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By Fran Daniel | Journal Reporter

Published: October 19, 2008

Updated: 10/18/2008 08:00 pm

■ Chris Fuller is among a group of Allstate insurance agents who recently earned the "Personal Financial Representative" title. He will be able to provide his customers with variable-annuity, variable-life and mutual-fund products, in addition to auto, homeowner and traditional life-insurance products. Fuller is the owner of the Fuller & Associates Agency at 930 Burke St. in Winston-Salem.

■ The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts said that Suri Bieler, Kevin M. Brooks, Eric Gutierrez, Emil J. Kang and Mandy Patinkin have joined the institute's board of advisers. Bieler, a former prop master on Broadway, founded Eclectic/Encore Properties, which carries an extensive collection of furnishings and party-decor items. Brooks is the principal staff researcher/technology storyteller for Motorola Inc. Gutierrez, an author, journalist and screenwriter, has explored stories on issues of cultural, spiritual and popular significance, primarily to Latin, lesbian and gay, and religious communities for publications worldwide. Kang is UNC Chapel Hill's first executive director for the arts, a senior administrative post created to help unify and elevate the performing arts at the university. Patinkin, an actor and singer, won a Tony Award in his 1980 Broadway debut for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role in Sunday in the Park with George, a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.

■ Mack Trucks Inc. has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the company's success in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions throughout its operations. Mack, a member of the Volvo Group, plans to move its headquarters and some support functions from Allentown, Pa., to Greensboro next year.

■ The Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNC Greensboro has been named an outstanding business school, according to the Princeton Review. The education-services company, based in New York, featured the Bryan School in the just-published 2009 edition of its Best 296 Business Schools.

In its profile of the Bryan School, the Princeton Review editors describe the school as providing an MBA program at "a very good price" taught by "a tremendous faculty," among other things.

■ Jan Allison of Carolina On-Site Fleet Services in Winston-Salem was one of 10 winners chosen by Make Mine A Million $ Business, a business-growth program, at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte on Oct. 7. Female entrepreneurs from North Carolina and South Carolina competed for business development packages that included money, marketing, mentoring and technology assistance to help their businesses grow into million-dollar enterprises.

■ Karl Sherrill of Senn Dunn Insurance in Greensboro is a member of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina's Young Agents Committee, which recently won the "National Outstanding Young Agents Committee of the Year" Award for the third consecutive time. The National Young Agents Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America presented the award.

■ Two patient navigators from the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have been accepted in the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute and Certification Program in New York. Robin Lewis and Mary Flowers are breast-care-patient navigators who work in the Breast Care Center. This program admits only a select few from a pool of applicants from cancer centers across the United States.

■ The Public Relations Society of America has honored the Tar Heel chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for achieving the second-highest growth rate in the nation among chapters of comparable size. The society is an organization for public relations professionals. The Tar Heel Chapter, which serves the Triad and Western North Carolina, has grown from 93 members to 128 since January -- an increase of more than 25 percent. The chapter credits Teresa Loflin, its vice president of membership, for much of the growth. She will be recognized with free tuition and travel to the society's national convention Oct. 25-28 in Detroit.

■ These drivers from North Carolina UPS are among 692 nationwide newly inducted into the Circle of Honor, an honorary organization for UPS drivers who have achieved 25 or more years of accident-free driving: David Antczak of Greensboro; David Blake of Trinity; Marshall Chambers III of Greensboro; Thomas Hope Jr. of Greensboro; Donna Kearns of Archdale; Thomas Lewis of Whitsett and John Yeattes III of Greensboro, Greensboro hub; James Houser of Conover; Kimberly Johnson of Clemmons; Wayne Mitchell of Walkertown; Christopher Plemmons of Clemmons and Jerry Whittington of Lexington, Winston-Salem building; and Bruce Talley of High Point.

■ Resource Associates Corp. of Wyomissing, Pa., has appointed Corliss McGinty and her company, Soft Solutions Consulting, as one of its newest certified individuals within the company's international network of senior-level business and executive development affiliates. Soft Solutions Consulting is based in Greensboro.

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