Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 13, 1991 TAG: 9104130110
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: E-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Lynn A. Coyle
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia has announced that GEORGE B. CARTLEDGE SR. and JOHN P. FISHWICK have been chosen as the 1991 inductees into the Business Hall of Fame. They were chosen for their outstanding business and community leadership, contributions to private enterprise and for being role models for young people. Cartledge is founder and chairman of the board of Grand Piano and Furniture Co. Fishwick is past president of Norfolk and Western Railway.\ MANUFACTURING
\ PHILLIP A. MAYHEW, product support engineer with Ingersoll Rand Co.'s Power Tool Division in Roanoke, has received the company's 1990 Patent Excellence Award. Mayhew received the the $10,000 award for a patent that applies to hand-held, air-powered tools. His invention allows users to change speeds on those tools instead of switching to a different tool.
\ O.B. BURNS JR., vice president and director of corporate environmental services at Westvaco Corp., has received the Environmental Division Technical Award from the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Burns also received the Roy F. Weston prize, which carries a $1,000 honorarium.
\ BARBARA G. DEANE has been promoted to manager of human relations for McCormick/Schilling Field Sales at McCormick & Co. Inc. in Hunt Valley, Md. She joined Golden West Foods Inc., McCormick's subsidiary in Bedford, in 1982 where she most recently was manager of employee development.
\ ORGANIZATIONS\ CARL W. STENBERG, director of UVa's Center for Public Service, has been elected president of the Virginia Alliance on the Public Service. The organization of university public administration programs and state agencies was formed last year to promote effective and responsible public service in Virginia.
The Mount Rogers Planning District Commission has re-elected the following to the executive committee: GLENN G. WILSON, chairman; GEORGE T. JOHNSTONE, vice chairman; CHARLES F. AUSTIN, treasurer. RONALD CATRON was appointed to represent the city of Galax, and the following members were re-appointed to the executive committee: PAUL HURLEY, Bristol; ROBERT WELLS, Grayson County; RALPH REYNOLDS, Bland County; TOM HAWKS, Carroll County; SAM BURKETT, Smyth County; KEN MATHEWS, Washington County; TOM CASSELL, Wythe County; and JANET JOHNSON, minority representative.
\ MEDICAL
\ CAROLYN JACQUES has been promoted to director of maternal and child health services for Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg. She has been with the hospital since 1973, most recently as unit manager for the labor and delivery and the obstetric units.
\ WILLIAM M. EVANS has been named public relations representative for the Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County. He comes from North Carolina where he was media coordinator for the Greater Triad Chapter of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation in Winston-Salem.
Information on personnel promotions of interest to people in business should be sent to this column, c/o the Roanoke Times & P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
by CNB