ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, January 7, 1996                TAG: 9601110139
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: D2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN


NAMES & CHANGES

Crestar names commercial executive

BARRY L. HENDERSON will become Crestar Bank's Valley Group commercial president Jan. 31. He will oversee commercial accounts for banks in Harrisonburg, New Market, Staunton and Lexington.

Henderson, a Roanoke Valley native, joined Crestar in 1984 as a commercial account manager, was promoted to senior vice president, commercial section manager in 1990, and, most recently, managed commercial account managers in Roanoke.

ARCHITECTS

BRUCE CODY, president of Architectural Wood in Roanoke, has been awarded Society Honors by the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects. The awards are given annually to people who are not architects, but whose work inspires, influences or complements the architectural profession. Distinguished Service Awards were given to architects J. EVERETTE FAUBER of Fauber Architects, Forest; and TIMM L. JAMIESON of Hayes Seay Mattern & Mattern, Roanoke.

BANKING

JOHN W. BOYLE JR. has been named chairman of First American Federal Savings Bank in Roanoke, which was formed when Nashville, Tenn.-based First American Corp. acquired Charter Federal Savings Bank. Boyle, who has been president-corporate bank since 1992 at First American National Bank in Nashville, a subsidiary of First American Corp., is retiring from that position in June and will assume his new position July 1.

DAVID C. BURROWS has been promoted to assistant vice president/insurance division of the mortgage loan servicing group at First Union Mortgage Corp. in Roanoke. He was a mortgage loan officer at the company.

JOHN OWEN III has been named retail branch manager for First Citizens Bank in Bedford, which was acquired earlier this year from NationsBank. Owen was manager of First Union National Bank of Virginia's Hollins office.

COMPUTERS

JULIET SILVER-COURTNEY has joined Goss Associates Inc., a Roanoke-based Microsoft Solution provider, as general manager. Silver-Courtney formerly managed the educational services division of BW Computer Products and Services of Lynchburg.

INSURANCE

F. ANDERSON STONE has been elected vice president, corporate securities, at New Orleans-based Pan American Life. He formerly worked at Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. in Roanoke. In his new job, he will manage investment portfolios that support major product lines in the United States.

JIM SMITH has been named vice president-group operations at Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. in Roanoke. He was vice president of group operations at Medical Life Insurance Co. for five years. Also at Shenandoah Life, MIKE COFFMAN, who joined the company in 1983, has been promoted to vice president and controller. LORI REDDING has been named second vice president-group marketing and sales. She was director of sales at Physicians Health Plan of North Carolina.

TRANSPORTATION

DANIEL H. MARSTON has been named administrator of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Bristol District, which covers most of Southwest Virginia. He replaces JACK CORLEY, who retired last summer after 40 years. Marston has been acting administrator since Corley's departure. As district administrator, he will oversee all highway construction and maintenance activities in the 12-county district, which also includes the cities of Bristol and Norton.

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, Va. 24010.


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