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Published: July 20, 2008
Brant Armentrout has been promoted to director of valuation services at ComStock Advisors. He joined ComStock Advisors in 1999, and is a director in the company's Winston-Salem office. Armentrout is a graduate of Wake Forest University and a CFA charter holder, as well as a candidate member of the American Society of Appraisers.
Rachel Scott Decker has joined Carruthers & Roth P.A. as an associate to practice law in the area of litigation. She has experience with nursing-home matters and personal-injury litigation.
Before joining Carruthers & Roth, P.A., she was an associate with Ward Black Law in Greensboro. Decker graduated from UNC and received her law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1995.
Tomorris Horne has joined PostMark Inc., a direct-mail services company in Winston-Salem, as an account representative. His previous sales experience includes ADT and the Winston-Salem Journal.
Pamela O. Hunt, Steve Myatt, Karl Sherrill and Kennita Woodard have joined Senn Dunn, an independent insurance agency in Greensboro.
Hunt will be a personal-insurance account manager in the Personal Insurance Division. Myatt will be a commercial account manager, Sherrill a commercial account executive, and Woodard
a commercial insurance associate.
Kate McCaully has been promoted to development associate at Crisis Control Ministry. McCaully has been with Crisis Control for four years and was previously the community-relations assistant. In her new position, she will maintain the donor database, examine giving trends and work on the ministry's annual appeals and campaigns. She will continue to be responsible for the quarterly newsletter.
Philip O'Brate has joined Miller Landscape Architecture P.A. in Winston-Salem. O'Brate has degrees in landscape architecture and natural resources and environmental sciences from Kansas State University.
He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Dr. Daniel J. Pearce has been named an assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
He is a native of Hickory and received his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in dermatology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Pearce's clinical interests include Mohs micrographic surgery, dermatologic surgery, skin cancer, pigmented lesions, dermatopathology, general dermatology and epidemiology of skin disease.
Michael Powers has been named a project manager for Frank L. Blum Construction Co. He was a project manager for Emerald Construction Co. of Richmond. He has also been a project manager for Hogan Construction Group and a project engineer for Van Winkle & Company, both of Atlanta.
Powers has a bachelor's degree in construction management from Southern Polytechnic State University.
Terrie Reeves has joined the Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNC Greensboro as an associate professor of health care administration.
She will be the first faculty member in health-care administration at the Bryan School.Before coming to UNCG, Reeves was an assistant professor at the Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her research focuses on the successful outcomes in health-service organizations, and organizational belief and value systems and their impact on institutions.
She has been published extensively in management and health-care journals and has contributed to health-care strategic management textbooks.
Reeves has a doctorate in administration health services/strategy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an MBA from New York University.
Joti Sekhon has been named director of the Office of International Programs at Winston-Salem State University.
Sekhon has been a professor of sociology at Greensboro College since 1991 and the college's director of International Studies since 1995. She has also taught at UNC Greensboro, Guilford College and Salem College.
Sekhon has written extensively about development issues around the world, with an emphasis on women's issues. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Delhi and a master's degree from Jawaharal Nehru University, both in New Delhi, India. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
Currently, Sekhon is researching the sport of cricket. The focus is on a comparative analysis of the cultural and political significance and development of cricket in India and the West Indies within the context of colonialism, post-colonialism and globalization.
Phillip Jeter has been named chairman of the Department of Mass Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences at Winston-Salem State University.
Jeter will be responsible for the faculty and students in the department and student recruitment.
He has a bachelor's degree from Johnson C. Smith University, a master's degree in Professional Studies in journalism from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Most recently, Jeter has been a journalism professor at Middle Tennessee State University. He has also had teaching and administrative jobs at Florida A&M University.
Michelle B. Releford has been appointed dean of the University College at Winston-Salem State University.
Releford will be responsible for increasing student retention and success by providing first-year students with help adjusting to college.
Releford has a bachelor's degree from Albany State College in Albany, Ga. She received her master's degree in education from Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., and her doctorate in education from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.
She comes to WSSU from Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Fla., where she was vice president for student development and enrollment management.
Dianne Welsh has joined the Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNG Greensboro as the Charles A. Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship. She will begin at UNCG in the fall semester.
She comes to UNCG from the University of Tampa where she was the James W. Walter Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship and director of the Florida Entrepreneur and Family Business Center.
Welsh's awards include the Distinguished Service Award from the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, the Distinguished Educator Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the CenturyTel Foundation Faculty Achievement Award from Eastern Washington University.
Welsh is the founding editor-in-chief of Franchising Research: An International Journal, the first journal on franchising. She is a co-editor of many books on global franchising, including two books on international franchising in emerging markets and two on industrialized markets.
Welsh earned a doctorate in administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Anne Wear has been named vice president of media relations for McNeill Communications Group Inc. She will be responsible for overseeing media relations, strategic event planning, and client research for the agency.
Wear has more than 10 years experience in the public-relations field working with firms such as the Quixote Group LLC and Trone Public Relations in Greensboro. She has experience in a variety of industries including health care, food, fashion and automotive. She has also worked as a TV news
producer at WGHP-TV in High Point.
Wear has bachelor's degrees in broadcast journalism and French from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Sandy Wetherhold has joined Yost & Little Realty Inc. in its Winston-Salem office. Wetherhold has more than 20 years experience in real estate.
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