PERSONNEL

Alfred G. Richter, vice president and general counsel for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., will speak at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee Friday.

Richter, who is responsible for all legal issues impacting the company's Missouri operations, will discuss Missouri's Information Superhighway.

Richter started his career with Southwestern Bell in 1971 as a part-time installer-frameman. He received his juris doctor degree in 1976, and became an attorney for Southwestern Bell in St. Louis. He was appointed to his present position in 1990.

Arnold M. Weimerskirch, vice president, corporate quality, Honeywell Inc. of Minneapolis will keynote the annual "Business Conference," to be held in April at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus.

Weimerskirch's topic will be "Quality Service: A Constant Challenge."

The 1995 event will be held April 12, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Dan Wood, executive vice president, The Tommy Hilfiger Line; Hart, Schaffner and Marx, will head a retail discussion panel of Gene Cummings, president, Columbia Sportswear in Chaffee; Harry Rediger, J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; Harry Rust, Rust & Martin; and Dennis Marchi, Schnucks.

Other conference topics include "Health Care: Its Meaning to You," "Retail and Manufacturing Issues of Today" and "Relationship Implications for Success." Speakers for the health panel will be announced.

The conference is sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University's Donald L. Harrison College of Business and the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce University Relations Committee.

Connie Copsy, travel consultant with AAA Travel Agency, 1903 Broadway in Cape Girardeau, recently returned from a trip to Athens, Greece.

While there. she visited historical sights and hotels in Athens and along the southern coastline of Greece.

Dr. Charles H. Cozean Jr. of Cape Girardeau was one of the featured speakers during the recent Pacific Coast Refractive Symposium, held in Whistler, British Columbia.

Cozean, whose office is at 56 Doctors' Park, discussed new techniques in refractive surgery.

Betty Lou Ryan-Vogel has been appointed broker-manager at Capitol Hill Realty.

Vogel, who joined Capitol Hill in January 1994, has 19 years experience in the real estate industry.

She previously managed Century 21 Key Realty. She was owner of Coldwell Banker Ryan Realty, and later served as real estate loan officer with First National Bank.,

In her new position, she will assume the duties of the real estate office management. She will be responsible for the personnel, one-on-one training of sales counselors and coordinating staff sales and listings.

Mary Miller of the Cape Girardeau Convention & Visitors Bureau recently attended the 1995 Travel Expo Plus, held in Branson.

More than 150 group tour operators from 21 states attended the two-day meeting, which included a full-day marketplace at the Mel Tillis Theater.

Miller had an opportunity to visit theaters, restaurants and other Branson attractions.

Emil Russell, casino manager at Caruthersville for the past 11 months, has been promoted to casino manager of the Aztar property at Evansville, Ind.

Robert "Red" Wooten, vice president and general manager of Aztar Corp.'s casino riverboat development in Caruthersville, announced Russell's appointment recently.

Aztar has been selected by Evansville, Ind., to operate a riverboat gambling casino.

Dr. Robert Kessinger, a specific chiropractor, recently attended an X-ray seminar on quality assurance at Cleveland College of Chiropractic in Kansas City.

Kessinger, whose office is at 1424 Kurre Lane, is a Kale-certified instructor in Upper Cervical Specific Chiropractic.

Janet Job, account representative for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., has been named 1994 "Agent of the Year" for the Cape Girardeau office, 351 Silver Springs Road, Suite 110.

Job is also leading her district -- Springfield, Poplar Bluff, Sedalia, Cape Girardeau -- for 1995.

Job received her agent of the year award during a district meeting held recently at Springfield, where she was recipient of two other awards as well.

Andrew and Judith Leonard, of the Center for Self Improvement, 1707 Mount Auburn Road, recently attended two "eeg biofeedback" training conferences at Key West, Fla., and Plano, Texas.

The training was designed to show how using biofeedback could be used to remediate attention deficit disorder, alcoholism, posttraumatic stress disorder, migraine and depression.

Leonard, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a master's degree in psychological counseling, is a national board certified counselor, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and master practitioner of neurolinguistic program. He is director of the Center for Self Improvement, and Mrs. Leonard is center coordinator.