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

DATE: THURSDAY, May 12, 1994                   TAG: 9405120069
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

SUSAN R. BOOTHE, daughter of Nancy Speedy of Roanoke, has been named administrator of indirect distribution for GTE Mobilnet. The company operates as Cellular One in 12 markets in the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia. Boothe, formerly of Roanoke, joined Contel Cellular in 1988 and received Employee Quality Awards in 1992 and 1993.

\ C.C. FU of Roanoke has received Ingersoll-Rand Company's 1993 Patent Excellence Award for his invention of a new pneumatic-percussion rock drill. Fu, a senior engineering consultant for the company's rock drill division, is based at its Roanoke plant. The new product, Ingersoll-Rand's Quantum Leap series of down hole drills, was introduced in 1992.

Fu holds master of science and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota. He joined Ingersoll-Rand in 1963 and was a senior development engineer from 1986 to 1994.

Fu is one of the first inductees into the company's Technical Career Ladder, a program that allows engineers to gain professional advancement in technical fields as a counterpart to managerial advancement.

\ DEBORAH DUMMITT, formerly of Roanoke, has been promoted to branch officer for Commerce Bank in Newport News. Dummitt, a graduate of Northside High School and Radford University, joined the bank in 1988.

\ BRENDA HAMLIN of Salem recently was certified as a certified medical assistant. Hamlin, who graduated from Dominion Business School, works for National Optical in Roanoke.

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