ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 11, 1996 TAG: 9602090040
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: G2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
J. RANDOLPH GARRETT III has been appointed executive vice president of Chaney Thomas Stephenson & Hill, a Roanoke-based insurance broker. Garrett, who has more than 25 years of insurance and financial services experience, will concentrate on business development and will continue in his position as chief financial officer. PAM L. GATES has been appointed senior vice president/marketing. She has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. KEITH F. YOUNG has been named a senior vice president and will head the risk management division.
BANKING
SCOTT B. GRINDSTAFF has been promoted to assistant cashier and managing officer of Patrick Henry National Bank's Collinsville office. Grindstaff joined the bank in 1986. BILLY J. ADKINS, assistant vice president, has been transferred to the Martinsville office, where he will specialize in construction lending and small-business development. Adkins joined Patrick Henry in 1985.
DAN H. JOHNSON has been promoted to assistant vice president of First National Bank of Rocky Mount and has been transferred to the bank's Rocky Mount office from Boones Mill. RICHARD N. CARPER, assistant cashier at First National, has been named managing officer at the Boones Mill office. DERWIN L. HALL has been named assistant cashier at the Rocky Mount office.
DANA R. CLARK and MICHELE IKENBERRY have been named consumer credit officers at First Union National Bank of Virginia in Roanoke. Clark formerly was a bankruptcy team leader at First Union, and Ikenberry was a recovery specialist at the bank.
COLLEGES
JASON MULLINS of Roanoke has been named publications editor at Ferrum College. Prior to coming to Ferrum, he was a free-lance advertising designer. EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
DEBBIE VANCE has been promoted to marketing director of HoneyTree Early Learning Centers. A HoneyTree employee since 1992, Vance has been a director and an administrator at several HoneyTree locations in the Roanoke Valley. KRISTI STENZEL has been promoted to assistant director of the McVitty Road center, where she is also an after-school coordinator. She has been at the center since 1991. SUE ASCHEN-BRENNER has been named assistant director of the Lewis-Gale center. She previously directed a child-care center in Maryland.
HOSPITALITY
APRIL McGRATH has been hired as senior sales manager at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. She will be responsible for corporate marketing. McGrath comes to the hotel from the Sheraton Inn in Charlottesville, where she was director of sales. Before that, she was a regional sales director with a conference center in the Boston area. LAW
WILLIAM C. LEACH and SCOTT A. BUTLER have been promoted to stockholder-members of the Roanoke law firm of Bersch & Rhodes P.C. Leach, a trial lawyer involved in personal injury, business and estate litigation, bankruptcy, real estate and domestic relations, joined the firm in 1991. Butler, a business law and tax attorney involved in elder law, probate and estate and trust administration, joined the firm in 1992.
DEL. LACEY E. PUTNEY (I-Bedford), a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1962 and a Bedford lawyer, has received a Distinguished Service Award from the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. Putney will receive has award at the VTLA annual convention in Williamsburg on March 30. The organization represents nearly 3,000 attorneys throughout Virginia.
G. FRANKLIN FLIPPIN of Roanoke has been elected to chair the Virginia Bar Association's executive committee for 1996. Flippin, a founding member of the Roanoke firm Glenn Flippin Feldmann & Darby, has been on the bar association's executive committee for two years. He served five years on the business law section council and has been a member of the law practice management section council since its inception in 1992.
BRUCE C. STOCKBURGER, with the law firm Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore in Roanoke, has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Membership in the college is an honor conferred by peers and is by vote and invitation of the college's board of regents.
DANIEL S. BROWN, a principal at Woods Rogers & Hazlegrove in Roanoke, and EDWIN C. STONE, a principal at Stone Harrison Turk & Showalter in Radford, have been inducted as Fellows of the Virginia Law Foundation, an honor conferred by the VLF board on Virginia attorneys, law professors and retired members of the judiciary who are considered outstanding in their profession and in their communities.
MANUFACTURING
WILLIAM R. SMALL has been selected general manager of the consumer packaging division of Westvaco Corp. He succeeds HARRY K. WILLIAMS, who has retired. Small, a vice president and former assistant manager of the bleached board division, has been with Westvaco for 38 years, both at the bleached board division mill in Covington and at the company's converting plant in Newark, Del. He will relocate to Westvaco's operation in Richmond.
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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