ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 18, 1996 TAG: 9602160013
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-2 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
Sherertz Franklin Crawford Shaffner Inc., a Roanoke architectural, engineering, planning and interior design firm, has appointed DONALD D. PRITCHARD director of architecture. He will oversee and coordinate the work of the architectural department and continue to serve clients on individual projects.
Pritchard, a senior associate with the firm, has been with SFCS since 1982, as a project architect and a project designer.
He is a member of American Institute of Architects and Construction Specifications Institute.
HEALTH CARE
DR. CHARLES C. PEGRAM JR. has joined Vista Eye Center as an optometrist and will work at the practice's downtown Roanoke and Salem offices. Formerly chief of the eye clinic of the hospital at Dover (Del.) Air Force Base, Pegram is a member of American Optometric Association and Southern Council of Optometrists.
MANUFACTURING
JOHN A. GOODLOE has been appointed vice president and general manager of the Roanoke division of Chesapeake Packaging Co. Goodloe formerly was vice president-sales manager in Roanoke. He succeeds EDWARD P. GODSEY as general manager. Godsey has been promoted to president and general manager of the company's Baltimore division.
MEDIA
LISA BENNETT DOWNIE has been promoted to national/regional sales manager of Lynchburg-based television station WSET. Downie has worked at the station since 1985 and in its Roanoke bureau as a marketing specialist for 10 years. She was promoted to senior account executive in 1993.
MEDIATION SERVICES
KENNETH E. TRABUE of Roanoke has joined Richmond-based McCammon Mediation Group Ltd. Trabue, who retired last year as a judge in the 23rd Circuit after 18 years of service, will oversee mediation and arbitration services in Southwest Virginia and other parts of the state. The group, which is composed of attorney mediators and judges, helps resolve civil disputes as an alternative to going to court.
NONPROFITS
ALAN E. RONK, executive director of The Foundation for Roanoke Valley, has been appointed Virginia's representative to the community foundation committee of the Southeastern Council of Foundations based in Atlanta. The council is a nonprofit association of more than 300 grant-making organizations in 12 states, including community and private foundations and corporate-giving programs. Ronk will represent the interests of Virginia's 11 community foundations.
The United Way of Roanoke Valley has announced several changes in its staff. BRIAN J. GOTTSTEIN has been appointed vice president for marketing and communications. He formerly was a member of the campaign department. ELLEN LEVERICH FIRKINS has been promoted to assistant vice president for the campaign and also is quality program coordinator. CHENISE A. ANDERSON has been promoted from data processing manager to assistant fund distribution director. SHELBY A. KING has accepted the new position of campaign associate. She previously was campaign secretary.
The Council of Community Services in Roanoke has selected KAREN T. McCLELLAN director of community planning. TANYA WILLIAMS has been named health educator with the AIDS Council of Western Virginia, a component of the council.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Roanoke Valley Paralegal Association has elected for 1996: DEBORAH ELIG, Virginia Title Center, president; MANDY BELUE, Woods Rogers and Hazlegrove, vice president: SUSIE SAUERWALD, Johnson Ayers & Matthews, secretary; and KATHY WARD, Woods Rogers & Hazlegrove, treasurer. Board members are LORRIE McCLOSKEY, JENNIFER BRECKINRIDGE and DONNA MORGAN, all of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore; SHERRIE GLENN, Moss & Rocovich; and ROSE MARIE DUDLEY, Conflict Resolution Center. BETH RITTER of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore has been elected representative to the Virginia Alliance of Legal Assistants.
TRANSPORTATION
KENNETH M. TAYLOR, vice president of W-L Construction & Paving Inc. in Chilhowie, has been elected vice president of the Virginia Road and Transportation Builders Association. MARVIN L. TEMPLETON, president and assistant secretary of Marvin V. Templeton & Sons Inc. in Lynchburg, has been elected to the association's board.
ROBERT W. HOFRICHTER has been promoted to traffic engineer for Virginia Department of Transportation's 12-county Salem district. He previously was a senior transportation engineer in VDOT's secondary roads division in Richmond. ROBERT H. CARY has been promoted to location and design engineer. He comes to the Salem district from the Staunton district, where he was a transportation engineer.
Information on personnel changes of interest to people in business should be sent to this column in care of The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
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Anderson, King, McClellan, Hofrichter, Cary.