Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 2, 1995                   TAG: 9503030052
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-5   EDITION: METRO (HEADSHOT) MOODY
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IN BUSINESS

Other officers are: Terri Taylor of Cedar Point Apartments, first vice president; Emily McCallulm of McKinney Furniture Rentals, second vice president; Peggy Houck of Cedar Ridge Apartments, secretary; and Marilyn Kingma of Kingma Productions Inc., treasurer.

VALORIE P. MACINNIS has been named director of grants for Roanoke schools. She has 15 years of educational and administrative experience and in her last position raised more than $1 million in grant money for St. Joseph's Villa, a Richmond social services agency.

She has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Longwood College and has a master's of education degree in special education with emphasis on developmental disabilities, supported employment and community-based instruction from Virginia Commonwealth University.

JERRY HUFFMAN, continuity-of-care coordinator at Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center, has been named the facility's 1994 Columbia/HCA Healthcare Humanitarian Award winner.

The award recognizes people whose daily dedication and concern epitomizes the highest standards of quality and personal commitment.

Huffman has been described as one who ``turns lives around.''

He now will compete for the company's national award. Gail Minter, program manager for the New Hope Christian Therapy Program and Dean Denson, maintenance mechanic, were the other two nominees.

RANDY POWERS, employee in Southern State's Roanoke warehouse, recently completed the Southern State Cooperative training school for environmental, health, safety and security representatives.

The five-day seminar was held to train selected employees from Southern States retail points and private dealers so that they could make authorized inspections.

LOIS ANNETTE SWESTYN, assistant director of the Honeytree Early Learning Center on McVitty Road, has earned the Child Development Associate credential in recognition of outstanding work with young children.