BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Ray Drury is retiring from the automotive industry after 39 years.

Drury will retire Tuesday from Crown Cadillac Olds Nissan, 607 S. Kingshighway, after six years with the company as salesman.

Drury started in the auto business in 1959, as a parts manager with Millikin Olds Cadillac. Three years later the dealership changed hands, becoming Townes Olds Cadillac. Drury stayed on, and in 1970, he became parts and service manager, and part-time salesman, when Dean Taylor purchased the dealership.

He went to full-time sales when the dealership became Crown Cadillac Olds Nissan in 1992.

Carolyn Hahs and Paula Rouggly have joined SEMO Mortgage Co. in Cape Girardeau.

Hahs of Jackson has about 10 years of experience in the financial industry. She previously worked at NationsBank.

Rouggly of Cape Girardeau previously worked in the health-care field and is experienced in accounts payable, payroll and bookkeeping.

Jerry and Judy Davis, owner-operators of McDonald's Restaurants here; Shannon Davis, McDonald's supervisor, and his wife, London Davis; and Lynn Petzold, district supervisor, and his wife, Debbie Petzoldt, recently attended the McDonald's franchisees biennial convention at Orlando, Fla.

While there, they had a sneak-preview of the restoration of the most complete tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever discovered.

McDonald's, Disney and others helped the Field Museum of Chicago to acquire the tyrannosaurus rex fossil as the centerpiece of a comprehensive community outreach campaign.

Starting in May, visitors can view the restoration process in-progress at two state-of-the-art fossil research laboratories -- McDonald's Fossil Preparation Laboratory at the Field Museum in Chicago, and at Disney's new Animal Kingdom in Orlando.

McDonald's is an exclusive partner of the Dinoland USA area of Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.

Clint Karnes has been named banking center manager at NationsBank's 2001 William St.

Karnes, a graduate of Southeastern Illinois College with a degree in management, has been with NationsBank, formerly Boatmen's Bank, since 1994. He recently served as a banking center manager at West Frankfort and Ziegler in Illinois. He previously served as vice president of Boatmen's Bank of Franklin and as an account executive for Nationsbanc Mortgage Corp.

NationsBank Cape Girardeau has three full-service banking centers. Joyce Emmendorfer is banking center manager at 2 S. Mount Auburn, and Terri Heisserer is banking center manager at 800 N. Kingshighway.

David S. Glastetter, president of ERA Cape Realty, and Larry Underwood of ERA Cape Realty recently attended the 1998 ERA International Business Conference held in Las Vegas.

Peter Burgdorff, ERA president and chief executive officer, addressed the convention via live satellite.

A number of training seminar were conducted during the seminar.

ERA Cape Realty is a member of ERA Franchise Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Cendant Corp. The ERA network includes more than 2,600 independently owned and operated brokerage offices in the United States and 16 other countries.

Jim Jolly of Mound City, Ill., regional manager for Consolidated Grain and Barge Co., has been elected to a three-year term on the 70-member board of directors for the National Grain and Feed Association.

The national association is a U.S.-based nonprofit trade association of about 1,000 grain, feed and processing firms comprising 5,000 facilities that handle more than two-thirds of all U.S. grains and oilseed.

Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. has facilities in Cape Girardeau.

Kevin Schaper has joined Lignetics Inc. as regional sales manager at the company's Doniphan manufacturing plant.

Schaper, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, has 14 years of sales experience, six of them as a territory sales manager. He will cover a 400-mile radius, including areas in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Kentucky.

Lignetics is a supplier of pellet fuel and related products in North America. Lignetics operates pellet manufacturing plants at Sandpoint, Idaho, and Glenville, W.Va.

Ken and Laura Ritter, owners of Cape Girardeau Heavenly Ham, were recently honored for meeting the franchise system's 1997 growth goals.

The Ritters, who have operated the Heavenly Ham franchise store at 3443 William St. since 1995, were recognized during the Heavenly Ham Partners in Growth Conference, held recently at Orlando, Fla.

Heavenly Ham is franchised by Paradise Foods, based in Atlanta. Currently, there are more than 150 stores in 33 states.

Steve Hefner of Sikeston was one of seven members of the 1997 rice leadership development class of the USA Rice Federation who participated in special graduation ceremonies at Washington recently.

Representatives from the House Agriculture Committee staff -- Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri; Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas; and Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana -- met with the class to discuss issues and the legislative process. The group also visited DuPont headquarters in Wilmington, Del. The development class is sponsored by DuPont, through a grant to the Rice Foundations.

Jeanne Shrum has joined Van Matre Buick, 511 S. Kingshighway, in sales.

Shrum of Cape Girardeau has more than 20 years of sales experience.

She previously worked in sales at Hartford's Apparel.

David Sander has joined Wieser Honda Mazda, 2611 Auto Park Drive, in sales.

Sander, a Cape Girardeau native who has worked in the St. Louis area a number of years, has nine years of experience selling Honda vehicles.