
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 15, 1990                   TAG: 9006190358
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-13   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

BELLSOUTH ENTERPRISES has Weddle named three employees of BellSouth Communications Systems in Roanoke to the company's President's Council, which honors top sales and service personnel. Named to the council were Bob Williams, a senior account executive, John Foote, director of systems engineering, and M. Skip Weddle, a corporate systems manager. Williams has been with BellSouth for three years; Foote has been with the company for five years, and Weddle is a 10-year employee.

\ EDWARD ADKINS of Acme Business Machines Inc. has received a quarterly Mita Copier Outstanding Sales Ability award. Adkins has been with Acme since 1975.

The dealership also received the Dealer of the Year award from Mita for outstanding sales leadership and marketing performance in the Mid-Atlantic region.

\ PETE MARCUS has been promoted to branch manager of ABF Freight Systems' Roanoke terminal. Marcus joined the national carrier as Lynchburg terminal manager in 1986. He has 21 years of experience in the transportation industry.

\ WAYNE J. CONNER of Roanoke has been invited to attend the annual Nationwide Insurance president's conference in July because of his superior sales and customer service during 1989. This will be Conner's 19th president's conference. He has been a Nationwide agent since 1962.

\ SHENANDOAH CELLULAR, 5104 Bernard Drive, Roanoke has been awarded the regional distributorship for Audiovox telecommunications, facsimile, and home and auto security equipment. The region includes Virginia and North Carolina.

\ FRED J. HELFFENSTEIN, a facilities engineer, recently retired from Hercules Radford Army Ammunition Plant after more than 28 years of service. He worked at the Hercules Bacchus Works facility in Magna, Utah, for six years before coming to the Radford plant in 1967.

\ ARTHUR KRAUS has been named a Liberty Mutual Top Life Insurance Producer for his performance in 1989. Kraus joined the company in 1963. He is a sales representative in the personal sales department in Roanoke.

\ HOMESTEAD MATERIALS HANDLING CO. of Roanoke has been named a 1989 dealer of excellence by Clark Material Handling Company of Lexington, Ky. This honor represents the company's highest award to dealerships.

\ W.W. BOXLEY CO. of Roanoke has been honored by the National Stone Association with two First Step awards for quarry beautification at its Piney River and Stuarts Draft plants, and a Good Neighbor award for the company's achievement in community relations. The association's About Face program encourages quarry beautification reclamation, as well as reclamation and community relations projects. Boxley, with headquarters in Roanoke, operates seven quarries and two distribution facilities in Virginia.

\ I.N. McNEIL ROOFING & SHEET METAL CO. INC. has been named a master contractor for 1990 by Firestone Building Products Co. of Indianapolis, Ind., for its consistent, high-quality installation of Firestone roofing systems on commercial and industrial buildings. The company is one of 100 independent contractors, licensed by Firestone in the U.S. and Canada, to receive the certification.

\ FRANK T. ELLETT, president of Virginia Truck Center in Roanoke, Ellett was one of 17 nominees for the American Truck Dealers/Business Week Truck Dealer of the Year award during the annual convention and exposition of the American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association in Phoenix, Ariz. Business Week magazine, in cooperation with the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, judged the contest. Nominees were selected for business success and civic contributions. Ellett also is an officer with the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce and a member of the board of trustees of the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts.

\ JERRY PETERS, a personal financial planner with the Roanoke office of IDS Financial Services, has been named to the 1990 IDS Silver Team. Silver team members rank in the top 2 percent of IDS' 6,200 personal financial planners. The company is a nationwide financial planning and services company.

\ PAM BERG, president of Pam Berg Consultants Inc., Berg a Roanoke public relations firm, has been admitted to the Counselors Academy of the Public Relations Society of America.

\ FREDERICK K. SHAFTMAN has been honored as the 1990 Business Associate of the Year by the Shenandoah chapter of the American Business Women's Association. Shaftman is president and chief executive officer of BellSouth Communication Systems in Roanoke. Business associates are chosen because of their care and concern for fellow employees as well as their community involvement.

by CNB