Local students earn regional honors in high school achievers list
Bluefield High School student Coleen Archer earns a role as Rose in the play Richard Cory in the all regional cast. Jeff Chinault of James Monroe High School is named salutatorian with a 3.9 GPA and active in NHS FBLA Science Club aiming for Virginia Tech. Matthew Collins named All American Scholar by United States Achievement Academy.
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Matoaka native wins brazing award from Welding Society
MATOAKA R. Keith Byrd, son of Ralph and Betty Bird, won the Robert L. Peaslee Brazing Award at an American Welding Society meeting. Byrd, Matoaka High School graduate, earned a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1985 and an M.S. in materials science from the University of Virginia in 1991. He has worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a materials research engineer since 1985, focusing on processing and joining aluminum and titanium alloys and composites. The Wall Colmonny Corporation sponsors the award, named for Brazing pioneer Robert Peaslee. The honor recognizes the best Brazing paper published in the Welding Journal during the prior calendar year.
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