Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 30, 1994 TAG: 9406300211
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-7 EDITION: METRO
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Wilson will be recognized during the company's President's Club Conference.
\ GEORGE R. DISHNER of Roanoke has won a Nationwide Insurance Silver Eagle Award and the company's work quality award for outstanding claims service during the past year.
Dishner joined Nationwide in 1986 and works as a special investigator.
\ H. WATTS STEGER III, president of the Bank of Buchanan, has been elected first vice president of the Virginia Association of Community Banks.
Steger joined the Bank of Buchanan in 1971. He is past chairman of the board of the Virginia Bankers' Bank, president of the Buchanan Rotary Club and a member of Botetourt County Social Services Board.
\ ROSS MARTIN, a laboratory technician at Sybron Chemicals Inc., has been promoted to second shift lab supervisor for the Production Laboratory.
He will perform and assist in supervising a variety of microbiologically related Quality Assurance functions.
\ J.C. TAYLOR a sales associate with Century 21 Young Realty Co., recently received the Sales Achievement Gold Award for first quarter sales excellence by the company's Mid-Atlantic States Blue Ridge District.
This is the highest quarterly award in the district and represents only the top 2 percent of sales associates in the district and top 1 percent in the Greater Virginia Region.
\ ROBERT A. FULGARO, district manager in Roanoke for The Franklin Life Insurance Co., has qualified for the company's Circle of Champions Club.
The club is a national honor organization of the company's most successful managers. Fulgaro's qualification was based upon outstanding recruiting activity during the month of March.
\ DAVID H. JENNINGS has been named the Public Works Employee of the Year for 1993-94.
Jennings was a crew leader responsible for cleaning the Central Business District in downtown Roanoke. He was recognized with a resolution and a $100 cash award.
Jennings began his career for the city of Roanoke in 1978 as a laborer cutting grass and weeds, and has not taken a sick day since 1989, according to Mayor Bowers at the City Council meeting.
\ DONNA DILLEY of Salem has been appointed director of the Roanoke County chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions program of Charlotte, N.C.
The Junior Cotillion program features etiquette and social dance training for middle and Junior High students.
Dilley, a graduate of Lynchburg College, is a member of the Junior League of Roanoke Valley, and an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society.
\ PATRICIA A. DAGENAIS of Roanoke and a Modern Woodmen of America district representative, has completed a five-day educational program at the fraternal life insurance society's home office in Rock Island, Ill.
The program reinforced the concepts of sound financial planning for families through the company's life insurance plans, annuities and IRAs. Dagenais was one of 31 life insurance representatives who attended the program.
\ O. WADE LANIER of Roanoke recently participated in The Chubb Life Companies' annual White Mountain Club conference in Maui, Hawaii.
The meeting honored the top 20 percent of the company's independent agents from thoughout the United States.
\ WILLIAM H. SPENCER III, general agent in Roanoke for The Franklin Life Insurance Co., has qualified for the company's Circle of Champions Club.
The club is a national honor organization of the company's most successful managers. Spencer's qualification was based upon outstanding recruiting activity during the month of March.
\ VERLA L. WHITLOCK of Roanoke has retired after 34 years of employment as secretary-treasurer with Motley & Associates, formerly Smithey & Boynton Architects and Associates.
The mayor's office for the city of Roanoke honored Whitlock by proclaiming "Vera L. Whitlock Day" on May 31.
\ JOHN C. BRAKE has qualified for Kansas City Life Insurance Company's 1994 Top Hatters Conference.
Brake, a general agent for the company, was one of 31 qualifiers from among more than 1,600 agents.
Those who qualify as Top Hatters are recognized as Kansas City Life's top professional life underwriters, and are required to achieve high production and retention standards within a 24-month qualification period.
\ JERRY O. MOFIELD, a personal financial planner with the Roanoke office of IDS Financial Services Inc., has been named to the IDS Silver Team.
The Silver Team is composed of select members of IDS's field organization because of their experience as successful planners. Silver Team planners rank in the top 14 percent of the company's 7,665 personal financial planners.
\ ANDREA MULLINS, an agent with the Principal Financial Group received the Roanoke's Office Marketer of the Year Award and was named "Rookie of the Year" for the North Carolina/Southwest Virginia Agency in January.
The Rookie award is given to agents with less than two years experience who meet certain qualifications and production goals.
Mulliins also qualified for the Premier Club in San Fransisco, Calif., where she received honors as fifth place "Rookie of the Year" company wide.
Mullins specializes in employee benefit planning.
\ GWYN & HARMON, REALTORS, BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS was recognized as the first place Better Homes and Gardens office in Division Six for Residential Volume Real Estate Sales for 1993 and second for number of units sold.
\ CECELIA GALMISH and MILDY TILLER, both of Roanoke, recently received the Certified Professional Service Representative designation from the Professional Insurance Agents Association of Virginia and the District fo Columbia.
Galmish is an employee of Richardson, Johnston & Wynn; and Tiller is an employee of Erie Insurance Group.
by CNB