- Poor Farm members honored
in 2001 with Alumni Awards are:
Ron Flanary,
Outstanding Alumni Award
Stanley Willis, Distinguished Service Award
Joseph C. Smiddy, Meritorious Achievement Award
- Richard Davidson was
inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame
Betty Gilliam, Meritorious Achievement Award
Roy Wells
and Clayton Willis, Distinguished Service
Awards
- Don Pippin has been appointed
by Gov. Mark Warner to the Board of
Visitors of the University of Virginia.
- Among the new members on the UVA-Wise Board
are: Jack Kennedy and Ed Roop. Ed is Alumni
Association President this year.
- Poor Farmers are active in the Highland Cavalier
Club. George Culbertson, recently retired, is president,
Brian Wills is vice president, Steve Lawson is treasurer,
and Bob Colyer is the club's representative on the Foundation Board.
- Lelia Maude Richmond, who died April 10,
was honored at the season's first home football game when the playing field
was named the "Beaty Richmnond Field". The first home game of each
season will be dedicated to Mrs. Richmond, known widely as the Cavaliers'
No. 1 Fan.
- The press box at Carl Smith Stadium hasbeen named
for Bill Ramseyer, architect of the college's football program
and head football coach from 1991 until his retirement last spring.
- Dr. Brownie Polly was one of four community
leaders honored at the 2001 Wellmont Foundation Three-Star Gala. He
was recognized for raising funds which helped build Lonesome Pine Hospital
nearly thirty years ago.
- Dr. J. P. Senter, a family physician who
has practiced in Clintwood since 1981, was honored last fall for 20 years
membership in the American Academy of Family Physicians, and for his
involvement inthe community.
- Joe and Frances Howard moved to Florida
in early summer, and are missed. Joe and Jami Wolfe purchased
the Howard's house in Norton.
- Rachel Lewis, daughter of Charlotte
Parsons and the late Judd Lewis, served a summer internship
in Washington, D.C. , in the offices of Sen. Hillary R. Clinton and Congressman
Rick Boucher. Rachel is a senior, majoring in public policy at the
College of William and Mary.
- In addition to her accreditation work, Betty
Johnson has recently traveled to China and Scandinavia.
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