Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, December 30, 1993 TAG: 9312300382
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-9 EDITION: METRO
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\ ROANOKE VALLEY RESOURCE AUTHORITY recently received $10,000 from the Junior League of the Roanoke Valley to help fund the 1994 Household Hazardous Waste Day.
The May 7, 1994, event will provide an opportunity for residents to dispose of hazardous household wastes in an ecologically safe manner.
For more information, contact Carolyn Wagner at 772-2130.
\ CATHERINE LIGHT JONES and WARREN M. HATCH , both employees of John Norman Inc., recently received service awards from the store.
Jones of the Towers store received the Donna Mundy customer service award for extraordinary service to customers during 1993.
Hatch of the Tanglewood Mall store received the John D. Norman salesmanship professional award, which is given to the person who most exemplifies the degree of salesmanship for which the late John Norman strived.
\ PAM BERG HORNER, Accredited, Public Relations Society of America, and founder of the Roanoke-based Blue Ridge Chapter of the society, received a 1993 Presidential Citation at the group's national convention held recently in Orlando, Fla.
The award is presented to society members exhibiting distinguished service and outstanding performance in a leadership position.
Berg Horner was also elected secretary of the Mid-Atlantic District of the society at the convention.
\ INPRINT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION and PROGRESS PRESS have received awards in the 1993 Graphics Communication Competition sponsored by the Printing Industries of Virginia.
A 16-page full-color catalog and a four-panel full-color brochure produced for Roanoke Restaurant Service won Award of Excellence status, and the 24-page "Visitor's Guide to Downtown Roanoke" produced for Downtown Roanoke Inc. won first place in the "booklet, six by nine inch or smaller, web process" category.
The projects were designed by Inprint and printed by Progress Press.
Inprint also won second place in the "Individual Marketing Piece" category at the International Foodservice Distributors Association Competition for its full-color brochure promoting Roanoke Restaurant Service's beverage program.
\ LUCIAN A. DURHAM JR. and JOHN C. LANFORD, both of Roanoke, are among 16 "Eminent Engineers" graduates recently initiated into the Virginia Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi at VMI, a national engineering honor society.
Selection to the society is based on lifetime accomplishments in the field of engineering.
Durham, a 1942 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, retired as chief engineer for the Norfolk and Western Railway Co. in 1980.
Lanford, a 1952 VMI graduate, is president of Adams Construction Co. in Roanoke.
\ THE ROANOKE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF LIFE UNDERWRITERS honored outstanding life- and health-insurance agents at a recent ceremony.
Those receiving the National Quality Award - based on policy sales over a 13-month period of which 90 percent are still in force - included:
Chartered life underwriter/certified employee benefit specialist - Robert C. Bye.
Chartered life underwriter/chartered financial consultant - F. Courtney Hoge, James A. Ford, James H. Watson.
Chartered life underwriter - William M. Claytor, George N. Cooper Sr., Michael Thomas Francisco, Linnie Robert Hall, Patrick L. McDonald, Stephen A. Musselwhite, Joseph H. Surkamer Jr., Danny Wayne Wilmer.
Financial insurance counselor/life underwriter training council fellow - Robert A. Jamie, Darell L. Semones.
Life underwriter training council fellow - James W. Bailey, Randolph C. Bell, Garland E. Calhoun, Thomas W. Hahn Sr., Joseph Leonard Hale, Gregory S. Hicks, Carl B. Matney Jr., Rolland K. Morgan, Anthony J. Mullins, Ira B. Overstreet, Jack Sale, Millard M. Trussell Jr., Robert Alton White.
Life underwriter training council fellow/chartered life underwriter - Michael R. Thomas.
Other agents - Wayne F. Barlow, Bev S. Cundiff, Thomas E. Davis, Dennie P. Denison, N. Lee Dooley, Bruce Daniel Elliott, David Dean Graybeal, Jeffrey T. Hall, Ronald H. Leiser, Hong Ki Min, Henry B. Monsour, Ellis J. Moses Jr., D. Bruce Porter, Billy E. Sample Jr., William H. Spencer III, Darlene T. Taylor, Toni Kerfoot Walker, A. Dean Wilson.
Those receiving the National Sales Achievement Award - based on the ability of insurance agents to explain and sell policies available to individuals - included:
Chartered life underwriter/chartered property and casualty underwriter/chartered financial consultant/associate in risk management - Joseph H. Gwinn.
Chartered life underwriter/chartered financial consultant - H. Leon Louthern Jr.
Chartered life underwriter - Francis J. Foley, Michael Thomas Francisco, Stephen A. Musselwhite, Danny Wayne Wilmer.
Financial insurance counselor - Marshall L. Clark.
Life underwriter training council fellow - Rolland K. Morgan, Anthony J. Mullins, Robert J. Sculla.
Registered health underwriter - William K. Munzing.
Other agents - James W. Burgess, Christopher R. Caveness, Bev S. Cundiff, Dennie P. Denison III, Shirley H. Feazell, Allen L. Felts Jr., Randall Scott Fisher, Paul J. Houston Jr., Henry B. Monsour, D. Bruce Porter, Billy E. Sample Jr., Ellsworth G. Snyder, Darlene T. Taylor, Janet J. Whitfield, H. Holt Woodbury Jr.
Those receiving designations as life underwriter training council fellow were: Larry A. Anders, Kelly H. Austin, Margo S. Brake, Patricia H. Burley, Franklin D. Butler, Truman B. Combiths, Randolph F. Dolan, Joseph I. Gilkison, Thomas E. Hale, Joyce B. McElwaine, Anthony J. Mullins, John E. Osborne, Frederick W. Price, Roger L. Rakes.
\ THE SHERATON INN ROANOKE AIRPORT has received Chairman's Club Status by ITT Sheraton.
The hotel, owned by Roanoke-based Krisch Hotels Inc., achieved a guest satisfaction index placing it in the top 10 percent most improved of all properties with significant increases over second quarter results.
The index is based on the results of guest questionnaires evaluating cleanliness, maintenance, comfort, safety, food and employee attitudes.
by CNB