GREENSBORO — Marion Venable, executive director of the Surry Community College Foundation and board member of the Rockford Preservation Society, recently spoke to the Guilford Chapter 301 United Daughters of the Confederacy.

She presented a program on “William M Norman, Confederate Soldier of Rockford.”

After the program, Kay Sterling, chapter vice president, and Michele Miller, chapter historian, presented Venable with a Judah P. Benjamin Certificate and pin. The award is given to those who perform outstanding endeavors or achievements in conservation, civic or education. The recipient must go above and beyond their profession or membership requirements in a benevolent organization.

Venable has spent the past 25 years working to preserve and educate the communities of Surry, Stokes, Yadkin and Davie counties on their local history.