Aug 21, 1995

Ethix

Ethix, a managed health care organization covering more than 250,000 people in Oregon and Washington, has added three new staff members. Jo Ann Steele, a registered nurse, has been appointed to the position of associate director of quality management for the company. Previously, Steele was director of QM operations at Wellpoint/Blue Cross of California. Marva Seeley has been hired as community sales representative. She has extensive experience in the banking, financial services and real estate development industries. And, Jan Jewett has been named small group sales manager. Prior to joining Ethix, Jewett worked as a manager for Guardian Life and New York Life.

Allen Nelson Turner & Co.

Timothy D. Beardsley has become a shareholder in Tacoma-based CPA firm Allen, Nelson, Turner & Co. Beardsley is a certified public accountant with over 22 years experience in public accounting. He joined Allen, Nelson, Turner & Co. in 1990, prior to which he practiced in Seattle and Tacoma, specializing in accounting and auditing services for various industries and businesses. Since 1978, his practice has included an emphasis in working with construction contractor.

Aug 18, 1995

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research

Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research has elected its new foundation board chairman and members. Martin Nelson Jr. has been appointed the new chairman of the board. Nelson also holds a seat on the center's board of trustees. He is the president and chief operating officer of Martin Nelson & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm in Seattle. New foundation board members include: Dr. Thomas Beck, Larry S. Dickenson, George O. Holland, and Bruce M. Pym. Beck has been the medical director of the Mountain States Tumor Institute in Boise, Idaho, since 1993. Since 1977, he has also been clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington. Dickenson is the vice president for International Sales, Asia/Pacific for Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. He joined Boeing in 1986, after holding top positions with Texas Air Corp. and McDonnell Douglas Corp. Holland is a chartered life underwriter whose specialities include tax planning, estate planning, and business life insurance. And, Pym is managing partner with the Seattle office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.

Crowley Services Inc.

Bill Scott has been promoted to manager of new business development for Seattle-headquartered specialized marine transportation services provider Crowley Marine Services Inc. He will be primarily responsible for continuing the company's penetration into Latin American markets. Scott has been with the firm for three years, most recently as the sales and marketing manager for Marine Response Alliance, a joint venture between Crowley Marine Services Inc. and other emergency response companies. He will continue to market Marine Response Alliance services to shipowners in addition to his new post.

Insurance Commissioner

OLYMPIA (AP) -- Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn has appointed former campaign worker Greg Scully as deputy commissioner for consumer protection. Scully has had the job since March, but the appointment was made official Wednesday, the Department of Personnel said. His salary is $63,504. Most recently, Scully coordinated the Senior Health Insurance Benefits Advisers for Senn. Known as SHIBA, the volunteer group helps senior citizens with health insurance problems and questions. Scully was a paid worker on Senn's 1992 campaign, Public Disclosure Commission records show. He also contributed cash and in-kind donations to her campaign.

Elgin Syferd Public Relations

Seattle-based Elgin Syferd Public Relations (ESPR) recently announced a restructuring and spin-off from communications firm Elgin Syferd/DDB Needham (ES/DDBN) to form an independent public relations firm under the leadership of newly named president David Marriott. Marriott is the former senior vice president/managing director of the public relations arm of ES/DDBN. In addition to becoming its own entity, ESPR has formed four divisions of communications expertise under the public relations umbrella: environmental public relations, headed by senior vice president/managing director Bob Frause; technology, led by vice president Dan Branley; sports marketing and events, led by senior vice president Dan McConnell; and international public relations, managed by senior vice president and associated managing director Jiande Chen. The 20-employee public relations firm earns annual revenues of more than $2.8 million.

Aug 17, 1995

Evans Group

Denise Gaffney has been named managing director of the consumer division of Evans Food Group, a part of Salt Lake City-based marketing communications firm EvansGroup Public Relations and the seventh-largest food PR agency in the nation. Gaffney comes from McKnight & Co. in Seattle, where she had been president since 1993. She joined McKnight as vice president in 1990, serving several food clients as well as clients in technical, biotech and environmental industries. Her work there won numerous awards, including international honors from the Public Relations Society of America and the Award for Marketing Excellence from Seafood Business magazine. She previously worked for EvansGroup from 1985 to 1990, rising from account manager to senior vice president and general manager of the Alaska office.

Dames & Moore

International engineering and environmental consultants Dames & Moore has announced the opening of a new office in Tacoma and appointed Laura Cooper as manager. Cooper has over 16 years of experience in the environmental business and has been a consultant for the past 5 years. She specializes in environmental management for industry and government. Previously, she was environmental program manager for the Port of Tacoma and a policy analyst with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. She is registered by the National Environmental Health Association as a hazardous substance professional.

Alaska Airlines

The board of directors of Seattle-based Alaska Airlines has announced the election of William S. Ayer as vice president of marketing and planning. Ayer had been senior vice president of operations for Horizon Air, Alaska's sister carrier. Over the past 13 years with Horizon, Ayer also served as vice president of marketing and planning, vice president of route planning, director of scheduling and manager of sales. Prior to that, he founded and served as president of Air Olympia, a local commuter carrier.

Journal American

BELLEVUE (AP) -- Tom Wolfe, an assistant managing editor at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, has been named managing editor of the Journal American in Bellevue. The newspaper also announced Tuesday the appointment of Joanne Plank as city editor. Wolfe, 39, is a University of Oregon graduate and worked at the Salem, Ore., Statesman-Journal, and the Loveland Daily Reporter Journal in Colorado. He has held a variety of positions, ranging from reporter to copy editor, news editor and features editor. Plank, 33, has been a reporter at the Journal American since 1992, most recently covering education. Previously, Plank worked as a reporter at The Seattle Times, the Daily Review in Hayward, Calif., and as city editor of the Alameda Times-Star in California. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

Texas Business Hall of Fame

Robert W. Decherd, James M. Moroney Jr. and the late Joe M. Dealey -- the current and past two CEOs, respectively, of A.H. Belo Corp., owners of Seattle-Tacoma's KIRO-TV -- will be inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame on Oct. 5 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. During the past 35 years, Dealey, Moroney and Decherd have overseen and facilitated the growth of A.H. Belo Corp., the largest media company and the oldest continuously operating business in the state of Texas. A.H. Belo's seven network-affiliated television stations reach more than 8 percent of the country's television households, and its principal newspapers, The Dallas Morning News, is now the seventh-largest newspaper in terms of daily circulation.