Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 10, 1993 TAG: 9306100424
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-2 EDITION: METRO
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\ THE ROANOKE CHAPTER OF THE SERVICE CORPS OF RETIRED EXECUTIVES placed fourth in the nation among 388 chapters in competition for SCORE'S annual chapter of the year. Roanoke's chapter, with 24 members, was the smallest in the winning group.
SCORE, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, is made up of people retired from business who offer free, confidential consultation and suggestions to small-business owners and people thinking about starting a business.
\ WAYNE TALIAFERRO, branch manager of the Associates Financial Services office in Roanoke, has been awarded the company's President's Association Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement, with particular emphasis on growth and profit performance.
\ LEONARD HUFFMAN of Salem, a driver for Chemsolv, won the Carey Arthur Award, the top prize, at the Safety Council of Southwest Virginia's ninth annual Truck Safety Roadeo. He also placed first in the five-axle van category.
Dan Dulgher of Salem, a driver for Roanoke Restaurant Service, won the Rookie of the Year Award as the outstanding driver entering the rodeo for the first time. He also placed second in the three-axle category.
Other winners and their employers are:
Refuse truck - William O. Ziegler of Roanoke, city of Roanoke, first; Willie Foster of Roanoke, city of Roanoke, second.
Five-axle van - Stephen Hale of Roanoke, Estes, second.
Five-axle flat bed - Wayne Ramsey of Fincastle, Overnite, first; Bernard West of Roanoke, WHPT, second.
Five-axle tank - B.H. Edwards of Roanoke, Overnite, first; Cecil H. Wolfe of Roanoke, DSI Transport, second.
\ IDS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC. recently honored five personal financial planners in its Roanoke division office.
Jon M. Dabareiner, was named to the IDS President's Advisory Council, whose members rank in the top 3 percent of the company's 7,000 financial planners.
Tim Holland was named to the 1993 Silver Team, whose members rank in the top 5 percent.
Ralph Charles, earned the Jupiter Award for production during his first year with the company.
Raymond L. Natili III and Wanda Sears earned the Mercury Award for production during their first year with the company.
\ LT. STEPHEN B. TURNER of the Roanoke County Police Department has graduated from North Carolina State University's 12-week administrative officers management program.
Participants earn 15 credit hours for completing work in five courses covering legal issues, public administration, organization design, management practices and criminal justice administration.
\ LYNN BRAE ASSOCIATES of Roanoke had one of its cows included in the 1993 Pathfinder Report of the American Angus Association.
Only 1,280 of the association's 25,000 members are represented in this year's report.
The Pathfinder program identifies superior Angus cows based on recorded traits of performance that are important to economically efficient beef production.
A. DEAN WILSON, marketing manager from the Roanoke agency of Equitable Life of Iowa, has been recognized for his sales production and service to clients. He was honored for his accomplishments at the company's President's Club conference.
Wilson has been with the agency for 23 years.
\ BARRY W. BAIRD has joined Martin Brothers Contractors Inc. as vice president.
Baird, a graduate of Virginia Tech, formerly was a commissioned officer with the Army Corps of Engineers. He is past state president of the Associated General Contractors of America and is president-elect of the Roanoke Business and Technical Education Council.
\ ROGER A. ABBOTT of 4888 Vela Circle has won a Nationwide Insurance Silver Eagle award for outstanding claims service during the past year.
Abbott joined Nationwide in 1984 as a material damage adjuster and was a general casualty adjuster before becoming a special claims representative in 1992.
\ WILLIAM H. SPENCER III, general agent in Roanoke for The Franklin Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, Ill., has earned one of the company's top sales honors.
Spencer has been named an honorable mention qualifier for the company's Centurion Club, a national sales honor organization. His qualification was based on outstanding sales totals during March.
\ DARELL SEMONES, an associate with the Jerome MacDonald Agency of the Aid Association for Lutherans in Chantilly, qualified to attend a national sales and educational conference on the basis of his sales and service during 1992.
Since joining the staff in 1980, Semones, of 417 Maplewood Drive, Vinton, has qualified for a national conference seven times.
\ R. STEVEN WIRT, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Wirt of Roanoke, has been given a certificate of merit and cash award for his leadership in coordinating work on the Miller Creek Demonstration Forest in Montana.
The 5,000-acre forest was established in 1966 as a study site. Wirt has served as a coordinator since the mid-1980s. He previously was awarded the Danny on Conservation award for his work in resource conservation in the Flathead National Forest.
He has been employed with the Forest Service for 20 years, working in the Tally Lake District office in Whitefish, Mont.
\ JOHNNIE BRAKE of Brake Agency in Roanoke, qualified on the basis of production to attend Kansas City Life Insurance Co.'s recent President's Club Seminar.
Brake was among 157 agents who qualified from among more than 2,000 nationwide.
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