Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, December 12, 1993 TAG: 9312100129
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: compiled by Mary Linn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
JOHN WILLIAMSON, vice president of rates and finance for Roanoke Gas Co., has been elected president for 1993-'94 of the Roanoke Valley Economic Development Partnership. The organization is the region's primary economic development marketing organization. It represents Botetourt, Craig, Franklin and Roanoke counties, Roanoke, Salem, and Vinton.
Other new officers are: CHARLES DOWNS, president of Virginia Western
Community College, vice president; GERALD BURGESS, administrator of Botetourt County, secretary; and RANDOLPH SMITH, Salem city manager, treasurer. BETH DOUGHTY is the partnership's executive director.
\ BANKING
SAMUEL T. ASHWORTH has been named an area executive at First Citizens Bank in Brunswick and Columbus counties in North Carolina, where he will be responsible for bank operations in six locations. The Danville native has been in banking for 21 years. He moved to Whiteville, N.C., from Wytheville, where he was employed with First Union National Bank of Virginia.
\ COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
NANCY GODSON has been appointed director of public relations at Roanoke College. Godson graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor of arts degree in advertising and public relations. She formerly was a creative consultant and writer for Sipos Marketing Services in Salem, a marketing coordinator at Lewis-Gale Hospital, and manager of the community relations and publications department for Grossmont Hospital in LaMesa, Calif.
\ HUGH S. FULLERTON, a faculty member on leave from Emory & Henry College, has been appointed interim dean of academic affairs at the American University in Bulgaria. He will hold that position until July 1, when a permanent dean is to be appointed. Fullerton has been a member of the faculty at the university since August. He is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication. The American University in Bulgaria is the first American-style liberal arts institution in formerly Communist areas of Europe. The student body has students from 11 nations, predominately in southeastern Europe. \
FINANCIAL
MARILYN MULLEN-HARRIMAN has joined the N&W Federal Credit Union's marketing and public relations staff. As a business development specialist, she will be the primary contact for the credit union's 220 partner companies. She has more than 13 years' experience in credit unions and banking.
\ PHILLIP HAMMOND of Roanoke recently became a registered representative for Lutheran Brotherhood Securities Corp., a subsidiary of Lutheran Brotherhood, which is a fraternal benefit society. Also a Lutheran Brotherhood district representative, Hammond is associated with the Lawrence Howard Agency in Charlottesville.
\ FURNITURE
FRED HILL has been promoted to area manager for Grand Piano & Furniture stores in Lynchburg. Hill began his career with the Roanoke-based retailer in 1974 when he joined the company's downtown Roanoke store. In 1978 he was named manager of the Grand store in Radford and most recently was area manager of the chain's Staunton stores.
\ LAW
DAVID E. PERRY has been elected a member of Glenn, Flippin, Feldmann & Darby in Roanoke. The Martinsville native joined the law firm in 1989. Before that, Perry practiced law in Greensboro, N.C. He is a member of the Virginia, North Carolina and District of Columbia bars.
\ SARAH POWELL has been named an associate with the firm. Powell is a 1993 graduate of Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she was a staff writer for the Law Review and law clerk to the Judge Clifford Weckstein of the Roanoke Circuit Court.
\ TRANSPORTATION
The Virginia Department of Transportation has named ALLEN K. WILLIAMS to direct its Blue Ridge Center in Salem. It is one of the department's five newly established centers where all elements of highway design will be completed using a team concept under the leadership of a regional administrator. Williams is now maintenance engineer in the agency's Salem district .
\ Information on personnel changes 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.
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