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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 19, 1990                   TAG: 9004200401
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-7   EDITION: METRO   
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DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

IN BUSINESS

DOTTIE A. WHITESIDE, a registered nurse at Roanoke Memorial Hospitals, has received the Nursing Practice Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. Whiteside, who has been in nursing practice since 1961, is a member of the hospital's Strategic Emergency Response Team.

\ THE ROANOKE DIVISION OF APPALACHIAN POWER CO. has won the large-division category in the American Electric Power System annual safety competition. This is the second consecutive year that the Roanoke Division has won the award. Roanoke Division employees had accumulated 3,669,370 safe hours by the end of 1989. The last disabling injury occurred on April 18, 1985.

\ PORTERFIELD DISTRIBUTING CO. INC. of Salem has won the Proud Lion Award from the Stroh Brewery Co. Porterfield was given the award in recognition of excellence in all areas of wholesaler operation.

\ JOAN SHRADER and JANIE WHITLOW have received awards from Waldrop Realty. Shrader was named top selling agent for February and Whitlow was named top listing agent.

\ DANNY L. BARKER, son of Cecil and Mabel Barker of Roanoke, has been promoted to director of printing for Schering-Plough HealthCare Products in Collierville, Tenn. He formerly was assistant production manager.

\ ALLEN H. CAMPER, owner of the Midas Muffler and Brake Shop at 1320 Williamson Road N.E., recently graduated from the Midas Institute of Technology in Palatine, Ill. The four-week course trains personnel in brake service and steering, suspension and alignment and installation of mufflers and shock absorbers.

\ MARY WILSON, associate general counsel for Wilson Hoechst Celanese Fibers and Film Group in Charlotte, N.C., has been named one of the 100 "best and brightest black women in corporate America" by Ebony magazine.

Wilson, the daughter of Flora T. Holland of 3038 Melrose Ave. N.W., is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Wake Forest University Law School.

She is active with Junior Achievement, the Hoechst Celanese/Winterfield Elementary School partnership and is the corporate liaison for the Mecklenburg County Continuing Legal Education Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association.

by CNB