Recent Las Vegas-area appointments and promotions:

Monday, May 17, 1999 | 11:39 a.m.

Grant Andreasen is associate vice president-investment officer at Dain Rauscher Inc.

At the R&R Advertising healthcare team, Jennifer Vaughan and Cathy Hayes are PR account managers, J.L. Jordan III is an advertising account supervisor and Matt Jones is art director.

Sharon Beesley is director of land acquisition at Astoria Homes.

At Nevada State Bank, Veronica McKay is vice president, training manager; and Cindy Goussak is advertising officer.

rfn productions changed its name to newman verrill. Creative Director Bill Verrill was named a partner, Joann Spinelli joined the agency as art director and Joshua Evans Rogers is webmaster for the Internet division.

Robert Schulz is assistant project manager at Burnett Haase Construction.

At Pioneer Citizens Bank, Sara Lawyer is assistant vice president and commercial loan officer and Ryan Patterson transferred to the Las Vegas lending division.

Lance Knight is vice president and loan officer at Nevada First Bank.

New agents at the Meadows Mall office of New Home Concepts are Jan Butler , Thomas DiPoala, John Lee Mestemacher and Joe Planamento.