PERSONNEL

Ben Reiminger of Cape Girardeau has been named the 1995 Missouri "Older Worker of The Year" in Region 11, a 13-county area that includes Cape Girardeau, Perry, Bollinger and Perry counties.

Reiminger, 81, is a part-time employee at Burger King-Drury Restaurants at Route K and Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau.

Reiminger has duties of cutting produce for salads and sandwiches, but he is more known among Burger King customers for "Ben's Biscuits."

Reiminger, who is one of 14 regional winners, will attend the Missouri Older Worker of the Year banquet at Jefferson City March 7 and 8, along with all regional winners.

"Ben's cheerful attitude and pleasant disposition have become his trademark in our restaurant," restaurant manager Keith D. Skelton said. Skelton nominated Reiminger as for the honor.

"If hard work, dependability, honesty, near-perfect attendance and courtesy on and off the job are not enough personal traits necessary, then loyalty and sheer determination should pretty much cinch the 1995 Missouri Older Worker title for Ben Reiminger," Skelton said.

Tracy L. LaRose of St. Louis, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has passed the certified public accountants examination.

LaRose, a graduate of Cape Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University, is employed at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace of St. Louis.

LaRose is one of 332 individuals who passed the CPA test administered by the Missouri State Board of Accountancy in November. Examination results were announced by the board last week.

Patty Schaefer of Kelso, a 1992 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, also passed the exam. She is vice president of administration at General Sign Co. in Cape Girardeau.

Others from Southeast Missouri passing the test:

Kevin S. Kranawetter, Connie R. Settlemoir and Jennifer Westrich, all of Cape Girardeau; Jason R. Cattoor of Jackson; Theodore H. Eftink of Marble Hill; Edward J. Gauthier of Chaffee; Belinda K. Orton of Poplar Bluff; Deborah L. Rutherfurd of Sikeston; Gregory L. Shinn of Farmington; and Rebecca L. Wiseman of Advance.

Steven Cecil, formerly of Sikeston, has been promoted to vice president-manager of Professional and Executive Banking and Business Bank for Sarasota and Manatee counties in Florida.

Cecil, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Cecil of Sikeston, is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau with a degree in management and finance.

Cecil's father, Jackie Cecil, is director of the Missouri Job Service office in Cape Girardeau.

Rick Murray, inspection service director for Cape Girardeau, will be guest speaker at the February meeting of the Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors.

Murray will discus minimum property standards for residential and commercial properties during the Feb. 28 meeting, to be held at Wayside Smorgasbord, Highway 61 East, Jackson, at 8:30 a.m.

Additional information concerning the meeting is available by calling 335-7969.

Lynn Moll, owner of Gulliver's Travel Agency Inc., 2424 Kingsway Drive in Cape Girardeau, has received certification from the University of Missouri-St. Louis continuing education program for completion of the course, "Desktop Publishing-Quarkxpress."

The program is being used at Gulliver's Travel to maintain a client database of listings, including clients' personal travel preferences, interests and requests.

Rick Borchelt has been named to a communications position in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Borchelt will direct communications and press efforts of the office, which is headed by Dr. John H. Gibbons, science adviser to President Clinton.

Borchelt, a Cape Girardeau native and University High School and Southeast Missouri State University graduate, served as committee press secretary for the House Science Committee during the 102nd and 103rd Congresses.

Prior to joining Congressional Services, he was director of media relations at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. He previously was associate editor of publications at the University of Maryland.

Allison Campbell of Cape Girardeau and Clayton Eftink of Kelso were winners of savings bonds in a paper airplane contest sponsored by Auto Tire & Parts, headquartered in Cape Girardeau, during the halftime of the recent Southeast Missouri State University-Murray State University basketball game.

Campbell was winner of the contest and received a $500 U.S. Savings Bond. Eftink finished second, and received a $250 savings bond.

Rob Mehner of Auto Tire & Parts presented the awards. Auto Tire & Parts received a plaque from the university for outstanding support of the university's athletic program.

Troy L. Wilson of the First National Bank of Sikeston has been appointed to attend the National White House Conference on Small Business, in Washington, June 11 through 15.

Rep. Bill Emerson of Cape Girardeau nominated Wilson for the conference.

Some 34 Missouri business delegates will attend the national conference, where concerns and recommendations of the Missouri small business community will be discussed.

Chasity D. Sullivan of Vienna, Ill., has joined Tip of Illinois Health Services Inc. as a home health aide at the Anna, Ill., branch office.

Sullivan, who has two years experience in the medical field, received her certified nursing assistant certification from Shawnee Community College near Ullin, and is on the Illinois Department of Public Health Nurse Aide Registry.

Tip provides health services in the home, and serves the lower 25 counties of Southern Illinois. The Anna office serves residents in Union and Johnson counties.