At The Top

-- JAMES CURRIER Currier will focus on claims-control programs as assistant vice president for Corroon & Black Inc.

-- JAMES TODD Todd was named vice president of manufacturing of Preservative Paint Co.

-- PATRICK MCFARLAN McFarlan, formerly director of marketing, was promoted to corporate director of marketing for Westin Hotels & Resorts.

-- EVETT RUFFCORN Ruffcorn, active in the American Institute of Architects, was named a partner in the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

-- ACCOUNTING

Manya Drobnack, certified public accountant, was named director of administration and Kristin Johnston was promoted to tax manager for Kueckelhan Crutcher & Co., Certified Public Accountants.

-- COMMUNICATIONS

Tina Ramsden was promoted to customer-relations director for Advanced Telecom Management.

-- CONSULTING

KPMG Peat Marwick of Seattle, an international audit, accounting, tax and consulting firm, named Susan Swartz, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as a partner, and promoted Kevin Kelly to audit manager. Leigh Stowell & Company Inc. promoted Randall Barney from manager to vice president, client services, and Maggie Mulhall from director, media services, to vice president, marketing services.

-- ENGINEERING

Richard Schneider was promoted from production manager to sales manager and Jeffery Schramm was named production manager for Walker & Associates Inc., a photogrammetric engineering company.

-- ENVIRONMENT

Pentec Environmental Inc. named Glenn Grette senior fisheries biologist, Todd Tressler environmental planner, Allan Fukuyama marine biologist and biological laboratory manager and Robert Morrow a project fisheries biologist.

-- GOVERNMENT

Bruce Brooks, an attorney with Perkins Coie, and Mary Van Gemert, an attorney with Woods and Jones, were appointed commissioners for the Seattle Housing Authority by Mayor Norm Rice.

-- INVESTMENT

Ronald Tschetter was promoted from senior vice president and division manager to executive vice president and director of the Investor Services Department, and was named to the executive committee for Dain Bosworth Inc.

-- ORGANIZATIONS

H. Martin Smith, chairman of Martin Smith Inc., was named to the board of directors of the Seattle Goodwill. CityClub elected Harry Grandstrom, manager, community affairs of US West Communications, president; Bob Frause, senior vice president/managing director of Elgin Syferd, Eric Iverson, counsel of Security Pacific Bank, and Candy Marshall, partner with Davis Wright Tremaine as vice presidents; Kathleen Fiander, associate marketing manager with Microsoft, secretary; and Janet Innis, vice president, private banking of First Interstate Bank, treasurer. Randall Hardy, Seattle City Light superintendent, was named president of the American Public Power Association. Christopher Dugovich was re-elected president and executive director of the Washington State Council of County and City Engineers.

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