BUSINESS PERSONNEL

J. Fred Waltz of Oliver, Oliver and Waltz has been honored by the Cape Girardeau County Legal Secretaries as Boss of the Year.

Beverly Miller was recognized as Member of the Year, and Peggy Rellergert was named Legal Secretary of the Year.

Miller was installed as president of the group. Other officers are Claudia Tritabaugh, vice president; Jackie Givens, secretary; Cheryl Amos, governor; and Barbara Ward, secretary.

Leon Dickerson, Margret Dickerson, Jerry Henley, Juanita Henley and Dorothy Ramsey, members of the Cape Girardeau Post M chapter of the Missouri Division of the Travelers Protective Association, attended the fraternal benefit society's annual convention at Hannibal.

Leon Dickerson of Jackson served as Missouri president for 1997-98.

Elected president for 1998-99 was Randy LaFollette of St. Joseph.

The organization will hold its annual national convention in Corpus Christi, Texas, June 14-18.

TPA, headquartered at St. Louis, is a national fraternal organization and is recognized nationwide for its Child Safety Program and its Scholarship Trust for the Deaf and Near Deaf.

Kirk A. Mueller of Jackson has joined Production Credit Association and Federal Land Bank Association of Southeast Missouri as the branch manager of the Jackson office.

Ronald C. Milbach, president and chief executive officer of the organization, announced Mueller's appointment.

Mueller, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, has a background in agriculture lending. He served as a loan officer for Production Credit in the Charleston branch office and later served as branch manager and loan officer of First Financial Bank of Mississippi County. Most recently he served as assistant vice president and loan officer of NationsBank at Jackson.

Beth Schmucker has joined Sylvan Learning Center as director.

In her new position, Schmucker will be responsible for all facets of the learning center operations. She will meet with schools and community organizations and work as a liaison with news media on educational issues.

Schmucker previously served as coordinator of the Missouri Mentoring Partnership for Southeast Missouri and has served on the Education Committee of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce.

Cindy Snell, education assistant II, has been named 1998 Employee of the Year at Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center, 1025 N. Sprigg.

Snell joined Cottonwood in 1987.

She was cited for her effort in improving employee relations and her professionalism and work with staff and children.

Cottonwood is a Missouri Department of Mental Health operation that provides residential treatment services to youths who have emotional and behavioral problems.

Two Cape Girardeau physicians, Dr. Ed Masters of Regional Primary Care and Dr. Paul Cordes of Southeast Missouri Hospital, along with Dr. Scott Granter of Harvard Medical School and Dr. Paul Duray of the National Institutes of Health are co-authors of an article that has been accepted for publication in "Archives of Dermatology," a leading international dermatology journal.

The article is titled, "Physician Diagnosed Erythema Migrans and Erythema Migrans-Like Rashes Following Lone Star Tick Bites."

Masters is also co-author of the lead articles in the January issue of "Journal of Clinical Microbiology." It deals with the successful culturing and isolation of borellia burgdorferi from Southeast Missouri ticks. Masters also has authored a brown recluse spider case report with photographs that have been accepted for publication in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Masters has been a recent speaker at the American Geriatrics Society in Seattle and the Xi International Scientific Conference on Lyme Disease and other Spirochetal and Tick-Born Disorder at New York City.,

Sandra Quigley of Gulliver's Travel Agency, 111 N. Missouri in Jackson, has returned form a seven-day educational trip to Jamaica. She visited hotels, resorts and clubs in the Montego Bay and Ocho Rios areas.

Quigley has been in the travel business four years. She handles corporate and leisure sales.

A number of Dana Corp. employees from the Cape Girardeau plant recently attended Dana University classes in Cape Girardeau.

The three-day classes, "How to Use Supervisory Skills to Get Results," was conducted by Bob Lutz of Toledo, Ohio, a Dana University instructor.

Attending the sessions were Janet Schiwitz, Fred Hutchinson, Tracey Loughary, Larry Dillon, Kim Battles, Donna Loop, Tim Wheetley, Mike Decker and Diana Dees.

Dana employees from Michigan, Arkansas and other Missouri plants also attended.

A number of promotions have been announced at Dana in Cape Girardeau.

The include Beth James, Bill King, Barry Blue, Fred Barnard, Steve Keele, Ray Halter, Paul Valleroy, Doug Stacy and Paul Kirn.

James was promoted to budget cost analyst administrator, King is the new indirect services coordinator and Blue is a shift coordinator in the gear division.

Barnard and Keele have been promoted to level IV maintenance technicians, Halter is a cell leader, and Valleroy, Stacy and Kirn have been promoted to cutter grid technicians.

John Mayfield of Cape Girardeau, a package driver for United Parcel Service, has been honored for completing 20 years service with the company. Mayfield delivers in the Cape Girardeau and Chaffee areas.

Marty Scholl and Crystal Seabaugh, Cape Girardeau County Farm Bureau secretaries, attended the Missouri Farm Field Secretaries Conference at Lake of the Ozarks Holiday Inn. Money management and preparing for the year 2000 were among topics discussed at the two-day conference.