Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991 TAG: 9102210118
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Wooldridge is a Virginia Tech retiree who was a management development faculty member for eight years. Before that position, he was an international management consultant and trainer for 25 years.
During his consulting, Wooldridge has worked with numerous government, business, industrial, military and private organizations in the U.S., Africa, the Far East, South Asia, Latin America and the Mideast.
The Center for Training and Development assists businesses in a variety of ways, including resources, training, networking and consulting.
\ MARY JEAN EVERS, an adjunct faculty member and doctoral student at Virginia Tech, received the Delta Pi Epsilon 1990 Master's Research Award at the annual convention of the American Vocational Association in Ohio.
Evers' thesis was "An Analysis of Accounting Tests Used in 1989 Virginia FBLA Regional Competitions." Delta Pi Epsilon is a national honor society for professional graduates in business education.
Evers has also taught in the adult education program in Montgomery County schools and worked in business for more than 20 years.
\ FRAN MITCHELL, former executive director of the New River Valley's Literacy Volunteers, was named director of the employee development program, where she plans to help raise the educational level of the valley's work force by helping encourage employers to begin pre-high school level education programs in the workplace.
A number of 1990 graduates of the practical nursing program have been certified as licensed practical nurses by the state board. They are:\ DREMA D. WHITE of Christiansburg; DREMA D. MILLER of Dublin; JANET P. GOAD of Hiwassee; PATRICIA C. COLE, DORCAS EDWARDS, PAMELA A. LAWRENCE, LINDA MYERS, JUNE NESTER and JENNIFER TAYLOR of Pulaski; and VIRGINIA MARIE LUCAS and TRENA A. MCKINNEY of Radford.
\ MURRAY ELI BOSNIAK, an adjunct English instructor, had a poem entitled "Song of Affirmation" accepted to the Spring 1991 journal of the Swedenborg Foundation Chrysalis. He was also elected vice president of the Check Ruritan Club.
\ CATHERINE A. CLOUGH, assistant professor and coordinator of the interpreter education program, passed the qualified level of the Sign Instructor's Guidance Network, making her a national sign instructor for American Sign Language and signed English.
\ DR. WILLIAM J. DAWSON, JR., a humanities and social sciences professor, was named to the 22nd edition of Marquis' "Who's Who in the South and Southwest," 1991.
Two book reviews by EDDIE GOODSON, an assistant English professor who recently received the Faculty Humanitarian Award, have been published in the Virginia Gardener newsletter. He also reviewed a philosophy textbook for McGraw-Hill Publishing.
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by CNB