Friday, June 23, 2006
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
Mill Mountain Theatre has received a $3,000 grant from the Katherine Nelson Fishburn Foundation Fund for its education and drama enrichment programs. The foundation provides grants to social service, educational and cultural organizations.
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Jim Agnew, a member of the Moneta Lions Club, has been named group coordinator in Campaign SightFirst II, the Lions Club International's $150 million fundraising campaign to combat blindness. The campaign will expand and enhance the Lions' SightFirst program, which has assisted more than 24 million people with vision problems since its launch in 1990.
Agnew, also zone chairman for Lions District 24-E, will be responsible for helping nine clubs conduct fundraising campaigns. He was appointed by Tae-Sup Lee, past president of the international association and chairman of the campaign.
MILITARY
Airman Brennan Mathis has graduated from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. She is the daughter of Cathy Mathis and a 2001 graduate of Lord Botetourt High School.
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Airman Bryan Graham has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. He is the son of Kimberly Puckett of Roanoke and a 2003 graduate of William Byrd High School.
CAMPUS
Mitzi Steele, director of information technology at Roanoke College, has received a 2006 Datatel Users' Group SHINE award.
Datatel, a software program designed for colleges, uses databases to manage information regarding students, graduates and supporters of institutions of higher education and has been in use at Roanoke since 1996. The national SHINE award recognizes group members who excel as volunteers.
Steele is one of 10 award winners and is past president of the organization.
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David Belcher of Roanoke has been named the George C. Marshall Award winner from Marshall University.
The annual award is presented to the most outstanding cadet in the Army ROTC program at Marshall. It is named in honor of Army Gen. George C. Marshall, who served in World War II as the Army chief of staff and in the postwar era as secretary of state and secretary of defense.
Belcher, a 2002 graduate of Fort Union Military Academy High School, is the son of Billy and Jane Belcher of Roanoke. He was middle linebacker for Marshall University in the GMAC Bowl Championship but stopped playing football to join the university's ROTC program in 2004.
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant May 12 and is attending the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, Ga. He will be assigned to the 1st Air Assault Brigade, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., after he completes basic training.
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Roanoke native James Alouf, professor of education at Sweet Briar College, recently received the Cameron Fellowship.
Funded by Sweet Briar alumna Flora Cameron Crichton '46 of San Antonio, the fellowship includes an annual $2,500 stipend until the recipient retires from Sweet Briar. Alouf, who came to Sweet Briar in 1997, is chairman of the education department. While on sabbatical during the 2002-2003 school year, Alouf designed the college's master of arts in teaching and master of education programs.
Alouf earned a bachelor's degree in government and politics from King's College, a master's degree in political theory from Rutgers University and a doctorate degree in social studies education with minors in public administration and foundations of education from the University of Virginia.
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Myra Bankert of Buchanan and Ben Thurman of Moneta were among the Bluefield College students who were recognized for academic excellence during the school's annual year-end Academic Honors Convocation.
Bankert was elected to state office with Phi Beta Lambda, a business organization, and was sworn in during the honors convocation.
Thurman won the science division's chemistry award, presented by the Chemical Rubber Company to the outstanding general chemistry student.
