Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 4, 1994 TAG: 9410190013
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
WILLIAM R. SMALL, vice president and former mill manager of Westvaco Corp.'s plant in Covington, has been promoted to assistant bleached board division manager. Small has been with Westvaco for 37 years. He became mill manager in 1987 and a vice president of the company in 1990.
Succeeding Small as mill manager is DAVID M. NEWKIRK, formerly the Covington mill's manager of engineering, pulp mill, quality control and environmental services. He has been with the company for nearly 30 years in numerous positions, including paper mill superintendent.
Both men will continue working in Covington.
FINANCE
MARK K. HUDZIK has been appointed vice president and branch manager of N&W Federal Credit Union's Rocky Mount Plaza office. He comes to the credit union from Commercial Credit with more than four years of consumer lending and management experience. Also at the credit union, GREGG A. BASHAM and MARCUS L. PAXTON have been selected assistant vice presidents and loan officers in the lending department, and PAUL A. ECONOMY, SARA K. WILLARD and CATHY P. JOHNSON have been named assistant vice presidents, branch administration.
HOSPITALITY
DANA R. BOTH has joined the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center as sales manager. She comes to Roanoke from Ray Bloch Productions in Washington, D.C., where she was a consultant. Before that, she was a special assistant to the chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Energy. The hotel and conference center is owned by Hotel Roanoke LLC, a partnership between Renew Roanoke Inc. and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation Inc., and is managed by Phoenix-based Doubletree Hotels Corp.
MANUFACTURERS
WILLIAM R. JOHNSON JR., vice president of manufacturing of Singer Furniture Co. in Roanoke and Lenoir, N.C., has been named chairman of the American Furniture Manufacturers Association, and A.J. OTTINGER JR., vice president of manufacturing of The Lane Co. Inc. in Altavista, has been named first vice president of the association. Elected to the board of directors is DOUGLAS C. WILLIAMS, senior vice president of manufacturing of Hooker Furniture Corp. in Martinsville.
BRUCE CODY, president and owner of Architectural Wood of Roanoke, has been named to the board of the Architectural Woodwork Institute, a national trade association whose members are manufacturers of custom woodworking products and firms engaged in the architectural woodwork business. Cody is the former president of the institute's Virginia chapter.
MEDICINE
DR. BARTON A. THOMAS has joined Blue Ridge Plastic Surgery in Roanoke. He has completed a six-year general surgery residency at the Pittsfield campus of the University of Massachusetts and is board certified in general surgery. He has also worked at the Shriner's Burn Institute in Cincinnati, where he gained experience in burn reconstruction. He will be performing all types of microsurgical procedures and reconstructive, hand and aesthetic surgery.
TOURISM
DIANE LEE has been selected as tourism coordinator for Craig County. Lee was most recently sales and marketing manager for a worldwide travel publication based in Northern Virginia. Before that, she was employed as an account representative and tour coordinator in Washington, D.C. The position in Craig County was made possible with funding provided by the U.S. Forest Service through a rural development grant.
TRANSPORTATION
JAMES A. ALLMAN JR. has been promoted to assistant vice president for planning and budgets of the operations department at Norfolk Southern's corporate headquarters in Norfolk. The Roanoke native joined Norfolk and Western Railway in 1965 and worked in transportation planning for N&W and then NS in Roanoke until 1987. He was based in Atlanta from 1987 until 1993, when he was transferred to the strategic planning department in Norfolk.
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, Va. 24101.
by CNB