Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 7, 1991 TAG: 9104050411
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Conner currently is manager of the firm's Blacksburg office and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The firm's annual gross billings exceed $12 million.
\ DR. DAVID BORNSTEIN has joined the staff at St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford.
Bornstein is a graduate of the University of Virginia and served with the U.S. Navy as a flight surgeon. He later trained in psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.
Bornstein was an assistant director at the Veterans Administration hospital in Bedford, Mass. He has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School, Tufts University Medical School and Andover-Newton Theological School, and in 1972 received an appointment as assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of South Florida Medical School in Tampa.
Bornstein was recently the senior staff psychiatrist at Anclote Manor Hospital in Tarpon Springs, Fla., prior to his affiliation with St. Albans.
\ Snyder Hunt Property Management promoted\ JANET RIDDLEBARGER to property manager of Region I, which includes oversight of more than 3,000 apartment units in Blacksburg, Roanoke, Lynchburg and Kingsport, Tenn.
Riddlebarger has been with Snyder Hunt for eight years and was previously the project manager for Foxridge Apartments in Blacksburg.
\ CAROL SCHAFER, previously assistant manager of Foxridge Apartments in Blacksburg, will replace Riddlebarger as project manager for Snyder Hunt. She will oversee the 1,644 apartments in Foxridge.
And PAULA WILLIAMS will leave her position as office manager at Foxridge to replace Schafer as the new assistant manager there.
\ ROBERT B. STEPHENSON, an orthopedic surgeon, joined the staff of Pulaski Community Hospital. He comes to Pulaski from Roanoke where he was in private practice for almost three years.
Stephenson received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
His office is in Dublin at the Valley Medical Center.
Cardiologist RICHARD HAPPEL has joined the staff at Radford Community Hospital.
He holds a master's and doctorate from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed a fellowship with the University of Virginia's affiliated hospitals.
Happel was previously a physician at the Lexington Medical Center in Columbia, S.C.
\ JULIUS MICHAELSON JR., an obstetrician and gynecologist, has joined the staff at Radford Community Hospital. Michaelson earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama. He completed his residency at Carrawary Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala.
He was a staff physician at the Women's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., for nine years.
\ DAVID BRYANT, director of the Adjunctive Therapy Department at St. Albans Hospital in Radford, was selected as Executive of the Year by the New River Valley chapter of Professional Secretaries International.
Bryant, who holds a master's degree in music therapy from Radford University, supervises therapy personnel in art, rehabilitation, recreation and horticulture.
He is also a board certified music therapist.
\ ALLENE GRAHAM, who spent her Graham entire career at Hercules Inc. in the payroll section of the accounting department, has retired after almost 50 years.
Graham had the most service time of any employee with 47 years and three months, including 26 years and 10 months of perfect attendance.
Before her job started in 1943, Graham worked for a drugstore in Christiansburg making about $3 per week.
Graham plans to spend most of her time caring for her 94-year-old mother and also hopes to do some traveling, play bridge, bowl, read and work in her flower garden.
\ PAUL H. MITCHELL has been promoted to vice president of the Blacksburg public accounting firm of Michael B. Cooke.
Mitchell, who earned his master's degree from Virginia Tech, has been with the company since 1988.
He was awarded his CPA designation in 1986.
\ CHUCK ALTICE, assistant vice president with the Blacksburg office of Scott & Stringfellow Investment Corp., was named to the American Funds Group All-American Team.
He was cited for outstanding service to investors in Southwest Virginia and for excellence in financial counseling in mutual fund investments and variable annuity contracts.
\ BRUCE CUNNINGHAM of Blacksburg was recognized by the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors as being among the top 1 percent of insurance agents in the country committed to continuing a formal insurance education.
Cunningham is a partner of Old Dominion Insurance Services Inc., who earned his certified insurance counselor designation in 1981.
\ BRIAN DOUGLAS DEHART of Brian's Lock & Key in Blacksburg has achieved the designation of registered locksmith through successful completion of that portion of the Proficiency Registration Program, which registers security specialists.
DeHart, who lives in Christiansburg, is also a certified safe and vault technician.
\ KENT WYLAND of Pearisburg was inducted into the Hardee's President's Club for 1990.
The club recognizes individuals who have reached a certain volume amount in restaurant sales and other restaurant goals. Wyland will serve on the President's Roundtable, an operations input group, for fiscal 1991.
\ BECKY KEESEE, general manager of Hardee's in Christiansburg, was named as a finalist in the Carleton Noell Awards program for 1990, sponsored by Boddie-Noell Enterprises, which owns and operates almost 300 Hardee's restaurants in the Southeast.
The award for excellence is based in part on restaurant inspections.
\ NONA ADCOCK of Montgomery County has joined the sales team of Townside Realtors.
She is a member of the New River Valley Association of Realtors and serves on several committees. Adcock also recently received her GRI - graduate of Realty Institute - degree.
\ MARLA KEMSEY STRAW of Radford has renewed her professional membership in the Association of Bridal Consultants.
Straw operates Chantilly Lace in Blacksburg.
New River People in Business is compiled by Kim Sunderland.
Send information to Roanoke Times & World-News, New River Valley Bureau, P.O. Box 540, Christiansburg, Va. 24073.
by CNB