
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, October 1, 1995                   TAG: 9509290038
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: F-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

MARKETING DIRECTOR NAMED

TOM KIRCHNER has been appointed director of sales and marketing at Roanoke Stamp & Seal Co. Kirchner comes to Roanoke from Piscataway, N.J., where he was vice president of sales for M&R Marking Systems.

He has more than 15 years of marketing experience in the office products and marking device fields at national and international levels.

At Roanoke Stamp & Seal, Kirchner will direct the national sales and marketing programs.

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

RONALD G. HELTON has been named executive vice president of Thompson + Litton, an engineering, architectural and planning firm based in Wise. Previously the firm's vice president of engineering, he has been with Thompson + Litton for 16 years. MICHAEL W. HATFIELD has been promoted to project manager. A five-year employee of the firm, he formerly was head of the construction administration department. RICHARD HOUCHINS has been promoted to head of Thompson + Litton's construction administration department. He has been with the firm for six years, most recently as a construction administrator.

COLLEGES

GEORGE LEDGER has been appointed dean of the faculty at Hollins College. A professor of psychology, he has been a member of the Hollins faculty since 1982. Ledger has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University and the University of Rhode Island. Also at Hollins, BROOK DICKSON has been named executive assistant to the president and secretary to the college's board of trustees. Dickson was administrative assistant to conductor Victoria Bond and the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. She also has managed programs for the Art Council of the Blue Ridge and is on the board of Artemis and the advisory board for Virginia Western Community College's community art collection.

CREDIT UNIONS

KELLIE ANNE EAST has been named vice president and branch manager of N&W Federal Credit Union's new Salem office. An eight-year employee with the credit union, she formerly was vice president and branch manager of the Brookside office. MARCUS L. PAXTON succeeds East as vice president and branch manager at Brookside. He has been with the credit union for four years, most recently as a loan officer.

HEALTH CARE

RICHIE ALBA, administrator of Berkshire Health Care Center in Vinton, has been elected vice chairman of the Virginia Health Care Association, a professional and educational organization representing long-term care facilities in Virginia.

INSURANCE

EDWARD M. SMITH has joined Roanoke-based Thomas Rutherfoord Inc. as an account executive. Before coming to Rutherfoord, he was in commercial banking for 10 years, most recently at NationsBank in Roanoke.

MANUFACTURING

CHRISTOPHER J. LASKO has been promoted to uniformity group leader at Yokohama Tire Corp.'s Salem plant. Lasko, who joined Yokohama in 1994, previously was uniformity engineer at Michelin America's Research Center in Greenville, S.C. Also at the Salem plant, DAVID FINES has been named division manager of mixing and extrusion. He comes to Yokohama from a similar position at Continental General Tire Co. in Mount Vernon, Ill.

A.J. OTTINGER JR., vice president-manufacturing at the Lane Co. Inc. in Altavista, has been elected president of the manufacturing division of the American Furniture Manufacturers Association. LEE HOUSTON, vice president of manufacturing services at Ladd Furniture Inc., has been elected to the board of the association.

ORGANIZATIONS

The Roanoke Area Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners has elected officers: GARY BASSETT, Norfolk Southern Corp., president; GREGORY WOOD, Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield, vice president; and DANA LONG, city of Roanoke, secretary and treasurer. H. RAY ELLIS, First Union National Bank of Virginia, and WALTER JONES, Internal Revenue Service, were appointed to the board of directors as members at large. The association is a nonprofit professional organization of fraud examiners who work to promote fraud detection and deterrence and to reduce the incidence of white-collar crime.

REAL ESTATE

DAVID E. BRAMMER has joined the real estate brokerage and auctioneering firm of Woltz & Associates Inc. of Roanoke as auction coordinator. He has been a real estate broker for 15 years, most recently in Massachusetts, where he is a past president of the Greater New Bedford Association of Realtors.

Information on personnel changes of interest to people in business should be sent to this column, c/o The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010.

by CNB