SCOUTS

SCOUTS
Eagle award
Andrew Stevens, son of Dan and Janice Stevens of Girard, received the Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouting's highest honor, at a ceremony at the First United Methodist Church.
Stevens, 18, is a member of Girard Troop 40 and a member of St. Rose Church, Girard.
His Eagle service project was to design a 9-foot traditional totem pole and instruct the younger Scouts in carving and painting it. The project took 175 hours to complete. He donated it to Girard High School, where it is on display.
His Scouting honors include Order of the Arrow, Brotherhood member in Wapashuwi Lodge 56, two-time Mile Swim Award, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, and scribe. He is Troop 40's junior assistant scoutmaster.
He has earned 31 badges. He has been in scouting for 12 years. As a Cub Scout, he was awarded the Arrow of Light and earned the Parvuli Dei Award.
He is a senior at Girard High school, where he is a lineman on the football team and will be a three-year letter winner. He plays trumpet in the concert band and has been inducted into the school's National Honor Society and Beta Club.
DOCTORS
Completes fellowship
Dr. Darrell Lynn Grace of Youngstown has completed a one-year Osteopathic Heritage Health Policy Fellowship through the American Osteopathic Association, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the New York Institute of Technology.
The fellowship means she is committed to serve as a resource at state, regional and national levels in the formulation of health policy.
Dr. Grace received her doctor of osteopathy degree from Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1992. She graduated from Youngstown State University in 1975 with an associate degree in nursing and received her bachelor's degree in health sciences from YSU in 1987.
She is a member of American Osteopathic Association and vice president of the National Osteopathic Medical Association. She is a member of Pilgrim Baptist Church, Struthers.
She is a physician in private practice in association with Forum Health, assistant medical director of Grace Place Medical Services, medical director at Windsor Nursing Home, and clinical assistant professor at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
She is married to Charles Grace and is the daughter of Robinette Burnette and Alonzo (Teddy) Jackson.
LAWYERS
Working in Florida
Gerald S. Ferenchik, son of Mary Ferenchik of Boardman, recently graduated from the University of Toledo College of Law, where he was the executive editor of the law school's Great Lakes Journal.
Upon passing the Florida Bar Examination this past summer, Ferenchik was hired by a chief bankruptcy judge in Tallahassee, Fla., as a judicial law clerk. Ferenchik graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in dietetics.
HONORS
Court appointment
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court has been appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court to a second five-year term on the state board of bar examiners.
The board writes and grades bar examinations for prospective lawyers in Ohio. Judge Krichbaum's term will be effective April 1, 2003, through March 31, 2008.
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