Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 11, 1995 TAG: 9510110075
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
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A classroom at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business will be dedicated as the NationsBank Room tonight in honor of the bank's $250,000 gift to the school.
Virginia Tech said $150,000 of the gift was used to create the space for instruction in multimedia technology. The rest will support a fund for a $4,000 scholarship each year for an incoming freshman, payable over the student's first two years at Pamplin.
The speaker at the dedication will be Randolph W. McElroy, president of NationsBank Virginia, who will discuss challenges facing the banking industry. The talk will launch Pamplin College's distinguished speakers series, aimed at promoting interaction between top business leaders and college students.
-Staff report
Bedford honored for revitalization
Bedford received awards and praise for its downtown revitalization efforts at the Virginia Municipal League's annual meeting last weekend in Virginia Beach.
City Manager Jack Gross received the Virginia Downtown Development Association's award as an outstanding local government official for forging partnerships between government and the private sector and his commitment to downtown development. Bedford Main Street Inc. got a merit award for a walking-tour brochure of the historic Centertown district.
-Staff report
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Peoples Services Inc., Canton, Ohio-based parent company of Pitzer Transfer & Storage Co. Inc. and Roanoke Moving Corp. of Roanoke, has bought City View Transfer & Storage Co. Inc. of Greenville, S.C., an authorized agent in the Greenville area for Bekins Van Lines.
Coldelite Corp. of America has named The Robert Claiborne Agency of Roanoke its advertising agency of record. Coldelite, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is one of the nation's largest producers of ice cream production equipment.
by CNB