Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, October 31, 1993 TAG: 9310290032
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Mary Linn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
ROGER D. MATTHEWS has been hired as the chief executive officer and executive director of Goodwill Industries Tinker Mountain Inc., a sheltered Matthews workshop in Troutville employing people in the Roanoke Valley who have disabilities.
Matthews has been with Goodwill Industries for 23 years. He comes to Roanoke from West Palm Beach, Fla., where he managed a Goodwill Industries operation for six years. Before that, he spent 1 1/2 years as an international consultant at the Goodwill Industries in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Africa. He has also been chief executive officer of Goodwill Industries in Milwaukee, Wis., and Canton and Zanesville, Ohio.
BANKING
Crestar Bank has promoted DEBORAH H. BUCKLAND to senior vice president of its commercial banking division. Buckland, a graduate of Emory & Henry College, joined Crestar in 1986 as a commercial account manager in the small-business lending group in Roanoke. She was promoted to vice president in 1989 and transferred to the commercial division in Richmond in 1990. In 1992, she returned to Roanoke, working in the middle market segment of the commercial division.
HEALTH CARE
\ SIDNE CAMPBELL has been named director of sales for Carilion Health Plans, the managed-care division of Carilion Health System. She will work with employers in the Roanoke Valley to help them take advantage of services offered by hospitals and doctors associated with Carilion Health Plans to allow them to more actively participate in managing the cost and quality of health-care benefits offered to their employees.
Before joining Carilion, Campbell was manager of group benefits for Circuit City Stores Inc. in Richmond. Prior to that, she directed sales and account management activity for Aetna Health Plans and Provident Life & Accident's managed-care company.
HOSPITALITY
\ PETER W. KIPP, director of hotel and operating services at the Virginia Tech Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center and past general manager of Hotel Roanoke, was elected vice president of the Southern Innkeepers Association. Kipp, who resides in Blue Ridge, is past president of the Virginia Hotel and Motel Association. He has earned designations as a certified hotel administrator and as a certified hospitality sales executive.
MEDICINE
Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center has announced the association of DR. RICHARD P. LEGGETT as a psychiatrist. Leggett graduated with honors from Hampden-Sydney College and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He did his psychiatric residency training at the University of South Carolina in a program affiliated with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health through the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute. Prior to moving to Roanoke, Leggett was in private practice in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he worked at the Southeastern Counseling Center, HCA-Parkridge Medical Center and the Greenleaf Center.
He is affiliated with Associates in Cognitive Therapy Services and admits patients to Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center. His major practice interests include Christian counseling, mood and anxiety disorders and disorders affecting children and adolescents.
ORGANIZATIONS
The International Association for Financial Planning has elected the following board members: MIKE SMITH, National Life, president; BURTON GERHARDT, Gerhardt Advisors Inc., treasurer; BILL NORK, Principal Financial Group, membership; DAVID ARTHUR and EDWARD BARNES, both of IDS Financial Services Inc., programs; BILL DRESSLER, Insurance Services Inc., public relations; THOMAS NASTA, Personal Financial Planning, awards; CHARLES WEBB, Hearp and Associates, member at large; and ROBERT BRAILSFORD, Wheat First Securities, past president.
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.
by CNB