PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Accounting

		Person of the Week Edward Weatherly Job: Executive director, Three Rivers Employment Service Inc., and founder/president, Jazz 100, a fine-arts publishing company. Ambition: To design our own technology center, which would house our training programs. First job: Newspaper distributor, age 9. Hardest job/Why? Executive director. It is truly a blessing to be employed in today's volatile working environments. The ability to develop employment training techniques also is a blessing. Biggest work challenge ever: Exhausting energies to secure much needed corporate, foundation and private funding in order to provide employment, placement and retention training services to low- to middle-income individuals can most often be a discouraging challenge. Favorite stock/mutual fund: None. Away from work: Usher board of Mount Ararat Baptist Church; jazz connoisseur, avid traveler, trail bike rider, horseback rider. And I navigate various waterways on my high performance personal watercraft. Dream vacation: A one-year vacation around the world with my significant other, children and grandchild. Favorite Book: "The Bible," and "The Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison. If I won the Lottery, I'd: Tithe as my commitment to my Lord and finance a technology center designed and equipped to provide the aforementioned employment training and an array of community services.

Andrew M. Gracan joined Schneider Downs Wealth Management Advisors as business development regional manager, employee benefit advisory services.

KFMR Katz Ferraro McMurtry P.C hired Michael J. Catanese as manager, information technology solutions.

Advertising

Blattner Brunner hired Jill Trimble as associate creative director/art director.

Architecture

Gerrod Winston and Steven Albert joined Perfido Weiskopf Architects as intern architects.

Associations/Organizations

Michael G. Bock, a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis in the firm's Pittsburgh office and chair of the firm's Construction Law Practice, was appointed chair of division 1 of the American Bar Association forum on the construction industry for a two-year term.

Society for Marketing Professional Services named officers and board, 2004-05. President: Elizabeth Bowers, Elizabeth Bowers Construction Services; vice president/program chair: Gil Brindley, Dick Corp.; secretary: Anne Davis, KSBA Architects; treasurer: Susan Traub; education chair: Jackee Ging, Burt Hill Kossar Rittelmann; coordinator club chair: Amanda Toth, Renaissance III; sponsorship chair: Mike Doerfler, Wellington Power; membership chair: Alyssa Pike, Crawford Consulting; communications chair: Nick Traub, Nicholas Traub Photography; and past president: Diana Rudoy, KPMG.

Banking, Finance

David W. Kramer joined Gateway Bank as vice president-credit manager.

Randy T. Patterson was named vice president of business banking for Gateway Bank of Pennsylvania.

Construction

Limbach Holdings LLC appointed Charles A. Bacon III president and chief executive officer of Limbach Facility Services LLC.

Consulting

Esther M. McGinnis was named a stockholder at Gannett Fleming. She is a vice president and office manager based in the firm's Valley Forge office.

Development Dimensions International hired Naina Bishop as a senior consultant.

Law

Bruce C. Fox joined Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel as partner in the litigation department, Pittsburgh office, concentrating on corporate and commercial litigation.

Pepper Hamilton said Alan K.Sable, a real estate transactional lawyer, joined the firm as a partner, Pittsburgh office.

Burns White & Hickton named Sheila M. Burke a member of the firm, focusing on professional malpractice and general insurance defense litigation.

Nonprofit

YMCA of Pittsburgh appointed John V. Cardone of the YMCA of South Hampton Roads, Va., executive director and district vice president.

Public Agencies

Jeffrey W. Letwin, managing partner of the Pittsburgh office of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, was elected to the Greater Pittsburgh Convention and Visitor's Bureau board.

Reprographics

Print-O-Stat Inc. appointed Adam Willson branch manager of its Cranberry office.

Elsewhere

Pittsburgh native Aislinn Brackman was named marketing assistant at King & King Architects, Manlius, N.Y.

COMPANY NEWS

Bankruptcies

BNB & Provision Supply Co. Inc., 3905 Ashland Court, Allison Park. Chapter 11.

Strip District Grill & Deli Inc., 220 Mars-Valencia Road, Mars. Chapter 11.

Stinson Inc., 11 Stanwix St., Suite 1024, Pittsburgh. Chapter 11.

Wilcard Inc., 1002 Philadelphia Ave., Northern Cambia. Chapter 7.

New Life Community Baptist Church, 712 Hawkins Ave., Braddock. Chapter 7.

Certified Pure Ingredients LLC, 510 1/2 Beaver St., Sewickley. Chapter 7.

Certified Pure Ingredients Inc., 510 1/2 Beaver St., Sewickley. Chapter 7.

Awards/Honors

Brad Messner, I.S. coordinator, Corazon Consulting, was honored for community service at the "Make the Connection Awards Luncheon," sponsored by the National Association of Women Business Owners. Messner's work at the Sewickley Township Public Library earned him the recognition.

The University of Pittsburgh awarded Stella Smetanka the Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award for 2004. Smetanka is a clinical associate professor of law at the university and president of the executive committee, KidsVoice. The awardee is selected by peers and presented each year to a faculty member for exceptional public service contributions. Each award consists of a $2,000 prize for the faculty member and a $3,000 grant for his or her public service organization or activities.

Verizon Wireless has been ranked No. 20 in Training magazine's 2004 list of "Top 100 Training Organizations in America."

Brady Communications was showcased in the American Institute of Graphic Arts Pittsburgh 100 for three projects, one of which won the People's Choice Award.

Keith H. West and William M. Wycoff, partners in the Pittsburgh office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, were named Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

Thomas M. Joseph, The Mony Group's Mony Life Insurance Co. and Mony Securities Corp., was named a 2003 Top Club Award recipient.

Alan Lantzy, president of the Pittsburgh Pediatric Society, received the Pittsburgh Business Times 2004 Health Care Hero Provider-Physician award.

BodyMedia Inc. received one of 28 awards in this year's 2004 international Medical Design Excellence Awards, recognized as the premier awards program for the health and medical technology community. Sponsored by Medical Device & Diagnostics Industry magazine, the awards honor the world's most innovative products changing the face of health care.

Alvin Rogal, chairman, Hilb Rogal & Hobbs of Pittsburgh, was honored at a reception by The Pittsburgh Foundation for his many years as a board member.

Bayer Corp. received the American Heart Association's first Heart of Pittsburgh award for its support of community and cultural activities.

George J. Zimmerman, associate professor and chair of the department of instruction and learning in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education, received the 2004 Outstanding Service Award from the Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Buchanan Ingersoll said 17 of its attorneys were honored by peers and selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. Those honored were Thomas Boyle, Samuel Braver, George Cass, Cal Harvey, Mark Hornak, Robert Johnson, Francis Muracca II, Wendelynne Newton, Larry Phillips, P. Jerome Richey and Thomas Thompson, all in the Pittsburgh office; Steven Bizar, Howard Scher, Antoinette Stone and Thomas Tammany, Philadelphia office; and Eugene Dice and Jonathan Vipond, Harrisburg. Additionally, four were named as those among the top attorneys in Pennsylvania. Boyle, Hornak and Thompson were named in the Top 50 in Pittsburgh, and Scher, among the Top 100 in Pennsylvania and Top 100 in Philadelphia.

WesMark Growth Fund, managed by WesBanco Investment Department, a division of WesBanco Bank, was awarded Lipper's 2003 Performance Achievement Certificate as top-performing Large Cap Core Fund for the five-year period ended Dec. 31, 2003. The fund ranked No. 1 out of 610 Large Cap Core Funds tracked by Lipper based on total return. For the one- and five-year periods ended March 31, the fund ranked 35 out of 1,025 funds and 1 out of 626 funds, respectively.

Mark J. Mendicino, financial adviser, Parker/Hunter Inc., earned membership in the 2004 Leadership Council for PLANCO, a wholesaler of investment and insurance products for The Hartford. Leadership Council members produce more thanr $1 million in Hartford Leaders sales in a year.

Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. said Arthur D. Miltenberger, retired chief investment officer of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, received the 2004 Hirtle Callaghan Award for Investment Leadership. Hirtle Callaghan will make a cash grant of $50,000 to the Rodney L. White Center, The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, to fund independent capital markets research in Miltenberger's name.

Dollar Bank's top monthly producers for March include Randy Davis, executive mortgage representative, award for highest dollar amount of loans closed; John A. Webster, executive mortgage representative, award for highest unit count of loans closed.

Legend Financial Advisors Inc. said James J. Holtzman received certified financial planner designation by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc.

Robert B. Williams, senior and founding partner, Williams Coulson, received the Allied Professional of the Year Award from the Pittsburgh Planned Giving Council. The APY award recognizes a regional financial or legal adviser who promotes philanthropy both professionally and personally.

Faith Morrison, tax department manager, Cottrill Arbutina Professional Services, received her license as a certified public accountant from the Pennsylvania State Board

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