Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 25, 1993 TAG: 9303250423
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-8 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
IN BUSINESS
BRIAN WALTERS, a production operator in Salem, has been selected employee of the month for January at Sybron Chemicals Inc.He earned the award, his second during the past year, for filling in for his production supervisor during the supervisor's absence.
Walters has worked with Sybron since November 1987.
\ ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO. has announced the 1992 winners of its Sales Achievement Awards.
Pat Hall, office agent in Roanoke, has earned Chairman's Conference status. Roger Rakes, office agent in Salem, and Joyce McElwaine and Larry Fallen, office agents in Roanoke, earned the National Conference designation. Each of these agents also won the Honor Ring award.
Other Roanoke Valley Honor Ring agents were Steve Nash and Fred Price, office agents in Roanoke. Also, agency managers Bill Richards and Donna Mason of Roanoke earned the Key Manager distinction.
\ FRED AND MARY BURTNER, owners and operators of Rent-a-Wreck in Roanoke and Blacksburg, recently were honored as outstanding members of the Rent-a-Wreck system.
Since joining the system in October 1985, their fleet has grown to more than 50 cars, vans and trucks.
\ DONALD L. HELMS JR., manager of the Roanoke branch of Avco Financial Services, has been named to the company's Circle of Excellence. Helms received the award by placing in the top 15 percent of branch managers in his operating area for 1992.
\ RICHARD W. STUMP, a sales representative at the Roanoke office of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., received the Life Plus award for December.
Stump, who joined the company in 1983, was recognized for his sales performance.
\ ANDREW WHITENACK, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mason Whitenack of 7320 Old Mountain Road N.E., has received certification as a piano teacher from the Music Teachers National Association.
Whitenack, a 1978 graduate of Northside High School who received a master of music degree in piano pedagogy from Ohio University in 1987, is an independent music teacher in Columbus, Ohio. He also is working toward certification as a piano technician.
\ GAIL G. GODSEY, a business specialist for Safeguard Business Systems Inc., has been named to Safeguard's 1993 President's Club. Membership is awarded to sales leaders for the previous year.
Godsey has been a business specialist at Safeguard for 22 years and is responsible for distributing the product line in Southwest Virginia and three counties of West Virginia.