BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Bud McMillan of Cape Girardeau has joined Wieser Honda, 385 Siemers Drive, in Cape Girardeau as a new sales representative.

McMillan worked in auto sales from 1987 to 1992.

Teresa Acey, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been named marketing associate with SSM Corporate Health Services, the occupational medicine division of SSM Health Care at St. Louis.

She previoulsy served as corporate health consultant for Healthline Corporate Services.

In St. Louis, SSM Health Care includes St. Mary's Health Center, DePaul Health Center, St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood, Cardinal Glennon Children's Center, SSM Health and Wellness, SSM Rehab, St. Joseph Health Center and St. Joseph Hospital West.

Wayne Thiele has been appointed sales representative for Crown Equipment Co., 2990 Old Orchard Road, Jackson..

Thiele will be a representative for John Deere and lawn and garden equipment.

Larry Bowen of Gordonville has been honored by United Parcel Service, headquartered at Earth City.

Bowen, a package driver for UPS out of the Cape Girardeau Center, was honored for driving 20 years with the company without an accident.

UPS, a package distribution company, serves more than 200 countries and employs more than 339,000 people worldwide. The Missouri District employs more than 5,000 workers and has more than 30 operating centers.

Dr. Zenon Duda recently attended a trauma course, sponsored by the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons,

The course, held at the Orthopaedic Learning Center in Chicago, covered evaluation, discussion of treatments and results, followed by actual repair of a wide variety of foot and ankle fractures in the facility's state-of-heart learning laboratory.

Duda operates the Cape Foot Clinic at 1345 Mount Auburn Road. He is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and board certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and the American Board of Podiatric Orthopaedics.

Alan Hunter has been named to fill the position of area engineer in the St. Louis District Corps of Engineers' Southeastern Area office at Cape Girardeau.

Hunter, currently an engineer in the Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers, as chief of office engineering in the Vidalia Area Office, will start his new duties here this month.

Hunter's appointment was announced by Len Ross, St. Louis District chief of construction.

Mike Radake, a certified public accountant with Schott & Van de Ven, Certified Public Accountants, had completed two continuing educaiton classes -- Designing Pension Plans and ERISA Benefit Plan Fundamentals.

Radake, who specializes in audits of businesses, employment retirement plans and schools, is certified to practice in Missouri and Illinois.

He is a member of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Schott & Van de Ven is a full-service public accounting firm at 1020 N. Kingshighway, Suite D, in Cape Girardeau.

Robert P. Rueseler has been named "Associate of the Year" by Mass Financial Group, an agency of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Rueseler is based in Cape Girardeau and has been associated with Mass Financial Group since 1989.

Rueseler received the awards during an annual banquet.

Rueseler, who has received the award seven times, is a graduate of the University of Mississippi. He started in the insurance industry in 1979. He has qualified for Million Dollar Round Table eight times and as Mass Mutual's Leaders Club nine times. He has been the agency representative to the Agents Advisory Council 10 years, and was a member of the President's Council in 1997 and 1998.

Rueseler offers estate and retirement planning, executive protection, coverage for large and small businesses and family protection.

Members of Southern Illinois Power Cooperatives board of directors have elected officers.

Tim Reeves is president and general manager of SIPC, headquartered at Marion.

Officers of the board include Robert Tiberend of Benton, chairman; Harold Dycus of Carbondale, vice chairman; and Dale Taake of Ullin, secretary.

SIPC serves four member cooperatives -- Southern Illinois Power Cooperative of Dongola, Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association of Steeleville, Monroe County Electric Cooperative of Waterloo and SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative of Eldorado, providing electricity to about 44,500 homes and businesses in Southern Illinois and a two municipal customers.