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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 27, 1995                   TAG: 9504290013
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-11   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Alls, resident manager at Windy Hill Key Apartments, received a service award and an award for successful completion of the conference.

DANIEL MICHAEL POWELL, a representative of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, recently received the agency's silver medal for superior service.

Powell established a partnership between private industry and the federal government to evaluate hazardous waste site clean-up technologies at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, Calif.

Powell, a 1981 graduate of Patrick Henry High School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Powell of Roanoke.

MARY B. LORITSCH, an associate professor of radiologic technology at Virginia Western Community College, was the only technologist selected from Virginia to attend a recent American Society of Radiologic Technologists conference in Albuquerque, N.M. The 65 technologists at the conference established an outline for the education requirements future technologists will have to meet.

DALE WILLIAMS, career agent for American United Life Insurance Company's G.W. Williams & Company Inc. in Roanoke, recently qualified for the company's Chairman's Council and was honored for his outstanding performance.

STEVE HAMPTON of Roanoke was named Employee of the Year for 1994 by Camelot Hall of Salem. Hampton, an executive housekeeper, manages the housekeepering and laundry departments and has worked with Camelot for more than two years.

ROANOKE COLLEGE has been awarded a research contract from Grumman Aerospace of Hicksville, N.Y. Christopher Lee, assistant professor of mathematics, was named principal investigator.

JEAN THOMAS, a Realtor with Waldrop Realty in Roanoke, has earned the certified residential specialist designation from the Residential Sales Council of the Realtors National Marketing Institute, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors.

ELIZABETH PITZER GUSLER of Roanoke has been promoted to curator of museum education at Colonial Williamsburg. She will be curatorial liaison and education spokeswoman for the Williamsburg Reproduction Program. Gusler also will work with the foundation's curatorial, interpretive and museum staffs to develop training programs and will help to develop or assist with exhibits, programs, seminars and publications.

Gusler received a bachelor's degree from Westhampton College of the University of Richmond and a master's degree in history from the College of William and Mary. She has been with Colonial Williamsburg since 1978.

DONALD L. HELMS JR., manager of the Roanoke branch of Avco Financial Services, has been named to the company's Circle of Excellence. Helms received the award at Avco Financial's recent Managers' Conference in Orlando, Fla.

FROEHLING & ROBERTSON INC. recently presented a recognition award to its Roanoke office for its annual volume of business. F&R is a multidiscipline engineering consultant and testing laboratory with headquarters in Richmond.