BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Eighteen drivers for Genesis Transportation Company Inc. of Cape Girardeau recently received awards for a combined total of more than 3 million miles of accident-free driving.

Awards were presented by the American Trucking Association and Great West Casualty Co. during Genesis' annual safety award banquet the Holiday Inn.

Connie Dillon of Wappapello received an award for 21 years of accident-free driving, Harold Lindsay of Dexter received an 18-year award and Vernon Davis of Anna, Ill. received a 17-year award.

Other accident-free driving awards, and years of driving: Cliff Flath of Glenn Allen, 12; Otis Johnson of Jackson, 11; John Crockett of Benton, 8; Robert Mathis of McClure, Ill., and Dale Tierney of Chaffee, 7; Virgil Null of Cape Girardeau, 6; Roger Bennett of Tamms, Ill., Randy Blankenship of Wappapello, Jerry Grooms of Jackson and Robert Tilson, Parma, 5; Kenny Foltz of Burfordville and Jim Pate of Scott City, 3; Richard Berentson of Mankato, Minn., 2; and Gene Maevers, Cape Girardeau, 1.

Four persons received four-year safe-worker awards for shop personnel. They were George Green of Advance, Tom Wright and Martin Van Gennip of Cape Girardeau.

Lois Stewart, a certified public accountant employed by Transcraft Corp. of Anna, Ill. as controller and office manager, has been named Woman of the Year by the River City Business and Professional Women's Organization (BPW).

Stewart, a member of the club since 1983, is president-elect. Each year a BPW member is selected for the honor.

A graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, Stewart and her husband own and operate a farm in Southern Illinois where they raise registered horses and cattle.

Logan Birk of Gordonville is a new junior member of the American Angus Association.

Junior members of the association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association and take part in association shows and other national and regional events. The association has more than 29,000 active adult and junior members.

Tim Brown of Anna, Ill., has joined the architectural firm of Walton and Associates.

Brown has two years experience in the architectural field and has been involved with medical, education and historic preservation projects.

He will assist in the development of 3-D graphics and construction documents as a computer aided design drafts person in the Carbondale office.

Agnes Wehrenberg of Villa Ridge, Ill., has been promoted to branch manager at the Cairo office of Tip of Illinois Health Services.

Wehrenberg has been employed with Tip since 1986, and has more than 20 years of nursing experience.

Molly S. Walter of Carbondale has joined Tip's Carbondale office as a registered occupational therapist.

Walter was previously employed at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau at Pediatric SPOT.

Gerald W. Sims has joined Mounds (Ill.) Community National Bank as president.

Sims, of Ullin, Ill., has 12 years experience in the banking industry, at Olmsted Bank as a bookkeeper and loan officer four years and at an Anna bank as vice president and loan officer eight years.

Sims succeeds Robert O'Daniel, who is retiring.

Dan Rushing of Spokane, Wash., has been named agency manager of the Country Companies Massac-Pulaski-Alexander-Union Agency.

Rushing, who started in his new position this week, succeeds Virgil Hargan, who is retiring after 33 years of service with the Country Companies.

In his new position, Rushing is relocating to Metropolis, Ill., and will be responsible for recruiting and training Country Companies agents and administering policyholder services in Massac, Pulaski, Alexander and Union counties in Southern Illinois and Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Rushing, a graduate of Southern Illinois University, joined Countries Companies in 1979 as an agent in Saline County, Ill. He has served as agency manager for Country Companies Spokane Agency since July of 1990.