Article: CAPPS MAKES A COMEBACK NEW PRESIDENT SAYS ELECTION SIGNALS A CHANGE OF DIRECTION FOR HOTEL, MOTEL ASSOCIATION.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

Byline: BILL REED, STAFF WRITER

James H. Capps, two-term president of the Virginia Beach Hotel and Motel Association in the mid-'80s, will be heading the organization again for another two years.

He was elected by his peers Thursday, outpolling rival resort hotel owner Dawson Sterling by a heavy margin in an unusually heavily attended monthly meeting.

The second term of outgoing president Henry Richardson ends Dec. 31, and the 53-year-old Capps will take over the reins of the association, along with a largely new slate of office holders that includes hotelier and developer Vern Burlage as vice president; and hoteliers Bennett Strickland and Ken Taylor, as ...

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