers and faculty in strengthening professional developments.
\ PAUL T. BRYANT, dean of the Graduate College, had an article, "Writing from a Tradition," published in The CEA Critic.
\ MICHAEL CRONIN, a communication professor and director of the Oral Communication Program, and JANET O. STAHL, a communication instructor, had their proposal for a demonstration workshop accepted for presentation at the 82nd Annual Eastern Communication Association Convention in Pittsburgh in April.
\ LIBBY BRADFORD of Elliston, a music education major, has been named to the 1990 Fall semester dean's list.
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