BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Walter B. Wildman has joined Thomas L. Meyer Realty Co. as a sales associate.

Wildman, who previously served as executive director of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association (RCGA), is graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with bachelor's degrees in psychology and business and a master's degree in public administration from Northern Illinois University.

Dr. Jonathan Thomas is recipient of the "Daniel K. Roberts Award" for the best junior fellow paper.

Thomas was recognized at the recent District VII meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, held at Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.

Thomas' paper was entitled, "Quantitration of Placental Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor mRNA: Evidence for Continued Up-Regulation Throughout Gestation."

Thomas is an associate of Dr. Paul Clarke and Dr. Michael Jessup, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology as well as primary care for women, with offices at 1319 Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau.

Dr. Raymond August Ritter III recently passed an examination conducted by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

The testing is administered over a two-year advanced training period and covers all aspects of orthopaedic surgery.

Ritter joined Orthopaedic Associates PC, 48 Doctors Park, in August of 1993.

He is trained to provide services in all aspects of the care and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, including total joint replacement, sports injuries, work place injuries and everyday strains and sprains.

Ritter, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine-Kansas City, completed his internship at Blodgett Memorial Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., and served a residency in orthopaedic surgery at St. Louis University Medical Center in St. Louis.

He practices one day a week in his Dexter clinic.

Dr. Olin "Chip" Mauldin Jr., a Jacksonville, Fla., resident formerly associated with Pediatrics Associates and Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, has opened a pediatrician's office inside an elementary school there.

The office is the first of its kind in the Jacksonville area and will be open year-round. The advantage of placing the office in the school is that students won't have to miss school to keep appointments and kindergarten students won't have to start school late because they lack required immunizations and physicals.

The office will be operated by the University of Florida Health Science Center in Jacksonville.

Mauldin is married to the former Vickie Barks, daughter of Jane Barks of Cape Girardeau. Mrs. Mauldin is a nurse on the staff at Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville.

Dr. Robert Kessinger, specific chiropractic, was guest speaker at the Kale Upper Cervical Specific Club at Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, recently.

Kessinger, a Kale-certified instruction in the cervical specific brain stem procedure, is a member of the Kale International Research Council. His subject was "Why Instrumentation is a must in Specific Chiropractic."

Kessinger operates a clinic at 1424 Kurre Lane in Cape Girardeau.

Jim Abernathy of Sikeston, director of Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Electric Cooperation, was recently reappointed district representative to the Executive Committee of the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives (AMEC) of Jefferson City.

The AMEC is the service organization of the state's 48 electric cooperatives which serve more than 430,000 rural consumers.

The executive committee consists of 12 members.

Dr. Roy P. Meyer recently attended the International Conference on Carpal Tunnel Symdrome, in Chicago.

The two-day conference was conducted by Dr. M.R. Mally, a recognized authority on carpal tunnel syndrome, and founder of the Institute for Repetitional Strain Injuries (IRSI).

The course details diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of carpal tunnel syndrome and other cumulative trauma disorders utilizing a chiropractic non-surgical protocol.

Lacey W. Umfleet has joined Ford Grove Motor Co., 1501 N. Kingshigwhay, as a sales representative.

Umfleet, of Cape Girardeau, a former construction worker, has been in the auto sales business six months.