ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 1, 1993                   TAG: 9303310480
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-17   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

FOUR HARDEE'S RESTAURANT MANAGERS have been inducted into the President's Club of Boddie-Noell Enterprises Inc.

Ed Rubeiz, senior general manager of the Vinton store; Louanne Semones, senior general manager of the Brambleton Avenue store; Michael Brown, general manager of the Troutville store; and Richard Krause, general manager of the Salem store, were recognized for meeting performance standards and demonstrating high levels of community involvement.

Induction into the club also carries membership on the President's Roundtable, an advisory board that deals with operational activities.

Boddie-Noell, of Rocky Mount, N.C., owns and operates 335 Hardee's restaurants in seven Southeastern states.

\ GAIL G. GODSEY, a business specialist for Safeguard Business Systems Inc., has been named to Safeguard's 1993 President's Club. Membership is awarded to sales leaders for the previous year.

Godsey has been a business specialist at Safeguard for 22 years and is responsible for distributing the product line in Southwest Virginia and three counties of West Virginia.

\ SOUTHERN STATES' Roanoke mill received honorable mention in the nationwide Truck Fleet of the Year contest, sponsored by the American Feed Industry Association and Feed Management magazine.

\ MOORE'S LUMBER AND BUILDING SUPPLIES has announced the names of Roanoke associates honored for outstanding performance during 1992.

Buyers of the year were: Frank Atwood, Cathy Jansen and Brian Akers; Brent Holland, runner-up; and Missy Hartman, Donna Jennings and Debbie Lowe, buyer support.

President's "You Can Do and Did" Award winners were: Frank Atwood, commodities buyer; Liz LaPrad, business analyst; Pat McHugh, division sales manager; the Credit Management Group; and the Inventory Management Group.

President's "Loyal Dissenter" Award winners were: Dave Green, branch manager; and Carolyn Phillips, administrative real estate manager.

Mark Cole won the Performance Excellence award, and Sylvia Reynolds was named President's Customer Care Heroine of the Year.

\ FRED AND MARY BURTNER, owners and operators of Rent-a-Wreck in Roanoke and Blacksburg, recently were honored as outstanding members of the Rent-a-Wreck system.

Since joining the system in October 1985, their fleet has grown to more than 50 cars, vans and trucks.

\ BRIAN WALTERS, a production operator in Salem, has been selected employee of the month for January at Sybron Chemicals Inc.

He earned the award, his second during the past year, for filling in for his production supervisor during the supervisor's absence.

Walters has worked with Sybron since November 1987.

\ DONALD L. HELMS JR., manager of the Roanoke branch of Avco Financial Services, has been named to the company's Circle of Excellence. Helms received the award by placing in the top 15 percent of branch managers in his operating area for 1992.

\ RICHARD W. STUMP, a sales representative at the Roanoke office of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., received the Life Plus award for December.

Stump, who joined the company in 1983, was recognized for his sales performance.



by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB