Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, July 24, 1994 TAG: 9407300011
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
WILLIAM A. SOWERS, formerly of Sowers & Associates, Consulting Engineers of Roanoke, has been named chairman of the board of DJG Sowers Mann and DJG Inc. Sowers & Associates has merged with The DeYoung-Johnson Group Inc. firm of Williamsburg.
The merged Roanoke office will continue business under the name DJG Sowers Mann and the Williamsburg office becomes DJG Inc. Other officers are DANIEL J. DeYOUNG, president; WILLIAM D. JOHNSON JR., vice president; WILLIAM C. BLACK, vice president; JOHN M. MANN, vice president; and JEFFREY L. BARRA, vice president. Sowers and Mann will remain in the Roanoke office.
The firm provides engineering, architecture, planning and surveying services for commercial, industrial and institutional clients and for governmental agencies.
BANKING
JOHN W. McDANIEL of Chevy Chase Bank has been promoted to assistant vice president and regional manager of its consumer loan department located in Roanoke. D. MICHAEL BARBER has joined the Maryland-based bank as senior credit officer. He is responsible for auto and marine financing for Southwest Virginia and the cities of Martinsville and Danville.
FOOD SERVICE
JOHN PURVIS has become president of Biggers Bros. in Charlotte, N.C. He was formerly president of Kings Foodservice in Knoxville, Tenn. Prior to being at Kings, Purvis was vice president of sales at Roanoke Restaurant Service in Salem. He succeeds WILLIAM SMITH as Biggers Bros. president. Smith has joined US Foodservice as regional vice president at large. He was previously president of Kings Foodservice and executive vice president of Roanoke Restaurant Service.
HEALTH CARE
ANNE BROOKE CARPENTER has been named executive director of ABC Adoption Services Inc. in Roanoke. The agency provides crisis pregnancy counseling, financial assistance and adoption counseling and placement services. Carpenter was executive director of Catholic Charities of Southwestern Virginia for 13 years.
THOMAS B. JONES has been named operations manager of Heritage National Healthplan Inc.'s Roanoke office. Heritage National Healthplan is a managed health care operation which is part of John Deere Health Care Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Co. of Moline, Ill.
ORGANIZATIONS
B. BOYD JOHNSON, president of Jamont Press in Roanoke, has been elected second vice chairman of the board of the Printing Industries of Virginia, an affiliate of the Printing Industries of America.
The Roanoke Valley Association of Life Underwriters has elected new officers: ROBERT "TEX" YOUNG, National Life of Vermont, president; FRANCES J. FOLEY, Money Financial Services, president-elect; JOSEPH I. GILKISON, Travelers Life Insurance Co., first vice president; A. DEAN WILSON, Equitable Life of Iowa, second vice president; DON A. ASSAID, Equitable Life of New York, secretary/treasurer; and PATRICIA S. HALL, Allstate, national committee person.
CONVENTIONS AND TOURISM
NIKKI MORGAN has joined the Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau as convention sales manager. She will be responsible for corporate, medical and government market segments and family and military reunions. She was an account executive for Liggett Myers Tobacco Co. before joining the bureau.
Also named convention sales manager is RON MARSH, who will cover religious, fraternal and African-American market segments. Marsh is an associate minister at High Street Baptist Church and previously managed his own company.
DEBORAH WRIGHT has been appointed director of marketing at the bureau. She also will oversee the sales department. Wright was formerly employed by Kollmorgen Industrial Drives of Radford.
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, Va. 24010.
by CNB