ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, March 14, 1996               TAG: 9603140086
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                PAGE: E-8  EDITION: METRO 

NEIGHBORHOOD NAMES

LYNN DAVIS has been elected president of the Valley Beautiful Foundation for 1996. Other officers include: Charles A. Blankenship, vice president; Ann E. Weaver, secretary; and Pam Ogden, treasurer.

New board members are: Sydney Nordt, Allan C. Robinson, James R. Tompkins and Mary Boxley.

ROBERTA McGUIRE of Salem has received the Grumbacher Award for outstanding achievement in acrylic painting.

McGuire, a member of the League of Roanoke Artists, won with her painting "Another View," an abstract representing the dichotomy of chaos and order in life.

Grumbacher manufactures artists' materials.

VIC PLOTNER is the new president of Parents Without Partners, Blue Ridge Chapter. Other recently elected officers include: Margaret Sanders, administrative vice president, Lois Peterson, vice president, membership; Cheryljo Plunkett, vice president, family and youth; Dick Troxel, vice president, programs and education; Shirley Simmons, secretary; and Frances Eades, treasurer.

WELDON T. LAWRENCE has been elected president of the Virginia Museum of Transportation Inc. He succeeds James B. Evans. Other recently elected officers include: Mark T. Lawrence Jr., executive vice president; Jay Brenner, vice president, collections and exhibits; Frances Davis,vice president, finance and development; Lynn Meyer, vice president, volunteer relations; Eugene M. Elliott Jr., treasurer; Thomas A. Leggette, secretary.

Gerald W. Godsey, Maryellen F. Goodlatte, J. Granger Macfarlane, James W. Harkness, W.L. Neal, John W. Hancock Jr., W.G. Blades, Jim Molinary, L.A. Durham Jr., Samuel W. Putney III, and Richard Shell were elected to the board of directors.

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS, ROANOKE REGION, has selected Frank Van Balen as its president. Other officers are: Elizabeth Gillis and the Rev. Denise Huffman, vice presidents; and James Bullion, secretary.

New board members are: Lin Chaff, Phil Flarsheim, R.L. Keeley, John Litchtenstein, Harry Schwarz, Richard Surrusco and Philip Trompeter.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  (headshots) Davis, Plotner.