Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, July 9, 1995 TAG: 9507100017
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Elected vice presidents are MIKE WILLIAMS, Scott & Stringfellow, financial; MATTHEW McALLISTER, First Union, management; HUNTRE SARVRE, Video Billboards, membership; JESSICA LINDSEY, First Union, community development, and KAREN SCHABEN, Appalachian Power Co., individual development.
New board members are DR. GARY ROACH, dentist; ROY DWYER, Allstate Insurance; ERIC FITZGERALD, NBC Bank; GREG LYONS, Moss & Rocovich; JEFF WOODFORD, Roanoke Airport Marriott hotel; CHARLES LAMBERT, John Lambert Associates; BRIAN SCOTT, Northwestern Mutual; BECKY FITZGERALD, Roanoke Valley History Museum; CINDI JENNINGS, First Union; and BOB GORDON, Appalachian Power Co.
ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
JOHN DEW and GREG HURST have joined the engineering department of Thompson + Litton, an engineering, architectural and planning firm based in Wise.
COLLEGES
SARAH ARMBRISTER BEAMER of Wytheville has been named chief financial officer and treasurer of Emory & Henry College. Beamer was named to the position following the retirement of ELOISE ELLIS, former treasurer of the college. Beamer most recently was corporate audit manager for the Virginia Tech Foundation. Before that, she was employed as a certified public accountant for KPMG Peat Marwick in Roanoke.
INVESTMENTS
GRAHAM GARRETT MACKEY has become associated with Legg Mason Wood Walker's Bedford office as an investment executive.
MANUFACTURING
MICHAEL TESORO has joined KelTech Inc., an electronic contract manufacturer in Roanoke, as vice president of operations. He previously was manufacturing manager of KBS Inc., an electronics contract manufacturer in Florida. Before that, he was director of operations for Valcom Inc., a Roanoke-based telecommunication manufacturer.
MEDIA
ROBERT G. LEE of WDBJ-TV and MICHAEL J. SLENSKI of WROV-AM/FM radio stations in Roanoke have been elected regional directors for 1995-96 of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters.
MATT PAXTON IV, publisher of The News-Gazette in Lexington, has been elected secretary of the Virginia Press Association. JENAY TATE, editor of The Coalfield Progress in Norton, and HELEN BURNETT, circulation manager of The Roanoke Times, are new directors of the association. RAY ROBINSON, publisher of the Salem Newspaper Group, is serving a second term on the board.
MEDICINE
DR. MASTON R. McCORKLE JR. of Roanoke has been named president-elect of the Virginia Association of Orthodontists.
TOURISM
The Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau has elected officers and directors for fiscal year 1995-96: JAMES SEARS, director of Center in the Square, president; BETH POFF, director of Mill Mountain Zoo, vice president; MATT KENNELL, executive director of Downtown Roanoke Inc., secretary; E.C. WARREN, owner and manager of the Roanoker Restaurant, treasurer. L. GERALD CARTER, general manager of Holiday Inn-Tanglewood, is past president. Also on the executive committee are BRIAN WISHNEFF, economic development for Roanoke; and TIM GUBALA, economic development for Roanoke County.
Other directors are RICHARD WELLS, Leisure Publishing; ELMER HODGE, Roanoke County administrator; W. ROBERT HERBERT, Roanoke city manager; DIANE LEE, Craig County administrative office; HERMAN TURK, Roanoke Airport Marriott hotel; NED McELWAINE, Botetourt County assistant administrator; MICHAEL OLSEN, Virginia. Tech's department of hospitality and tourism management; JIM LINDSEY, Blue Ridge Regional Business Journal; GRANGER MacFARLANE, Eastern Motor Inns; MARK HENDERSON, Texas Steakhouse; VERNON DANIELSEN, Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern; MAC McCADDEN, Roanoke City Council; CAREY HARVEYCUTTER, Salem Civic Center; RUPERT CUTLER, Virginia's Explore Park, GARY WALTON, The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center; MACON SAMMONS, Franklin County administrator; WAYNE STRICKLAND, Fifth Planning District Commission; and PETER LAMPMAN, Virginia Amateur Sports.
Information on personnel changes of interest to people in business should be sent to this column, c/o The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
by CNB