Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, November 13, 1994 TAG: 9411110020
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
JAMES E. ADAMS has been elected senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Piedmont BankGroup Inc. in Martinsville. He will be responsible for accounting and finance, investments, investor relations and merger and acquisition activities for the bank holding company.
Adams most recently was a consultant for community banks in Southwestern and Southside Virginia. Before that, he was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Dominion Bankshares Corp. He joined Dominion from Shawmut National Corp. in Connecticut, where he was chief financial officer.
He has co-authored two books with the Bank Administration Institute, "Internal Funds Transfer Pricing Systems of Commercial Banks" and ``Asset/Liability Management Techniques for Commercial Banks."
ARCHITECTS and ENGINEERS
ERICA F. SUNSHINE, DAVID P. McGILL, STEPHEN M. TENACE and FRANK L. MOELLER, all of Sherertz Franklin Crawford Shaffner Inc. in Roanoke, have received professional registration status. Sunshine, McGill and Tenace now are licensed architects, and Moeller now is a professional engineer.
BOB BLANKENSHIP has been hired as an environmental scientist with LAW Engineering Inc. in Roanoke. In the past 17 years, Blankenship has been water and waste-control manager and chemical coordinator for Burlington Industries; the chemist/microbiologist and industrial waste-water pretreatment engineer for Salem; adjunct professor to the chemistry department at Roanoke College; environmental engineer with the state Water Control Board; and most recently, senior air toxics engineer with the air division of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. LAW Engineering is a multidiscipline consulting engineering firm that provides environmental, geotechnical, construction and materials engineering services.
D. MICHAEL WEAVER has been named architectural project manager at Thompson & Litton, an engineering, architectural and planning firm based in Wise. He has extensive experience in the design of medical and military facilities in Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia and North Carolina.
JOHN PATTEN has joined HDH Associates of Salem as a senior roof consultant. Patten comes from Des Moines, Iowa, with 19 years of experience as a roofing consultant. He previously owned J.C. Patten Associates.
BANKING
MICHAEL T. TAIT has been promoted to assistant vice president of Crestar Bank in Roanoke, where he is the regional finance and profitability analyst for the company's western region. Tait joined Crestar in 1991 and was a financial systems profit manager in Richmond before coming to Roanoke in 1993.
BUILDING SUPPLIES
J.R. MORGAN has been named co-manager at 84 Lumber in Salem. Morgan will be in charge of store operations including sales and inventory control. He has been with the lumber and building supply retailer since March.
FOOD PROCESSORS
LARRY EPLING has joined Golden West Foods in Bedford as a production supervisor. Golden West is a subsidiary of McCormick & Co. Inc., based in Sparks, Md. Epling formerly was in operations management with Valleydale Foods in Salem and in sales with Stellar Manufacturing Group.
HEALTH CARE
MARTIN MAPLES, former director of the Employee Assistance Service Program for Southwestern Virginia, has been named director of Lewis-Gale Advantage Employee Assistance Program. The program is administered by Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center and offers counseling to Lewis-Gale Hospital employees and their family members and other contracted businesses. Maples had been with the state program for seven years. Before that, he was associated with Hollybrook St. Joseph's Villa in Richmond. He also was in private practice as a mental health and substance abuse counselor.
LAW
JAN HUEBER, formerly with Kirkley, Schmidt & Cotton litigation firm in Fort Worth, Texas, has joined Wooten & Hart in Roanoke. She will work in the firm's health care litigation section, concentrating on defense of medical malpractice cases. Also, KATHERINE LONDOS has joined the firm's general civil litigation section. She is a former clerk to the Superior Court of Connecticut.
WALTER H. PEAKE III, a partner in the Roanoke firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, has been reappointed to the Virginia State Bar's bar and media relations committee for a one-year term. Peake has been on the committee for three years.
SUPPLIERS
JEFF DESPER has been promoted to sales manager for River Ridge Supply Co. Inc.'s Lynchburg and Roanoke facilities and for Southwestern Virginia. Also, JERRY COMEAUX has joined the Roanoke facility as sales engineer. River Ridge Supply specializes in forklifts and dock equipment.
TRANSPORTATION
BRADY H. ANDERSON has been appointed manager of bulk distribution services in Norfolk Southern Corp.'s merchandise marketing department in Roanoke. Since joining the company in 1978, he has been based in Chicago and Roanoke in sales and marketing positions.
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