ROANOKE TIMES 

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

DATE: THURSDAY, October 5, 1995                   TAG: 9510070008
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-11   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

ROANOKE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL'S School of Practical Nursing has announced the names of Roanoke Valley students who graduated in August. They are Mary Agee, Tammy Bower, Heather Carter, Kimberly Dalton, Jessica Harris, Leslie Harris, Ella Jackson, Ruth McGuire, Brandi Matthews, Gail Mayhew, Susan Monk, Kristin Rea, Kenneth Taylor, Sylvia Watts and Robert Wozniak, all of Roanoke; and Ashley Faw, Brenda McClure and Cathy White, all of Vinton.

JOHN CRITZER of Fincastle has won the $1,000 state DeMolay scholarship.

Critzer, Jason Akers of Roanoke and Chris Pendleton of Blue Ridge, also received $850 scholarships from the Karnes Memorial Scholarship Fund during the recent statewide DeMolay Conclave.

THE ARTS COUNCIL OF THE BLUE RIDGE recently handed out scholarships to six students to help them explore or extend their experience in the arts. Ray Jackson of William Byrd High School, Tony Southers of William Fleming High School and Hassan Al-fatlawy and Eddie Nichols, both of Patrick Henry High School, received money to buy art supplies.

Jeff Eeningenburg, a recent Patrick Henry graduate, will use his scholarship to cover one semester of voice lessons at Moody Bible Institute; and Angela Primo of the Roanoke Valley Christian School will use her scholarship to continue art lessons.

MELISSA J. RAMSEY and KIA SHERMAN, seniors at William Fleming High School, are included in the 29th annual Edition of Who's who Among American High School Students.

LAUREN COOK, daughter of Tina Cook of Roanoke County, was one of 140 students chosen from a pool of 1,500 to represent the state's top achievers and leaders in the Virginia Future Miss Pageant.

Cook received the Above and Beyond trophy for overall friendliness and attitude toward other candidates. The pageant is part of the National Youth Scholarship Program. She is a sixth grader at Hidden Valley Junior High School.

SARAH LENT, daughter of Hilda and Elmer Lent Jr. of Vinton, recently attended the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. A junior at Staunton River High School, Lent was among 350 National Scholars throughout the United States chosen to attend. During the six-day conference, participants interacted with key leaders and newsmakers from the three branches of government, the media and the diplomatic corps.

BENJAMIN H. O'DELL son of Thomas and Marilyn O'Dell of Roanoke, recently was awarded one of two $2,000 undergraduate research grants from the physics department at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. The grant will enable O'Dell to complete a one-year research project to be presented at the 10th National Conference on Undergraduate Research in April.

CHARLEAN EANES FISHER, a former teacher at William Fleming High School, received a 1995 Virginia Alliance For Arts Education Distinguished Service Award. The awards were featured in the spring issue of the newsletter, "Advocate."

TERRI WORD and WILLIAM HOLLAND, both of William Fleming High School, were among 10 winners in the nationwide White House Conference on Travel and Tourism essay contest.

Holland's essay, which focused on the need to promote the United States to foreign travelers, placed first and will be published in the conference program.

Word wrote about environmental concerns affecting the travel industry.

Both students study in the magnet school's Academy of Travel and Tourism Program. They will receive a four-day trip to the conference Oct. 29-Nov. 1. 


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