ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 28, 1996 TAG: 9604270011
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
JOHN HUMPHRIES has been elected vice president of Salem's Carter Machinery Co. Inc. He will be responsible for new machine sales and rentals and retail sales of used machines.
Since joining the company in 1991, Humphries has held several sales and general management positions, most recently as general sales manager. He has worked in the heavy-equipment and construction-related industry for 25 years.
Carter Machinery, a distributor of Caterpillar equipment and a unit of Caterpillar Inc. of Peoria, Ill., has 21 offices in Virginia and West Virginia.
BANKING
EARL F. FULLER JR.. has been named assistant vice president of First Citizens Bank in Roanoke, where he is an account officer in the sales finance department.
DAVID M. VIAR has been promoted to executive vice president of CNB Bancshares Inc. based in Evansville, Ind. He joined CNB as senior vice president and treasury officer in 1993. Before that he was executive vice president and chief executive officer for Premier Bank Services Corp. based in Tazewell. Viar worked for Dominion Bankshares Corp. for 20 years and was senior vice president-funds management when he left.
First Union National Bank of Virginia has promoted JACK B. CUNNINGHAM III, ANDREW J. MULLINS, DANNY C. ROSE and MARSHA P. MAGGARD to the positions of vice president. Also, LINDA ADAMS has been promoted to assistant vice president. Cunningham manages the bank's Bluefield office, Mullins manages the Clintwood office, Rose manages the Marion office and Maggard manages the Norton office. Adams is a consumer banker at First Union's Bassett office.
BONNIE EVANS has been appointed manager of Virginia First Savings Bank's downtown Roanoke office. Evans has been in banking since 1971, previously managing Crestar's Church Avenue office in Roanoke.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
RICHARD BEARD, formerly marketing manager for the Roanoke Valley Economic Development Partnership, has become project manager for the Greensboro (N.C.) Area Chamber of Commerce effective April 15. Beard had been with the Roanoke partnership since 1993.
ENGINEERS
LEON P. HARRIS of Roanoke, president of Tele-Path Industries Inc., was recently inducted into the Virginia Tech industrial and systems engineering department's Academy of Distinguished Alumni.
ENVIRONMENTAL
GARY "RICK" SLOAN has joined Earth Environmental Consultants Inc. in Rocky Mount as environmental technician/construction specialist. He will manage its storage tank removal and installation division for both above- and underground systems.
MANUFACTURING
DONALD R. HANSHEW SR. has been named vice president and plant manager for Thermastructure Ltd. of Radford. In his new position, he will help oversee the company's expansion into regional markets throughout the United States next year. Before taking the position with Thermastructure, Hanshew had been plant manager for RADVA Corp. since 1990.
NONPROFITS
MARY DeCOURCY, previously director of finance and administration with Southern Virginia College, has been appointed vice president of operations at Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge Inc. KATHLEEN O'MALLEY, formerly director of marketing and communications at Planned Parenthood, has been promoted to vice president of affiliate services at the reproductive health care agency, which has offices in Roanoke, Charlottesville and Blacksburg.
RETAIL
GEORGE B. CARTLEDGE SR. has been named 1996 Retailer of the Year by the National Home Furnishings Association. Cartledge began his career in home furnishings as a furniture salesman in Atlanta in 1931. In 1937, he and two partners established Southeast Wholesale Furniture in Atlanta, and in 1945, expanded to Roanoke by purchasing Grand Piano and Furniture Co. The furniture chain now has 22 stores in 16 cities in Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland and South Carolina.
TRANSPORTATION
RANDY G. CRAVER, manager of transportation at Coastal Coal Sales Inc. in Roanoke, has been named to the Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council of the Surface Transportation Board in Washington, D.C. Also named to the council was JAMES W. McCLELLAN, vice president-strategic planning at Norfolk Southern Corp., based in Norfolk with offices in Roanoke.
UTILITIES
GEORGE LAUREY, manager of American Electric Power Co.'s Roanoke accounting services office, has been named to the new position of director of corporate ledger accounting in AEP's Columbus, Ohio, corporate accounting office effective Wednesday. Laurey is a certified public accountant who has worked for AEP for 19 years. TOM MITCHELL, senior accounting administrator in the Roanoke office, will succeed Laurey as accounting services manager. Mitchell, also a CPA, has been with the electric company for 14 years. JEFF BRUBAKER, a CPA with the company for 14 years, has been promoted to senior accounting administrator in Roanoke.
WHOLESALE
COLLEEN NORVILLE has been appointed showroom consultant of Wholesale Enterprises Inc. in Roanoke. Norville joined the company in March with 20 years of experience in the plumbing field.
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.
LENGTH: Long : 112 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: Humphries, Fuller, Viar, Evans, DeCourcy, O'Malley,by CNBLaurey, Norville.