Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 16, 1995 TAG: 9503180011
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S6 EDITION: METRO
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Avis, of Avis Construction Co., has been a leading force in the membership drive for the chamber. The club is comprised of 25 young Roanoke business leaders who provided $51,000 in new memberships last year.
Avis contributed $5,500 in new memberships in 1994, which surpassed his record from 1993.
R. SCOTT FISHER, the multi-line general agent for American National Insurance Co. for the Roanoke area, recently completed two National Association of Security Dealers examinations, which resulted in his being registered with Securities Management and Research in Galveston, Texas.
CATHY A. SIGMON completed the life and health insurance course and state examination. Sigmon is the office administrator for American National Insurance Co. in Roanoke.
FREDDIE D. JEFFERSON of Overland Avenue Southwest, recently retired after 29 years with the Virginia Department of Transportation. Jefferson started in 1974 and retired as a highway equipment operator 'B' for Roanoke County.
HELEN M. PRICE, a registered nurse, has been included in the 1994 Directory Listing of Ethnic Minority Nurses.
Price, a retired nursing supervisor at Catawba Hospital, is the only nurse from Roanoke listed in the American Nurses Association's Ethnic/Racial Minority Fellowship Program.
OVERNITE TRANSPORTATION CO. of Richmond has named its Roanoke service center as a service center of the year for its Southeast region.
The center's on-time service record of 93 percent was best in the region.
BRENT MUNRO BURTON, formerly of Roanoke, is an intern in Theater Training/Traveling Young Players at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Burton also is working on the Billy Taylor Jazz Series and the Red Badge of Courage Tour at the center.
Burton, a 1991 graduate of Patrick Henry High School, received a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in history in 1994 from Virginia Tech.
GREG HICKS of John Hancock Distributors Inc. and F. GARY OSBORNE of Wheat First Butcher Singer have been selected to membership in the Nuveen Advisory Council.
The council is a select group of investment professionals across the country who are recognized for continuing excellence in financial counseling in the field of tax-exempt securities.
TRACY OVERSTREET was named Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce 1994 Ambassador of the Year.
Overstreet has been an active part of the Ambassador Club since its inception in 1988, serving as co-chairman for two years and chairman for the last two years. Under Overstreet's leadership, the Ambassadors provided customer satisfaction calls to more than 850 chamber members during1994.
Overstreet contributed the largest number of member calls.
BELL ATLANTIC'S ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROGRAM has awarded $3,350 to the William Ruffner Magnet Center.
Ruffner received the grant to help pay for its automated telephone home notification system for reporting student absences, and to support its Literacy Passport remediation efforts, including materials for Ruffner's Saturday School program.
ROANOKE COLLEGE has raised $350,000 for its new foreign language instruction facility. Renovations are under way in Lucas Hall, and the lab will be available for student use at the opening of fall semester.
JOHN W. FELTON, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Felton of Roanoke, recently was elected president of The Institute for Public Relations Research & Education in Sarasota, Fla.
Felton, who recently retired as vice president of corporate communications at McCormick & Co. in Baltimore, is a visiting professor at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
Since it was established by a group of senior public relations professionals in 1956, the institute has promoted academic and professional excellence in the field.
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO. and GERALD W. GODSEY, a representative of The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S., have received the 1994 Professional Growth Award from American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn.
FRAN HUNT of Roanoke has been named director of the Bureau of Land Management program for The Wilderness Society.
Hunt, who has specialized in public lands issues during a 12-year career, has worked for the National Wildlife Federation, the American Forestry Association, the American Land Forum and the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. She also holds a master's degree from the Duke University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS recently inducted several Roanoke Valley doctors as fellows into the academy. Drs. Eric Korsh and James A. Leipzig of Salem and William Hooper of Roanoke were among 664 fellows joining the academy.
The academy is the largest medical association for musculoskeletal specialists. Its primary mission is education for orthopedic surgeons, allied health professionals and the general public.
KATHLEEN M. KENNA, director of the associate degree physical-therapist assistant program and assistant professor at the College of Health Sciences, has received the annual Mission Possible (employee of the year) Award.
Kenna was recognized for her "selflessness, integrity, efficiency, resilient personality and professional demeanor not only in her everyday interaction with college students, faculty and staff but also when faced with difficult tasks."
The school also recognized employees for five and 10 years' service to the college. Mary Jane Witter, director of continuing and general education, and Connie Cook, secretary in the emergency health sciences-paramedic department, received 10-year service awards.
Five-year service awards went to: Harry C. Nickens, college president; Tom Adams, dean of administrative services; Andrea Taylor, continuing/general education secretary; Pam Skidmore, learning resource center clerk; and Rebecca Clark, Virginia Vorst and Tami Wyatt, nursing education faculty members.
EFFIE M. MOORE, owner of Plant Culture Inc., recently achieved certification as an interior landscape professional by the Associated Landscape Contractors of America.
Moore is one of only three Virginians who have achieved this designation. Moore, who opened her interior landscape contracting business in 1984, is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a bachelor of science degree in horticulture.
MARY McMANAWAY MASON, a Northside High School graduate, recently was elected to the Colorado Chapter of the American Institute of Architects' 1995 board of directors. Mason, the daughter Mary and James McManaway, is an associate with R.N.J. Designs in Denver.
THE ROANOKE SCHOOL BOARD recently received a certificate of excellence from the Association of School Business Officials International for the system's financial reporting.
This is the highest form of recognition in school financial reporting.
The program is voluntary and was created to foster excellence in preparing and issuing school system financial reports. A Certificate of Excellence is awarded to those school systems who have voluntarily submitted their system's comprehensive annual financial report for review by an ASBO Panel of Review.
by CNB