Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 24, 1991 TAG: 9103210516
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: E4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Lynn A. Coyle
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
ITT Electro-Optical Products Division in Roanoke has announced the following promotions: JOHN A. PETERS has been promoted to vice president and director of program management. Peters joined ITT in 1959 and has served as manufacturing manager, plant manager, general manager, director of marketing andinternational program manager. ELAINE F. TUTTLE has been promoted to vice president and director of contracts. She joined the company in 1977 as senior contracts administrator. She has also served as senior contracts analyst and manager of contracts. JOHN E. KEMPSTER has been promoted to vice president and director of quality. He joined ITT in 1989 as manager of product applications.
\ AWARDS
Three Roanoke Times & World-News staffers won Awards of Excellence in the 1990 Society of Newspaper Design's international competition. Chief News Artist ROBERT LUNSFORD won for his illustration of a cover for the Extra Section. Features Layout Editor TIM VAN RIPER won for his page design of the same cover. News Artist KEVIN KRENECK won for his illustration for an Outdoors page. Their work will be featured in the society's 12th edition award book to be published in October.
\ R. CRADY ADAMS, director of pharmacy at Lewis-Gale Hospital, has been named 1990 Hospital Pharmacist of the Year by the Virginia Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
The Printing Industries of Virginia, a trade association, has announced the following winners of its 1990 Graphic Communications Competition: B & B PRINTING & ADVERTISING of Bedford, one First Place and one Award of Excellence; THE COPY CENTER of Christiansburg, one Award of Excellence; JAMONT PRESS of Roanoke, three First Place and five Awards of Excellence; BASSETT PRINTING CORP. of Bassett, six Awards of Excellence; PROGRESS PRESS of Roanoke, five First Place, 13 Awards of Excellence; and PROGRESS PRINTING CO. of Lynchburg, 17 First Place, 24 Awards of Excellence, and the Class III Dietz Memorial Award (3-way tie), given for the highest overall point total in the class.
\ SHERERTZ FRANKLIN CRAWFORD SHAFFNER INC., an architectural, engineering, planning and interior design company, has been awarded the 1990 Excellence in Masonry Design Award in the Religion and Institutional category for its work on the Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Rocky Mount.
\ JOHN W. FELTON, corporate vice president of McCormick & Co. in Hunt Valley, Md., has been chosen the PR News Professional of the Year. He was voted the honor by the readers of PR News, an international weekly public relations publication. Felton is a native of Roanoke.
Three members of the Roanoke Valley Chapter of the Association for Systems Management have been recognized by the Excellence in Systems Management award program for their contributions to the advancement of the association and the profession. WARD A. GOODWIN JR., applications manager for Dominion Bankshares Corp. in Roanoke, received a Merit Award. Recognition awards went to two Atlantic Mutual Companies employees in Roanoke: WALLACE D. BLAIR, senior programmer analyst and NANCY B. SHEPHERD, programmer.
\ UTILITIES
ROBERT W. GLENN JR. has been elected vice president of Roanoke Gas Co. He will be responsible for marketing and strategic planning for Roanoke Gas and marketing for Bluefield Gas Co. and Highland Propane Co.
\ THOMAS S. JOBES has been promoted to administrative assistant to the president of Appalachian Power Co. J. ROBERT DAVENPORT, manager of Appalachian Power's Lynchburg Division, will retire July 1. Davenport is a native of Roanoke.
\ LAW
ROBERT J. INGRAM, a partner in Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland & Hutton, has been chosen as a fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit corporation that assists programs and organizations in improving the administration of justice and furthering public understanding of the law. Ingram's law practice has offices in Pulaski, Blacksburg and Galax.
\ PAUL M. BLACK has joined Wetherington & Melchionna in Roanoke as an associate.
\ FINANCIAL
REBECCA W. BLANKENSHIP has joined Eastern Fidelity Mortgage Corp. in Roanoke as president.
\ SIDNEY E. BOSTIAN JR. has been named president and chief executive officer of Investors Financial Corp. and chairman of the board of its subsidiary, Investors Savings Bank. The Richmond-based thrift has an office in downtown Roanoke. Bostian succeeds STEVEN C. DELANEY, who will serve as executive vice president and chief operating officer. W. WARDLAW THOMPSON JR. has been elected chairman of the board of the parent company.
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