FRALIN WINS COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, January 16, 1992                   TAG: 9201160355
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: GEORGE KEGLEY BUSINESS EDITOR
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FRALIN WINS COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
Horace Fralin, partner in a statewide housing, office and nursing home company, Wednesday received the annual Community Service Award of the Roanoke Fralin Regional Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Roanoke Valley.
Fralin, president of Fralin & Waldron Inc., was cited as "a wise man of humble beginnings and uncommon character" who sits on major corporate, education and state boards.
Warner Dalhouse, Dominion Bankshares chairman and one of five speakers who praised Fralin at the chamber's annual dinner, said, "There's not much of value in the community that he [Fralin] is not involved with."
When a Community Hospital building was named for Fralin, he showed his mother the program that listed his board memberships. Dalhouse said her comment was, "There's no way you could have done all those things and have done them well."
Fralin has served on the boards of Dominion Bankshares, Shenandoah Life Insurance Co., Carilion Health System, Roanoke College, the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, the State Council of Higher Education and the state Department of Transportation board. Dalhouse said Fralin has had more influence on his banking company than any other outside director.
Virginia Tech President James McComas said Fralin has been a builder of bridges between the university and the Roanoke Valley. Elbert Waldron, his business partner, said Fralin is a hard worker who "personifies grace under pressure."
William George Boucher, a Roanoke policeman, received the chamber's Officer of the Year award for arresting an armed robber last year.
The Jack C. Smith Top Producer Award was presented to A. Morris Turner Jr., a Dominion Bank vice president, for obtaining $3,380 in new memberships. The chamber's Ambassador of the Year Award was presented to Thomas Turner, an associate broker at Hall Associates.
About 520 businessmen and -women attended the chamber's 102nd annual meeting at the Roanoke Airport Marriott.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB