Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 16, 1994 TAG: 9406160105
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-9 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Cave Spring Junior High won first in Division 2, miniterrain vehicles; Stonewall Jackson Middle School, second, Division 2, Set It Free; Lord Botetourt High School, third, Division 3, OMbelievable Music; and Penn Forest Elementary, third, Division 1, Set It Free.
Cave Spring Junior High, Division 3, won a Renatra Fusca Award for creativity.
\ CROSSROADS K MART has announced the local winners in "It's a Snap" photo contest, which promoted creativity and taught children to be more aware of environmental issues. Sterling Derrant, of Roanoke, is the grand prize winner and will receive a $5,000 savings bond. The honorable mention first place winner is Andrew Bolton, who will receive $500 in Kodak cameras and supplies. Mathew Conner won honorable mention second place. All three winners are second-graders at Preston Park School and will have their photos entered in a contest of more than 7,500 entries nationwide.
\ WILLIAM BYRD HIGH SCHOOL has honored students for their outstanding performance on the National German Exam and the National Latin Exam.
On the German exam, those receiving top honors in German II were: Jessie Beach, Jennifer Krippel, Amanda Lytton, Jennifer Hobbs, Julie Duvall, Benjamin Snyder, and Nicole Johnson.
Receiving top honors in German III were: Daniel Brad White, Evan Maxey, William Overstreet, Melissa Dare Andrews, Robin Amos, Meridith Paige Andrews, Jason Porter, and Richard Brogan.
Those receiving top recognition in German IV include: Nadia Guertler, Christopher Williams, James Goforth, Rosalind Doty, Joey Ball, Jay Reynolds, Summer Miller, and Troy Farmer.
For the Latin exam, in Latin Poetry, John Conner received a gold medal and a Summa Cum Laude certificate and Jennifer Clem received a Magna Cum Laude certificate.
In Latin I, Steven Faw received a Silver Medal and a Maxima Cum Laude certificate.
In Latin II, Steven Sides received a Magna Cum Laude certificate, and Victor Nathan Wilcox received a Cum Laude certificate.
\ THE TANDY TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARS has named several Roanoke high school students and teachers nominated by their schools who are eligible to compete for scholarships in the areas of math, science and computer science.
The nominees for Outstanding Math/Science/Computer Science Student are: David Arthur Kunkle and Erik William Rosolowsky, Cave Spring; and Brian Powell Short and Matthew Shane Jones, William Fleming.
The nominees for the top 2 percent of their senior class are: Julie Ann Floryan, Nancy Emily Lin, Jeremiah Morris, George Brent Shorter, Erin Elizabeth Sobotta, Shannon Marlece Vittur, all from Cave Spring; Rachel A. Brown, Patrice Callahan, Michelle Hamm, Thomas Pendleton, and Anney Yeh, all from William Fleming; and Ellen Renee Brown, North Cross.
From William Byrd: Rachel Ann Allen, Bryan Scott Saunders, Michael Scott Sutton and Anthony Weston Yeatts. From Glenvar: Christopher Ryan Antolini and Ashley Dana Turman. From Lord Botetourt: Kristopher Lawrence Keeton, Ashley Michelle Moore, and John Edwin Smith Jr.
The nominees for Outstanding Math/Science/Computer Science Teacher are: Michael M. Stevens, Cave Spring; and Jennifer H. Dunford and Carole Massart, William Fleming.
Each student is eligible for one of 100 $1,000 scholarships and each teacher is eligible to compete for one of the 100 $2,500 cash awards presented annually. All will receive certificates.
\ HOLLINS COLLEGE recently awarded bachelor of arts degrees to several Roanoke area students.
Those from Roanoke are: Bethany Leigh Blankenship, daughter of H.R. and Melody Blankenship; Debbie Diane Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Robertson; Katrina Kai Duerk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.R. Duerk; Kellee Elizabeth McDowell, daughter of Calvin McDowell and Libby Camper; Angela Renee Selfe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David R. Selfe. From Troutville: Deidre Nicole Mattox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry R. Mattox.
Adult students participating in the school's Horizon program also received bachelor of arts degrees. From Roanoke: Julie Muddiman Allie, Joyce April Brubaker, Beth-Boyd Denson, Sarah Rachel King, Deborah Geyer Lynn, Virginia Christophel Davis Owen, and Donna Darlene Richardson-Coulson; from Buchanan: Kathy Graham Sullivan.
Sherri Lynn Fialko, an adult student from Roanoke and an art studio and psychology major, received the Gold Faculty Award For Academic Excellence as one of two valedictorians in the class of 1994.
\ ROANOKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL recently honored several students at its Honors Convocation.
Boys and Girls State nominees were: Bethany Miller and Tony Joyce. Outstanding Service Awards were awarded to Milana Drewry, Brian Slenski, Tiffany Arrington, Poppy Bilbra-Jacobs, Philip Buch, Jackie Hinman and Danny Rowland.
Tiffany Arrington received the Most Outstanding Service Award for the Third Quarter for the Entire School.
Travis Slusher, Jennifer O'Meara, Tara Webb, Beau King and Mary Molinary each received General Excellence Awards for their grades. Mary Molinary received the General Excellence Award for the Entire School.
\ MARY SPRUILL, daughter of Bonny Spruill of Roanoke, recently received a student leadership award from George Mason University.
Spruill, an international studies major, serves on the honor committee, as an alternate student representative to the school's Board of Visitors and is a resident adviser.
by CNB