Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, August 22, 1993 TAG: 9308200032
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Mary Linn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
T. RICHARD BEARD JR. has joined the Roanoke Valley Economic Development Partnership as marketing representative. The North Carolina native has experience as an industrial sales representative with VBS Inc. Material Handling Equipment and E.N. Beard Hardwood Lumber.
He is president and founder of First Fridays at Five Inc., a nonprofit organization that raises money for Roanoke-area charities. He also is active in the Roanoke Jaycees.
The partnership promotes the Roanoke Valley to new and expanding businesses and industry. It is supported by the governments and business communities of Botetourt, Craig, Franklin and Roanoke counties and Roanoke, Salem and Vinton.
ARCHITECTURE
Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc. has named MICHAEL BRENNAN, VERNON M. DANIELSEN, JAMES K. LOWE JR., PETER A. SORANIDIS and KENNETH D. SPRIGINGS associates of the firm. Promoted to senior associates are L. GILMORE CARPENTER, ROGER L. HERALD, and JOSEPH E. WELLS. HSMM is a 330-person architectural, engineering and planning firm with offices located throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.
BANKING
NationsBank Corp. has promoted JEAN H. MILLS to assistant vice president. Mills manages the NationsBank Starkey Road office. KRISTIN E. CALLIS HODGES has been named manager at the NationsBank office in Blacksburg. She most recently was a consumer lender at the Starkey Road office. In Abingdon, KAREN M. COLOW has been promoted to assistant vice president. She is the regional marketing specialist for Southwest Virginia.
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
\ LORI FINNELL of Moneta has been named director of research at Ferrum College, where she will do research, identify new donors and prepare reports about gifts to the school.
COMPUTER SERVICES
VTLS Inc. of Blacksburg, an integrated library automation software company, has promoted JACK BAZUZI to vice president and director of international operations. JOHN ESPLY, former director of customer services, has been named director of education and training; MURRAY CROWDER has been promoted to director of customer services; ARI PALTTALA has been named director of marketing; and DIMITRI KRINOS has been appointed chief of science of technology.
ENGINEERS
\ THOMAS E. STAUDT has joined Hurt & Profitt Inc., consulting engineers in Lynchburg. Staudt is a project surveyor in the surveying division of the company.
\ BARRY JOHNSON, formerly of Riner, has joined Wiley & Wilson in Lynchburg as an assistant engineer in the civil department. Prior to joining Wiley & Wilson, he was employed by J.A. Jones Construction Co. in Charlotte, N.C.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
\ PAT DUNCAN has been elected vice president of Carter Machinery Co. Inc. He oversees all lift-truck division sales and support operations for the company. Duncan joined Carter in 1980.
HOSPITALITY
\ DIAN C. PORTER has been named director of marketing at the Roanoke Airport Mariott hotel. She came from the Holiday Inn Cedar Bluff in Knoxville, Tenn., and previously worked for the Scottsdale Hilton Resort & Spa in Arizona, the Wyndham Vinings Hotel and Hyatt Regency Ravinia, both in Atlanta, and the Hyatt Winston-Salem in North Carolina, as well as Bernard's Landing Resort & Conference Center, Sheraton Airport Inn and Hotel Roanoke.
LAW
\ T. DANIEL FRITH III of Mundy, Rogers & Frith was recently elected secretary of the Virginia State Bar's litigation section board of governors.
MEDIA
\ KATHRYN H. GLASGOW has joined the marketing department of WDBJ Television Inc. as an account executive. She previously was a sales representative with Roanoke Times & World-News.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Council of Community Services has elected RICHARD D. LUCAS president of its board of directors for the 1993-1994 term. Lucas is a partner in the law firm of Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove. Also elected are MICHAEL M. WALDVOGEL of Waldvogel, Poe & Cronk Realtors, first vice president; JAN B. GARRETT, a community service volunteer, second vice president; LARRY T. RASCHE of Norfolk Southern Corp., third vice president; MICHAEL W. COFFMAN of Shenandoah Life Insurance Co., secretary; and R. DANIEL CARSON JR., Appalachian Power Co., treasurer. New board members for the 1993-1996 term are THOMAS B. JONES, retired; JERRY J. POWELL, Kroger Co.; and JOHN B. WILLLIAMSON III, Roanoke Gaso Co. The council provides human services planning for the region.
AD2 of the Roanoke Valley has chosen the following new officers: AMANDA SNAPP of Leisure Publishing, president; SUSAN DUNN of Image Advertising, membership director; BETH CONNER of Radford University, secretary; LANE FOARD of The Packett Group, newsletter editor; TONY PEARMAN of The Maddox Agency, social chairman; MELANIE MANDROS of WFIR/WPVR, fund-raising chairwoman; and from WDBJ Television Inc., KATHY GLASGOW, treasurer; JOEL SINK, public service; and PETER HAMMERMEISTER, government relations.
Information on personnel changes of interest to people in business should be sent to this column, C/O the Roanoke Times & World-News, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
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