Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 1, 1995 TAG: 9501040025
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
STEWART MARLEY has been appointed senior commercial-portfolio manager for First Union National Bank of Virginia's Western Virginia and Shenandoah Valley regions. He will be responsible for asset quality and risk management. Marley replaced Byron Yost, who retired Dec. 1. Marley is a Roanoke-based senior vice president and manager of credit-risk review for First Union's banks in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.
ADVERTISING
JEFFERY JOHNSON has been named art director of System4 Advertising Agency Inc. in Roanoke. He has been with the firm for five years.
BANKING
At Piedmont BankGroup Inc. in Martinsville, RODNEY W. OVERBY recently was named director of information services, DANIEL A. TURNER was named director of support services and FRED JACKSON III was named director of control service. The appointment of the new directors is part of the restructuring of the parent company to provide support services to the six affiliate banks of Piedmont BankGroup.
RICHARD G. TILGHMAN, chairman and chief executive officer of Crestar Financial Corp. in Richmond, has been reappointed as the Fifth Federal Reserve District's representative on the Federal Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve System. The Fifth Federal Reserve District encompasses the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and most of West Virginia.
COMMUNICATIONS
ROBERT B. HARTNETT has been named vice president of sales and service for MCI Telecommunications Corp.'s business markets in the Central Atlantic Region. In his new position, Hartnett oversees sales and service activities to businesses in Indiana; Ohio; Virginia; Kentucky; Delaware; Maryland; Washington, D.C.; West Virginia; and western Pennsylvania.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
BRIAN T. DUNCAN, assistant director of economic development for Roanoke County, was elected Virginia's alternate director for the Southern Industrial Development Council. Duncan will be on the council's board of directors for a one-year term.
ENGINEERS
ELLEN D. MAIZE has been elected to the Southwest Virginia Solid Waste Management Association's board of directors for a three-year term. Maize is sales coordinator at Thompson + Litton, an engineering, architectural and planning firm based in Wise.
MANUFACTURING
JOHNE ALBANESE has been promoted to the newly created position of director of marketing development at Bassett Furniture Industries. Albanese, formerly director of advertising, will be responsible for the development and implementation of various marketing programs at Bassett. He joined Bassett's casegood division in 1982 as a sales service manager.
MEDICINE
DR. JUNIUS E. CROWGEY has retired from Vista Eye Center Inc. (formerly Gill Memorial Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic) in Roanoke. Vista Eye Center will continue to offer vision-care services to his former patients.
DR. HETZAL HARTLEY, medical director of Carilion Occupational Health Services in Roanoke, has been certified by the Medical Review Office Certification Council. The council identifies physicians with medical expertise and practical skills necessary to evaluate drug and alcohol tests in the workplace.
The American College of Surgeons recently initiated a group of surgeons into fellowship during the College's 1994 Clinical Congress. From Roanoke were DRS. JOSEPH WILMER BAKER, JOHN ANDREW FELDENZER and BRIAN McCULLOUGH STRAIN, and from Richlands, ZAVEN JABOURIAN.
ORGANIZATIONS
NORMA V. LUGAR, news bureau director of National Business College, has assumed duties as Western District director of the Virginia Press Women for a two-year term.
The Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors has named both TIM GARRISON, senior vice president of Boone & Co. in Roanoke, and ANNE LEE STEVENS, executive vice president of Waldrop Realty in Salem, "Realtor of the Year." This is the first time two individuals have shared the association's highest honor.
Also, DON CONSTABLE, associated broker of Century 21 Anchor in Moneta, has been elected president of the association for 1995; WALTER WHITE, broker at Owens & Co.'s North Roanoke office, has been elected president-elect; and DOUGLAS SAWYER, broker of Sawyer Properties, has been elected vice president.
Three new directors were named to the board: ELAINE BELL, relocation director of MKB Realtors; ANN BOWEN, broker of Waterfront Properties in Moneta; and VICTOR COFFEY, broker and sales manager of Boone & Co.'s Hollins office.
The Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors is comprised of approximately 1,075 Realtor and affiliate members in the Roanoke metropolitan area and is part of the National Association of Realtors.
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