Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 15, 1995 TAG: 9501160026
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
WINSTON DuBOIS has been appointed general manager of a new global industrial systems sales department at General Electric Co.'s Motors & Industrial Systems plant in Salem.
He will lead a worldwide network of GE professionals in the sale of industrial motors, drive systems and associated services. He will maintain his office in Salem.
DuBois joined GE in 1969 and has been manager of metals and project management at the plant since 1990.
BANKING
MARK E. WRIGHT has been promoted to vice president, commercial account manager at Crestar Bank in Roanoke. Wright joined the bank in 1986 as a collector and was named credit analyst in 1992. He was promoted to assistant vice president and commercial account manager in 1994.
LINDA R. McMILLAN has been named manager of the Bank of Buchanan's new branch in Troutville. The branch, which is housed temporarily at 451 Lee Highway South, will move in March to its permanent quarters at 60 Lee Highway North.
JOHN G. BERNARD, founder and past president of Roanoke Wood Preservers, has retired from the senior advisory board of First Virginia Bank-Franklin County. He was elected to the board of directors of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Boones Mill in 1969, and on its merger with First Virginia Bank-Franklin County, was elected a director in 1982.
LINDA W. WADE has been named vice president and head of the real estate department of First Union National Bank's capital management group. From Roanoke, she will be responsible for offices in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Tennessee. Wade joined First Union's predecessor, Dominion Trust Co., in 1991. Before that, she worked in the trust real estate department at Crestar Bank.
COLLEGES
Ferrum College has named CHARLES E. SKALA of Union Hall to its board of trustees. Skala is a retired businessman who has been vice-president of Technicolor in Hollywood, president of a consulting firm in Los Angeles, founder and director of a temporary personnel business in California and a partner with Douglas Shierson Racing of Adrian, Mich.
CONSTRUCTION
LAWRENCE B. DICKENSON has been promoted to vice president-estimating at Branch & Associates Inc., General Contractor, in Roanoke. He will direct the work acquisition team, including estimating and marketing personnel. Dickenson joined the company in 1983 as a project manager and was promoted to manager of business development in 1992.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The Salem/Roanoke County Chamber of Commerce has named new officers and directors for 1995: FRANK LONGAKER, National Business College, president; RICK POPLSTEIN, VFP Inc., vice president; PHYLLIS SUTPHIN, Southwest Virginia Savings Bank, treasurer; JUDY GRIESENBROCK, Salem/Roanoke County Chamber of Commerce, secretary; and AL WOOLDRIDGE, Salem Tools, past president. Board members are DEE KING, Lawyers Title Insurance; TOBEY EATON, Appalachian Power Co.; JOE YATES, Salem Planning Director; SHARON KING, Holiday Inn-Tanglewood; WAYNE TRIPP, superintentent of schools, Salem; JYKE JONES, Jones & Jones Associates Architects P.C.; LYN BROOKS, Lewis-Gale Clinic; PHIL BOGGS, J.C. Penney, Tanglewood; DONALD C. REID, Bell Atlantic; JOHN CHAMBLISS, assistant administrator, Roanoke County; ROGER BAUMGARDNER, Roanoke Gas Co.; FRED ANDERSON, Roanoke County treasurer; LINDA MARKHAM, Virginia First Savings Bank; and BAYARD HARRIS, Center for Employment Law.
HEATING and AIR CONDITIONING
GREG GRAHAM has been promoted to director of personnel development at Southern Air Inc., where he will be responsible for recruiting, hiring and training. Graham has been with Southern Air for 13 years. CHRIS CARWILE has been named the company's personnel administrator. She will maintain personnel records, assure compliance with regulations and handle employee benefits. She joined the company, which employs nearly 400 people and has offices in Roanoke and Lynchburg, in 1988.
INSTITUTIONS
JOHN ALEXANDER has been named executive director of Presbyterian Children's Home of the Highlands Inc., a residential care facility in Wytheville. He has more than 12 years of experience in the management and supervision of child-care agencies in Virginia.
INSURANCE
JOHN C. PEACE has been promoted to vice president and general counsel and secretary at Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. in Roanoke. Peace joined the insurance company in 1994. Also, LAWRENCE T. JONES has been named second vice president-advanced sales and agent development. He has been with the company since 1985. CYNTHIA L. LIGHT has become second vice president-marketing. She has been with the company since 1986. ROBERT S. WAGSTAFF, who was named second vice president-product development, has been with Shenandoah Life since 1987. W. DILLON KEY has been promoted to second vice president-mortgage loans and real estate. He has been with the company since 1993.
MEDICINE
DR. J. JOE YAZEL, professor of psychiatric medicine and associate director of the University of Virginia, Roanoke-Salem Psychiatric Medicine Residency Program, has been advanced to Fellow in the American College of Physicians. The American College of Physicians is the primary educational and policy forwarding organization for Internal Medicine specialists in this country.
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.
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