People on the move 11/17/03

McClure native chosen Murray State marshal

Kristi Phillips Rowan, a McClure, Ill., native and graduate of University High School in Cape Girardeau, was selected grand marshal of Murray State University's Homecoming Parade in October.

Rowan was selected due to her professional accomplishments. She is the publisher of Midsouth Living, a bimonthly magazine with a circulation of 35,000, and Flavor magazine. Midsouth Living began in 1999 and expanded to include a Web site, three annual trade shows, two home and garden shows and a holiday gift show.

She lives in Olive Branch, Miss., is the daughter of Barbara and Kenneth Phillips of McClure and has seven siblings plus a husband, Brian, and two children, Haley and Connor.

Doctor returns from orthodontics lecture

Dr. S. Edwin Noffel of Cape Girardeau recently returned from a conference in Rimini, Italy, where he was a guest speaker.

Noffel spoke at a meeting of the Societa Italiana di Ortodonzia. He presented two lectures to small workshop groups and a lecture to the entire group. The lectures helped instruct orthodontists how to identify patients who can be treated without removing teeth, with an emphasis on protecting and enhancing facial beauty and straightening teeth. His second presentation was about step-by-step treatments needed for patients without removing teeth.

Noffel was invited, along with two other Americans, to be a special examiner for candidates who presented cases for board certification to the Italian Board of Orthodontists.

Financial consultant joins insurance agency

Gerry Keene, a registered financial consultant, has joined Bo Shantz Insurance Agency in Cape Girardeau.

Keen has been licensed for 10 years in securities and life and health insurance. He has 10 years of experience in financial planning with families and businesses. He will be available to help clients with retirement accounts, mutual funds and annuities.

He will be representing State Farm Insurance, State Farm Bank, Fortis Health and Phoenix Life Insurance.

Area lawyer named to bankuptcy board

Paul H. Berens, a lawyer with Bradshaw, Steele, Cochrane and Berens, was recently selected as president of the Bankruptcy Practice Foundation Board for the eastern district of Missouri. He succeeds David A. Lander of St. Louis for the post.

The foundation promotes educational, charitable and memorial projects that further justice within the legal profession's bankruptcy practice.

Berens, of Cape Girardeau, is serving as the organization's second president. He and his wife, Carol, have three sons.

Paducah TV station adds reporters to staff

WPSD NewsChannel 6 in Paducah, Ky., has added two reporters to its regional staff. Nancy Cho will work in the Illinois newsroom in Carbondale, and John Knicely will work in Paducah.

Cho worked at KVII-TV, the ABC affiliate in Amarillo, Texas. Prior to that she worked at WLS in Chicago. She grew up in northern Illinois and is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Penn. She is a member of the Asian-American Journalists Association.

Knicely is a native of Omaha, Neb., and joins WPSD after a year at KPTM-TV, the Fox affiliate in Omaha. He is a graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

WPSD NewsChannel 6 serves western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, northwest Tennessee and Southeast Missouri.

-- From staff reports