Dec 20, 1995

Lifestyles

Darrell Heath has joined Lifestyles, a Woodinville manufacturer of bathtubs and spas. He is responsible for plumber direct sales. Heath has more than 25 years of experience in the plumbing industry with 20 years spent in bathtub sales.

Pope Resources

George H. Folquet, president and chief executive officer of Pope Resources, is retiring on Dec. 31, capping a nearly 30-year career with the Pope & Talbot organization. In 1984 Folquet took helm of the publicly traded limited partnership, which has 78,000 acres of timberland and development property in the Puget Sound area of Washington state. He took the company public a year later. Folquet also served as Pope & Talbot Inc.'s chief financial officer between 1967 and 1984. During his tenure, the company's operations rose from $20 million in sales to $25 million in profits in 1979. He also put Pope & Talbot on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972.

The Traver Company

Seattle graphic design firm the Traver Company has relocated from downtown to Belltown. The company's new office is located in the Banner Building, 80 Vine Street. The company also announced that senior designer Nancy Kinnear has been promoted to manager of electronic and print production. Kinnear has been a designer at the firm for 12 years and has been electronic systems manager for five years.

Wilmer Communications Group

Katherine Park has joined Seattle's Wilmer Communications Group Inc., an advertising and marketing agency specializing in the hospitality and travel industry, as its new vice president/general manager. Park has 11 years of experience in the advertising and marketing business. She most recently served as vice president/marketing director for G.T. Rapp & Co. Previously, she was the account & media supervisor at Sellers, D'Arcy Mesius Benton & Bowles, in Honolulu, Hawaii. While in Honolulu, Park also worked at advertising agency Starr Seigle McCombs Inc. as administrator of special projects.

The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army will serve Christmas dinner for 500 hungry people on Monday, Dec. 25, from noon to 2 p.m., and needs your help putting food on the table. The public is asked to contribute turkeys, homemade pies, dinner rolls, breads and cookies, and deliver them from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Dec. 22-23, to the Salvation Army William Booth Center at 811 Maynard Ave. S., in Seattle. The Army also needs fresh oranges and apples, frozen mixed vegetables, canned fruits and vegetables, butter and coffee. Daypacks, sleeping bags and winter coats will also be accepted and given out to the homeless. For more information, call the Salvation Army William Booth Center at (206) 621-0145.

Dec 19, 1995

Lufthansa

Lufthansa German Airlines has appointed Erich Falkenberg as account manager for the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. For the past nine years, Falkenberg represented Lufthansa as regional sales manager in Seattle. He started to work with the airline in traffic and operations at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York 34 years ago. He then moved on to assume lead sales positions in Chicago, Indianapolis and Philadelphia, before returning to New York as district passenger sales manager and deputy area manager in 1981.

The Edgewater

Gregg Galuska has been named executive chef for Ernie's Grill at the Edgewater, a Seattle waterfront hotel. Previously, Galuska served as chef at Cucina! Cucina! in Kirkland and executive chef at Tollgate Hill Inn in Litchfield, Conn. In 1992, he was selected as one of "The 12 Best Country Inn Chiefs" by the James Beard Foundation.

Seattle University

Seattle University is currently seeking small businesses interested in receiving free advice during the winter quarter from their Small Business Institute, which begins Wednesday, January 3 and ends Saturday, March 16. The institute provides teams of business students which conduct in-depth consulting at no charge. Student teams conduct an analysis of the business, help develop a business plan, and help with strategic planning. Each student team is supervised by a faculty member and a business mentor. To be eligible, a business must have fewer than 50 employees, have been in business for more than one year, and be able to provide information on its operations for a minimum six-month period. The institute handles approximately 50 cases a year. Cases are selected by the students based on their interests and needs of the business owners. Cases not selected this winter will be considered for spring quarter. For more information, call the Albers School of Business and Economics Entrepreneurship Center at (206) 296-5730.

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Jeffrey Bentley has been appointed managing director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Bentley currently serves as executive director of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He has worked in the dance field for several years, holding such positions as executive director of DanceAspen in Colorado, executive director of Eugene Ballet, and general manager of the Dance center of Columbia College in Chicago. From 1974 to 1981, he was the administrative director of the Seattle Repertory Theater.

Bellevue Community College

The Bellevue Community College Foundation has added four new members to its board of directors. They are: Virginia Allison, a retiree who volunteers for the Seattle Repertory Theater; Ronald Brown, a self-employed real estate investor; Glenn Johnson, vice president for Horizon Air/Regional Airline, and Toni Richmond, a volunteer currently active with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, College Baseball Classic, Treehouse Foundation Advisory Board and Seattle Art Museum.

GSPOC

Bellevue-based Greater Seattle Prosthetic & Orthotic Center Inc. (GSPOC) has been sold to NovaCare, a New York exchange company headquartered in King of Prussia, Pa, forming the largest prosthetic firm in the nation. NovaCare will utilize GSPOC's existing personnel and management to expand throughout the state of Washington. Part of the attraction of GSPOC to NovaCare was the quality of the company personnel who are experts in materials, manufacturing, diabetic care, gait analysis, and fitting and custom fabrication of artificial limbs and braces of all types.

GNA

Seattle-based GNA Corp., a diversified financial services holding company, has appointed John Howard to director of marketing for its brokerage sales group. Howard was previously program director for the GNA managed investment program at CrossLand Federal Savings Bank in New York, where he managed a sales force of 20 investment specialists for the past year. Prior to that, he was a product manager and regional account manager for GNA in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.