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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, October 17, 1993                   TAG: 9310270080
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: F-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


NAMES & CHANGES

Payne moves up at Stanley

Stanley Furniture Co. Inc. has named DOUG PAYNE vice president of finance. He will be responsible for financial planning and reporting, budgeting and tax matters, as well as continuing in his role as treasurer and secretary. Payne joined the Stanleytown company as manager of accounting in 1983. He was promoted to assistant treasurer in 1985 and to treasurer one year later. He became vice president-treasurer in 1989 and has been the company's corporate secretary since 1988. Before joining Stanley Furniture, Payne was a certified public accountant in the Atlanta office of Coopers and Lybrand.

CONSTRUCTION

A. DANIEL CRITZER II has been elected to the board of directors of Steel Erectors Association of America, the largest such association in the United States. He also is chairman of the organization's education committee. Critzer is owner and founder of Amcon Inc., a Roanoke-based steel and precast erection firm.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

BRIAN G. DUVALL has been appointed vice president of mortgage services for Homestead Acceptance Inc., mortgage division. Duvall will be in charge of expanding mortgage services for Homestead in Southwest Virginia.

GOVERNMENT

DAVID E. BALDWIN has been named director of housing at the Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority, where he has worked for six years as special-programs director.

HOSPITALITY

PAMELA FEICK hasjoined the Omni Charlotte Hotel in Charlotte, N.C., as sales manager. Feick formerly was sales manager at the Radisson Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke. The Radford University graduate began her career at the Hyatt Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif.

MEDICINE

Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center has announced the association of DR. EDWARD A. WORKMAN as a medical psychiatrist. Workman trained at the University of Tennessee as a counseling psychologist and was on the faculty. He then entered medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina. After receiving his medical degree, he received residency training in internal medicine at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville and training in medical psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine department of psychiatry.

He will be a partner with Medical Psychiatry Associates and will admit patients to Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center. He also will be affiliated with the University of Virginia's psychiatry program as co-director of psychiatric research at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, as well as a team leader of the pain research group. His main practice interests include mood and anxiety disorders, neuropsychiatry and chronic pain.

ORGANIZATIONS

The Roanoke Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers has elected the following officers for the 1993-94 term: BILL CLENDENIN, Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, president; CLAYTON PREAS, Appalachian Power Co., president-elect; ALLEN CROCKER, Des Champs Laboratories, vice president; BOYD HEDLEY, Whitescarver-Rodes Associates, secretary; and STEVEN McWHORTER, Norfolk Southern Corp., treasurer.

REAL ESTATE

Roanoke realty broker DENNIS R. CRONK has been named Realtor of the Year by the Virginia Association of Realtors. Cronk, who began his career as a residential sales agent in 1974, is now a principal of the firm Waldvogel, Poe and Cronk Real Estate Group. He was elected president of the Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors in 1984, has been on the board of directors of the National Association of Realtors since 1981 and is now on the group's executive committee. He also sits on the boards of the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Roanoke Valley Development Corp. and the Rotary Club of Roanoke.

TRANSPORTATION

WILLIAM L. ROBERTSON of Moneta has retired from the Virginia Department of Transportation after 26 years of service. Robertson joined the department in 1967 as a skilled laborer and retired as equipment repair supervisor. Robertson has been vice president, treasurer and director-at-large of the Virginia Government Employees Association. He also was president of the local Virginia State Employees Association.

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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