Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 25, 1994 TAG: 9411050015
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
REBECCA J. JENKINS has joined Piedmont BankGroup as senior vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Jenkins comes to Piedmont BankGroup from Banc One Ohio Corp. in Youngstown, Ohio, where she held a similar position. In her new positions, she will coordinate internal legal matters, manage litigation, oversee the affiliate banks' regulatory compliance programs, and have responsibility for corporate human resources.
BANKING
LOUISE HICKS, vice president and secretary of Bedford Federal Savings Bank and its parent company, Bedford Bancshares Inc., will retire Friday after 52 years with the bank.
FLORA "FLO" PHILLIPS, executive vice president and consumer banking executive at First Union National Banks of Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., has won the bank's Tenth Legion Award for leadership and excellence.
Phillips, the top-ranking female executive in First Union's Roanoke-based Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., region, is the first woman and fifth recipient of the award.
She joined First Union as a teller in Raleigh, N.C., in 1970 and has been in her current position in Roanoke since January 1993.
Also at First Union, DONNA L. BOWMAN has been promoted to assistant vice president. She was formerly a consumer lending officer and finance collections manager. She joined the bank, then First National Exchange Bank, in 1979.
COLLEGES
STEWART W. HUSTED has been appointed dean of the Lynchburg College School of Business. He will continue to hold the Donaldson Brown Distinguished Professorship in Marketing. Husted recently received the 1994 James Houston Faculty Scholar Award at the college.
COMMUNICATIONS
SAMUEL R. HAMPTON has been hired as director of marketing at Botetourt Communications Co., where he will be responsible for all marketing functions.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
DOUGLAS W. MURRAY JR. has joined the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce's Business Development Center in the newly created position of business development analyst. He was most recently a credit analyst with First Union National Bank of Virginia. Also joining the staff is JENNY McBRIDE, who is the center's new marketing and program coordinator. These changes reflect a decision by the center to become more aggressively involved in assisting area businesses in obtaining expansion capital.
ENGINEERS
ERIC W. DAY has joined Richard L. Williams Consulting Engineers Inc. in Roanoke in the practice of structural and civil engineering. The firm name will become Day-Williams Consulting Engineers. Day was formerly associated with the firm of Sherertz, Franklin, Crawford & Shaffner.
FOUNDATIONS
LINDA HYATT has been named executive director of the Landmark Foundation in Norfolk, effective in December. Hyatt is executive director, office of the president of the University of Pennsylvania and formerly was a reporter for the Roanoke Times & World-News. In her new position she will manage the charitable foundation, which reported assets of $23.3 million at the end of 1993. It is owned by Landmark Communications Inc., parent company of the Roanoke Times & World-News, and provides funding for education, social services, and the arts, as well as support for media, communication and the environment.
LAW
WILLIAM J. CREECH JR. has become Of Counsel to the law firm of Jolly, Place, Fralin & Prillaman P.C. in Roanoke, where he will continue his practice in commercial litigation and banking law. He was formerly a partner with Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore. Of Counsel generally refers to a member of a law firm or an outside attorney who does occasional or special legal work for the firm.
KAREN BARNES has been named director of marketing at Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore. She will handle media and public relations, organize seminars and special events, produce firm publications and develop marketing strategies. A former journalist, she has worked for the Canandaigua (N.Y.) Daily Messenger, the Roanoke Times & World-News, the Blue Ridge Regional Business Journal, and the Bedford Bulletin.
Eight lawyers for Roanoke and Salem were recently elected officers of Virginia State Bar sections during 1994-95:
MICHAEL JAMES QUINAN, Woods Rogers & Hazlegrove, was elected secretary of the administrative law section; ROGER ANDRE BOUCHER, attorney for G.E. Industrial Systems and Services in Salem, vice chair of the corporate counsel section; ROBERT F. RIDER, Rider, Thomas, Cleaveland, Ferris & Eakin, chair of the criminal law section; T. DANIEL FRITH III, Mundy, Rogers & Frith, vice chair of the litigation section; JAMES LEE EDWARD OSBORNE, Carter, Brown & Osborne, vice chair of the trusts and estates section; E. GRIFFITH DODSON JR., Dodson, Pence, Viar, Woodrum & Mackey, 1st vice chair for the senior lawyers section; NEIL VINCENT BIRKHOFF, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, secretary of the taxation section; and ROBERT STEWART BALLOU, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, president-elect of the young lawyers conference.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Virginia Environmental Council has elected several area people as board members for 1994-95: DONALD MEADOWS, Strahle Construction Co., Vinton; EVELYN WAGONER, Hico Inc., Christiansburg; and P. WESLEY HAMBRICK JR., Environmental Specialties Inc., Roanoke. The council is a trade organization whose function is to develop, collect and disseminate information about environmental hazards and the environmental industry in Virginia.
RETAIL
ARCHIE FRALIN, zone manager for The Kroger Co. in Raleigh, N.C., has been promoted to a new position in Kroger's Mid-Atlantic Marketing Area regional office in Roanoke. He will have responsibilities for public relations, consumer affairs and sales promotion activities in six states. Fralin has held positions as a clerk, store manager, operations specialist and zone manager in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
Also at Kroger, DIANE DISHER has been promoted to zone manager. She will be responsible for nine stores in the Roanoke Valley, Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Radford and Rocky Mount. She joined Kroger in 1977 and has held numerous positions, including store manager and, most recently, assistant produce merchandiser.
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. 24010.
by CNB