CBJ: Personnel File

l The following employees of Farmington Country Club were presented gold lapel pins in recognition of their years of service to the club. Three years of service: Olivia Alvarado and Keith Lowery, kitchen; Taylor Curran, tennis; Kevin Elliott, Sue Hald, Cindy McCord and Dusty Rhodes, fitness; Kevin Fortune, golf maintenance; Ricky Lasher, pastry; Michael Okusa, grill; Adnan Pusilo, banquet; Ceci Vaughan, catering; and Alexander Waller, bar. Five years of service: Roy Brewer and Callie Stone, administration; Chip Childers, fitness; Nenad Doder, banquet; Scott Kinnan, golf maintenance; Mirjana Letic, grill; Meredith Loosse, golf; and Mercedes McClintic, front office. Ten years of service: Jack Anderson, golf; Jeanine Bordeau, banquet; Reggie McGhee and James Passante, grill; Rodrigo Mejia and Moises Villa, kitchen; Trey Wilson, grounds maintenance; Tweed, the goose control dog, golf course maintenance. Twenty years of service: Harry Howard, kitchen; and Janet Rogers, grounds maintenance. Twenty-five years of service: Doug Fitzgerald, purchasing. Thirty years of service: Hank Hyde, golf maintenance.

l Ava Baum is the new manager at the Virginia Workforce Center-Charlottesville. Baum is responsible for building partnerships between job seekers and area employers and educators and establishing best practices in providing employment-related services. Baum joins the center with extensive experience in human resources in both the public and private sectors.

l Steve Morales of Charlottesville has been named the manager of The Franklin Springs Family Media Fund I. The fund is the first in a series of funds that will finance family-oriented films that help strengthen parent-child relationships and encourage quality life activities.

l David E. Martin, PhD, chairman and founder of M-CAM Inc., addressed the European Parliament in Brussels at the Intellectual Property Rights and Green Technologies workshop. His address was titled “An Ecology of the Mind and Consciousness.” Martin is a fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, former assistant professor at UVa’s School of Medicine, founder of UVa’s first wholly owned, for-profit research and development and technology transfer corporation, was appointed by the governor of Virginia to serve on the Joint Commission on Technology and Science and has served the General Assembly and Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology. Martin is the recipient of the Charlottesville Venture Group’s Golden Angel Award and the Virginia Piedmont Technology Council’s Spotlight Award.

l Cecily Craighill is the director of development at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. She previously served as senior associate director for external affairs at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.