ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, February 25, 1996              TAG: 9602270019
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 

IN BUSINESS

Realtors elect Agee president

BLACKSBURG - Nancy Agee, an agent with ERA Townside, is president of the New River Valley Association of Realtors for 1996.

Agee has been a Realtor in the New River Valley since 1974. She has been secretary, treasurer and president-elect of the association, and has headed local membership, community service, education, legislative and political action committees. She was sales associate of the year in 1994.

She also has served on Virginia Association of Realtors committees on standard forms, commercial/industrial education, community service and risk reduction.

Accounting firm adds staff members

BLACKSBURG - Elizabeth Roberts, a certified public accountant, has announced several new staff members.

Jean Shock is a Virginia Tech accounting graduate who has done audit work for government contractors in the Washington, D.C., area and was the accounting manager for a local engineering firm.

Leslie Farthing earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Shepherd College in West Virginia and a master's degree in accounting from Virginia Tech.

Connie Lowe has been an office manager at Virginia Tech, and has an associate's degree in business management with an emphasis in management from New River Community College.

Phil Wolf is a senior accounting student at Virginia Tech who has a background in computers and completed an internship with IBM.

Human resources talk focuses on the Internet

RADFORD - The New River Valley Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management will meet Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Radford University.

The Radford University student chapter will present a talk on "Human Resources on the Internet," including a discussion of how to navigate the World Wide Web and specific web sites of interest to human resources workers.

For more information, call Susan Rhudy at 382-7213.

Stress management subject of program

BLACKSBURG - The Blue Ridge Chapter of the National Contract Management Association will meet March 6 at the Blacksburg Holiday Inn, with dinner at 6:30 p.m. and guest speaker Gregory Justice from Virginia Tech at 7:30 p.m.

Justice, an associate professor of theater arts, will speak on "Using Acting Techniques in Business: Stress Management, Relaxation and the Use of Physical Therapy."

The cost is $12 for members and $13 for nonmembers.

Reservations are due by March 4 to Jan Bonesteel at 552-3011, Ext. 327.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  (headshots) Agee, Lowe, Farthing, Shock.