ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, January 18, 1996             TAG: 9601180028
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                PAGE: N-7  EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN

IN BUSINESS

DIANA POLHILL NOELL has been awarded the professional insurance designation of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter by the American Institute of CPCU. Noell is senior marketing coordinator for Thomas Rutherfoord Inc., where she has been employed since 1981.

MARJORIE D. DUFEK, formerly of Buchanan, has joined Brown-Forman Corp. in Louisville, Ky., as manager of information services planning and administration. Dufek joined Brown-Forman from Advanced ChemTech Inc., a manufacturer of robotic instruments and biochemical products, where she was controller and treasurer.

FRANK DeSTEFANO of Roanoke has been promoted to technical sales service representative in the paper chemical group-oleochemicals department of Westvaco. He will assume technical sales responsibility for Westvaco Covington, as well as for the Mid-Atlantic Region.

DeStefano joined Westvaco in 1994 as a technical service representative.

JOE MILLER, president of J.E. Miller Construction Inc., Salem, has been elected president of the Roanoke Regional Home Builders Association for 1996. In addition to Miller, other officers are David Radford, Radford & Co., Roanoke, vice president; Eddie Fort, P D & M Inc., Moneta, treasurer; John Brock, Trademark Builders Inc., Roanoke, secretary; Jeff Washenberger, Washenberger Construction, Salem, vice president/Remodelers Council; Kathleen Remington, AquaTech, Salem, vice president/associate; and G.K. Kinsey, Owens & Co. Realtors, Roanoke, vice president/sales and marketing.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  (headshots) Noell, Dufek.