Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 21, 1995 TAG: 9505240025
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Lawson, previously with Anderson & Associates and Draper Aden, will serve as senior civil engineering design technician. He has 12 years experience in civil engineering, including surveying, water and wastewater treatment facilities design, transportation design and construction.
Mills is a registered architect who has 24 years experience with firms throughout Virginia. He will be responsible for project design, management and client coordination.
Nelson Ridinger, former owner of Thompson-Hagan Drug in Christiansburg, and James Hutton, a Blacksburg lawyer, have been elected chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Board of Directors of First National Bank.
Ridinger has been a member of the board since 1957. He is the chairman of the administrative board and vice chairman of the board of trustees of St. Paul United Methodist Church.
Hutton is senior partner with Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland, and Hutton in Blacskburg. He is a member of the Virginia Tech's Bowman Society and Blacksburg Baptist Church.
Glenn R. Whitmer, senior vice president for commercial lending at Crestar Bank in Radford, has retired after more than 40 years in banking.
Whitmer began his career as a teller with First & Merchants Bank, holding a variety of positions there until the bank's merger with United Virginia Bank, now Crestar.
He is a graduate of the University of Richmond. Whitmer served as a member of the board of Radford Community Hospital and the Chamber of Commerce. He is past president of the Kiwanis Club, served on the city recreation commission and has worked with the Red Cross and United Way.
Jim Shuler has received the Distinguished Virginia Veterinary Award from the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association..
Shuler, who represents Virginia's 12th district in the House of Delegates, served on the state board of health from 1983 to 1991.
He received his doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia in 1970.
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