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

DATE: SUNDAY, October 15, 1995                   TAG: 9510130028
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: F-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

2 PROMOTED AT YOKOHAMA SALEM PLANT

RICHARD A. GROSS has been promoted to assistant plant controller at Yokohama Tire Corp.'s production facility in Salem. He will be responsible for many of the plant's accounting functions, financial analysis and purchasing. Gross joined Yokohama in 1993 as manager of cost accounting.

THOMAS J. BROWN has been named technical director at the Salem facility. He will be responsible for quality assurance and tire engineering. In his 30 years at Yokohama, Brown has held several positions, including director of technology, director of quality assurance and general manager of product services.

ACCOUNTING

RUTH TERRY DICKER-SON, a principal in the firm of Ford, Dickerson and Cobbe certified public accountants in Martinsville, has been elected president of the Virginia Group of CPA Firms Inc., an association of locally owned and operated certified public accounting firms in Virginia.

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

ED COLONNA has been promoted to project manager at Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc., a Roanoke-based architectural, engineering and planning firm. Colonna, who joined the firm in 1978, is a senior associate specializing in electrical engineering.

BANKING

EDIE T. SAUNDERS, previously with Salem Bank and Trust, has become a loan officer at the Salem office of Premier Bank Inc. She formerly held positions as an administrative assistant/officer, customer service representative, teller supervisor and branch officer.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

WILLIAM P. SCHUB-MEHL, president and chief executive officer of Scott & Stringfellow Financial Inc., on Jan. 1 will become vice chairman of its brokerage subsidiary, Scott & Stringfellow Inc. JOHN SHERMAN JR. will succeed Schubmehl as the company's president and chief executive officer. Scott & Stringfellow Inc. has offices in Roanoke and other locations in Southwest Virginia.

GOVERNMENT

DONALD W. DUNCAN of Troutville, director of the Virginia Department of Veterans' Affairs, has been elected vice president of the South East District of the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs, which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, Panama Canal, Virgin Islands and Virginia.

LAW

NANCY FULLER REYNOLDS has joined the law firm of Wetherington, Melchionna, Terry, Day & Ammar as an associate. She previously was a law clerk for Judge Samuel G. Wilson of U.S. District Court for Western Virginia. Reynolds will practice in the areas commercial law, employment and business litigation.

PHILLIP V. ANDERSON, a partner in the Roanoke firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, has been re-elected chairman of the Virginia State Bar's 8th District Disciplinary Committee and appointed to the faculty of the bar's mandatory professionalism course.

T. DANIEL FRITH III, a partner with the firm of Mundy, Rogers & Frith in Roanoke, has been elected chairman of the Virginia State Bar's litigation section board of governors.

ORGANIZATIONS

JOHN NEWBERRY, owner and president of Venco Amusement in Bland, was recently elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Amusement & Music Operators Association, a nonprofit association of owners, distributors and manufacturers of commercial amusement, music, entertainment and vending equipment.

REAL ESTATE

The Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors has named LEE CLARK, classified advertising manager at The Roanoke Times, as the 1995 Affiliate-of-the-Year.

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