ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 23, 1997 TAG: 9702210030
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: 6 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
J. ROBERT THOMAS JR. has been named chief executive officer of Chaney, Thomas, Stephenson & Hill Inc., insurance and bonding brokers. Thomas formerly was the company's president. J. RANDOLPH GARRETT III, who was executive vice president, succeeds Thomas as president. He has been with Chaney, Thomas for 24 years. SAMUEL AUSTIN LOWMAN JR., previously an account executive, has been elected vice president. Lowman joined the company in 1994.
Chaney, Thomas, Stephenson & Hill is a 40-year-old company based in Roanoke with a second office in Manassas. It specializes in personal, commercial and industrial insurance and employee benefits.
BANKING
WILLIAM W. SHAW has been promoted to senior vice president at First Citizens Bank. Shaw is the business development manager for First Citizens' credit-card division in Raleigh, N.C. He will transfer to Roanoke later this year when the bank moves its credit-card division here.
COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES
SARAH ACHENBACH has been named executive director of development at Hollins College effective Saturday. Achenbach comes from Garrison Forest School in Baltimore where she was associate director.
EULAH STUART PRICE has been appointed coordinator of the Radford University/Virginia Western Community College Partnership Program. Price formerly was an academic adviser at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business.
JAMES McGARRELL of Newbury, Vt., is the Francis Niederer artist-in-residence for the spring semester at Hollins College. While at Hollins, McGarrell will teach a seminar, hold open studio sessions, lecture and work with students and hold an exhibit.
HEALTH CARE
DR. LEE THOMAS HELMS has been elected president of the Roanoke Valley Academy of Medicine. Helms is an ophthalmologist at Eye Care & Surgery in Roanoke and Smith Mountain Lake. Other officers are DRS. JOHN A. HAGY JR., vice president; ANDREW G. ROTH, secretary-treasurer; and GEOFFREY T. HARTER, president-elect.
CAROLYN A. STANLEY-TILT, a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and family nurse practitioner at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, has been selected for a fellowship in the 1997 U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Program. During her fellowship, she will attend White House and congressional briefings and will meet with Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and other health care officials.
BETTY TOLLEY and CARALEE EICHER have joined Cascade Rehabilitation Counseling Inc. in Daleville. Tolley, a registered nurse, will provide medical case management to injured workers, and Eicher, a certified rehabilitation counselor, will provide vocational services. Cascade's administrative offices are in Vancouver, Wash.
INSURANCE
LISA E. KAYLOR has joined Agee & Associates, Nationwide Insurance agents in Roanoke, as office manager and customer service representative. Kaylor has 10 years of sales and service experience with Nationwide. She is licensed in property, casualty, life and health insurance.
DAVID ARGABRIGHT of Argabright Contractors has been elected chairman of the board of directors for the Virginia Contractors Group Self-Insurance Association. Other directors are JOHN WHITTLE, Thor Inc.; JIM MALLOY, Makco Inc.; VINCE PAVONE, Pavone Construction; ALE MACDONALD, Bruce Corp.; CHARLES CARY, Wingfield & Hundley Elevator; STIRLING WILLIAMSON, S.L. Williamson; and GLENN TURNER, KBS Inc.
MANUFACTURING
TOM MONROE has been named human resources manager for Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s Big Island mill. Monroe joined Georgia-Pacific in 1995 as a mill improvement specialist at the company's headquarters in Atlanta. He has 25 years of experience as a human resource manager in the paper industry with Georgia-Kraft and Inland Container in Rome, Ga.
NONPROFITS
Goodwill Industries Tinker Mountain Inc. in Salem has appointed several new board members: BOYD DICKENSON, retired from Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc.; DIANE LEACH, The Roanoke Times; NEIL GALLAGHER, chief executive officer of ITT Industries; HARRY HASKINS, Salem City Council; LAURA BINGHAM, vice president of development and external relations at Hollins College; RICHARD HEMBERGER, vice president of business affairs at Roanoke College; and MURRAY "DEKE" COULTER, partner at Brown, Edwards & Co.
TRAVEL
AND TOURISM
CATHERINE FOX, tourism development manager for the Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, has been elected president of Shenandoah Valley Travel Association. Fox has been on the board of directors, has been group tour committee chairman, Southern Region vice president and president elect of the association.
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 : 103 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: (headshots) Thomas, Garrett, Lowman, Shaw, Achenbach,by CNBHelms, Argabright, Monroe, Fox.