ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 21, 1996 TAG: 9604190077
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: Compiled by MARY LINN
ROGER WILLIAMS has been named senior vice president and director of program development for First Union National Bank's Virginia-Maryland-Washington, D.C., region. He will oversee programs designed by the bank to increase lending to families and small businesses in low- and moderate-income areas. Williams previously was a vice president of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
LISA LAFFEY of Roanoke has been promoted to vice president of branch operations for 203 offices in the region. She joined First Union in 1981 as a staff auditor.
ACCOUNTING
FRANK B. HANCOCK has been admitted as a shareholder in the Roanoke certified public accounting firm of Foti, Flynn, Lowen & Co. Hancock, who has been with the firm since 1988, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants.
BANKING
HARRIS HART II has been elected chairman of the board of directors of Premier Bankshares Corp. based in Bluefield. N. STANLEY KING SR. has been elected vice chairman. Hart, who is a partner in the Tazewell law firm of Gillespie, Hart, Altizer and Whitesell P.C., has been on the board of directors since its inception in 1986. He is also a director of Premier Trust Co. and Premier Bank in Tazewell. King also has been on the corporate board since its beginning and is on the board of Premier Bank-South in Wytheville.
COMPUTERS
CHUCK STEENBURGH, a professor of political science at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington and author of software utilities programs, has been elected for a two-year term to the board of directors of the Association of Shareware Professionals, an organization representing authors, publishers, vendors and on-line distributors of shareware. Shareware is a method of marketing software that allows consumers to try a program before buying it.
KEVIN SINER of Roanoke has been named education and government systems specialist for Comprehensive Computer Solutions in Christiansburg. Siner comes to the company from Micro-Netics, where he was a sales manager for three years.
HEALTH CARE
Roanoke Regional Medical Group Management Association has elected new officers and board members: KATHY COWAN, administrator of Vista Eye Center, president; REBECCA DARBY, business manager of Parkway Physicians, vice president; GINGER TANNER, business manager of Roanoke Family Medicine, secretary; and YVONNE VAUGHT,+ office administrator of Valley Pathology Associates, treasurer. Past president of the association is ELIZABETH ANNE BOWER, administrator of Roanoke Orthopaedic Center. Board members are LYNNE-PAGE WEBB, practice manager of Roanoke Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic; and MEL ELKIN, office administrator of Eye Care & Surgery.
MEDICINE
DR. A. PAUL DALLAS, director of ambulatory medicine at Roanoke Memorial Hospital as part of the University of Virginia's Internal Medicine Roanoke/Salem Program, has received the Virginia Society of Internal Medicine's Young Internist of the Year Award. Dallas is founder and adviser of the UVa Internal Medicine Interest Group.
REAL ESTATE
Snyder Hunt Community Development has named PETER JOHNS general manager of Waverly, a housing development at Smith Mountain Lake. Johns joins the Blacksburg-based real estate development and management company from the Chesapeake Corp., Delmarva Properties in New Kent County.
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.
LENGTH: Medium: 80 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: (headshots) Williams, Laffey, Hancock, Sinero, Johns.by CNB