Milestones

IN EDUCATION

• Vernell Brown has received her master of science degree in psychology, specializing in leadership coaching psychology from Capella University. The leadership coaching psychology specialization at Capella University prepares graduates to coach organizational leaders based on psychological models and principles. This provides learners with the ability to build personal and professional coaching relationships providing internal and external assistance to executives, managers, and leaders of small and large organizations.

• Lindsey Troutman of Kernersville, a senior motorsports management major at Winston-Salem State University, has been chosen to take part in a national education program with NASCAR called NASCAR Kinetics: Marketing in Motion. She and four other WSSU students will gain hands-on experience this semester in real-world business challenges facing the motorsports industry as part of the program.

NASCAR developed the Kinetics program in to give college students exposure to, and educating them about, the NASCAR brand. The program gives teams an opportunity to use techniques and lessons taught in the classroom to complete case studies and projects.

Each student chosen for the NASCAR Kinetics program is responsible for creating brand awareness throughout his or her college and community. Former students who have taken part in the program credit it for giving them a leg up on the competition for internships and jobs in the sports industry.

IN THE ARTS

• Dustin Wilkes-Kim, violinist, recently soloed with the Danville Symphony Orchestra in Danville, Va. He played Sibelius' "Violin Concerto in D minor." Wilkes-Kim has previously soloed with both the Winston-Salem and Salisbury Symphony Orchestras. He is a sophomore at UNC School of the Arts where he studies violin with Sarah Johnson.

IN MEDICINE

• Drs. William B. Applegate, Wayne B. Jonas and Joseph L. Jorizzo, M.D., have been recognized with awards from the Medical Alumni Association of the Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Applegate received the Distinguished Service Award. He joined the Wake Forest School of Medicine in 1999 as professor and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine. He was appointed dean in 2002 and later named president of Wake Forest University Health Sciences while continuing as dean.

Applegate has written or co-written 25 books and book chapters and nearly 170 journal articles and has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and as an editorial board member of the American Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Clinical Hypertension. He is a master of the American College of Physicians and a past chairman of its Board of Regents and a past president of the American Geriatrics Society.

Jonas was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award. He is a 1981 graduate of the Wake Forest School of Medicine, director of the Samueli Institute for Information Biology in Virginia and an internationally known leader in the field of complementary and alternative medicine. His professional service has included work on the scientific advisory board with the Department of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Paris and as a member of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He was the first director of the Office of Alternative Medicine with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

Jonas has directed the Medical Research Fellowship Program in the Division of Medicine at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, served as commander of the 130th General Hospital in Dexheim, Germany, and worked as staff officer and consultant to the Office of the Surgeon General.

Jorizzo received the Distinguished Faculty Award. He is professor and founding chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and director of the school's Dermatology Residency Program. He is nationally known as an outstanding clinician and teacher and is vice president of the American Academy of Dermatology. He has served as consultant to the Veterans Administration Clinic in Winston-Salem and in Salisbury and to Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Dermatology at Cornell University and at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College in New York.

Jorizzo's work includes more than 100 grants, four books and more than 250 journal contributions. He serves as a reviewer for numerous professional journals, including the Archives of Dermatology and Journal of the American Medical Association.

IN THE MILITARY

• Air Force Airman 1st Class Zachery R. Goulding has graduated from the C-130 Aerospace Maintenance Apprentice Course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas. The course is designed to train airmen in aircraft-maintenance fundamentals and weapons systems familiarization, security instruction, aircraft and flightline safety, and other aircraft and flight related matters.

Goulding is a 2010 graduate of Reagan High School and the son of Jon F. and Lynne A. Goulding of Winston-Salem.

• Navy Midshipman Nicholas P. Tucker recently completed Plebe Summer while attending the United States Naval Academy.

Plebe summer is the six-week summer training program which is required of all incoming freshmen to the U.S. Naval Academy. He will go on to complete the academic year as a midshipman.

Tucker is a 2006 graduate of Davie High School and the son of Jan and George Tucker of Advance.

IN SCOUTING

• Marisa Ludolf, a member of Girl Scout Troop 41018, has earned her Girl Scout Gold Award. To qualify, each girl must dedicate at least 65 hours to planning and implementing her project, which must benefit the community and have lasting impact. The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest earned award for Girl Scouts in grades nine-12.

For her project, Marisa worked with a tutoring program through her church to teach children basic singing knowledge. Once a week, she worked with the children, teaching them warm-ups, stretches, rhythms and songs.

Marisa is the daughter of David and Annette Ludolf of Winston-Salem.

IN OTHER AREAS

• Two local authors have received awards from the North Carolina Society of Historians at its annual convention in Mooresville.

Randell Jones of Winston-Salem received two Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards for both his 2011 publications, "Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain" and "A Guide to the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail."

Larry G. Morgan of Lexington received the Clark Cox Award for Historical Fiction for his historical novel "IVY."

Compiled by Marcus Green