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DATE: SUNDAY, June 26, 1994                    TAG: 9406240236 
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS                     PAGE: 04    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
DATELINE: 940626                                 LENGTH: Medium

COUNCIL SET TO APPOINT 3 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS

{LEAD} After conducting interviews with candidates earlier this month, the City Council will appoint three people to the School Board on Tuesday. Thirty-five candidates tossed their names into the ring. The terms of board chairman J. Thomas Benn III, Leah Stith and Ralph Buxton expire June 30. Appointees will join the board July 1.

Benn, a quality assurance director at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and Stith, a special assistant to the lieutenant governor, are seeking re-appointment. Buxton cannot be reappointed because he has served two consecutive terms.

{REST} Here's a brief look at the other candidates.

Information was taken from documents filed with the city clerk's office:

Irma Bland, 68, retired Portsmouth teacher and counselor;

Tracy Brown, (male), 28,, motivational speaker and business owner;

Carl L. Burden, 38, federal investigator; public relations director;

Yvette Casper, 38, school district office clerk;

Regina Humphrey, 35, administrative assistant;

Elizabeth Daniels, 55, dentist;

David R. Denny, 41, minister of Cradock Baptist Church;

Dorothy W. Dray (*withdrew from consideration);

P. Marshall Fleming, 43, insurance company employee;

Paul E. Heath Jr., 58, engineer;

Benjamin Howard, 52, bus driver and retired New York Telephone Company staff manager;

Sandi Rhodes Johnson, 53, regional training manager for an insurance company;

Jane E. Jones, 36, of ASAP-Jones Business Service Center;

Karen S. Jordan, 39, security consultant;

Byron Peter Kloeppel, 52, lawyer;

Shirley H. Lassiter, 52, Norfolk teacher;

James F. Mason, 57, minister of Emanuel A.M.E. Church and retired educator;

Brian K. Nance Sr., 34,president of Park Manor Civic League and a leader of Portsmouth Citizens for Better Education Inc.; also an organizer of a local elected school board petition drive, occupation not listed;

Barbara Oliver, 63, retired Portsmouth teacher;

Jean M. Piedmont, age not listed, owner of a computer training business;

Jay Patrick Quigley, 24, occupation not listed;

Mary K. Rathburn, 44,telephone operator;

Ray A. Smith Sr., 40, supervisor at Virginia Power Co.;

Dorothy Swain, 60, retired social work supervisor;

Martha A. Smith, age not listed, Portsmouth teacher. (Smith apparently has withdrawnfrom consideration);

Jimmy R. Spruill Sr., 66, owner of J.J. Fasteners Inc.;

Bessie Alsop Stanback, 58 retired mathematics specialist;

John H. Underwood III, 43, public defender;

Pieter A. Van de Graaf, 39, engineer with Newport News Shipbuilding;

Dianne Davis-Wagner, 46, employee assistance counselor;

Yvette P. Walker, 32, housing management specialist for the Navy;

Priscilla A. West, 47, Chesapeake teacher;

Michael C. Winnette, 41, Naval architect.

{KEYWORDS} PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTMENT

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