Dr. Martha Ann Stallings has been awarded the 2025 Teilmann Youth Service Award, given annually by the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Country- Blacksburg.
Stallings is a New River Community College Education Foundation board member and is chair of the annual Race for ACCE fundraiser for NRCC that benefits Montgomery County Public Schools for high school graduates to attend tuition free. She has tutored for 10 years at the Church on Main Street “Learning in Love” tutoring program for the Adam’s Mark Mobile Park community.
She also chairs the Montgomery County Dialogue on Race Education Group and serves on the local Imagination Library (Dolly Parton) Board. Stallings is a member of the Montgomery Co. Christmas Store Food Team and is a member of 100 Women Who Care. She serves on the local Montgomery Co., Floyd Co., Radford City, NAACP Education Committee.
Stallings also has received the local NAACP 2020 Martin Luther King Community Service Award and the Montgomery Co. NRV Leading Lights Award.
“In addition to these achievements, Martha Ann is highly regarded for her enthusiasm, innovative ideas, and genuine concern for the well-being of others in the community,” the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Country- Blacksburg announced.
The award is named for Gunnar Teilmann, an Eagle Scout, ordained Methodist minister, husband, Army Chaplin, Silver Star recipient, POW, father, Missionary, Mental Health worker, City of Singapore honoree and Kiwanian. He enlisted in the Army as a Chaplin, was deployed to Europe where he earned a Silver Star as part of the D-Day invasion. He was captured in the Battle of Mortain and was as a POW for nine months. Following the war, Gunnar served as a youth counselor at a Methodist youth camp. The Teilmann family spent a total of 30 years in missionary service in Asia After 30 years of service, Gunnar and Wava settled in Blacksburg and he was appointed Associate Pastor of the Blacksburg United Methodist Church, a position he held for six years until his death in 1987.
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