PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

		Profile of the Week Rose Gabbianelli • Job: Senior vice president and director, Corporate Affairs, Mellon Financial Corp. • Age: 46 • Ambitions: To continue to be successful and happy, keeping my priorities in balance. • First job: A paper route selling the "GRIT" weekly newspaper. • Hardest job/why?: Working with CBS management to help in selling the industrial businesses of Westinghouse. I worked there for 20 years and it was difficult to see the corporation and its employees go through such radical change. • Biggest work challenge ever: Communicating the sale of Mellon's retail banking business to Citizens to all affected audiences was a great challenge but very rewarding -- a win-win for employees, clients, shareholders and the community. • Favorite stock/mutual fund: Dreyfus Appreciation Fund. • Away from work I: Cook, go to Notre Dame games (my husband and his three sons went/go there), do wine tastings, try new restaurants, enjoy family gatherings. • Dream vacation: Two months in Tuscany with my husband. • Favorite book: "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. • If I won the Lottery, I'd: Pay the kids' tuition, be generous to our families and the causes we support, and enjoy life.

Advertising

Blattner Brunner hired Jeanine Leech, senior designer, Tracy DeLucia, senior account services/traffic manager, and Cora Ferraro, proofreader/traffic coordinator, all in its design services department.

Architecture

KSBA Architects hired Christina Vincent as an intern architect.

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Lisa Aunkst was named community sales director for Atria South Hills.

Banking, Finance

Kevin McCarthy joined Parkvale Bank as investment portfolio manager.

Mellon Financial Corp.'s Human Resources & Investor Solutions business named Jay Lewis market leader for its Pittsburgh office region, covering Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and eastern Ohio.

Communications/ Public Relations

Kathy Stackhouse was promoted to senior vice president at Jampole Communications.

FSC Marketing Communications promoted Carrie Hucko to assistant account executive and hired Meghan Foy, Erica Jackson and Jessica Lardinais as account associates.

Consulting

Julie Hogan, marketing manager, joins Development Dimensions International's headquarters in Pittsburgh from the DDI-APIL office in Australia.

Design

Doug Zappi Dzign hired Jodi Sysyn Myers as vice president/account management.

Health and Medicine

Calvin J. Miller, M.D., was named assistant director, emergency services at Alle-Kiski Medical Center.

Monongahela Valley Hospital appointed Deborah S. Castner director of pharmacy.

Nancy Wolfe Kinder was named membership services director at Monongahela Valley Hospital's Center for Fitness and Health.

David J. Dattilo was named director of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital.

Law

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott said Tara L. Pfaeffle joined as an associate. She practices in all areas of intellectual property law.

Michelle L. Gorman joined Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon as an associate and a member of the litigation defense practice group in the Steubenville, Ohio, office.

Cohen & Grigsby elected Anne M. Lavelle director in the labor and employment group.

Warren J. Archer has joined Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling as a shareholder in the Pittsburgh office. He is a member of the corporate practice group.

Nonprofit

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust named Marc L. Fleming vice president of marketing and communications and Paul J. Organisak vice president of programming.

Lauren Kintner and Sophie Nassif joined Friends of Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti as associate directors.

Robert D. German, co-managing partner, Sherrard, German & Kelly, has begun serving a two-year term as chairman of the board of directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.

Technology

Haley Systems Inc. hired Bob Cooper as vice president of worldwide sales and service.

Paetec Communications said Thomas Ross has joined as senior account executive.

Ripple Effects Interactive hired Greg DiMedio, account supervisor; Erin Traynor, account executive; Ed Shin, interactive designer; and Julie Young, proofreader.

Elsewhere

The Savannah Sand Gnats, Class A affiliate of Washington, D.C., Baseball, said Kevin A. Gray, a native of Washington Township, joined as director of public relations. Gray is a graduate of Kiski Area High School.

New Business/ New Offices

Samuel A. Landman and Russell G. Roll, principals of Landman, Roll and Associates, have formed a financial consulting firm, LRA Advisors, located at 912 Western Ave., Pittsburgh. The firm provides consulting services in life insurance, family wealth management, retirement planning, multigeneral planning and charitable giving.

Virginia S. Berger and Dr. Robert C. DeWitt have merged their organizational resources to form Partners For Performance Consulting Firm, a full service business and educational performance consulting firm with offices in Pittsburgh and Moon. The Web site is www.partnersforperformanceconsulting.com

COMPANY NEWS

Contracts

PDG Environmental was awarded three contracts in the Pacific Northwest totaling $1.5 million and four projects in the mid-Atlantic region valued at $2 million in the aggregate. The three projects in the Pacific Northwest include one for a university in Seattle, Wash., and involves the removal and replacement of transite cable trays in the school's steam tunnels. The contract amount is $525,000 and will be completed within 180 calendar days. The second project is for the interior demolition and power washing of all surfaces within a large manufacturing facility near Portland, Ore. The contract amount for this work is $595,000 and will be completed within the next 45 days. The third contract, valued at $400,000, is to perform cleaning above ceilings and encasement of asbestos-containing fireproofing at a major hotel/casino in Reno, Nev.

The grand opening of the new Mercy Hospital -- Gertrude P. & Donald C.W. Birmingham Burn Center was held Oct. 26. The center consists of the renovation of approximately 9,000 square feet of existing hospital space on the fourth floor of the hospital's MacLachlan Wing. Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates provided the architectural, engineering, and interior design services for the project.

Graciano Corp. was awarded two projects in Manhattan. The company will be assisting the New York Public Library in assessing the condition of its structure in preparation for restoration initiatives connected with the building's 100-year anniversary in 2011 and Graciano was awarded the contract to clean the 11 buildings at Rockefeller Center. Graciano was selected to assist in the inspection of the New York Public Library assignment by Walter B. Melvin and Associates. Working with Walter B. Melvin, Graciano will be providing technical assistance and assessment expertise to support the facade investigations. Graciano will also be executing emergency repairs on the structure on an as-needed basis.

Dividends

WesBanco, Inc. declared a fourth-quarter dividend of 25 cents per share on its common stock, payable Jan. 3, to shareholders of record Dec. 10.

Commercial National Financial Corp., parent company of Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania and Highview Trust Company, declared a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share, payable Dec. 3 to shareholders of record Nov. 26.

Bankruptcies

Center Street Associates LP, 1015 Center Street, Pittsburgh. Chapter 11.

Janocha Contractors Inc., 107 Park Road, Carnegie. Chapter 11.

Vinfred Interior Systems Co. Inc., P.O. Box 33, Oakmont. Chapter 11.

247 Equipment Co. Inc., P.O. Box 4547, Eighty Four. Chapter. 11.

Pittsburgh Environmental Research Laboratory Inc., 260 Cumberland Drive, Mars. Chapter 7.

Lithuanian Independent Club Inc., 800 W. Weber Ave., Dubois. Chapter 7.

Electrical Services Co. Inc., P.O. Box 5053, Johnstown, Chapter 7.

MYDI Systems Inc., 2007 Berkwood Drive, Pittsburgh. Chapter 7.

The Fone Store, Inc. a Pennsylvania Corp., 2101 Greentree Road, Pittsburgh. Chapter 7.

Grants/loans

Tickets for Kids Foundation has been awarded a $1,000 grant from Comcast to include 100 underprivileged children and families in a special educational performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Awards/Honors

Dr. Christianah Moji Adeyeye, professor of pharmaceutics at Duquesne University, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship grant to conduct research on drugs used to treat AIDS in Africa. In January, she will travel to Nigeria to study the quality and bio-equivalency of anti-retroviral drugs at the University of Lagos in Nigeria and National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development in Abuja.

The Allegheny County Bar Foundation honored attorneys, organizations and individuals for their pro bono legal services efforts: James E. Mahood, career pro bono achievement award; Ann Morris Baker, Gary P. Hunt and Heidi Rae Stewart, Jane F. Hepting pro bono award; Maria Heidi Weber, ACBA paralegal pro bono award; Robert J. Perkins, ACBA law student pro bono award; Buchanan Ingersoll, ACBA law firm pro bono award; Chicago Title Insurance Co., Fidelity National Title, First American Title Insurance Co., Land America Lawyers Title and Stewart Service Center, ACBA corporate legal department pro bono award; the Allegheny County Bar Association's Family Law Section, ACBA judicial initiative pro bono award; and Alcoa Inc. legal department and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, ACBA pro bono award for new initiatives.

Antonio C. Aiello, financial adviser, was awarded the president's recognition award for quality of advice from American Express Financial Advisors. It goes for exceptional written advice.

Barbara Clougherty, director of community relations and training, The Children's Institute, was awarded the Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities 2004 Individual Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes someone who has made a substantial contribution to the development of rehabilitation programs or has made a marked impact on both the quality and quantity of services provided by rehabilitation programs.

Mary F. Crawford, president and founder of Crawford Consulting Services Inc., received the Woman Business of the Year award from the Minority Business Opportunity Committee.

Randy Davis, executive mortgage representative, Dollar Bank Residential Lending, South Hills Branch, earned the award as top producer for September and October based on highest dollar amount and highest unit count of loans closed.

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