BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Marsha Pope has opened a Prudential Insurance office in Marble Hill.

The office at 203 Presnell will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Evening appointments will be available.

Pope joined Prudential Insurance in mid-March. She was previously advertising manager for the Banner Press newspaper at Marble Hill.

Prudential Insurance Company of America, headquartered in Newark, N.J., provides insurance and financial services.

Jodi Montgomery has joined Callinger's Beauty Salon, 1424 N. Kingshighway.

Montgomery of Cape Girardeau has 18 years of experience in the beauty industry and is a graduate of a St. Louis area beauty school. She had previously worked at Eugene's Beauty Salon.

She is a member of the National Cosmetology Association and Missouri Education Design Committee.

Marcia Edwards, Trudy Brandt and Jeri Packard have joined the real-estate team of RE/MAX Achievers in Cape Girardeau.

Edwards was formerly with Capital Hill Realty. Brandt and Packard were previously with Century 21 Key Realty. The three are members of the National Board of Realtors, Missouri Association of Realtors and Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors.

RE/Max Achievers recently opened at 1471 N. Kingshighway by Rodney Arnold and Doris Jean Arnold and has seven associates.

Lyle A. Davis, an investment professional with A.G. Edwards and Sons Inc., 97 N. Kingshighway, recently attended a two-day investment seminar.

Sessions, held at A.G. Edwards national headquarters at St. Louis, included topics on mutual funds, annuities, retirement accounts and planning, and estate planning.

A.G. Edwards, established in 1887, is a full-service investment firm, with more than 6,000 investment broker nationwide.

Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R- Mo., has received the Small Business Council of America's 1998 Congressional Award.

The award was presented by SBCA director Brian Allen in recognition of Bond's outstanding efforts and achievements as a representative of the nation's small business and his continued promotion of the entrepreneurial spirit of America's private enterprise system.

Debbie Brinkman of Cape Girardeau won an $8,200 jackpot during a recent "Secret Sound" promotion by Radio 100.7 KGMO.

Brinkman had to identify a certain sound to win the contest.

Brinkman, who correctly identified the sounds as a quarter, nickel, penny and dime being dropped into a shoe, will share her winnings with her sister-in-law, Brenda Brinkman. "We both played the game, and agreed to share any winnings," said Debbie Brinkman.

Five Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. employees at the company's New Madrid power plant have been recognized for 25 years of service.

They are Robert Dees, shift supervisor; David Howard, mechanical maintenance supervisor; Jack Lewis, mechanic; Dalvin Presley, lead instrumentation technician; and Raymond Sides, journeyman mechanic.

AECI provides wholesale power to six regional and 42 local electric cooperatives in Missouri and Iowa.

Brad Brown has been named vice president and general manager of Southwestern Bell Wireless for Eastern Missouri.

Brown, who previoulsy served as the company's vice president and general manager of south Texas, will be responsible for marketing, sales and service in an area stretching from the greater St. Louis metropolitan region west to Jefferson City and south to the Arkansas border.

Brown, a St. Louis native, joined Southwestern Bell in 1977.

Stephen S. Adams III, vice president and general manager of Enterprise Leasing Co., has been elected chairman of the Better Business Bureau of Greater St. Louis executive board of directors.

The St. Louis office serves Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Adams has worked 18 years with Enterprise, the past 10 as vice president and general manager of the St. Louis operation. He succeeds Terry E. Schnuck, secretary and general counsel of Schnucks Market as BBB chairman.

Other officers include Schnuck as immediate past chairman; vice chairman George W. Fitzwater, a senior vice president of Mercantile Bank; treasurer Carl E. Metchal of Southwestern Bell telephone; and secretary George "Butch" Welsch, president of Welsch Heating and cooling.

Michelle L. Corey was re-elected Better Business Bureau president and chief executive officer.