Contributed PhotoEast Brainerd schoolteachers honored by Rotary Club of Chattanooga Hamilton Place were, from left, Brigette Thurman, Rotarian; Stan Russell, Rotary Club president; Jeff Fairbanks, East Hamilton High School; Brooke Holland, Collegedale Academy; Mark Hamby, Ooltewah High School; Blaine Vandegriff, Silverdale Baptist Academy; Jeff Stone, Boyd-Buchanan School; and Stephen Pike, Rotarian.
Walker County Leadership graduates announced
Walker County Chamber of Commerce announces members of the newest class of Adult Leadership Walker County. They were recognized during a luncheon at the Walker County Civic Center.
Graduates took monthly courses from September 2014 until May 2015. Topics included local government, state government, health care and social services, industry and economic development and education. They toured the Capitol in Atlanta, Mountain Cove Farms, the Martin-Davis House, Roper Corp., the Jimmy Simpson Foundation, Walker County Sheriff's Department, Chickamauga City Schools, Walker County Schools and Rock City.
Adult Leadership graduates are Bobby Teems, Brandon Mosgrove, Evitte Parrish, Fanci Moore, Heather Holloway, Ira Taylor, Jeffrey Haag, Kelley Hightower, Kenneth Shepard, Kevin Redman, Lacey Wilson, Leslie Nix, Selena Magnusson, Terry Nida, Tiffany Hays and Wendy Lund.
Hamilton Place Rotary honors teachers
The Rotary Club of Chattanooga Hamilton Place honored five distinguished teachers from East Brainerd schools during a recent club meeting held at GraceWorks Church on Lee Highway.
Seniors at each school were asked to vote for the influential educator whose actions exemplify Rotary's motto, "Service Above Self." Honored teachers were chauffeured with their principal by limousine to the meeting, presented a plaque and a gift card.
Honorees were Jeff Fairbanks, East Hamilton High School; Brooke Holland, Collegedale Academy; Mark Hamby, Ooltewah High School; Blaine Vandegriff, Silverdale Baptist Academy; and Jeff Stone, Boyd Buchanan School.
Brown receives garden
club's scholarship
Richard Brown, a junior at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga majoring in environmental science, was recently awarded the Brainerd Scholarship, which was presented at the District 3 spring meeting by Donna Taylor, scholarship chairman, and Maggie Burns, District 3 director.
The honoree is the grandson of the late Caroline Williams, a longtime member of the Hickory Valley Garden Club who served on the board of Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs as legislative advocate concerning environmental issues. His mother, Marie Brown, is a member of Hickory Valley Garden Club.
Cleveland State students
honored at convention
Members of Cleveland State Community College's Omega Omicron chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society brought home honors from the annual Tennessee Region Phi Theta Kappa Convention in Columbia, Tenn.
The chapter received fourth place for its Honors in Action Project for cancer awareness and fifth place for the Distinguished College Project on Community College Completion Corps. For its commitment to chapter development, the Omega Omicron chapter was recognized as a Five Star Level chapter, the highest development distinction that can be earned.
Officers Jonathan Durichek, Heavenly Rodriguez, Lenzie Mabe, Hailey Eakin and Bo Marshall won Most Distinguished Chapter Officer Team for the region.
Residents inducted
into Phi Kappa Phi
Several area residents were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the nation's oldest college honor society for all academic disciplines.
The students and the colleges they attend are: Monica Maldonado of Dalton, Ga., Berry College; Zack Rogers of Dalton, Clemson University; Matthew Franz of Cleveland, Tenn., Tennessee State University; and Shelby Wallin of Rising Fawn, Ga., Troy University.
Chattanoogans Adam Johnson, Jacksonville University; Russell Patterson, University of Tennessee; and Victorian Smith, University of Mississippi; and Signal Mountain residents Corbin Cullum, Samford University; and Brandon Clausen, University of Mississippi.
Life Force receives
Service of Year Award
Erlanger's Life Force air-medical program recently received the Southeastern EMS Director's Association Service of the Year award for the program's outstanding emergency medical services for patient care.
Life Force program operates four helicopters and services four states. It is the only air ambulance program in the region that carries ultrasound, blood and plasma and is credentialed by physicians at Erlanger to perform emergency surgical procedures. All Life Force flight nurses and paramedics have board certification in critical-care transport. Life Force is one of only 5 percent of the programs in the country to achieve that standard.
Southeastern EMS Director's Association consists of 11 Southeastern Tennessee EMS agencies.
Tuck, Moses receive TWC scholarships
The Goldman Barefield Annual Scholarship fund committee awarded $5,000 scholarships to Haley Tuck and Maria Moses, both of Sweetwater, Tenn., to attend Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens, Tenn., this fall.
Pamela Clark, agent/owner of Pamela Clark State Farm Insurance in Sweetwater, founded the scholarship in memory of her father, Goldman "Goldie" Barefield, a resident of Etowah, Tenn. Since its inception, the scholarship committee has awarded nine scholarships to students from Sweetwater High School. Clark is an alumna of the school.
- Compiled by staff writer Susan Pierce