Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 6, 1994 TAG: 9402040015
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by Mary Linn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
LOUIS D. SHOWALTER has joined Old Virginia Brick Co., where he will be responsible for customer service. Showalter formerly was general manager and Showalter part-owner of Nelson-Roanoke Corp., a Roanoke hardware wholesaler recently sold to Frederick Trading Co. of Frederick, Md.
Showalter has been an officer and board member of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Management Association of Western Virginia, and the Better Business Bureau. While at Nelson-Roanoke, he was president of the Southern Wholesale Hardware Association and was on the board of the National Hardware Association.
BANKING
JOSEPH F. MONAHAN, now of Norfolk, who worked in Crestar Bank's Roanoke regional headquarters from 1987 to February 1993, has been promoted to executive vice president. He is manager of credit administration for Crestar's Eastern Region and was previously a senior vice president.
Monahan joined the bank in 1972.
INSURANCE
EDDIE WADE has been named assistant district manager for the Roanoke district of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
\ FRANCES GARRETT of Chas. Lunsford Sons & Associates, a division of Rollins Hudig Hall of Virginia Inc., has won the 1993 Regional Travelers Insurance Personal Lines High Achiever Award. She was selected from 250 agents and eight finalists from Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Garrett has been in the insurance business since 1970 and with Chas. Lunsford Sons since 1982. She is supervisor of the personal lines insurance department.
LAW
MICHAEL J. QUINAN has become a member of Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, where he practices primarily in the areas of public utility regulation and commercial litigation. Before joining the Roanoke law firm as an associate in 1988, he worked as an associate for the law firm of Stewart, Estes & Donnell in Nashville, Tenn. He is a member of the Roanoke Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys and the Defense Research Institute.
Also, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove has added four associates: CLARK H. WORTHY, STACY M. COLVIN, SARA B. WINN and THOMAS M. WINN III.
The law firm of Lutins & Shapiro has added three associates to its staff. They are MARGARET K. GARBER, who practices primarily corporate and commercial litigation; J. EMMETTE PILGREEN IV, domestic relations; and MICHAEL Y. FEINMEL, criminal law and tort litigation.
MANUFACTURING
Westvaco Corp. has made organizational changes at its bleached board division operations in Covington. JEFF JENSEN will become the production manager, with initial responsibility for the recovery, power and paper mill departments. DAVE NEWKIRK will be responsible for the pulp mill, quality control and environmental departments. The paper mill department will be organized into two operating units, with AL MILDENBERGER and LON ROLLINSON assigned as superintendents. In addition to these changes, KEN BERTRAM has been named supervisor of the new No. 2 paper machine.
NONPROFITS
The board of directors of Family Service of Roanoke Valley has elected PHILLIP F. SPARKS as president for 1994. Sparks is economic development administrator for Roanoke. Other new officers are SARA D. AYERS, community volunteer, first vice president; BEVERLY B. LAMBERT, MKB Realtors, second vice president; LUCAS A. SNIPES, Carilion Health System, treasurer; and SAM GILES, WROV Radio, secretary.
New board members are CHERYL HILTON, Hollins College; KIRK A. LUDWIG, Martin, Hopkins & Lemon; DANIEL "BUD" OAKEY, Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce; and KAREN THOMAS, Allstate.
At the Council of Community Services in Roanoke, CAROL S. WEBB has been named a grant administrator and AIDS service organization liaison. Also, at the council's Centers for Families that Work, TERI BLANKINSHIP has been appointed project director, and LEE GEORGE has been appointed child-care counselor.
TRANSPORTATION
DR. C. RAY PRIBLE has been named medical director of Norfolk Southern Corp. He will succeed DR. J.P. SALB, who recently retired. Prible was most recently managing director of corporate health services for New England Telephone. He is a diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, and a member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
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