Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 20, 1993 TAG: 9304200040
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Joanne Anderson
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The clothes are stunning, the cars spotless, the flowers fresh, the boys at their handsomest and the girls pretty enough for magazine covers.
\ PROM SEASON is nearly here, and many schools and organizations are trying hard to encourage and convince kids that they can have a wonderful time without drugs or alcohol.
The GILES COUNTY DRUG EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE is sponsoring an all-night drug- and alcohol-free after-prom party, since last year's event was such a success.
The group needs volunteers to help and businesses to donate to assure another wonderful night.
Call Debbie Journell at 921-2416 or Diane Journell at 626-3273 for further information.
The 1993 PROM PROMISE PROGRAM is sponsored by Nationwide Insurance agent Morris Stowers and Blacksburg High School.
Teen-agers are encouraged to sign a pledge promising not to use drugs or alcohol on prom night, whether or not they attend the prom.
The Prom Promise Program is offered in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
For further information, call Stowers at 953-0066.
\ CHRISTIANSBURG HIGH SCHOOL will hold its fourth after-prom party at the New River Valley Mall on May 8, 11 p.m.-5 a.m.
This year's theme is "Let the Good Times Roll: '50s and '60s."
Activities include movies, Karaoke, live entertainment with a K-92 disc jockey, beach volleyball, Wheel of Fortune games and many other forms of entertainment.
To drive the point home, a Christiansburg High student is portraying the Grim Reaper during mid-April, "killing" one student every 26 minutes.
The statistic says someone is killed in an alcohol-related incident once every 26 minutes in the United States.
\ DEE DAVIDSON, math teacher at Shawsville High School, has been named the outstanding math teacher of 1993 by the Sigma Xi society of Virginia Tech.
Davidson receives a $250 honorarium and a $500 award for her school.
A Radford resident, she is in her fourth year as a teacher at Shawsville High School.
Seventeen students graduated April 7 from the RADFORD CITY SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING.
Each student completed an 18-month program, with a nine-month preclinical phase taught in the Radford High School vocational department and a nine-month clinical phase taught at Radford Community Hospital.
Graduates are Kimberly Bain, Yonna Burton, Evelyn Conner, John Edmonds, Bonnie Fisher, Billie Fowlkes, Betty Gillman, Linda Johnson, Anise Keen, Cathy Minnick, Earline Nunn, Terry Owens, Michele Phillips, Stephanie Price, Sylvia Rader, Pamela Rigney and Robbin Robertson.
Blacksburg Middle School seventh-grader JEREMIAH SHAW placed second in competition for the Roanoke Youth Symphony's young artists' awards with his cello performance April 4.
Shaw is the son of Clyde Thomas and Teresa Shaw of Blacksburg. He took third last year.
Christiansburg Primary School is holding its SPRING CARNIVAL on May 1, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at the school.
There will be games, prizes, a raffle, bake sale and a turn in the burger hopper.
Crash dummies and Care Bear will meet the children.
Proceeds will support other PTA activities and projects.
An annual SWING DANCE is being held by and for the Blacksburg High School Jazz Band on Friday in the school commons area.
Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for students and may be purchased from any band member or at the door.
Q: Where can you get a hot dog, chips, drink and a cookie for a buck?
A: At the April PTA meeting of the EASTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Pembroke tonight at 5 p.m.
Awards will be given to the science fair winners.
From the far north come the choir and bands of SIR WILFRID LAURIER SECONDARY SCHOOL in London, Ontario, in Canada.
Their stage band, wind ensemble, strings and choir will perform on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Radford High School auditorium.
Admission is free.
Christiansburg High School is the place to enroll if you're seriously interested in Olympic-style weightlifting and training, because of the presence of RANDY BAILEY, physical education teacher.
Bailey has completed certification requirements of the U.S. Weightlifting Federation as a "club coach" in Olympic-style weightlifting by proving his understanding of the principles, fundamentals and rules of Olympic weightlifting, biomechanical principles, training program construction and technique.
He also holds certification as a strength and conditioning specialist.
The AUBURN HIGH AND MIDDLE SCHOOL FORENSICS TEAM completed another successful year in invitational, district and regional competition.
This year's team was composed of seniors Phil Renfroe and Aaron Bond, sophomores Elizabeth Miler and Carrie Bishop, freshmen Erin Bull and Vic Polidoro, and eighth-graders Jack Angert, Stacie Boothe and Emily Trivette.
Miller, Bishop and Bull received bronze medals for their performances in Mountain Empire district meets; Miller and Bishop advanced to Region C competition.
Race-car driver Tink Reedy and his crew, along with New England Patriots football player John Granby, visited SHAWSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to help with Reading Month celebrations.
The theme was "Racing to a Good Book."
One weekend in late March, the APPALKIDS - American People Presenting Appalachian Life through Kids in Dramatic Skits - went to East Tennessee State University in Johnson City for the 16th annual Appalachian Studies Conference and the sixth annual Appalachian Youth Conference.
The Appalkids, formed in 1985, conceived, organized and sponsored the youth conference.
The group, based at Pulaski High School, weaves traditional music, folktales and dialogue into dramatic performances to celebrate the people and culture of the Appalachian region.
If you're not busy tonight, you might catch the performance of the 27-member wind ensemble band of Newington College - the equivalent of our prep school - from Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia.
The group is presenting a performance with the Blacksburg Middle School band at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Admission is free.
Joanne Anderson is filling in for Melissa DeVaughn, who is hiking the Appalachian Trail for the next six months. If you have an interesting news item from your school, write to the New River Current in care of the Roanoke Times & World-News' New River Valley Bureau, P.O. Box 540, Christiansburg 24073.
by CNB