BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Ginger Lemonds has joined Beverly Healthcare as director of admissions.

She will also handle the group's marketing and community involvement programs.

Lemonds, a graduate of University of North Texas, worked ten years as an investment banker.

Greg Nolan, of Jackson, has joined Edgewater Glass, 324 S. Plaza Way, in Cape Girardeau, as an outside sales representative.

Nolan, who has more than 20 years sales experience, will call on contractors and home owners.

Edgewater Glass has also taken on a new line of Marvin Windows.

Cheryl Gelsheimer has joined Hair Biz Beauty Salon at 42 N. Spanish in Cape Girardeau.

Gelsheimer, a hair stylist in Cape Girardeau for more than eight years, will be working Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday. She previously worked at Regis Corp. and Studio Design salons.

Gelsheimer, a graduate of Stage One Hair School in Cape Girardeau, specializes in trend haircuts, custom coloring and styling techniques.

Elizabeth Mitchell of Mitchell Insurance Agency, Sikeston, is winner of a VIP trip to Super Bowl XXXIII.

Mitchell is the first winner in Progressive Auto Insurance "Preferred Players" promotion, and will receive round-trip airline tickets, a four-night stay at Miami, and tickets to a NFL Superbowl party.

Mitchell won the trip as part of Progressive's promotion for Independent Agents. Each week, Independent Agents throughout the nation who sell Progress policies, are entered into a weekly drawing for VIP packages.

Mitchell Insurance Agency has been in business 50 years.

Progressive was founded in 1937, and works with more than 30,000 Independent Agents in the nation.

Jerry Reppert, of Anna, Ill., and publisher of Reppert Publishing, which publishes the Gazette-Democrat in Anna, the Cairo Citizen and other community newspapers in Jonesboro and Cobden, was honored recently with the Amos Award, received at the National Newspaper Association's 113th Convention, held at Reno, Nev.

The Amos Award, recognized as the highest tribute in community journalism, was established in 1938 in honor of Gen. James O. Amos, an Ohio journalist and early-day member of the National Editorial Association (today known as National Newspaper Association (NNA). The Sidney Daily in Ohio is still operated by the Amos family.

Reppert, a Southern Illinois business leader, has involvements in banking, leasing, construction and property management. He has consistently promoted efforts to enhance and improve economic development in Southern Illinois.

Reppert's company also includes a number of specialty publications -- River Country Outdoors, Midwest antique and Collectible News; Mid-America Taxidermy News, and others. He is president of North Scott Publishing, Inc., which produces commercial printing.

He has been NNA Illinois state chairman eight years, and is currently chairman of the NNA's Government affairs Conference. He was instrumental in establishing the Illinois Press Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the Illinois Press Association, and has served as the foundation's president since its inception.

Reppert was also instrumental in the founding of the Southernmost Illinois Prison Committee and Southernmost Illinois Development Committee, The former resulted in the location of a super max prison facility at Tamms.

Thomas M. Meyer of Thomas L. Meyer Realty Co., Cape Girardeau, has completed the National Association of Realtors international course in real estate. Meyer passed the tests required for certification as an International Property Specialists (CIPS).

Courses involved background studies in Europe, Asia/Pacific, and America, with emphasis on investment and financial analysis of international real estate practices.

Meyer, past Missouri Association of Realtors president, has been licensed since 1970. He will receive official CIPS recognition at the National Association of Realtors Convention in Anaheim, Calif. next month.