Aug 27, 1996

Voice-Tel

Andrew Pultorak has joined Voice-Tel as account executive. Previously he worked as an outside sales representative and landscape lighting specialist at Seattle Lighting Fixture Company. Located in Bellevue, Voice-Tel is an independent voice messaging company that gives its subscribers that ability to send, receive, store and respond to individual voice messages on a local-access basis, and to broadcast a single message to as many as 200 people simultaneously.

Virginia Mason

Thomas Lindquist, M.D., Ph. D. will join the ophthalmology department at Virginia Mason Medical Center starting September 3. Dr. Lindquist specializes in corneal transplantations, cataract surgery and eye reconstruction.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith, P.S.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith, P.S., a full service accounting firm, has made the following promotions. Walter Smith, CPA has been elected managing shareholder of the firm. Smith will retain his client practice, concentrating in tax planning for real estate and wealthy individuals. Mary Dickinson, CPA has been promoted to senior manager in the accounting and business advisory services department. Pamela Schille has been promoted to tax senior, and Kathy Besse will now be a senior in the audit department. Bader Martin Ross & Smith provides accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services to emerging and family held businesses in a variety of industries.

Seattle Art Museum

Jay Xu will join the Seattle Art Museum staff as Foster Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art this Fall. Xu currently is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a Ph. D. candidate in Chinese Art and Archaeology at Princeton, where he is specializing in the Chinese Bronze Age. As associate curator of Chinese Art, Xu will be responsible for exhibitions and installations, research and documentation concerning SAM's Chinese Art Collection. He also will be concerned with developing scholarly and public programs, working with collectors as they build and distribute their collections and broadening community awareness, interest and appreciation of Asian art.

Medina Children's Services

Medina Children's Services has hired David Kageyama as the agency's new development director. Kageyama will be managing the fundraising activities for the agency which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Medina Children's Services is a non-profit, non-sectarian agency that provides adoption services for all families, and all children, regardless of lifestyle, ethnicity or challenges. The agency also provides counseling for at risk youth through its ProjectSISTER and ProjectMISTER programs.

EvansGroup

Seattle-based EvansGroup Public Relations as made the following promotions and additions in its advertising and public relations departments. Andrea Bjornson has been promoted to assistant account manager in the account service department. She will work on the Ben Bridge Jeweler, Java City and Weyerhaeuser accounts. Kristin Larson joins account service as account manager. Kipepeo Brown has joined the EvansGroup as an account manager. She will work on the United Soybean Board account. Also joining the USB account as an account manager is Vicki Mastorides. The EvansGroup has been chosen to handle trade and consumer public relations to support the new national launch of Bellevue-based Advanced Radio Telecom (ART). ART deals in broadband wireless telecommunications.

Aug 23, 1996

Paccar Inc.

Robert Christensen has been promoted to general manager of Paccar Parts, a division of Paccar Inc. Christensen joined Paccar's Kenworth Truck Division in 1983. Most recently he served as assistant general manager. Edward Caudill has been promoted to vice president of purchasing for Paccar Inc. Caudill joined Paccar's Peterbilt Motors Division in 1988. Most recently he was the general manager for Paccar's Parts Division.

Seattle Arts Commission

Five Seattle citizen's have been appointed to two year terms with the Seattle Arts Commission. The new commissioners are Donna Gary Gogerty, Gogerty & Stark, Inc.; Merlee Kay Markishtum, Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art; Vivian Phillips-Scott, Seattle Landmark Association; Ronald Thomas, Community Design Exchange; H.S. Wright, III, Sprague Capital and Delta Airlines. The Seattle Arts Commission, a City of Seattle department, consists of 15 policymaking volunteer commissioners, appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by City Council, and a professional staff. The commission promotes public programs furthering development and public awareness of fine and performing arts in Seattle, and advances Seattle as an international center of artistic exploration.

Quality Meal Expediters

Quality Meal Expediters, a new full-service commercial production kitchen and conference center located at 1321 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, will have its grand opening on August 29. The new firm is owned and operated by Frank Russell, president and Audrey Givens, chief executive officer. Quality Meal Expediters provides top-quality meals and related food services to businesses, industries, institutions, individual residences and catered events of all sizes throughout the Puget Sound region. The conference center is a convenient, fully equipped meeting place for 10 to 200 guests at events such as business breakfasts, luncheons and formal dinners.

O.B. Williams Company

David Herrin has been appointed Outside Sales Manager for O.B. Williams Company, Seattle. He will present the company's extensive architectural woodworking capabilities to Architects, Designers and Builders throughout the Northwest and Pacific Rim regions. O.B. Williams is one of the oldest millwork firms in the U.S. now in its 107th year of continuous operation. The company is a founding member of the Architectural Woodwork Institute of North America.