THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, January 22, 1995 TAG: 9501210070
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 10 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Column
LENGTH: Medium: 73 lines
MR. AMBASSADOR: Bismarck Myrick, a Portsmouth native, has been named U.S. ambassador to the southern African Kingdom of Lesotho by President Clinton.
Myrick, a graduate of I.C. Norcom High, joined the foreign service after retiring from the Army. He served in Vietnam as a company commander after rising from the rank of private to captain.
His medals include the Silver Star, Purple Heart and four Bronze Stars for heroism in battle.
He has two degrees and is co-author of a book, ``Three Aspects of Crises in Colonial Kenya,'' published by Syracuse University Press.
Myrick grew up in Jeffry Wilson with a single mother.
Since October he has been U.S. Consul General at Cape Town, South Africa.
Myrick has been accepted at Lesotho by the ministry of foreign affairs.
He will be sworn in this month in a ceremony in Washington.
TRT BUS STOPS: Tidewater Regional Transit buses are back on County Street one month after being relocated to Columbia Street because of complaints.
The TRT buses were relocated to make way for parking school buses who bring students to the Children's Museum of Virginia.
The new route was abandoned after complaints from the owner of a building that backs up to Columbia Street, TRT spokesman Jeff Becker said.
``But it rarely works anyway to move a major bus center,'' Becker said. ``In this case, the old location is well-established and well-lighted.''
Steve Medvik of the city's traffic engineering department said school buses now will use an alley to discharge children between the Children's Museum and the parking garage.
The school buses will park in reserved spaces on County Street be tween the parking garage and Court Street.
GOOD PLAY: The Children's Museum of Virginia recently was featured in the leisure travel section of USA Today. The story included a picture of the bubbles exhibits.
A total of 25,000 people visited the museum during its 20 days of operation in December.
STAFF GYRATIONS: J.C. Redd, formerly assigned to Willett Hall, has been moved to the staff of the Children's Museum.
Redd was named operations manager. He will supervise personnel at the museum and be responsible for scheduling and supplies for the exhibits.
Meanwhile, on Dec. 20 Shelley Brooks resigned from the curatorial staff of the Community Art Center. Brooks had been the only person assigned to the art staff until former Assistant Librarian Bill Brown was cut from the Portsmouth Public Library and later hired for the position of curator of the center.
DOING GOOD: Cradock High graduate Ricky Price has made a name for himself in Reno, Nev., where he received rave reviews for his direction of ``Starburst 94,'' a musical comedy benefit put on by the Washoe Medical Center Auxiliary.
Price also wrote the show about a Hollywood big-wig who became a Washoe medical patient.
Now 45, Price graduated from Cradock in 1968 and attended East Carolina University. Among performances in the region, he was an Indian dancer and played Sir Walter Raleigh in ``The Lost Colony'' on Roanoke Island.
He went to Reno in 1978 to sing in a MGM production, ``Hello, Hollywood, Hello.'' He stayed and started a singing telegram business. In addition, he has worked as a choreographer of plays at University of Nevada. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Cradock High graduate Ricky Price, who lives in Reno, Nev., received
rave reviews for his direction of the musical comedy, ``Starburst
94.''
by CNB