Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, June 5, 1990                   TAG: 9006050427
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CODY LOWE RELIGION WRITER
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RAM GETS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Roger Dalton, 44, officially started his new job May 29. He replaces Wendy Moore, director of the ecumenical service agency for the past five years. She left to pursue a graduate degree.

Dalton, who is a member of the United Methodist Church, said Monday he was eager to return to "pure human services."

After leaving the transportation museum in January of 1989, he went to work for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia as a human-services consultant. When that job was eliminated recently he applied for the RAM position.

Dalton has a diverse human-services background. That began, he said, as a police officer in Greensboro, N.C. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in public administration while he was working as a police officer.

He later took a job with the USO, supervising that agency's human-services programs in Korea and southern Europe, before going to the transportation museum.

Dalton is a volunteer with the TRUST crisis-counseling service and president of its volunteer staff.

Dalton's "wide variety of experiences and his good management skills will make him a good new executive director," said Rabbi Frank Muller, president of the RAM Board of Directors.

Muller said Dalton was selected from a field of about 35 applicants. Dalton will receive a salary of $26,000 and a benefits package valued at $5,000 a year.