Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 22, 1995 TAG: 9501230025
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Compiled by MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Stanley Furniture Co. Inc. has named MARGRET D. BLOOM vice president of international sales, a position created to help the company increase its penetration of overseas markets.
Before joining Stanley Furniture, Bloom was vice president and manager of the U.S. office for Intro Europe Inc., the export arm of Masco Corp.'s home furnishings group, a position she held for nine years.
In the early 1980s, Bloom founded Germania Limited, a Greensboro, N.C., company that imported kitchen cabinets from Germany. She also was vice president and corporate secretary in the Charlotte, N.C., office of American Artos Corp., a German textile and machinery manufacturing company.
BONDS
SHAFIQ A. MAJIED has been certified by Roanoke Circuit Court as a professional bondsman. He heads Independence Bonding Co. Inc.
COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES
CHARLES A. WOOD has been named vice president for university advancement at Radford University, where he has been executive assistant to the president for 20 years. In the new position, he will manage the departments of alumni affairs, development, public information and relations. Wood is on the board of directors at Saint Albans Psychiatric Hospital and has been a consultant to the State Department's Office of Overseas Schools in Costa Rica, Mexico and El Salvador.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
ROBERT SNODGRASS and FELIX J. VIRTO have joined Roanoke-based Ferguson, Andrews & Associates Inc. as retail investment brokers. Snodgrass comes to the investment firm from DMG Securities in Glen Allen, and Virto previously was a sales manager for Continental Airlines. MALCOLM G. INGE has joined an affiliated firm, Ferguson, Andrews Investment Advisers Inc. in Charlottesville, as vice president, and will work with clients in the company's Roanoke headquarters.
F. KEVIN HUTCHINS has been named account executive-investments at Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. in Roanoke. He joined the firm in August after five years with the Sears Financial Network.
FOOD SERVICE
JODI GEOTSCH has been promoted to regional manager in the concessions division of Swanson Corp. in Richmond. She manages concessions at the Roanoke Civic Center. Swanson is based in Omaha, Neb.
HEALTH CARE
CLAIRE GARDNER ENGLISH, a Roanoke communications specialist and vision improvement therapist, has been named administrator of the vision improvement program at the Learning Enhancement Center of Drs. Blum, Newman, Blackstock and Associates Optometrists at Hershberger Plaza in Roanoke. The therapy program evaluates and treats children with vision-related learning disabilities.
LAW
PRESTON B. MAYSON JR. of Roanoke has joined Fishwick, Jones & Glenn as Of Counsel and will represent plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases. He previously was a senior attorney with Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove. Mayson is a member of the Roanoke, Virginia State and American bar associations and is member of the American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America.
J. LEE E. OSBORNE, with the law firm of Carter, Brown & Osborne in Roanoke, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an association of lawyers who have been recognized in the fields of estate and trust planning and administration, related taxation, business succession and insurance planning, employee benefits and fiduciary litigation.
DAN BROWN and TOM LEGGETTE, principals in the Roanoke law firm of Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, are members of the faculty for the Federal Court Civil Practice and Procedures Program being presented throughout Virginia by the committee on continuing legal education of the Virginia Law Foundation. Brown and Leggette will lecture on dispositive motions.
NONPROFITS
The Child Abuse Prevention Council in Roanoke has elected new board members: WILLIAM FRALIN of Jolly, Place, Fralin & Prillaman; ELLIS GUTSHALL of First Virginia Bank; PATRICK MADDOX of The Maddox Agency; and LINDA McMILLAN of Bank of Buchanan.
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