Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 10, 1994 TAG: 9403100227
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-8 EDITION: METRO
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Other officers for this year are: Wooldridge Frank Longaker, National Business College, vice president; Phyllis Sutphin, Southwest Virginia Savings Bank, treasurer; Judy Griesenbrock, secretary; Steve Smeltzer, Blue Ridge Office Systems, past president.
Division vice presidents are: Mark Hancock, First Virginia Bank, community betterment; Rick Poplstein, economic development; John Chambliss, Roanoke County assistant administrator, legislative affairs; Steve Smeltzer, Blue Ridge Office Systems, organizational development.
\ DR. RAJIV JAIN, chief of staff at the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jain recently was appointed associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
In addition to his job at the VA, Jain will work with UVa students who are residents at the Salem hospital.
\ ALVIN B. FINK, chief executive officer of Fink's Jewelers, has been inducted into the National Jeweler Retailer Hall of Fame. He has served as president of Jewelers of America, vice president of the Jewelers Vigilance Committee, chairman of the Jewelry Industry Council, president of the Diamond Council of America and lifetime honorary director of the Virginia Retail Jewelers Association.
He is on the advisory board of NationsBank of Roanoke and formerly served on the boards of several other banks and civic organizations, including the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Roanoke Merchants Association.
\ ACME BUSINESS MACHINES INC. of Roanoke received the Global Leader, dealer of the year award, during the recent 1994 Mita National Sales Meeting.
Mita honors its outstanding dealers with awards based on sales and service performance during the fiscal year.
\ TRIPP GODSEY, an associate distributor in Roanoke for Safeguard Business Systems Inc., recently was selected for membership in Safeguard's 1994 President's Club.
Godsey has been in his position for four years and is responsible for distributing accounting and office efficiency systems to professionals and small businesses in Roanoke and the New River Valley.
\ CENTURY 21 YOUNG REALTY COMPANY in Salem recently was named a Gold Club Office for the fourth quarter by Century 21 of the Mid-Atlantic States Blue Ridge District.
Dottie Slaydon, Philip Givens and J.C. Taylor, sales associates with the office, were honored with the Sales Achievement Gold Award, which is the highest quarterly award in the district.
\ JOHN P. DOMEIKA, formerly of Roanoke, has been named partner with the law firm of Crews & Hancock, P.L.C. in Richmond.
Domeika is a 1980 graduate of William Fleming High School.
\ ALLEN M. BOSTIAN, son of Robert and Katherine Bostian of Roanoke, has been selected by the Rotary Club of Virginia Beach to be a district governor representative of Team Netherlands.
Bostian, a graduate of Cave Spring High School, is fitness director of Virginia Beach General Hospital's Cardiac Rehabilitation Fitness Center. He will attend a series of cardiac fitness seminars in The Netherlands this spring.
\ RITA DAVID, radiography program head at Virginia Western Community College, received a life membership at the recent meeting of The Appalachian District Society of Radiologic Technologists.
David is parliamentarian of the Virginia Society of Radiologic Technicians.
\ HAYES, SEAY, MATTERN & MATTERN, INC., has announced the recipients of it's 1993 Bonus Award Opportunity Program. The winners are: Drake Anderson, Gloria Burleigh, Wayne Dalton, Kyle Dobbins, Lynwood Epperly, Bill Gregory, David Henderson, Lucinda Jennings, Jennifer Kelly, Kamran Khalilan, Troy Kincer, Mary Jane McMillen, Sandy Nester, Mike Salmon, Onai Saunders, Eric Sigrist and Priscilla Welcer, all of Roanoke.
The award is an in-house program to recognize outstanding employees who are evaluated on the basis of performance, initiative, judgment, proficiency and attitude.
\ JODIE R. CAPLAN, director of internal audit for Carilion Health System, has passed the international certified internal auditor examination. Of the 2,545 candidates worldwide who recently took the exam, 538 passed and became certified internal auditors.
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