ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 6, 1994                   TAG: 9401060285
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

VICTOR W. GRAVELY of Roanoke has been promoted to adviser in the marketing and customer services department of Appalachian Power Co.

He achieved more than 100 percent of his 1993 marketing sales goal.

Gravely, a 1986 graduate of Virginia Tech and 1993 graduate of the United Way's Minority Leadership Enhancement program, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman "Knott" Gravely of Roanoke.

\ THE ROANOKE VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF LIFE UNDERWRITERS recently honored outstanding life- and health-insurance agents.

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.

\ KENNETH KLINGER, president of Klinger Consulting Group, recently received the Julian Wise award from the Safety Council of Southwest Virginia. The award is given to a person who has contributed to community safety through education and training programs.

\ 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.



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