Halifax County High School seniors Nora Lee and Jessica Sibley were named co-recipients of the Principal's Award Thursday night at the school's annual Awards Ceremony.
Honored as the school's top athletes were Chad Compton, who received the T.C. Watkins III Outstanding Male Athlete award and Lee, who was the recipient of the Tuesday Women's Club Outstanding Female Athlete award.
Other awards and scholarships announced include:
Class officers - President-SaraEdith Williams; Vice-President-Pamela Tucker; Treasurer-Shonda Welch; Secretary-Jennifer Logan; Sgt.-At-Arms-Crystal Medley; Reporter-Lateshia Chambers.
South Boston Jaycees Award-Jonathan Vaughan
VFW Auxiliary Citizenship Award-Melanie Hoskins
DCC Academic Scholarships-Ben Howerton-Recognition of Achievement Scholarship and d-Scan; Benhamin Mottesheard-Bucknam award; Brad Crews-Christopher Daniel Turner award; Jennifer Logan-Roberts-Hunt Endowed award.
Justin Walker Memorial Scholarship-Geoff Moore
Wal-mart Scholarship-Lisa Rose
Hall of Fame-Lateshia Chambers, Josh Milam and Jonathan Vaughan
South Boston Junior Women's Club scholarship-Brandi Smith
D. Henry Harrison Scholarship - Kim Adams, Ben Howerton, Ratia Kirby, Crystal Medley and Sabrina Rogers.
Little Theatre/Dorothy H. Crews Memorial scholarship - Jessica Sibley
Mecklenburg Electric Coop. scholarship-Adam Gravitt
Kevin Hatcher Memorial scholarship-Nick Wilson
VHSL Achievement award recognition-Cale Husted and Jessica Sibley
VHSL Achievement award scholarship-Nora Lee
VFW Post 8243 scholarship award-Casey Collie, Ben Howerton, Todd Meadows, Lisa Rose and Justin Smith.
Halifax County Usher's Union scholarship-Chartis Hayes
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.-Crystal Medley
Parson's Bruce Scholarship-Wiswa Pinit
Governor's School award-Christopher Bailey, Lateshia Chambers, Brian Hasty, Cal Husted, Meagan Lee, Laura Martson, Christopher Parker, Alexander Psihramis, Elizabeth Rorrer, Travis Wilkins, Sara Jean Williams and Meredith Williamson.
Role Model Mentor Program-Anthony Penick
Fred Wynne Memorial scholarship-Chartis Hayes
EXCEL-Jonathan Davis and Jermaine Richardson
ABWA Tri-River Charter Chapter scholarship-Jennifer Comer, Bridgett Fallen and Melanie Hoskins
Pamplin Leadership-Adam Gravitt
JROTC awardsRecruiting command medal-Jerome Carden; American Legion Scholastic Excellence -Jerome Carden; American Legion Military Excellence-Karen Foster; Academic Achievement Insignia-Jerome Carden, Karen Foster and Shanell Irvin; Most Improved Cadet-Tamika Crawley; Jason Carr Scholarship-Jerome Carden
Army Scholar Athlete-Cale Husted and Nora Lee
U.S. Marine Corp. Scholastic Excellence award-Lateshia Chambers and Josh Milam
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship-Jessica Sibley
Journalism Advisor's award-Karen Foster
Carrington-Lanier Scholarship-Chartis Hayes and Jonathan Davis
Voices of Tomorrow-Marjorie Bowers and April Fitzgerald
Delta Kapp Gamma Scholarship-SaraEdith Williams
Joan Guthrie Davis Memorials cholarship-Cardell Mosley
Wabash Scholarship-Brian Hasty
President's Education Award Program- Arrington, Angela; Barker Rebecca; Throckmorton, Brittany; Betts, Amanda; Tucker, Pamela; Bosworth, Kristin; Vaughan, Jonathan; Bowers, Marjorie; Williams, Jessica; Bowman, Brooke; Williams, Sara Jean; Carr, Kevin; Williamson, Meredith; Chambers, Lateshia; Wilson, Renee; Chaney, Catherine; Young, Kathryn; Conner, Matthew; Crews, Andrew; Cuevas, Everardo; Fallen, Bridgett; Gravitt, Adam; Greene, Jessica; Hasty, Brian; Hayes, Chartis; Hoppe, Brian; Hoskins, Melanie; Howerton, Ben; Howitt, Robert; Hudson, Carla; Husted, Cale; Kirby, Ratia; Knapp, Jamie; Lee, Nora; Logan, Jennifer; Lowery, Kyle; Marston, Laura; McDaniel, Elizabeth; McDowell, Bridgett; Milam, Josh; Nuhfer, Scott; Ragland, Cherise; Repokis, Trent; Rorrer, Elizabeth; Rose, Lisa; Sibley, Jessica; Smith, Kevin; Snead, Erica; Snead, Misty; Terry, James.
Business Department awards-Peggy Barksdale, Crystal Brown, Catherine Chaney, Adam Gravitt, Nora Lee, Cherise Ragland, Scarlett, Pamela Tucker, Renee Wilson
Les Dillard III Memorial Scholarship-Bridget McDowell
Links-Pam Tucker
Art Award-Chris Fisher
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Scholarship-Pam Tucker
Science award-Nora Lee
Halifax County Community Deacon's Class-Marjorie Bowers and James Terry
Trade and Industrial award-Ben Howerton and Derek Toombs
Most Versatile Trade & Industrial Education Student of the Year-Edwina Lawson
Ruth Louise Terrett Earle Scholarship (VA Tech)-Jessica Greene
Woodmen of the World U.S. History award-Nora Lee and Kyle Lowery
Band-Shonda Welch
Camerata-Marjorie Bowers
Virginia Credit Union-Dorothy J. Hall Scholarship-Brian Hasty
FCCLA (Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America) award-Marjorie Bowers and Crystal Medley
James E. Rickman Memorial Scholarship-Jillian Jones and Walter Woody III
Ward Burton award-Kyle Lowery
Turbeville Ruritan Club-Elizabeth McDaniel
DAR Good Citizen-Jonathan Vaughan
King College Academic Scholarship-Sara Jean Williams
South Boston Rotary Club Scholarship-Bridgett Fallen
South Boston Rotary Club Vocational Scholarship-Chad Bowen
English Department awards - Seminar award-Jessica Sibley; Highest average-Nora Lee.
SVCC - Guaranteed Academic Merit-Peggy Barksdale
Meredith College Outstanding Scholar award-Melanei Hoskins
French Awards-Chad Compton and Cale Husted
American Legion Citizenship award - Brian Hoppe and Kathryn Brooke Young
SCA-Jessica Sibley, Pam Tucker and SaraEdith Williams
Halifax Woman's Club Scholarship-Josh Thaxton
Virginia Public Safety Foundation Merit Scholarship-Matthew Conner
Ray Kroc Award-Pam Tucker
SVCC Math Contest-1st place-Nora Lee; tied for 3rd-Rob Howitt and Jessica Sibley
Marketing Student of the Year-Catherine Chaney
Adventurettes Scholarship-Jonathan Davis and Alicia Jennings
Pincochletes Club Scholarship-Pam Tucker and SaraEdith Williams
Mary Bethune Alumni and Associates-Local:Lateshia Chambers and Jonathan Davis; National: Kevin Carr; DC-Regina Richardson; Richmond-SaraEdith Williams
Scholarships - Rebecca Barker, Amigo Scholarship, $7000 a year, University of NW; Ric Bates, Ruritan Club, $500; Jerome Carden, NC A&T, $3000; Matthew Conner, Virginia Army/Air National Guard Enlisted Association, $1000; Alida Gibson, Hood Scholarship, $5000 a year; Kenneth Martin, US Marines, $50,000; Verlinda Moorefield, Spaulding University, full tuition; Lisa Rose, VCU-Dean Scholarship, 1/2 tuition and fees
Perfect Attendance-Rosazenna D. Dixon, Ratia Kirby, Jennifer Logan, Sharonda C. Wells and Eric L. Yancey.
Roderick Lacy Retired Teacher's Scholarship-Scott Dunn
Iris Daniel Scholarship-Crystal Medley
Dr. Bessie Carr Scholarship-Rebecca Barker
Young Men's Progressive Club-Ashlyn Scott
Math/Science Conference award - Nora Lee
National Merit Scholar award-Jessica Sibley
C. Arthur Ware Scholarships-Brooke Bowman, Catherien Chaney, John Cranford, William Haugh, Erica Snead, Pam Tucker and Jessica Williams.
Jason S. Ramsey Scholarship-Jonathan Vaughan
Virginia Tompkins McLaughlin Scholarship-Chartis Hayes
Lois Swanson Scholarship-Jessica Greene
J. Marshall Swanson Scholarship-Bridget McDowell
Tuck Dillard Scholarship-Josh Milam
Kathleen Wood Scholarship-Elizabeth McDaniel
Udy C. Wood Scholarship-Rob Howitt
T.C. Watkins III Outstanding Male Athlete-Chad Compton
Tuesday Women's Club Outstandign Female Athlete - Nora Lee
Principal's Award - Nora Lee and Jessica Sibley
Clark Scholarship Awards - Adams, Kimberly; Jackson, Carlos; Spraggins, Lakisha; Barker, Rebecca; Jennings, William; Stewart, Holly; Bates, Richard; Kirby, Ratia; Stovall, Jeffery; Bowers, Marjorie; Lawson, Edwina; Throckmorton, Britt.; Brown, Crystal; Long, Lawrence M., Jr.; Vaughan, Jonathan; Carr, Kevin; McDowell, Bridget; Williams, Saraedith; Carrington, Allison; Meadows, Todd; Wilson, Michael; Wilson, Renee; Chaney, Catherine; Milam, Anthony; Woody, Walter III; Comer, Jennifer; Mosley, Patrick; Compton, Chad; Parker, Chris; Yancey, Eric; Compton, Michael; Pool, Kristen; Young, Kathryn Brooke; Conner, Matthew; Richardson, Jermaine; Crews, Andrew; Richardson, Regina; Crews, Brad; Rogers, Sabrina; Davis, Jonathan; Roller, Daniel; Dease, Troy; Rorrer, Elizabeth; Fallen, Bridgett; Rose, Lisa; Seamster, Rebecca; Gravitt, Adam; Shelton, Tara; Griffin, Chase; Sibley, Jessica; Haugh, William; Smith, Antonia; Hayes, Chartis; Smith, Brandi; Hoppe, Brian; Smith, Justin; Hoskins, Melanie; Smith, Kevin; Howitt, Rob; Smith, Scarlett; Hudson, Ann; Snead, Erica; Hunt, Margaret; Snead, Misty.

Tobacco money, $2.3 million strong, is swinging into place to push industrial recruitment here.
"We have no land and no shell buildings to sell," explained Del. W.W. "Ted" Bennett, the new special projects subcommittee chairman for the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.
"And we have had some prospects, but had nothing to show them," Bennett said. "So the commission approved $2.3 million for Halifax County to help acquire property for a prospect and to acquire land for a new industrial park."
The action followed hearings Thursday night in Bristol. Bill Confroy, director of the Industrial Development Authority of Halifax County, and representatives from Lake Country, which includes Mecklenburg, Halifax and Brunswick counties, spoke during the hearings.
Bennett said the subcommittee will also be looking at projects with regional impact.
At the top of that list, Bennett will recommend a development bank to make low-interest loans to localities for region-wide or special projects.
In addition to the bank, he said that "one of the first specific things is the CropTech operation and Tobia, a group of farmers trying to enter into a joint venture with CropTech in Blacksburg to grow the tobacco that it will need for biogenetics."
In this research, the tobacco plant is being used to develop human enzymes and protein, Bennett explained.
"CropTech predicts that by 2005, they will need some 70,000 acres of tobacco. The current flue-cured allotment is only 60,000 acres," he added.
The 60,000 acres would be for both flue-cured and burly tobacco, according to Bennett. "And all of this will be under my subcommittee."
This year, the commission had about $84 million, Bennett estimated. "With other monies coming in, we have distributed out of this Phase 1 settlement a total of $100 million to tobacco quotaholders and producers in Virginia, including the southwest," he said.
The commission kept $17 million this year, Bennett explained, and committed about $11 million to Virginia Tech to help it establish the Bioinformatic Institute.
"That institute combines biology research with computer systems. Specifically, it combines the DNA research in biology with data processing made available by the sophisticated computer systems," he explained.
Bennett predicted the institute will be a world leader in that field.
The money was directed to that endeavor this year, the delegate said, because they were trying to recruit two professors who are known worldwide for their research into DNA.
"Since we appropriated that money, they have been able to land both men in the last three weeks," he said.
"In another piece, we are giving up $6 million to all community colleges in southside and southwest (Virginia) to emphasize workforce training.
"The next piece we will turn to is economic development in the communities," said the special projects chairman.
"Next year we hope to get another $80 million. It will come in around January 1, with the next payment in April.
"I think it is important to establish this development bank so that we will have money in the bank in case (tobacco) payments ever stop in the future," Bennett said.

BRISTOL, Va. (AP) - State tobacco farmers and others who hold quotas for the crop have submitted more than 30,000 claims for a share of Virginia's tobacco settlement money, according to a lawyer for a state commission reviewing distribution of the funds.
Those eligible, based on the amount of tobacco they raised in 1998, could receive payments by the end of the month, attorney  Clark Lewis said at a meeting Thursday of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.
This year, growers will share $65.7 million, while $16.4 million will be spent on economic development projects in Virginia's burley and flue-cured tobacco regions, said commission member William Wampler, a Republican state senator from Bristol.
The 31-member commission is considering how local and regional economic development agencies are to apply for the settlement funds that were set aside for industrial recruitment.
Wampler said that part of the application process should be in place by the fall.
''The main objective was to get the money to the farmer, and we have,'' said Paul Grinstead, a commission member from Smyth County.
Over the next 25 years, Virginia is expected to receive $4 billion from the national tobacco settlement with cigarette  manufacturers. Half of the money will be spent to help tobacco growing communities. Ten percent will go toward efforts to combat youth smoking. The remainder hasn't yet been earmarked.

A Halifax man was arrested Friday by sheriff's deputies on 22 counts of embezzlement.
Gregory Daryl Traynham, 33, of Union Church Road, was charged with 11 counts of embezzlement and 11 counts of obtaining money by a false pretense after he allegedly took in excess of $200 from the property of Lasco Bathware and allegedly obtained by false pretense U.S. currency valued more than $200 from Natural State Wholesale, Inc. with the intent to defraud.
The alleged offenses occurred from July 14 to December 14.
· Stacey Childress, 20, of Lenning Road in Nathalie, was arrested by sheriff's deputies Saturday on multiple felony charges of breaking and entering.
Childress is charged with the nightime breaking and entering into the dwelling of Punk's Self Service with the intent to commit larceny, the intentional destroying of stock, with damage valued less than $1,000, stealing miscellaneous items valued more than $200 and belonging to Punk's. He was also charged with the possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
The alleged possession of a firearm occurred on May 13, and the alleged breaking and entering occurred Thursday.
A hearing for Childress is scheduled for June 19 in Halifax County General District Court.
· Danny Lee Beadles, 50, of Howard P. Anderson Highway in Crystal Hill, was arrested Thursday by sheriff's deputies on felony charges of breaking and entering.
Beadles is charged with breaking and entering on the property of Wayland Branch Hudson with the intent to commit larceny and the taking of a Remington 1100 shotgun, a 19-inch black-and-white television, a Sunbeam electric blanket and a lamp shade, all items belonging to Hudson and valued over $200.
The alleged offenses occurred on November 1, 1998.

Fort Hill Commemoration will be held at the Staunton River Battlefield State Park on Saturday, June 24. There will be a medical tent, re-enactors, cannon firing in the afternoon, children's activities, food vendor and music, all capped with cannon firing at dusk.
The day's events will begin with a memorial service at the Fort Hill monument, at 11 a.m., with a presentation by the United Daughters of the Confederacy of a Cross of Military Service and National Defense medal to three veterans, and taps played by two Randolph Henry High School students.
Following that ceremony, there will be a special dedication of a plaque in memory of Elizabeth McLean Seymour, through whose tireless efforts the Fort Hill earthworks and the Staunton River Bridge "are now preserved and maintained for all generations to honor those who fought so gallantly on that hot afternoon of June 25, 1864."
The dedication will take place at the Fort Hill gates, at the Mrs. Seymour garden, which was planted by the Halifax Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Of special interest in the Visitors Center is the Civil War sword that was given by a Union officer to the young son of the McPhail family, at whose now-historic home the Union cavalry was camped on that June day. The sword was in compensation for the Union soldiers taking the boy's pony. Mulberry Hill, where the sword hung for 136 years, is privately owned by the Butler family, who are descendants of the Carringtons and McPhails. The Butler family graciously donated the sword to the park several months ago.
A raffle is also being held for two Civil War photographic books. The two books of magnificent clarity and description present complex and impassioned feelings of the artists. "The Civil War" is a compendium of photographs, engravings, rough on-the-scene sketches, and fully-developed sketches. All of the illustrations are grouped chronologically, by year, with maps and brief descriptions. There are both color and black- and-white illustrations in the 304-page book, which includes an index.
The second book is "The Civil War in Art," with 96 illustrations and descriptive text. It also details the lives of some of the best-known artists of the period. As the publisher notes: "Through these works, the profound tragedy of that conflict, and, alternatively, the supreme beauty of harmonious peace, can begin to be understood."
A raffle ticket is $2 and the fortunate winner will receive both books. Tickets are available at the Clover Visitors Center, Staunton River Battlefield, and from UDC members and trustees of the Historic Staunton River Foundation. The books may be viewed at the visitor's center. The drawing will be at the month's end; the winner will be contacted.
The Fort Hill event is sponsored by the Historic Staunton River Foundation, the Danville Grays, and the Staunton River Battlefield State Park. The park is open at 8 a.m. and, on June 24, will close after the final cannon firing at dusk. There will be no entrance or parking fee. Other than food and soft drinks on sale, all activities will be free.

The season of American Legion baseball is underway for South Boston Post 8.
After a competitive season last year, Post 8 is looking for a good year with a team that is poised to be solid in all positions of play and loaded with depth.
"If we're not the team to beat, we'd like to know who is," said Manager Barry Powell.
Post 8 is scheduled to play 25 games in the season, including an All-Star game, in July, with the Blue Ridge and Lynchburg Districts at the City Stadium in Lynchburg, with some additional games possible.
In the Blue Ridge District, Post 8 will be in the company of Danville, Buchanan, Martinsville, Salem, New River Valley, Roanoke and Franklin County.

Along with the 25 games, a double-elimination district tournament is scheduled at the end of the season.
The busy schedule requires a large pitching staff, of which Post 8 has gone deep with Mike Priest, who pitches a fastball, curve and change up; Justin Smith, a valuable lefthander; Jonathon Wallace, Dan Powell, Chet Clayton, Justin King and Todd Meadows, a work horse who can throw over 130 pitches a game.
While the pitching staff has proven starters, in team practice, Post 8 is shaping up with their assignments, learning the signals of the infield and getting in shape offensively.
"We have the talent so it's a matter of knowing how to use it.
"Also a bonding needs to take place among the players," Powell said.
The team is made up of five seniors, six juniors, three sophomores and one freshman.
"We have the youth and makings of a good team, so it's time to see if they're as good as we think they are," Powell said.
There are two players, Chad Compton, catcher, and R.D. Cole, short-stop, with injuries and who may need surgery.
It is questionable whether Compton will be able to play and his absence from the team "would change our club totally," said Powell.
Assisting Powell will be Coach Will Hill, who played in the minors and has 35 to 40 years of experience, and Coach Jim Priest, who works with outfielders and can provide medical opinions about injuries on the field.
This year, the American Legion has furnished Post 8 with new uniforms and is providing a bus along with meal money for trips to away games.
Powell encourages all to come out and see the games.

The American Legion Post 8 baseball team opened its season over the weekend with a 14-5 win on Friday and a 4-2 and 18-13 sweep of a doubleheader on Saturday.
In Friday's non-district game against Lynchburg, Justin Smith pitched three innings for the win.
A 2-RBI double by Mike Priest and a 2-RBI homer by Todd Meadows gave Post 8 a 4-0 lead.
Priest added another 2-RBI double in the third inning and finished the game with five RBIs.
Meadows finished the game with three RBIs.
Thompson had three RBIs for the game, while Jason Jones and Smith each had a run-batted-in double.
Smith pitched a no hitter while facing 13 batters. He struck out two and walked five before Jonathon Wallace took the mound.
In the doubleheader against Franklin County, Post 8 put Todd Meadows on the mound in the first game.
Going the distance at seven innings, Meadows took the win as the offense came alive in the sixth inning to go ahead of Franklin 3-2.
R.D. Cole scored on passed balls for the first run and Meadows hit a run-batted-in double to give Post 8 the win.
Meadows pitched to 28 batters, struck out six and walked two.
The second game was a three and a half-hour marathon, as Post 8 scored eight in the second inning and five runs in the fifth to give pitcher Justin Smith his second win over the weekend.

Janet Bowen, age 77, of Enumclaw, Wash., died Tuesday, May 16, 2000.
Mrs. Bowen was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Belmar, N.J., where she was born and raised. She graduated with honors from Asbury Park High School in 1942, and was married to James Harold Bowen.
She was active in her home church, was a past Worthy Grand Matron in the Order of the Eastern Star, a Cub Scout pack leader, insurance secretary, hospital volunteer and homemaker, initially in Belmar and Wanamassa, N.J. and then in Buffalo Junction, State College, Penn. and finally Enumclaw in her retirement years.
Surviving Mrs. Bowen is her daughter, Janet Nan Bowen Devlin and her husband, Dr. Dennis Devlin and their two daughters, Sarah and Lauren, all of Enumclaw; one son, Dr. James Harold "Hal" Bowen Jr., his wife, Elaine and daughters, Rebecca and Shannon of Long Neck, Del. and their son, Adam of Phoenix, Ariz.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, June 18 at North Fork Baptist Church in Virgilina, where her husband is buried.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider a local Christian charity in her name.

Ralph Oliver Tucker, age 73, of Wilmington, De., died June 4, 2000, at Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Wilmington.
Mr. Tucker was born in Roanoke on May 17, 1925.
Survivors include his wife, Everlean Miller Tucker; two daughters, Darlene Taylor and Earnell Hudson; two sons, Matthew Miller and Timothy Miller, all of Wilmington; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; and one brother, Lewis Tucker of Roanoke.
Funeral services for Mr. Tucker were held June 11 at 2 p.m. at Cluster Pine Holiness Church in Gretna with burial in the Barbour family cemetery in Nathalie. The Bishop Anthony Miller officiated.

Gladys Ozelia Walker Waller, age 73, of 1216 Chestnut Road, Nathalie, died June 9, 2000, at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Mrs. Waller was born in Halifax County on January 13, 1927, the daughter of Walter Oscar Walker and Ethel Lee Walker Walker and was married to Woodman Ford Waller. She was a member of Liberty United Church of Christ.
Survivors include five daughters, Janice W. and husband, Steve Moore , Shelby W. and husband, Troy Powell, Deborah W. and husband, Mike Moorefield, Sylvia W. Layne and Donna W. and husband, Wayne Ward, all of Nathalie; three sons, Jimmy Waller and wife, Sylvia of Nathalie, Dwight Waller and wife, Mitzie of Turbeville and Roger Waller of Nathalie; one daughter-in-law, Starr Powell Waller of Halifax; three brothers, Artie S. Walker of Chester, Bert Walker and Phillip Walker, both of Nathalie; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband; one daughter, Brenda Waller; one son, Oscar 'Pete' Waller and one brother, Donald Walker.
Funeral services for Mrs. Waller were held June 11 at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Millstone with the Revs. Bob Watts and Rudolph Jacobs conducting the service. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider North Halifax Volunteer Fire Department or Liberty Volunteer Fire Department.