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Special Effects Styling Salon stylists, from left, Kelley Callow, Tammi Douglas, Tracy Bost, Danetta Held and Kim Talley take a break during a salon symposium in New York City.

The Regional Cosmetology Association 23 of Cape Girardeau has installed new officers: From right, Carolyn Rouviere, ex-officio; Jean Kitchen, president; Alice Benton, vice president/secretary; Emily Tuschhoff, treasurer/historian; Heidi Hume and Sheri Varney, directors. Gary Stroder, a director, was not available for the picture.

Trisha Wischmann of Jackson has joined the Cape Girardeau Convention & Visitors Bureau as the new group sales director.

Wischmann has been involved in the tourism industry nine years. She was former marketing director at the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. in Jackson.

Wischmann will be responsible for numerous tasks, including implementing the CVB's tourism sales and marketing plans, creating tourism development programs, participating in trade shows and working convention clients.

Becky Andrews has joined South East Missouri Bank as a real estate loan officer.

Andrews, who attended Southeast Missouri State University, has 17 years experience in real estate. She was most recently real estate closing officer at Cape Girardeau County Abstract and Title Co.

Andrews of Gordonville, is an instructor at the Meyer's Real Estate School here.

Special Effects Styling Salon stylists Tammi Douglas, Kelley Callow, Tracy Bost, Danetta Held and owner Kim Talley recently attended the Redken International Premiere Salon Symposium, held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Top salon professionals from around the world presented techniques in haircutting, hair coloring, and other skill development classes in all areas of cosmetology.

Jean Kitchen has been installed as president of the Regional Cosmetology Association 23 of Cape Girardeau.

Officers were installed following the group's "Colours" class, presented by Carolyn Rouviere, a Missouri Educational Design Committee member.

Other officers included Alice Benton, vice president/secretary; Emily Tuschhoff, treasurer/historian; Heidi Hume, Sheri Varney and Gary Stroder, directors.

Rouviere, who served two years as Missouri Cosmetology Association president, is now ex-officio. She has also been appointed as the state's Ladies Style director.

Kitchen, a new director on the state board, has been appointed MCA chairwoman, and Benton is new secretary on the state board. Tuschhoff is a past MCA board member.

Laura Jo Ice of Miller City, Ill., was winner of the $750 Big Bertha golf driver during a special promotion held at Hutson Furniture Store, 43 S. Main, Cape Girardeau.

The promotion, "Keller Solid Wood Open," was sponsored by the furniture store and Keller Furniture, a furniture manufacturer and supplier to Hutson Furniture.

Donna Domian, a Cape Girardeau investment representative for Edward Jones, has been recognized for top performance during a recent three-day Edward Jones Managing Partners Conference, held at the investment company's headquarters in St. Louis.

The meeting brought together Jones' most successful representatives and the company's managing partners to share ideas about the future and discuss current issue and trends in the financial-service industry.

Domian was one of only 215 Jones representatives, out of more than 3,700 across the nation, invited to the conference. She works out of the Jones branch office at 1749-I Independence Square.

Edward Jones has more than 3,600 offices in 50 states.

Cindy Wright, manager of MasterCuts Family Haircutters in West Park Mall is recipient of the company annual "President's Award," the highest honor presented by Regis Corp.

Wright will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Interlachen, Switzerland.

More than 1,800 managers of MasterCuts, Regis Hairstylists and Trade Secret corporate divisions of Regis Corp., competed for the annual awards.

Regis owns more than 3,200 salons and employs more than 20,000 stylists internationally.

Dr. Holger Thoma and Heike Liebmann, German mine engineers, recently toured the new ASARCO Inc. mine water biotreatment facility in Missouri.

The engineers are studying mine waste and reclamation efforts in the United States.

ASARCO's Missouri Lead Division, headquartered at Farmington, operates mines at Sweetwater and West Fork and a smelter at Glover.

The new West Fork biotreatment facility is the first of its kind in the lead mining industry and is designed to employ naturally occurring bacteria from sawdust, alfalfa mulch, manure and limestone to remove traces of metal and nutrients from mine water.

Dr. S. Gordon has been elected treasurer of the Board of Directors for the Missouri Patient Care Review Foundation, the state's federal designated peer review/quality improvement organization for Medicare beneficiaries.

Jones, who was first elected to board in 1993, is a family practice physician in Ferguson Medical Group at Sikeston. He is secretary-treasurer of the SEMO Medical Society.

Julia Recker, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been inducted as president of the Florida Recreation and Park Association.

Recker, who is recreation superintendent at Kissimmee, Fla., was inducted during a special ceremony at the annual FRPA conference, held at Grenelefe Resort, near Haines City, Fla.

Attending the induction ceremony were Recker's husband, Robert; her mother, Majorie Thompson of Cape Girardeau; and sisters, Lisa Stanfield of Cape Girardeau, Trisha Kell of Miami and Mrs. Frank (Nancy) L'Hommedieu of Florida.

Recker is a graduate of Florida State University and has been in the parks and recreation field 16 years. She will attend the National Congress for Recreation and Parks in Salt Lake City later this year.

C. Michael Armstrong, the head of Hughes Electronics, has been named new chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Corp. AT&T's current leader, Robert E. Allen, will resign on Nov. 1.

The move ends an intense three-month search for a new leader of the nation's largest long-distance phone company.

Armstrong, 59, is moving to AT&T after shaping Hughes Electronics Corp., a unit of General Motors Corp., into a powerhouse in the satellite television business while guiding its exit from the defense business.

AT&T also named its general counsel and vice chairman, John D. Zeglis, 50, as president. He is widely expected to be groomed to succeed Armstrong as chairman and CEO in three years.