
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 15, 1995                   TAG: 9509150051
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NORTHSIDE GRADUATE WINS SCHOLARSHIP

Northside High School graduate Yasmin Dara Jilla has won the first John W. Hancock Jr. Scholarship of $2,000 from Center in the Square.

Hancock, who died last year, was a founder of the cultural center.

A first-year student at the University of Virginia, Jilla was valedictorian of the class of 1995. She is a Tandy Scholar, a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student and an award winner in the 1995 Governor's School Science Forum in Medicine and Health.

The scholarship was presented this week at the center's annual board meeting. At the same meeting, the board elected five new members and named six directors emeriti. New directors are G. Steven Agee, Regine N. Archer, Susan W. Donckers, Robert C. Lawson Jr. and Michael Warner.

Directors emeriti are Adrienne G. Bullington, John P. Fishwick, Charles I. Lunsford III and the late Richard F. Dunlap, Edwin K. Mattern and John W. Hancock Jr.

Board officers are George W. Logan, president; Bittle W. Porterfield III, vice president; William S. Hubard, treasurer; James C. Sears, president and general manager; and Wanda L. DeMarco, secretary.

by CNB