Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 27, 1994 TAG: 9403250096
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Mary Linn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
JERE LEE HODGIN, Mill Mountain Theatre's executive and artistic director, has been elected administrative vice president of the board of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, a service organization for actors and non-acting theatre personnel in the Southeast.
He was previously chairman of the long-range planning and playwriting committees and was a member of the advisory council.
Hodgin holds a master of fine arts degree in acting and directing from the University of Georgia. He has been with Mill Mountain Theatre for eight years. Before that, he was artistic director and co-producer at Highlands Playhouse in Highlands, N.C., and has acted, directed, and consulted at numerous theatres on the East Coast.
ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
JENNIFER BAILEY has joined the mechanical department at Spectrum Engineers as an engineer in training. Her responsibilities at the Roanoke firm include the design of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems.
BANKING
JEANNE SMYTH-ROOF has been promoted to senior vice president by NationsBank Corp. in Charlotte, N.C., where she has been manager of the institutional bank professional development group since October. The Roanoke native was regional credit manager at Singer Furniture Co. from 1980 to 1985. She joined NationsBank in 1985 as a credit representative in the financial services group. She joined the marketing training group in 1988, was named manager of marketing training a year later and was named manager of the corporate bank professional development group in 1992.
\ CHARLES M. ROBERTS has joined NationsBank's professional and executive banking group in Roanoke as a relationship manager. Roberts, an assistant vice president, joined the bank in 1971 and most recently was branch manager for NationsBanc Equity Mortgage Corp.
BUSINESS SERVICES
The Management Association of Western Virginia has hired FRED A. STARLING, formerly of Kingston-Warren Corp. in Wytheville, as vice president of training. He has 14 years of human resource, training and management experience.
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
SANDRA TUCKER-MAXWELL of Roanoke has been named executive assistant to the president at the Roanoke Valley campus of National Business College in Salem. The business college has eight campuses throughout the state.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
KENNNETH O. ROBISON II has joined Wheat, First Securities Inc. as a financial consultant in the Roanoke office. He previously worked at NationsBank of Virginia for nine years.
LAW
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore has named DALE W. WEBB, LEISA KUBE CIAFFONE and GREGORY J. HALEY partners in the Roanoke firm. Joining the firm as new associates are HARVEY B. DIKTER, JOHN WEBER III, MONICA L. TAYLOR, M. CHRIS FLOYD, RONNIE L. CLAY and JANELL L. RIDDLE.
\ THOMAS A. LISK has been named a partner in Hazel & Thomas, a Falls Church-based law firm. Lisk, who is a registered lobbyist, joined the firm in 1985 and works in the firm's Richmond office, where he represents business and association interests before the General Assembly and various state and federal agencies. His primary emphasis is on health care, insurance and alcoholic beverage regulation.
MEDICINE
DR. CHARLES D. GILLILAND has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a professional organization of internists. He has also been elected to the board of trustees of the Virginia Society of Internal Medicine. Gilliland practices at the Lewis-Gale Clinic in Salem and is a clinical associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Virginia.
\ DR. JITENDRA S. DESAI has been named medical director of the Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center, a Columbia/HCA facility. Desai specializes in geriatric psychiatry and addiction treatment and is also medical director of the center's alcohol and drug treatment program. He was educated at Baroda Medical College, M.S. University in India, and completed an internship at Shri Sayaji General Hospital, Baroda. He served his psychiatric residency at the Westchester County Medical Center of New York Medical College.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Roanoke Valley Paralegal Association has elected officers for 1994: LOIS A. SUMPTER, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, president and board member; SARAH FERGUSON, Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, vice president; BETH RITTER, Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, secretary; and CASEY DUGAN, Glenn, Flippin, Feldmann & Darby, treasurer. Elected to the board were MARGIE BOWMAN, Wooten & Hart; and PAMELA EAKIN, LEE SLENKER and LAURA SKEEN, all of Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove.
The Roanoke Regional Home Builders Association Inc. has named TERESA SEVERIN of Teresa Severin Marketing as the organization's 1993 Rookie of the Year.
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