Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, January 12, 1992 TAG: 9201090659
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: E-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Amanda Barrett
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
NAMES & CHANGES
F. EDWARD HARRIS, president of Crestar Bank's Western Region, has been elected president of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.Harris began his banking career as a management trainee for United Virginia Bank, now Crestar, in Norfolk. He became president of the bank's Newport News unit in 1979, United Virginia Bank Western Region executive vice president in 1982 and Western Region president in 1984.
Harris holds a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary, and finished additional studies at the University of Virginia, Rutgers University and the University of Oklahoma.
Other chamber officers are president-elect, James W. Arend, Atlantic Mutual Companies; treasurer, James B. Lee, Brown Edwards & Co.; and vice presidents, Abney S. Boxley III, W.W. Boxley Co.; Robert W. Glenn Jr., Roanoke Gas Co; Patrick N. Shaffner, Sherertz Franklin Crawford Shaffner; and Joseph H. Vipperman, Appalachian Power Co.
\ ADVERTISING
\ TONY PEARMAN has been named art director for the Mattox Agency, a full service marketing firm with offices in Roanoke and Richmond. He most recently worked in Washington, D.C. with Douglas Harding Group.
\ BANKING
\ WILLIAM D. WELLS, vice president, has been named by Crestar Bank as small business credit underwriter for its newly formed Western Region Small Business Group. This new area of the bank is being developed to support Crestar branches by underwriting credit to small businesses.
\ THOMAS J. BERGER has been named vice president and branch administrator for Southern National Bank's offices in Lumberton, N.C. He was formerly retail division manager, responsible for the retail lending operations of 14 banking offices.\ \ LAW
\ SHARON R. CHICKERING has been appointed to the State Advisory Council to the National Legal Services Corp. by Gov. Douglas Wilder. She is a trial lawyer with Bounds & Dorsey of Roanoke.\ \ MANUFACTURING
\ BILL SIBBICK has been promoted to vice president and senior product manager by Stanley Furniture in Stanleytown. He will be responsible for coordinating and developing new product introductions for all Stanley lines. In addition, he will manage current in-line product as it relates to establishing and monitoring quality standards and maintaining margins and inventory levels.
Sibbick has been been with Stanley since March 1989 as the vice president, product manager and was responsible for dining room and occasional product line development.\ \ ORGANIZATIONS
\ DOTSY CLIFTON, MARK J. FORMICA, BITTLE W. PORTERFIELD III and THOMAS L. ROBERTSON have been elected to serve a three year term on the board of the directors of Center in the Square.
\ H. MICHAEL HINKER of Dominion Bankshares Mortgage Corp. and BETTY W. SAMPLE of Sovran Mortgage Corp. has been elected secretary officers of the Virginia Mortgage Bankers Association. Hinker has been elected president-elect and Sample has been named secretary.
\ MARY PRICKETT has been elected president of the Roanoke Valley Mortgage Bankers Association. She will also serve on the board of directors of the Virginia Mortgage Bankers Association.
The BLUE RIDGE CHAPTER of the CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE has elected the following officers for 1992: ROGER D. CANNADAY, president; PHIL H. DAWSON, president-elect; NATALIE ATKINS-WHEELER, vice president; DUANE SMITH, secretary; and LARRY RICHARDSON, STEPHANIE BURKHOLDER and LARRY DEGEN, directors.
The BEDFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has elected the following officers for 1992: president, DAVID HERRICK, investment adviser at Legg Mason; first vice president, JOHN MYERS, director of Human Resources at Georgia Pacific Corp.; second vice president, TOM MULLIGAN, owner of Bedford Business Services; secretary-treasurer, BARBARA RING, executive director.
New members of the board of directors for the chamber are DAVID R. SNOWMAN, president of Sterling Blower and JIM TURPIN, general manager of the Bedford Bulletin. Re-elected to serve on the board are GARY LOWRY, corporate director of merchandising at Greens Drug Stores; KEN SWAIN, sales associate at Century 21 Sellers, and MIKE REYNOLDS, owner of Peoples Furniture.
\ RETAIL
\ JOHN MEADOR of Montvale has been promoted to assistant manager at Mason Hannabass, Old Time Butcher Shop.
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.