Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 12, 1995 TAG: 9502100067
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
LANDON CATRON has been named vice president and regional manager of Crestar Bank's trust and investment group. He will oversee personal trust, corporate/institutional services and employee benefit services in Crestar's western region.
Catron most recently was vice president of business development for First Union National Bank's corporate and institutional trust services. Before that, he was vice president and sales manager for Dominion Trust Co. in Roanoke.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
JOHN RICHARD PRICE has become an investment executive at Ferguson, Andrews & Associates. Price, who has 15 years of corporate and individual financial planning and insurance experience, comes from CFS Comprehensive Services of Severna Park, Md.
ROBERT C. TURNER has been named sales manager of John Hancock Financial Services' Roanoke general agency. He has been in the insurance and financial services field since 1989.
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
RONALD E. TUCKER has joined Masterclean Inc., a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based environmental contractor, as Roanoke office manager. He will be responsible for daily office management and market development in Virginia. Tucker, who is retired from the Air Force, has an environmental background spanning the past 10 years, including a position as administrator of the Warren County Pollution Control & Financing Authority in Warren, N.J; solid waste management consultant to the Pikes Peak Council of Governments in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and environmental publications marketing with John Wiley & Sons, law publications.
GOVERNMENT
PAUL A. FARRAR, food service director at Patrick Henry Correctional Unit in Ridgeway, has been appointed by Gov. George Allen to the Virginia Correctional Enterprises Advisory Board, a newly created body that deals with inmate labor in the manufacture of clothing, shoes, license plates and other items.
HOSPITALITY
MICHAEL R. TATRO has been appointed managing director of Natural Bridge resort. Tatro has worked in the hospitality industry for more than 25 years, most recently as general manager of the Fenwick Inn in Ocean City, Md. Marshall Management Inc. of Salisbury, Md., runs the Natural Bridge facilities.
LARRY YORK has been named director of engineering at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. He previously was director of engineering at the Ritz Carlton hotel at Pentagon City in Arlington. CARL SMITH has joined the hotel and conference center as director of rooms management. He comes from the Virginia Beach Omni Hotel, where he was general manager. The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center is scheduled to open in April and will be managed by Phoenix, Ariz.-based Doubletree Hotels Corp.
LAW
JONNA M. McGRAW of Carter, Brown & Osborne law firm in Roanoke has been appointed to a three-year term as an at-large member of the Virginia State Bar Council by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The 66-member council has general charge of the administration of the affairs of Virginia's 26,344 lawyers.
PAUL G. BEERS has been elected a member in the Roanoke law firm of Glenn, Flippin, Feldmann & Darby. Before joining the firm in 1991, Beers practiced with a legal aid program in Virginia's coalfields.
MEDICINE
DRS. HIMANSHU S. PATEL and CONRAD H. DAUM, staff psychiatrists at Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center, have received board certification in addiction psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Inc.
Patel's additional board certifications include psychiatry and neurology, child and adolescent psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry. He is a consulting psychiatrist at Lewis-Gale Counseling Center in Martinsville and also has a private practice.
Daum holds board certification in psychiatry and neurology and geriatric psychology. He also has a private practice.
DR. KENNETH D. TUCK was elected trustee-at-large to the board of trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, which represents more than 21,000 medical eye doctors worldwide. Tuck has practiced ophthalmology in Roanoke for 30 years.
DR. CHARLES E. CONKLIN, director of Roanoke Memorial Hospitals' dentistry program, has been elected chairman of the Federation of Special Care Organizations in Dentistry for a one-year term. The federation oversees the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentists for Persons with Disabilities, and the American Society of Geriatric Dentistry, national organizations for delivering dental services to patients with special needs.
Conklin and DR. LEE R. JONES, assistant director of the hospital's dentistry program, have received the Perske Award, a statewide honor for their work with the developmentally disabled, through the Community Living Association of the Mentally Retarded.
MARTY ROBERSON, also in the dentistry program, was named Dental Hygienist of the Year by the Virginia Dental Hygiene Association.
NONPROFITS
The Smith Mountain Lake 4-H Educational Center has elected officers for 1995: CLAUDE L. REYNOLDS, retired from Appalachian Power Co., president; SAMUEL L. LIONBERGER JR., Lionberger Construction Co., vice president for facilities; JOHN G. ROCOVICH JR., Moss & Rocovich, vice president for development; S. CABELL DUDLEY, Central Fidelity Bank, vice president for finance; REESE McCORMICK, Virginia Extension Service, vice president for programs; STEVE RICE, Friendship Manor, secretary/treasurer; and GARNETT E. SMITH, Advance Auto Parts, immediate past president.
Information on personnel changes of interest to people in business should be sent to this column in care of the Roanoke Times & World-News, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
I U ION PHO O: headshots of Catron, Price, McGraw, Beers, Patel, Daum, Conklin, Jones, Roberson
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