Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 9, 1994 TAG: 9401070247
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Mary Linn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
READ LUNSFORD has become an associate broker with Hall Associates Inc., a commercial and industrial real estate firm in Roanoke. The 20-year veteran of the real estate industry and owner of Lunsford Realty and Investment will specialize in commercial, industrial and investment sales and leasing, as well as continue his personal development business of real property.
He holds the certified commercial investment member designation and is immediate past president of the Virginia CCIM chapter.
In 1990 Read was named Ambassador of the Year for the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
\ ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
\ MARK E. SWECKER has joined the architectural department of Thompson & Litton Inc., an engineering, architectural and planning firm based in Wise. Swecker holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from Virginia Tech. He is project architect on several projects including a new facility for the Bank of Tazewell County in Tazewell. Also, JOSEPH A. BROWN has joined the firm's engineering department as a design engineer. Brown is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. He is working on solid waste projects for the cities of Bristol and Bedford.
\ BANKING
\ ROBERT P. BURTON has been promoted to executive vice president of Crestar Bank. Burton joined the bank in 1987 as vice president and a commercial account manager. He was promoted in 1990 to senior vice president and manager of the Roanoke middle market business unit. In 1992 he was named to his current position, manager of the western region credit administration.
\ KRISTA J. CRAWFORD has been promoted to assistant vice president-personnel at First Union National Bank of Virginia in Roanoke. She was formerly regional human resource manager at Central Fidelity Bank.
\ FINANCIAL SERVICES
\ W.L. "LEFTY" McLAWHORN has joined the Roanoke office of J.C. Bradford & Co. as an investment broker. The Roanoke native was vice president of sales and marketing at Superior Exterminating Co. Inc. before joining the brokerage firm. McLawhorn is a former director of the Virginia State Pest Control Association, a former NCAA Division I men's basketball official, a director of the Cave Spring National Little League and a member of the Roanoke Regional Homebuilders' Association.
\ FUNERAL HOMES
\ RODNEY BARROW has been named manager and an owner of Lynch Funeral Home in Rocky Mount. He succeeds Eddie Santrock, who died recently. Barrow worked at the Collins Funeral Home in Collinsville for 11 years before becoming assistant manager of the Huff-Cook Funeral Home in St. Paul, where he has worked for the last two years.
\ MANUFACTURING
\ PARKER ARTHUR has been promoted to sales manager at Roanoke Electric Steel Corp. Arthur began his career with the steel manufacturing company in 1979 as an inside salesman and in 1985 was named manager of inside sales. \
ORGANIZATIONS
\ LARRY PTASCHEK was elected president of the Better Business Bureau of Western Virginia Inc. for 1994. He succeeds Edwin Feinour. Ptaschek is president of NSW Corp. in Roanoke. Other officers are ROBERT REID, Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center, vice president; HOUSTON L. BELL JR., Roanoke Memorial Hospital, secretary; JAMES B. LEE, Brown, Edwards & Co., treasurer; G. FRANKLIN FLIPPIN, Glenn, Flippin, Feldmann & Darby, legal counsel; and MARY FRANCES STEPHANZ, chief executive officer of the bureau.
Board members are ROY BUCHER, Chas. Lunsford Sons & Assoc.; RODNEY L. EAGLE, Eagle Carpets in Harrisonburg; WILLIAM D. ELLIOT, Davis H. Elliot Co. Inc.; FRANK FARMER, Roanoke Gas Co.; CAREY HARVEYCUTTER JR., Salem Civic Center; B. BOYD JOHNSON, The Jamont Press; J. ALLEN LAYMAN, Roanoke & Botetourt Telephone Co.; JOHN R. LIGHT, Roanoke Construction Specialties Inc.; WILLIAM D. MacGILL III, New River Oils Inc., Pulaski; JAMES W. McADEN, Balzer and Associates Inc.; TED E. MOOMAW JR., World Travel Service; WILLIAM A. NASH, Scott & Stringfellow Inc.; JOHN NETTLES, A.B. Dick Products of Roanoke Inc.; ROBERT L. ROGERS, Architectural Alternatives Inc., Blacksburg; H. WATTS STEGER III, Bank of Buchanan, Buchanan; ANNE LEE STEVENS, L.S. Waldrop Realty Co.; and JAMES C. WILSON, Dragon Corp.
The Southwest Virginia Chapter of the Society of American Foresters recently installed its 1994 officers: TIM ELING of Marion, chairman; HAROLD "CHIP" MILLER of Clintwood, vice chairman; JOHN ROCKETT of Norton, secretary- treasurer; and KEVIN KYLE of Duffield, ex-officio member.
Eling is forester of the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area of the Jefferson National Forest. Miller is employed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers at John P. Flannagan Reservoir. Rockett is a member of the extension staff of the Powell River Project. Kyle, the 1993 chairman, is employed by the Penn-Virginia Corp. as woodlands forester.
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.
by CNB