Nov 06, 1995

EvansGroup

Seattle-based EvansGroup Public Relations, the largest PR firm in the state, has acquired Communication Northwest Inc., a local agency specializing in crisis and public affairs counseling for financial institutions, high-tech firms, health care providers, professional service firms and agricultural producers. Communication Northwest President R. Danner Graves will join EvansGroup Public Relations as executive vice president and general manager of its Corporate Communications division. He will report directly to Andy Hopson, president of EvansGroup Public Relations. Graves brings with him two employees and eight clients with nearly $500,000 in business. EvansGroup Pubic Relations, a division of Salt Lake City-based EvansGroup, hopes to have $10 million in billings by the year 2000. The company purchased Hartman Public Relations in May.

IDD Aerospace

James Van Osdol, previously general manager of the Redmond-based Illuminated Displays Division of Bell Industries, has been named president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors following its acquisition by IDD Aerospace Corp., a manufacturer and designer of lighted displays, keyboards and integrated switch panels. The division will now be known as IDD Aerospace, a subsidiary of the French company Groupe Intertechnique.

Clover Park Technical College

Tacoma's Clover Park Technical College (CPTC) will honor the first group of graduates in the state to have met requirements for a new technical degree. The graduation ceremonies will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Lakewood Senior Center located on the CPTC campus. Three students from the Accountant Program and 22 students from the Environmental Technician Program will be awarded technical degrees. Clover Park is the first technical college in the state to offer technical degrees in any of its training programs. At least 15 of the college's 67 programs will offer such degrees by mid-1996.

Sun Sportswear

Mike Kovacs has been named vice president of manufacturing at Sun Sportswear, a Kent-based designer and imprinter of casual garments for children and adults. Previously, Kovacs served as director of manufacturing and as plant manager. Before joining Sun Sportswear in 1991, he was vice president of engineering at MicroDisk Services in Woodinville.

CF2GS

Seattle advertising agency CF2GS has hired six people and promoted one member of its staff. Recent hires are: Joelle Stocks, account executive; Sheryl Saks, production manager; Nani Paape, production manager; Stacie Sauder, traffic coordinator; Nicole Michels, creative assistant; and Michele F. Green, accounting assistant. Todd Myers has been transferred from the Portland office to be an assistant media buyer.

Francis & Co.

Dale L. Gerboth has joined Francis & Co., a certified public accounting and management consulting firm based in Seattle, as director of accounting and auditing services. Gerboth previously was a lecturer in accounting at University of Washington, and prior to that, a principal and partner at Arthur Young/Ernst & Young, New York. He has also held management positions with the American Institute of CPAs and the Research and Technical Activities Division of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Whitman College

Whitman College has promoted John Bogley, previously associate director of admission in charge of the Seattle office, to director of admission for the Walla Walla university. Bogley is a former student of the college and graduated magna cum laude from Whitman in 1985. Following graduation, he served three years as a Whitman admission officer. He then spent five years as director of admission at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma before returning to Whitman.

Tree Top

Tree Top, a grower-owned cooperative with plant facilities in Selah, Cashmere and Wenatchee, has acquired dried apple processing company Sun Ridge Foods Inc. of Sunnyside. The management teams of both companies are currently working out a plan for the most efficient merger of the two operations.

The Fearey Group

Seattle-based public relations and marketing communications firm The Fearey Group has appointed Michael Flynn as account executive. Flynn formerly worked as public relations coordinator at the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and as sports writer and stringer for The Bellingham Herald.

National Frozen Foods

Dick Grader, vice president of sales for National Frozen Foods Corp., a Seattle packer and processor of frozen foods, has been appointed a board director for the American Frozen Institute in McLean, Va. Grader has been involved with the American Frozen Food Institute for many years, most recently as chairman of American Frozen Foods "5 A Day Program." He is also current chairman of the Western Frozen Foods Convention. National Frozen Foods also announced that Don Rees, its director of retail sales, has been appointed board director of the National Frozen Food Association, Harrisburg, Pa. Rees currently serves as the co-chairman of the 1996 National Frozen Food Convention.