ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, November 3, 1996               TAG: 9611040100
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: 4    EDITION: METRO 
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN


BEDFORD BANK NAMES CHAIRMAN

Bedford Bancshares Inc. and its subsidiary, Bedford Federal Savings Bank, named HUGH H. BOND chairman of the board and HAROLD K. NEAL president. Also, MICHAEL G. TRUSSELL has been promoted to vice president of the bank.

Bond succeeds T. GLYNN BRADLEY, the former chairman who died in September.

Bond is the former owner, president and chief executive officer of Scott & Bond Real Estate and Insurance Co., where he remains active as an associate real estate broker. Neal has been a director, executive vice president and chief executive officer since joining the bank in 1971. Trussell joined Bedford Federal last January after working for Dominion Bank for 23 years.

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

EDWARD L. JANNEY has been promoted to assistant vice president at Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, an architectural, engineering and planning firm based in Roanoke. Janney, a registered structural engineer, is the Roanoke office manager. He also is chairman of HSMM's quality control review board. He has been with the firm since 1973 and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

HUNTER B. GREENE has joined the staff of L.M.W., Roanoke architects, engineers and surveyors. He will bring full architectural and planning services to the firm to complement its engineering and surveying services.

BANKING

Central Fidelity Banks Inc. has announced several promotions: KATHERINE ELLIOTT and MICHAEL HACK have been promoted to vice presidents, and KELLIE ANNE EAST and MARK NEWMAN have been named assistant vice presidents. In January, Elliott will assume the position of group manager of support services for the bank's new Commonwealth Region, based in Lynchburg. She now manages the marketing, operations, seniors program and budgets for the Southwestern Region. Hack, who is the Southwestern Region's compliance officer, will become compliance officer for the Commonwealth Region. He will be based in Roanoke. East is manager of the South Main office in Blacksburg. Newman manages the 220 South office in Roanoke.

CHILD CARE

KRISTI MARTIN has been promoted to director of Honeytree Early Learning Center on McVitty Road in Roanoke. She has held several positions since joining Honeytree in 1991, including assistant director and summer camp coordinator. MICHELLE NAPIER has been named assistant director of the McVitty Road center. She formerly was a preschool coordinator. CINDY THEILEN has joined the Honeytree staff in Hollins as assistant director. She comes to Honeytree from Iowa, where she was a child-care provider and acting director of a child-care center.

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

LAWRENCE W. BROOMALL, treasurer at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, has been named vice president for finance and treasurer at the university. Broomall came to W&L in 1986 from the College of William and Mary, where he was vice president for business affairs.

MICHAEL VONSPAKOVSKY will join Virginia Tech's new Energy Management Institute as its director in January. VonSpakovsky comes to the institute from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where he had conducted research in thermodynamics and energy systems since 1989. He has more than 10 years of experience in the U.S. electric utility industry.

MARY LOU MERKT, interim vice president for business affairs at Radford University, has been named vice president for finance and administration at Sweet Briar College effective Dec. 1. Merkt has been at Radford since 1985, as director of internal audit and director of financial services, then assistant vice president for business affairs. She was named interim vice president in 1996.

HEALTH CARE

W. ANDREW DICKINSON JR. has been named general manager and chief executive officer of Blue Ridge Rehab Center in Martinsville. Dickinson, who has been in health-care management for 22 years, comes from Roanoke, where he was senior vice president of Carilion Health System. He managed several affiliated hospitals and was administrator of the Roanoke Memorial Rehabilitation Center.

SHIRLEY STOUGH of Roanoke has been named a key director with Reliv International, a St. Louis-based company that develops and manufactures weight management and nutritional supplements based on the work of Dr. Theodore Kalogris, a former National Institute of Health chief researcher.

LAW

PATRICK T. FENNELL has joined the Roanoke law firm of Carter, Brown & Osborne as an associate. Fennell was an assistant to corporate counsel for Ferguson Enterprises after completing 10 years of service with the U.S. Navy, primarily as an operations officer. He will concentrate his practice in general business, contracts, corporations and limited-liability companies.

JAMES C. JOYCE JR. of Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore law firm in Roanoke, has been elected secretary of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. JANE S. GLENN of Jones & Glenn in Roanoke has been elected to a three-year term on the association's board of directors.

The Richmond-based firm of Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller has announced the association of JOHN B. SPIERS JR. as senior counsel in a relocation of its Pulaski office to Radford. JAMES E. CORNWELL JR., previously in the Pulaski office, and SARAH Y.M. KIRBY, previously in the Richmond office, will join Spiers in the new Radford office.

MEDIA

PAUL CLARIN has joined The Roanoke Times as controller. He has four years of audit experience at Ernst & Young in New Orleans, two years of tax experience at Deloitte & Touche in Chattanooga, Tenn., and six years of experience as controller at several daily newspapers. TONYA HART has been hired as the newspaper's assistant controller. She was an audit manager for six years at Ernst & Young in Winston-Salem, N.C.

NONPROFITS

WILLIAM C. KRAUSE has been appointed executive director for Opera Roanoke, a new position is which he will be responsible for all administrative operations. Krause comes to Roanoke from Piedmont Arts Association in Martinsville, where he was executive director. General/artistic director CRAIG FIELDS will continue to direct the artistic endeavors of the company under the new title of artistic director.

REAL ESTATE

JIM LUGAR, president of Lugar, Poff, McGuire Inc. Realtors in Roanoke, recently was elected to a three-year term on the policy board of the Virginia Association of Realtors. Lugar, who has been in real estate for 29 years, has been president of the Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors, dean of the Realtors Institute and president of the Virginia Real Estate Educational Foundation.

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

cO{ILLUSTRATION} PHOTO: (headshots) Bond, Neal, Trussell, Janney, Elliott, Hack, Dickinson, Stough, Fennel, Joyce, Spiers, Cornwell, Kirby, Clarin, Hart, Krause, Lugar.


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