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Published: July 13, 2008
Updated: 07/11/2008 08:25 pm
■ The Calloway School of Business and Accountancy at Wake Forest University has established the Jack E. Wilkerson Jr. Scholarship, which will be awarded annually to an undergraduate business major. Jack Wilkerson, the dean of the Calloway School for 12 years, stepped down from the post June 30. Wilkerson, who remains on the Wake Forest faculty but is taking a yearlong sabbatical, will be a visiting scholar this fall at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Palo Alto, Calif. Under a realignment of Wake Forest's business schools, Steve Reinemund, the former chairman and chief executive officer at PepsiCo, became dean of the Calloway School and the Babcock Graduate School of Management on July 1. He also will be professor of leadership and strategy.
■ U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, R-6th, has been named a "Friend of the Shareholder" by the American Shareholders Association. The award was given for Coble's votes in favor of stockholders during the first session of the 110th Congress. The favorable votes included price controls on Medicare prescription medicines, denying workers their right to a private ballot when voting on unionization, and preventing tax increases. The association represents the interest of people who own stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
■ Cameron Aydlett-Cochran has achieved the professional designation of Certified Financial Planner practitioner through the College of Financial Planning. She has been employed as a para-planner with Triad Financial Advisors Inc. in Greensboro since 2001.
■ Betsy Crone of Greensboro has been honored as the School Library Media Coordinator of the Year. The award is given by the Guilford Association of School Librarians. Crone is a media coordinator at Southeast Middle School in Greensboro.
■ These partners with the law firm of Wyatt Early Harris Wheeler in High Point have received honors: A. Doyle Early has received the Citizen Lawyers Award from the N.C. Bar Association. Citizen lawyers provide exemplary service to their communities in a variety of ways. Kim W. Gallimore has been elected to the bar association's board of governors for a three-year term. David N. Woods has been elected to the association's Real Property Section Council for a three-year term.
■ Forsyth Medical Center is one of two hospitals in the nation to receive the 2008 VHA Leadership Award for Superior System Performance in providing high-quality care in four key clinical areas that include treatment for heart attacks, prevention of surgical infection, treatment for congestive heart failure and treatment for pneumonia. Forsyth Medical Center was recognized for clinical excellence in treating patients with pneumonia, primarily in an intensive-care setting. Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte was the other VHA member hospital to be recognized for superior system performance in 2008. Both hospitals are affiliated with Novant Health. VHA is a national health-care alliance that serves more than 1,400 nonprofit hospitals and more than 21,000 nonacute healthcare organizations nationwide.
■ Goco Construction has been selected for the 2008 Best of Winston-Salem Award in the Home Improvements category by the U.S. Local Business Association. The award program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. The association is based in Washington, D.C.
■ Horn & Stronach Marketing and Public Relations received seven national for excellence in the Health Care Marketing Report's 2008 National Advertising Competition. This is the 18th consecutive year that Horn & Stronach has won awards in the competition. The 2008 awards were: Gold awards for its Forsyth Medical Center Life Directions Cookbook; Forsyth Medical Center's KidSmart program; its total public relations program for Forsyth Medical Center's Medical Park Hospital, Clemmons. It won a Bronze Award for its Alamance Regional Medical Center BirthPlace patient handbook. Two Merit Awards were given for its Forsyth Medical Center Sara Lee Center for Women's Health newsletter and its Alamance Regional Medical Center, "An Ounce of Prevention" newspaper advertisement.
■ R. Milton Howell III has been elected to a second term as chairman of the tax committee of the N.C. Association of Certified Public Accountants. Howell is a CPA and CSEP with Davenport, Marvin, Joyce and Company LLP in Greensboro. He recently spoke in favor of repealing the North Carolina gift-tax system to the N.C. House of Representatives and the N.C. Senate Finance Committee.
■ Dell Corporation has named Robert Leun of Winston-Salem a Dell Individual Community Champion for his volunteer work with the Tarheel Triad Council of the Girl Scouts. Leun has served as cookie manager for Troop 239 for the 2008 Cookie Program. He wrote a letter last year to Girl Scout donors about his volunteer work with the Girl Scouts.
■ C. Douglas Maynard Jr., a member of the law firm of Maynard & Harris Attorneys at Law PLLC in Winston-Salem, was recently admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His sister, Deanne Maynard, an attorney with the U.S. Solicitor General's office and a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, moved his admission in open court and it was granted by Chief Justice John Roberts.
■ Dr. Steven Nichtberger, the president and chief executive of Tengion Inc., has won the Ernst & Young Greater Philadelphia Entrepreneur Of The Year award in the Life Sciences category. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards program recognizes leaders and visionaries who are creating and building world-class businesses. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Tengion is a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of neo-organs and neo-tissues.
■ QHR, a hospital-management company, recently recognized Northern Hospital of Surry County in Mount Airy for "Best Overall Performance" in the category of hospitals with $40 million to $100 million net revenue. "Northern Hospital has developed an exceptional team at their hospital by building and maintaining relationships with both the medical staff and board of trustees," said James L. Horrar, the president and chief executive of QHR.
■ Robert S. Parker, a vice president in Home and Community Health at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has been named to the board of directors of the N.C. Prevention Partners. N.C. Prevention Partners is a nonprofit group that develops programs that support good nutrition, physical activity and not using tobacco.
■ Salem Neurological Center in Winston-Salem celebrates 15 years. The company was founded by Dr. Edward G. Hill Jr. on July 3, 1993. Salem Neurological Center also offers patient care at satellite locations in Kernersville and King.
■ SilkRoad Technology Inc. in Winston-Salem has been positioned in the "Challengers" quadrant in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software." Gartner evaluated 23 vendors who have "more than 100 e-recruitment software customers with more than 1,000 employees, more than $25 million in total revenue -- license, maintenance and services -- or both."
■ Tencarva Machinery Co. in Greensboro advanced nine places from 46th to 37th in the recent rankings by Industrial Distribution's "2008 Big 50" list of top U.S.-based distributors in terms of sales and earnings. Tencarva is a distributor of fluid-handling, compressed-air and vacuum systems and related products. Tencarva's 2007 sales increased to $150.7 million, up from $124 million in 2006.
■ Truliant Federal Credit Union has been honored with two national television awards in the 29th Annual Telly Awards competition. The two awards recognize television commercials produced by the credit union's advertising agency, Jennings. Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards honor outstanding television commercials from the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators and corporate video departments in the world.
■ The N.C. Bar Association, in conjunction with the NCBA Foundation's Public Service Advisory Committee, has awarded the Younger Lawyer Pro Bono Service Award to Georgiana L. "Georgi" Yonuschot of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC in Winston-Salem. The award was established by the NCBA Young Lawyers Division in 2001 to promote pro-bono activities among young or newly practicing attorneys.
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