ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, May 19, 1996 TAG: 9605170017
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: 2 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
OSCAR D. BRYANT has joined Roanoke-based Delta Dental Plan of Virginia as vice president of administration and information services. He will be responsible for procurement, human resources, facilities management, regulatory compliance and information services at the dental benefits provider, which also has offices in Richmond and the Tidewater area.
Bryant formerly was director of management information systems for Roanoke County.
ADVERTISING
HILARY P. KENNARD has joined The Packett Group, a Roanoke advertising agency, as a senior copywriter. She comes to Roanoke from Dallas, where she was a senior copywriter and creative department supervisor at Campbell Marketing Communications. Before that, she held copywriter and account service positions at agencies in Dallas and Boston.
BANKING
STEVE SMITH has been promoted to vice president and manager of Crestar Bank's Western Region business loan center in Roanoke.
Smith joined the bank in 1977 in Lynchburg. In 1992 he was named commercial account manager and promoted to assistant vice president. He came to the business loan center in Roanoke as a credit underwriter in 1993.
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
ANN S. FERREN, a senior fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., has been named vice president for academic affairs at Radford University. Before being a senior fellow for a year, she was interim provost for The American University in Washington.
HEALTH CARE
JUDY C. PHILO of Vinton has been elected president of the Southwest Virginia Association of Health Information Professionals. Philo is employed at Lewis-Gale Medical Center, where she supervises records for the psychiatric division. She has worked for Lewis-Gale for more than 17 years.
LAW
MARGARET K. GARBER has been elected a member of Brumberg Mackey & Wall law firm in Roanoke. Garber, who joined the firm at its inception in 1994, practices in bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
MANUFACTURING
JOHN R. CLARK has been appointed assistant vice president for human resources for Rowe Furniture Corp., an Arlington-based manufacturer of upholstered furniture with operations in Salem. Clark, who has been with the company for 3 1/2 years, previously held the position of corporate director of human resources.
MEDICINE
DR. MICHAEL T. KELLY has joined the staff of Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital's comprehensive rehabilitation program. Kelly is board-certified in family medicine and physiatry, or physical medicine and rehabilitation. His areas of interest include spinal cord injury, joint replacement, carpal tunnel syndrome and neck and back pain.
NONPROFITS
CHERYL ROTH has been hired as director of marketing and public relations at Barter Theatre in Abingdon. She replaces LORI WARD, who was marketing director for more than eight years. Roth formerly was president of CR Innovations, an advertising agency she founded in 1990.
ORGANIZATIONS
Professional Women Resources, a nonprofit group of Southwest Virginia business owners and executives based in Roanoke, has elected new officers: PWR founder TRACY OVERSTREET, an agent with Principal Financial Group, will serve a second one-year term as president; CHRISTINA MACCHERONE, president of Serendipity Communications in Christiansburg, vice president; JOY WELLS, production coordinator and quality manager for Comprehensive Computer Solutions in Christiansburg, secretary; NANCY MEYER-BARKER, Barker Chiropractic of Roanoke, treasurer; LINDA McNUTT, co-owner of Roanoke's Best Pest Control, coordinator of speakers and programs; SUSAN KENDRICK SIMMONS, director of catering at Roanoke Airport Marriott, reservations coordinator; CRYSTAL EAKLE, a Mary Kay Cosmetics representative, membership; and SANDY AKERS, Owens & Co. relocation director, member-at-large.
The Blue Ridge Chapter of the Professional Construction Estimator's Association, has elected officers for 1996-1997: BRAD ARCHER, BCE Construction Services, president: DAVE BOTTS, Virginia Sprinkler Co., president-elect; KIM DAVIS, Varney Electric Co. Inc., first vice president; BUD McWHORTER, Arnold R. Burton Technology Center, second vice president; CYNTHIA VARNEY, General Elevator Co. Inc., secretary; CONNIE SMITH, Surfaces Inc., national director; JASON PRICE, Varney Electric Co. Inc., newsletter/past president; and DAVID KIDD, Loeb Construction Co., treasurer.
JAMES A. CARR, general manager of Resco Steel Products Corp. in Salem, has been elected first vice president of the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute for a one-year term.
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
KELLY BURD-ADAMS, director of convention sales at the Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, has received the Virginia Society of Association Executives' Associate of the Year award. She was appointed to the VASE board of directors in January for a one-year term.
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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