BUSINESS MEMO

Silver hammer award

Wolohan Lumber Company received the "Silver Hammer Award" from National Home Center News for excellence in advertising and marketing.

The firm received the award for a 60-second television commercial featuring the "Wooly Wooly" jingle.

Wolohan also received the Golden Hammer Award in the special "print" category for a scratch-off game used in the firm's October 1991 anniversary promotion. The game piece offered customers the opportunity to win more than $77,000 in prizes and merchandise.

Wolohan Lumber, headquartered at Saginaw, Mich., is a 52-store chain of home centers. The local store is located at 120 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau.

She's chamber president

WENTZVILLE Linda Reiker Jacquin, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been installed as president of the Wentzville Chamber of Commerce.

Jacquin, daughter of Hermina Reiker of Cape Girardeau, is a graduate of Notre Dame High School and attended Southeast Missouri State University.

Jacquin founded Jacquin Advertising in 1984 and has clients in five states. She is an advertising specialty distributor and is a member of the Advertising Specialty Institute and Specialty Advertising Association International.

Business After Hours

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's "Business After Hours" session will be held Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus.

The sponsor for this month's gathering is the Cape Girardeau Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Business After Hours is an unstructured program where business people may meet, mingle and make new contacts.

Personnel group meets

The Cape Girardeau Area Personnel Association will meet Wednesday at noon at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, 301 N. Clark.

Nancy Witvoet, assessment coordinator, will discus uses of various testing in hiring employees, team building and promoting.

Anyone in human resource management or personnel management is invited to attend. The cost for the lunch will be $2.50.

Secretaries to briefing

PERRYVILLE More than 200 secretaries attended the 5th annual "Secretaries Briefing," held recently at the Perryville American Legion Hall.

Secretaries and office personnel from Perry, Cape Girardeau, Madison and Ste. Genevieve attended the video-conference briefing.

"The Perryville briefing was the largest in Missouri and one of the largest in the nation," said Carl Patterson, University of Missouri Extension information specialist.

Judith Bardwick, consulting firm owner, author and University of California clinical professor of psychiatry, was the presenter.

Co-sponsors for the Perryville briefing were the American Legion of Perryville, Association of the Miraculous Medal, Perry County Memorial Hospital, Perryville Area Vocational-Technical School and Perry County University Extension.

Westvaco improves

WICKLIFFE, Ky. Westvaco, Inc., located near here, recently rebuilt its paper machine and conducted other capital improvements during a two-week production shutdown.

The mill halted all production operations on April 26 to conducted the $19.5 million improvements. Employees returned to work this week.

The rebuilding of the paper machine expands the current product line at the Wickliffe plant and improves the printing quality of both the uncoated and coated grades of paper the mill produces.

Another major project at the site was the installation of two 2-million gallon carbon steel tanks to replace an existing 7-million gallon lagoon.

David H. Hartley, Westvaco vice president, is Wickliffe mill manager.

Business is a real trip

A total of 35.1 million U.S. adults took one or more business trips in 1990.

This accounts for almost 20 percent of country's adult population, notes a report from the U.S. Travel Data Center.

Business trips average four nights. Air travelers average 5.1 nights per trip, and people who drive their own cars average 3.4 nights.