Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 30, 1995 TAG: 9504010002
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-13 EDITION: METRO
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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.
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.
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.
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.
GAIL GODSEY, a distributor with Safeguard Business Systems Inc. in Roanoke, earned membership in Safeguard's 1995 President's Club.
Membership in the club is awarded to only a select number of the company's top sales achievers. Godsey has been a distributor for 25 years and is on the board of directors of the Blue Ridge Regional/National Association of Women Business Owners and a member of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
SUSAN BATIAN GOTT, daughter of Virginia P. Gott and the late William A. Gott of Roanoke, will have a piece of her glasswork published in the spring issue of ``New Glass Review 16.'' Gott's piece is among 100 pieces representing the newest work in glass worldwide. Slides of than 200 entries were judged by Corning Museum of Glass officials for publication.
Gott, a graduate of Cave Spring High School, has a bachelor of science in art education from Radford University and a master of fine arts from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She teaches an at a Tampa, Fla., high school.
DREW HARMON and MARIE NEUHOFF WEBB, members of Carilion Health System's Internal Audit Department, earned Certified Internal Auditor status when they passed the CIA Examination sponsored by the Institute of Internal Auditors. Only 445 out of 2,289 candidates from around the world passed the exam and became certified.
INTERIM PERSONNEL of Roanoke, a licensed office of Interim Services Inc., has received a certificate of appreciation from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The certificate was presented to Interim for "morally and financially supporting our national civil rights and humanitarian endeavors."
LESLIE JEAN CARTER, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carter of Roanoke, has been named coordinator of corporate relations at Guilford College. Carter will work as liaison between the college and area companies, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Prior to joining the advancement team at Guilford College in 1993, Carter was an admissions/marketing coordinator for a residential treatment center for adolescents in Chatham County, N.C.
by CNB