ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, January 19, 1997 TAG: 9701170040
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: 2 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
MICHAEL TENTNOWSKI has been named coordinator of training and development of Radford University's Business Assistance Center. He formerly was coordinator of business development programs at Virginia Tech.
VICTORIA PETERSON has joined the center as director of the newly created International Trade Center for Western Virginia. She previously was a managing partner of Mackay International, a global business development company.
SHARON MASKER has been named coordinator of student outreach programs. She is responsible for developing internship opportunities with businesses and student placement.
The Business Assistance Center is a resource for small to medium-sized businesses in Southwestern Virginia, providing consulting, financial and planning assistance and access to state-of-the-art equipment, including computer data bases.
AGRICULTURE
DAVE BITTNER has become manager of Southern States Cooperative Inc.'s Cloverdale distribution center in Botetourt County. He is replacing BOB LANCASTER, who has retired. Bittner has been with Southern States for 19 years, most recently as a farm and home product manager.
BANKING
LEON MOORE, president and chief executive officer of The Bank of Floyd, has been appointed for a three-year term to the American Bankers Association's Community Bankers Council. Moore has been in banking since 1962.
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STEPHEN S. LAUGHLIN has been promoted to vice president of The Holcomb Group, a Roanoke-based program management firm providing professional project management services throughout the mid-Atlantic states. Laughlin joined the company in 1995 as a project manager.
ENVIRONMENT
JAMES S. WILLIS III has been named a principal with Law Engineering and Environmental Services Inc., an international consulting firm with offices in Roanoke. Willis is a professional engineer in Virginia and West Virginia and a professional geologist in Virginia and North Carolina.
HEALTH CARE
DR. LISA HARRIS of Virginia Beach has been appointed medical director of The Center for Bariatric Medicine in Roanoke. Harris, who is board certified by the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, received her medical degree from Long Island Jewish Medical Center and is practicing bariatric medicine in the Tidewater area.
EMILY CARR and LORI PERKINS have been named co-directors of the speech pathology department at Rehabilitation Services of Roanoke Inc. In their new positions, they will develop an outpatient speech program at the Salem Therapy Center and develop an outpatient speech program at the company's newest clinic, Therapy Associates of Bedford.
LOUIS G. ROE JR. has been appointed associate administrator of Wise Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital. He succeeds OLIVIER VAN DIERDONCK, who has accepted a position in Texas. Roe, who joined ARH in 1992, has been assistant administrator at the hospital since 1994. Appalachian Regional Healthcare is a private, not-for-profit health care system that delivers health services in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
LAW
JAMES W. JENNINGS JR. of Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove in Roanoke has been inducted as a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. Fellows of the foundation are Virginia lawyers, law professors and retired members of the judiciary who are considered outstanding in the legal profession and in their communities. Jennings is a trial lawyer who joined Woods Rogers in 1973.
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore has announced that JULIANA FAHRBACK PERRY and PAUL G. KLOCKENBRINK have been named partners in the Roanoke law firm, and ANDREW R. HOUGH, MICHAEL C. LONCHAR, VICTOR S. SKAFF III and KARL W. UOTINEN have become associates with the firm. Hough and Uotinen are members of the firm's commercial section and Lonchar and Skaff practice in the firm's litigation section.
H. DAVID GIBSON has joined the Roanoke firm of Lutins, Shapiro & Kurtin in the general practice of law.
MANUFACTURING
PETER T. COE, president and chief executive officer of Aerial Machine & Tool Corp. in Vesta, has been named chairman of the board of trustees for the A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Center in Martinsville. He succeeds E. LINWOOD WRIGHT, vice president of product development, quality and service at Dan River Corp. Established by the Virginia General Assembly and supported through federal funding, the center provides services to help improve the competitive ability of small and medium-sized manufacturers.
ROGER W. SIZEMORE has been appointed manager of Long-Airdox Co.'s Saltville manufacturing plant. Sizemore, former manager of the company's Cedar Bluff plant, has been in the coal mining machinery business since 1971.
MEDIA
MARY CLINE has been named real estate marketing specialist at The Roanoke Times, where she has worked since 1984. In her new position, she will oversee Homes Plus, a bi-weekly real estate magazine, as well as work in other areas of real estate advertising. Cline has been an advertising sales representative with the newspaper since 1988. Homes Plus is a joint publication of The Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors and The Roanoke Times.
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ITT Defense & Electronics, a subsidiary of ITT Industries, has appointed PAUL GRALNICK, former chairman and chief executive officer of Grimes Aerospace in Urbana, Ohio, as president of ITT Gallium Arsenide Technology Center in Roanoke County.
Gralnick succeeds DENNIS FISHER, founder of the center, who will retire later this year. Fisher will continue as a senior staff member until his retirement.
Before joining Grimes Aerospace, Gralnick was senior vice president of total quality operations at AlliedSignal Aerospace in Torrance, Calif.; president of AlliedSignal's Air Transport Avionics Division, formerly Bendix Avionics, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and before that, director of engineering at Bendix Avionics.
ITT's Gallium Arsenide Technology Center is in transition from a research-focused operation to a more sales-oriented business.
(This item is being repeated because of errors in last Sunday's Names & Changes column.)
WHOLESALE
JACK K. KENDRICK retired Dec. 31 from the Roanoke Division of Frederick Trading Co., formerly Nelson-Roanoke Corp., a hardware wholesaler. Kendrick, who had been in the hardware industry for 47 years, became general manager of Frederick Trading Co. in 1993 when it acquired Nelson-Roanoke Corp. He started his career in 1950 at Roanoke Hardware Co. as a sales representative.
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.
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