BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Mary Miller of Cape Girardeau has joined the certified public accountant firm of Schott & Van de Ven.

Miller, who has more than 25 years of management experience and 17 years of marketing development, will develop marketing programs and implement new services for the company at 1020 N. Kingshighway.

Miller serves on the board of the Downtown Redevelopment Corp., the Cape County Park Commission and is a member of the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club.

Schott & Van de Ven Certified Public Accountants is a full-service public accounting firm, with satellite offices at Marble Hill and Marion, Ill. The staff of 25 includes 10 CPAs.

Partners William R. Schott and Melvin J. Van de Ven will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their partnership in September.

Dr. Christi Cannon Foutz has joined Skyview Animal Clinic at 855 S. Kingshighway as a veterinarian.

Foutz, a 1997 graduate of the University of Missouri Veterinary School, completed pre-vet classes at Southeast Missouri State University. She worked as a veterinarian's assistant at Skyview Clinic prior to attending veterinarian school.

She has worked with Sunshine Animal Clinic in Springfield, Mo., the past year.

Gary G. Johnson, professor of accounting at Southeast Missouri State University, has been named the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants' Outstanding Member in Education.

Johnson, a professor at Southeast since 1982, is graduate of Southwest Missouri State University and has his master's and doctorate in business administration from the University of Arkansas.

He is a certified public accountant, certified management accountant and certified government financial manager.

Johnson wrote a 150-hour curriculum for accounting in 1991 and developed a model program for the master of business administration accounting option. He received the Harrison College of Business' highest teaching award -- Copper Dome Faculty Fellow -- in 1994 and 1996. He co-authored the textbook, "Financial Accounting: A transactions Analysis Approach."

He served as president of the Missouri Association of Accounting Education in 1996 and has chaired the Missouri Society of CPAs' Relations with Educators Committee.

Phyllis Sander, a secretarial and computer science instructor at Shawnee Community College, has been named an outstanding educator by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association.

Sander is one of 37 instructors statewide selected to receive the award, presented each year to showcase educational contributions made by Illinois community college teachers. She received her award during a special ceremony held in Springfield, Ill.

Eric R. Marquart of Eric Marquart Financial Services, 1008 William, recently attended the Million Dollar Round Table, an international sales seminar for people in the life insurance and financial planning fields.

A number of topics -- estate planning, taxes, business and law -- were discussed during the five-day meeting at Chicago.

Betty S. Sargent, a senior secretary at Southeast Missouri State University, has been elected treasurer of the Missouri Division of Professional Secretaries International.

Other Missouri officers include Sally A. Nelson, Dayco Products Inc., Springfield, president; Melynda P. Porges, National General Insurance Co., St. Charles, president-elect; and Donna G. Baker of Hallmark Cards Inc., Trimble, secretary.

KFVS-12 received a number of awards from the Missouri Broadcasters Association awards ceremony, held recently at St. Louis.

The MBA awards consisted of entries from television and radio stations serving parts of Missouri.

KFVS awards:

-- Children's Programming: "Mary-Ann's Heartland Kids" series, produced by Mary Ann Maloney.

-- Community Events: "Heartland Cares" telethon.

-- Investigative Reporting: Kathy Sweeney's prison lawsuit series on "Heartland News."

-- Commercial Announcement: Advertising campaign for Bert's Bar-B-Que.

-- Promotion: Olympic Moments campaign and the "Diner Weather Campaign."