ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, March 14, 1996 TAG: 9603140084
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DOLORES FARMER, vice president of Owens & Co., a Roanoke real estate brokerage firm, recently was awarded the certified real estate brokerage manager designation by the Real Estate Brokerage Managers Council.
HALL ASSOCIATES INC.'S auction division recently earn first-place advertising honors in four categories at the 38th Annual Virginia Auctioneers Association Convention. The awards were in the commercial and industrial two-three color, real estate four-color, estate four-color and audio-visual categories.
LITTLEPAGE BOLLING BRYANT, a sales representative for Birmingham, Ala.-based Abana Pharmaceuticals, has received the company's Best Attitude and Rookie of the Year awards. Bryant has been in sales for seven years and with Abana for 1 1/2 years in its Blue Ridge Region.
THOMAS W. CRAWFORD, formerly of Roanoke, has been named president and chief executive officer of Prudential Property and Casualty Co., based in Newark, N.J. Before assuming his new position, Crawford was president and chief executive officer of Southern Heritage Co. in Atlanta, a company he organized and founded in 1984.
CARA SISSON, formerly of Roanoke, has been named executive director of Carolinas Concert Association in Charlotte, N.C. After her graduation from Hollins College in 1989, Sisson worked for several cultural organizations in the Roanoke Valley, including Mill Mountain Theatre, The Art Museum of Western Virginia and as an assistant to Victoria Bond, former music director and conductor of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra.
THE BLUE RIDGE CHAPTER OF CHARTERED PROPERTY CASUALTY UNDERWRITERS has conferred the CPCU designations upon 19 underwriters in Roanoke. They are: Timothy Anders, Atlantic Mutual Cos.; Stephen Broyles, USF&G Cos.; Mildred Clark, Liberty Mutual; Gregory Dillon, Atlantic Mutual; Linda Ferguson, Atlantic Mutual ; Michael Fricker, State Farm Cos.; Sandra Furrow, Atlantic Mutual; Konye Howery, Atlantic Mutual; Darla Hunt, Atlantic Mutual; Jean Johnson, Atlantic Mutual ; Joyce Johnson, Thomas Rutherfoord Inc.; Lowanna Keenan, Atlantic Mutual; Dean Kemp, Atlantic Mutual; Robert Martin, Selective Insurance Co.; Lynne Mowbray, Atlantic Mutual; Diana Noell, Thomas Rutherfoord; Alan Peterson, Allstate; Ronald Smith, Atlantic Mutual; and Lisa Thomas, Allstate.
QUALITY COFFEE CO. has broken ground for its new headquarters at 1512 Hollins Road. The company, which provides services for restaurants, hotels, convenience stores and offices, will move from the Roanoke Industrial Center where it has rented space for 15 years.
JOHN MURPHY, a community planning technician with Roanoke County, and ROBERT LESLIE SR., chairman of the Botetourt County Planning Commission, were among those graduating from the Virginia Certified Planning Commissioners' program in December. The program is sponsored by the community resource development arm of the Extension Service at Virginia Tech and by the Virginia Citizens' Planning Association.
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