Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 25, 1993 TAG: 9304230059
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Amanda Barrett
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
JEFFREY T. YENTZ has joined Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc. as a project manager in the firm's expanded Healthcare Group. In his new position, he will work with clients from initial planning and programming to occupancy and operation of projects.
Yentz is a registered architect and received bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He has 15 years of experience in health-care projects including oncology centers, psychiatric wards and hospitals, physical therapy departments, operating room suites and women's centers. He has also worked in master planning and design of renovations, additions and new major medical facilities.i
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
\ THIMOTHY G. CORVIN has been appointed executive director of development at Hollins College. He is responsible for all development officers and programs and assists the vice president of development, alumnae and college relations in planning the Capital Campaign.
Corvin returned to Hollins from Radford University, where he was director of planned giving. He had previously worked as associate director of planned giving at Hollins.
FINANCIAL PLANNING
\ ANDREA MULLINS has joined the Principal Financial Group. She specializes in employee benefit planning and assisting individuals with finances. She also concentrates in the areas of retirement, education, investment, insurance and financial and estate planning.
INSURANCE
\ ROBERT C. BYE and HETH T. THOMAS have joined the Roanoke district office of Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Bye has also become an associate of The Todd Organization, Inc., an executive benefits firm affiliated with Northwestern Mutual. Bye has worked in the insurance industry for 28 years, 26 with New England Mutual. He will specialize in executive benefits.
Thomas, who has been working in the group benefits area for five years, will head the Roanoke office of Northwestern Group Marketing Services of Virginia. He specializes in group employee benefit plans.
\ DAVID A. SNEBOLD has joined Chapman-Logan Insurance Agency in Salem as a property casualty insurance producer. His position will involve new business production of commercial insurance for Salem, Roanoke and Southwestern Virginia, as well as overseeing a commercial lines target marketing sales center in the agency. He formerly worked with the Travelers Cos.
LAW
\ NEIL V. BIRKHOFF and ELIZABETH K. DILLON have become senior attorneys with Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove. WAYNE O.S. HAIG, ABIGAIL L. PERKINS and MATTHEW P. PRITTS have been named associates with the firm.
MANUFACTURING
\ TOM HALVORSEN has been named vice president of sales for the Northern region and KELLY CAIN has been appointed vice president of national accounts at Stanley Furniture Co. in Stanleytown. Halvorsen previously worked as vice president of national accounts. His new duties include managing the northern region sales representatives and acting as corporate liaison with retail customers in that area. Cain formerly was vice president of special markets. He will manage all aspects of the firm's business with Sears, Roebuck and Co. and J.C. Penney Co.
MEDICINE
\ JAMES A. McCOIG, M.D. has joined the staff of Jackson River Orthopaedics P.C. in the Emmett Medical and Surgical Clinic at Alleghany Regional Hospital. He previously was a member of Shenandoah Orthopedics in Woodstock. He received a medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed an intership at Roanoke Memorial Hospital and an orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Virginia Hospital.
ORGANIZATION
\ WAYNE G. STRICKLAND, executive director of the Fifth Planning District Commission, had been named vice president of the Development District Association of Appalachia. The association is composed of 69 regional planning agencies throughout the 13-state region which covers Appalachia.
\ BRUCE BRENNER, president of Cycle Systems Inc. in Roanoke, has been elected to the board of directors of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries as a nonmetallics board representative.
The Virginia Chamber of Commerce has named members of Virginia's Emissaries, its volunteer marketing and advocacy group of corporate executives. The following are from central and Southwest Virginia:
\ NICHOLAS F. TAUBMAN, Advance Stores Co., Roanoke; WILLIAM P. CARPENTER, AMSCO Products, Wytheville; JOSEPH H. VIPPERMAN, Appalachian Power Co., Roanoke; JOHN P. MONTAGUE, Appalachian Power Co., Abingdon; JAMES W. AREND, The Atlantic Cos., Roanoke; C.B. OWEN JR., Dibrell Brothers, Danville; WARNER DALHOUSE, First Union National Bank of Virginia, Roanoke; RICHARD L. POPP, FiberCom Inc., Roanoke; HAROLD L. BATTON, Hercules Aerospace, Radford; DONALD L. LISMAN, Hoeschst Celanese Corp., Narrows; HIAWATHA NICELY, Magnox Inc., Pulaski; CYNTHIA H. TYSON, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton; FRANK LONGAKER, National Business College, Salem; LARRY MAUST, New River Industries, Radford; MICHAEL E. ODOM, The Pittston Co., Lebanon; CLIFFORD R. QUESENBERRY, C.R. Quesenberry, Inc., Abingdon; DR. LINDA KOCH LORIMER, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg; BITTLE E. PORTERFIELD III, Rice Management Co., Roanoke; JAMES W. McGLOTHIN, United Co., Bristol; JOHN W. KNAPP, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington; HARRY S. WILLIAMS, H.S. Williams Co., Marion; and HIRO AKASHI, Yokohama Tire Co., Salem.
PLANNING DISTRICT
\ AVA J. HOWARD has been named chief of transportation with the Fifth Planning District Commission. She recently was employed as a senior transportation planner with the Kentuckian Regional Planning and Development Agency in Louisville, Ky.
REAL ESTATE
\ LINDA and KEN CUMINS, owners of Cumins & Co. Realtors, and 19 sales agents from the firm have joined Mastin, Kirkland, Bolling Inc. The firm also has changed its name to MKB Realtors.
Information on personnel promotions of interest to people in business should be sent to this column, C/O the Roanoke Times & World-News, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
by CNB