Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 25, 1993 TAG: 9303250437
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-8 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
IN BUSINESS
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.
\ 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.
\ 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.
\ PATRICIA H. BOLT, assistant professor in the office systems technology department of Virginia Western Community College, has been named outstanding member for 1992-93 by the Roanoke chapter of Professional Secretaries International.
Bolt has been a member since 1983.
\ BOB BOEHLING of Roanoke has been promoted to senior account executive in the small business division of AT&T Global Business Communications Systems in the mid-Atlantic area.
Boehling, a graduate of Radford University, is responsible for sale of telephone systems and telecommunication products to small businesses in Roanoke and Southwest Virginia.
\ EDWARD BARNES, a personal financial planner with IDS Financial Services Inc. of Roanoke, was recognized for having completed his 25th year with the company.
Barnes, a 1960 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, recently completed study and testing requirements to receive a certified financial planner designation.
\ WOODY FARLEY, chief engineer at the Jefferson Lodge in downtown Roanoke, was recognized for outstanding performance of his duties in the maintenance and upkeep of the 105-room facility with restaurant.
\ JOSEPH D. SANDERS JR. and KENNETH O. CLINGENPEEL of Life Insurance Co. of Georgia's Roanoke district recently retired.
Sanders joined the company in 1990 as an agent in Roanoke. He previously had been with Southland Life Insurance Co., a sister company of Life of Georgia, since 1986.
Clingenpeel also joined Life of Georgia in 1990, previously having been associated with Southland Life since 1973.
During their careers at Southland Life, both men qualified for the company's top sales and service honor organizations.
\ THE ROANOKE VALLEY APARTMENT ASSOCIATION has elected officers for 1993.
They are: Richard Shumaker of WestWind Apartments, president; Kristi Lamanca of Jamison Properties, first vice president; Randy Eades of Pro-Clean, second vice president; Linda Moody of Friendship Manor Retirement Communities, secretary; and Michelle Wilburn of Westwood Village Apartments, treasurer.
\ NATIONAL POOLS OF ROANOKE INC. received silver and bronze awards in the residential concrete category of the Region II Gordon W. Rudd Pool and Spa of the Year Contest.
The business is owned by Gloria Vaughan and Barbara Rudd, in whose son's and husband's honor the contest was named.
\ PAMANDA INC. has been named the top Little Caesar's franchise in the United States in its fund-raising efforts for Easter Seals.
Pamanda, whose corporate office is in Blue Ridge, surpassed its goal of $45,000 raised by its 29 stores in Southwest Virginia.
\ GRANNY'S TEPEE, at 5217 Williamson Road, has new owners, Barry Booher and Gary Baldwin.
The business, a craft mall that houses more than 65 crafters and artists, is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, 1-6 p.m.
\ MARGARET EAST, a charter member of the Southwest Centennial Chapter of the American Business Women's Association, placed third in the Stress Busters essay contest sponsored by Women in Business magazine.
\ JUDY BARGER, a technical administrative assistant for Dominion Trust Co., has received the certified professional secretary certificate.
\ ROBERT A. BONWELL, formerly of Roanoke, has been named to the newly created Senior Alliance of Prudential Securities Inc.
The alliance recognizes the contributions and dedication of the company's financial advisers who have attained Chairman's Council status each of the past 16 years.
Bonwell, who joined Prudential Securities in 1964, is senior vice president of investments at the company's Charleston, W.Va., branch.
\ JEFFREY T. CLARK of Roanoke, a medical representative for Key Pharmaceuticals since 1986, recently received the certified medical representative designation.
He belongs to the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association, the Virginia Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the American Diabetes Association and the Pharmaceutical Sales Association of the Roanoke Valley.
\ MIKE McGINTY, manager of Clayton Homes in Hollins, received one of 39 top awards from Clayton for superior sales and service.
\ W.W. BOXLEY CO., based in Roanoke, has received the 1992 Gold Medallion Good Neighbors Award for Excellence, the highest honor in the National Stone Association's Community Relations Program.
The program, in its fourth year, recognizes association members for building and maintaining closer ties between aggregates producers and their neighbors.
\ GREG SNODGRASS, manager of Orkin Pest Control in Roanoke, has been named to the president's manager's council in recognition of excellence during 1992.
This is the fourth year Snodgrass has been named to the council.
\ MUTUAL OF NEW YORK has named four Roanoke Valley residents to its 100 Club, which recognizes representatives who rank in the top 10 percent in client development.
They are Chris Caveness, Frank Foley, Leon Louthen and Tony Mullins.
\ FLORENCE F. GUSLER, a benefits accounting supervisor in the Employee Benefits Division of Dominion Trust Co., has been promoted to trust officer.
Before joining Dominion Trust in 1990 as a plan allocation analyst, Gusler was a pension administrator with Pension Design Center in Greensboro, N.C. She has been in her present position since 1992.