ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 20, 1997 TAG: 9704180029
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: NAMES & CHANGES
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
SHELVA S. PAINTER, general registrar for Roanoke, has announced her retirement.
Painter joined the staff as an assistant registrar in 1981, was named acting general registrar in 1991 and was appointed general registrar in 1994.
Her replacement will be named by the Roanoke Electoral Board, a three-member panel appointed by Roanoke Circuit Court judges.
ACCOUNTING
RICHARD S. GARBEE, a partner at Salyer, Garbee and Co. with offices in Salem and Grundy, has been elected to the Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The council is the governing body of the AICPA, which has more than 330,000 members nationwide.
BANKING
Central Fidelity Bank has named STEPHEN T. RICE to its Southwestern Region board of directors. Rice is president and administrator of Friendship Manor and its affiliates and also president and administrator of Valley Management and its affiliates in Roanoke.
First American Federal Savings Bank has promoted ANDREA SAUNDERS to branch manager and assistant vice president of the bank's Williamson Road office in Roanoke. She formerly was a senior teller.
ROB NORVELLE has been promoted to vice president of First Union National Bank of Virginia. Norvelle, who joined the bank in 1977, manages First Union's South Roanoke Office.
CHRISTOPHER G. HESS has been appointed assistant vice president and zone manager of First Virginia Bank-Southwest's 11 branches in the Roanoke Valley. He joined First Virginia in 1988 and most recently managed the bank's Valley View Branch in Roanoke.
COLLEGES
SUSAN THOMAS, assistant professor of political science at Hollins College, has been awarded a grant by the board of the Fulbright Foundation in Norway and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarships board to lecture and conduct research in Norway. She will lecture at the University of Bergen on American government and will research the Norwegian welfare system. Also at Hollins, ALISON RIDLEY, assistant professor of Spanish, and DAVID D. DVORSCAK, assistant professor of theatre arts, have been promoted to the rank of associate professor effective July 1.
CONSTRUCTION
The Professional Construction Estimators Association has announced new officers for 1997-1998: DAVID BOTTS, Virginia Sprinkler Co., president; BUD McWHORTER, A.R. Burton Tech-nology Center, first vice president; RICH-ARD EVANS, Housing Associates, second vice president; CYNTHIA VARNEY, General Elevator Co. Inc., secretary; and JASON PRICE, Varney Electric Co. Inc., treasurer. BRAD ARCHER, BCE Construction Services, who is the past president, has been named national director and newsletter editor. Board members are CONNIE SMITH, Surfaces Inc.; BOB CAUDLE, American Door & Glass of S.W. Va. Inc.; and KIM DAVIS, Varney Electric Co.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
TIMOTHY A. CORDLE, WILSON P. "BILL" MOORE and JOSEPH M. SEARS JR., investment brokers in the Roanoke office of Scott & Stringfellow Inc., have been promoted to the position of assistant vice president. Moore joined the firm in 1991, and Cordle and Sears joined in 1993.
HEALTH CARE
DR. C. GREGORY LOCKHART, a Richmond thoracic surgeon, has been named chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of Virginia's Physician Network, a health care provider network owned by Virginia physicians which is joining with Minneapolis-based United HealthCare Corp. in the formation of a statewide health maintenance organization. Lockhart also is chairman of the board of directors of the HMO, United HealthCare of Virginia. K. MARSHALL COOK, a Rockville lawyer, has joined Virginia's Physician Network as its chief operating officer and general counsel. Cook formerly was deputy attorney general of Virginia and general counsel of the Medical Society of Virginia.
BETH BELL has been appointed director of referral development for Columbia Lewis-Gale's Center for Recovery in Salem. Bell previously was director of regional services for Father Martin's Ashley, a chemical dependency treatment program in Havre de Grace, Md.
The Bradley Free Clinic in Roanoke has elected officers for 1997: DR. JOHN M. GARVIN, Lewis-Gale Medical Center, president; DR. RANDALL R. RHEA, Carilion Family Medicine Parkway Physicians, vice president; CURTIS E. MILLS, Carilion Health System, secretary; J. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Carilion Health System, treasurer; DR. KEVIN C. KELLEHER, Lewis-Gale Clinic, medical director; THOMAS T. PALMER, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, counsel; JAMES W. HARKNESS, Tredegar Trust Co., member-at-large; and DR. SUE ELLEN ROCOVICH, Columbia Alleghany Regional Hospital, member-at-large.
NONPROFITS
The LOA Area Agency on Aging, which serves the Roanoke Valley and Alleghany Highlands, has elected new officers: BETTY TRUMBO, retired educator from Covington, president; RALPH WIEGANDT, Botetourt County lawyer, vice president/president-elect; SPUZZY DUCKWALL, Roanoke community volunteer, vice president; JOHN EURE, retired editor, Roanoke Times & World News, secretary; and ELIZABETH BOGLE, retired nurse from Roanoke County, treasurer. Elected to the board for a three-year term were: BOGLE; BRENDA HALE, Primerica Financial Services, Roanoke; and GRETCHEN SHINE, Cox Communications, Roanoke. The advisory council of LOA also elected officers and members: JOHN SABEAN, Blue Ridge Community Services, chairman; RAE CAMPBELL, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, vice chairman; and GENE CAMDEN, secretary. New members of the council are MAVIS FORD, JAKE HOLSINGER, DONNA NORVELL and PANZIE SAUNDERS.
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 24010.
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