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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1977
Page
3
Doris Dixon, manager at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. C&P office in Danville, reflects on a 30 year career. She began as an operator right after high school, with early plans to work only six months and dreamt of teaching or becoming an airline stewardess.
Doris Dixon joined the telephone company as an operator and advanced through clerk teller and service roles to become a business office supervisor and assistant manager. In 1973 she became the first woman public office manager in Virginia, overseeing 240 employees and serving as a local spokesman. She is active in the United Fund Danville Chamber of Commerce and other groups, enjoys golf, and once painted as a hobby.
May Day events at the Stratford College campus feature ten seniors in pastel Maypole gowns performing a traditional dance as dozens of friends watch. The celebration kicks off a week of senior citizens Olympics with a torch lighting and multiple contests including walking, ping pong, swimming, and bowling at the Danville Parks and Recreation Senior Citizens Center.
Averett College alumni return May 6 and 7 for the spring homecoming with tours of the campus and local cultural sites including the National Tobacco-Textile Museum Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History and Chinqua Penn Plantation in Reidsville North Carolina. Special reunion dinners honor classes of 1927 and 1952 with an Incat alumni chapter meeting and an alumni faculty coffee plus a Donna Arrington art gallery show on campus.
Ed Lane of Richmond seeks the Democratic nomination for attorney general. He will campaign in Danville with a public reception Tuesday 6:30 p.m. at the King of the Sea, then a press reception at the Charcoal House. Lane, 53, is longtime House of Delegates member and chair of the Appropriations Committee, senior partner at Edward and Lane in Richmond, and holds an LL B from the University of Richmond. He is married to Jean.
Over 20 youths from 4-H and Future Farmers of America will take part in the 24th Annual Danville Area Junior Livestock Show and Sale at the Virginia-Carolina Livestock Market in Blairs. Show at 1 p.m. and sale at 7:30 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Danville Area Chamber of Commerce with local extension agents, will feature 74 lean hogs and 47 steers and is supported by Arva businesses contributing funds for steer and hog prizes. Proceeds fund contestant meals and ribbons. Chamber covers prize money and expenses.
The State Board for Community Colleges met in Roanoke for its quarterly session. It approved contracts for an animal science building at Loudoun campus of Northern Virginia CC and a manpower training building at Rappahannock CC Warsaw, both federally funded. New certificate programs were approved at several campuses and off campus credit courses were set at multiple colleges. The sale of 80 acres at Tidewater CC Frederick campus to Hampton Roads Sanitary District was reported, along with salary increase prospects of about 4.8 percent. The flood relief program raised funds for Red Cross and sent supplies to flood areas via Mountain Empire and SW Virginia Community Colleges serving as distribution points.
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