Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 26, 1992                   TAG: 9203260461
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-17   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Ramsuer is employed as administrative secretary to Houston L. Bell Jr., chief operating officer at Roanoke Memorial Hospitals.

She joined the Roanoke chapter in March 1981 and has served as president, first and second vice presidents, corresponding secretary and chairman of various committees.

\ ELSIE BARR, president of Blue Ridge Copiers, has been elected Woman of the Year by the Roanoke Valley Charter of the American Business Women's Association. Barr is a charter member of the chapter.

\ THE SALON LTD., established in 1976, has moved from its downtown Roanoke location to the upper level of Towers Shopping Center.

\ HENRY L. HOWARD of Leawood Circle Southwest has retired as chief construction engineer for the Salem District of the Virginia Department of Transportation after nearly 43 years. He was responsible for all highway and bridge construction and pre-construction activities for the district.

Howard joined the department in 1945 as a survey party rodman. During his tenure in the Salem District, he supervised the construction of Interstate 77 through Carroll County.

\ DAVID MITCHELL of Roanoke has been named manager of the year for the 325 golf courses in the franchised system of Putt-Putt Golf Courses of America Inc.

Mitchell previously was honored as manager of the month for July.

\ JEFF ROBERTS, formerly of Roanoke, has been named assistant director of development at the Valentine Museum in Richmond.

Roberts previously was director of the annual fund at James Madison University.

\ JANIE WEINER has retired as president of Towers Merchants Association after 18 years.

Weiner, manager of Fink's Jewelers at Towers for 25 years, will continue to serve on the board of the merchants' association.

\ SCOTT B. THOMPSON, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Branan Thompson of Roanoke, has been promoted to sales supervisor of the Harrisburg, Pa., district of the Tombstone Pizza division of Kraft General Foods Inc.

Thompson was recognized as the outstanding sales representative for the Northeastern states for 1991.

He is a 1986 graduate of Cave Spring High School and a 1990 graduate of the Claiborne Robbins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

\ WALTER JOSEPH BAUMOEL, Roanoke district manager for The Franklin Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, Ill., has been named to the 1991 Franklin Million Dollar Conference.

\ RAYMOND DOWNES and BERNIE SANDERS, personal financial planners with IDS Financial Services Inc., have received the IDS Mercury Award for their production during the third quarter of last year.