Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 1, 1995 TAG: 9506020025
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-8 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The laboratory performs testing for vascular disease using noninvasive testing procedures. Vascular disorders can be detected and prevented using the laboratory's testing techniques.
Accreditation status signifies that the facility has been reviewed by an independent agency and is a recognition of the lab's commitment to quality testing.
CHARLES L. FALLIS of Salem was elected president of the Virginia Federation of Chapters, National Association of Retired Federal Employees for 1995-96.
As former vice president of the organization, Fallis helped negotiate last year's $351 million income tax refund settlement with the state.
CAROL K. DIVERS of Roanoke has become a sales director for Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. She joined Mary Kay in April 1991 as an independent beauty consultant.
E.L. DERRING of Roanoke received the Virginia Hospital Association's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award.
Derring, who retired last year as president of the holding company for Prince William Hospital in Manassas, received the award at VHA's annual meeting in Hot Springs.
Derring was administrator of Roanoke Memorial Rehabilitation Center and associate director of Roanoke Memorial Hospitals before moving to Manassas.
During his 21-year tenure at Prince William Hospital, the hospital expanded three times and added many services. In 1979, Derring served as president of the VHA.
He now is a health care consultant.
ELAINE VAUGHN, owner of Love Baskets Ltd. in Roanoke, received second-place honors in the National Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs in Charlotte, N.C., recently.
Vaughn, whose Towers Mall Shopping Center shop specializes in custom gift baskets and dried and silk floral arrangements, won the second place for Corporate Gift Basket Design.
At the conference, Vaughn also instructed about 3,000 gift basket designers in corporate gift giving techniques.
WAL MART/SAM'S stores in Roanoke presented a check recently for $2,500 to the Roanoke Valley Economic Development Partnership.
The contribution, which will be used for local industrial development efforts, represents a two-year pledge for job creation efforts.
The Roanoke Wal-Mart is also joining other Wal-Mart stores in donating 5 cents to local nonprofit groups for every can of SAM's American Choice soda purchased.
SANDRA S. PUCKETT, coordinator for Middle Level Education for Roanoke city schools, has been selected to the state board of the Virginia Middle School Association.
Puckett's primary duties will include establishing a network of middle school teachers and principals, increasing VMSA membership and planning for the VMSA conference to be held next year in Norfolk.
ERIC K. RASANEN recently was named vice president of individual marketing and sales for Shenandoah Life Insurance Co.
Rasanen was vice president of marketing at Columbian Mutual for 11 years. He has also worked for Sentry Life and Travelers.
MARY L. MARTIN, assistant account executive for Chas. Lunsford/RHH of Virginia Inc., was recently elected Woman of the Year by the North Roanoke Chapter of the American Business Women's Association.
Martin has been with Chas. Lunsford since 1977.
JOE LEEDOM, dean of the faculty and associate professor of history at Hollins College, is one of 33 people selected as American Council on Education Fellows for academic year 1995-96.
An ACE Fellow spends a year participating in the administrative activities of a college or university president to whom they are assigned. Fellows also attend seminars, read extensively in the field and produce an analytical report.
Leedom came to Hollins in 1981 and was named dean in 1992.
ROANOKE COLLEGE recently received several grants and honors for school improvements and scholarly research.
The sociology department was awarded a $17,257 grant from the National Science Foundation's Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program.
The grant will be matched by the college and will be used to establish a computer laboratory for teaching social scientific analysis in sociology.
Robert Denham, John P. Fishwick Professor of English at the college, was awarded a $30,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Denham will spend next academic year on sabbatical preparing for publication the unpublished papers of Northrop Frye, a distinguished literary and cultural critic.
Christopher Lee, assistant professor of mathematics, was named principal investigator on a $40,665 research contract to the college from Grumman Aerospace of Hicksville, N.Y.
Grumman is involved in the study of ways to upgrade the mission control computers aboard the E2C radar aircraft used by the U.S. Navy.
RITA BRATCHER, has earned a Child Development Associate credential from the Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition in Washington, D.C.
COX CABLE CO. has given $2,000 to the Meals-on-Wheels program for use in the Roanoke Valley and Alleghany Highlands. An additional 858 meals, or three-plus clients for an entire year, will be served as a result of the donation.
BRADLEY T. SNEED, investment vice president with the Roanoke office of J.C. Bradford & Co., has been named to the President's Club of The American Funds Group, for the second year.
GIGI HALL, human resources director at Grand Piano and Furniture Co., recently earned certification as a senior professional in human resources from the Human Resource Certification Institute.
TAYLOR TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, a vertical transportation and materials handling consulting group headquartered in Roanoke, has purchased Johnson Elevator Services Inc. of Charlotte, N.C.
Johnson was a supplier of various elevator-related services with operations in North and South Carolina, Texas, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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