PERSONNEL

Cape Girardeau County coroner John E. Carpenter recently was inducted into membership in the American Board of Forensic Examiners.

Induction is by invitation only. Carpenter was chosen because of his training and expertise in forensic pathology.

Some of the programs he has taken part in: St. Louis University Department of Forensic Pathology graduate courses, FBI training seminars, St. Louis Police Academy, Cape County Sheriff's Department and Child Death Review Panel Training.

Carpenter has served as coroner for six years.

Steven Fritzler of Cape Girardeau has been appointed agency specialist in the Jack Hollingworth Agency of Aid Association for Lutherans.

In addition to serving association members as a district representative, Fritzler will provide specialized services to the agency. Agency specialists support general agents in areas that include recruitment, training, computer systems, products, advance sales and team leadership.

The association, based in Appleton, Wis., is the nation's largest fraternal benefit society in terms of assets and ordinary life insurance in force.

Hair Stylist Nikki Bradley has moved from Eugene's Hair Salon to Gary & Co., 1017 Harmony. Bradley worked at Eugene's for two years. She will offer the same services she offered previously.

Thomas P. Unterreiner of Cape Girardeau celebrated his 30th year with Advanced Business Systems Saturday.

Unterreiner jpomed the supply company after he graduated from high school and typewriter school. He was the business' first service technician and has worked his way up to service manager.

Advanced Business Systems, 2845 Independence, is a business supply store that specializes in telephone systems, typewriters, dictation equipment and other office products.

Gary J. Schmidt of Cape Girardeau has joined the staff of Metro Business College, 1732 N. Kingshighway. He will coordinate night classes and custom training at the college.

Metro is chartered by the state as an approved educational institution. It is certified to operate by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Independent Colleges and Schools.

Schmidt has a bachelor's degree in business and a master's degree in business administration.

Cindy Murphy of Jackson has been appointed an account executive for Homesteaders Life Co.

Murphy will travel eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois offering to funeral directors marketing-support and life-insurance products to fund prearranged funerals.

Homesteaders is a mutual company based in Des Moines, Iowa, It has offered advanced funding for funerals since it was founded in 1906.

Murphy previously sold pre-need coverage for Morgan-Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico and for Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson. She has a bachelor's degree in mass communications from Southeast Missouri State University.

Dr. Gregory S. Leet, a Cape Girardeau optometrist, has just returned from participating in a sports vision screening at the 28th annual Junior Olympic Games in Florida.

Leet was one of 21 optometrists and five students of optometry who participated in the screening, which was sponsored by the American Optometric Association's 750-member Sports Vision Section.

The section has been sponsoring the screenings since 1978 at Olympic and other major sporting events to gather research data, establish testing protocols, identify testing equipment and provide optometrists with hands-on training in evaluating vision skills of athletes.

Mary Jane Crews has joined St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau as oncology clinical nurse specialist. Crews is involved in all inpatient and outpatient clinical oncology patient-care services.

Crews has 11 years of experience in all phases of oncology nursing care as well as seven years of experience as a nurse practitioner in internal medicine and cardiology. She came to Cape Girardeau from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Betty Mize of Mounds, Ill., was recently honored for five years of service with Tip of Illinois Health Services Inc. She is a certified nursing assistant based at Tip's branch office in Cairo, Ill. Mize will be awarded a five-year service pen at the annual award's banquet in December.

Tip is the area's largest Medicare-certified home-health agency. It is Joint Commission Home Care accredited. Tip serves the lower 21 Southern Illinois counties and provides physical therapy, nursing, speech therapy, home health aid and hospice services. It recently added occupational therapy services in the homes of more than 500 patients on a daily basis.

Carolyn and Dennis Kempf, owners of Elite Travel Inc., 354 S. Silver Springs Road, recently returned from a four-day trip to Ochio Rios, Jamaica. Various hotel sites were inspected and they visited local sites and festivities. Activities taken in were island tours, plantations, beach and water sports, shopping and island entertainers.

Dr. Richard L. Kies, a Cape Girardeau eye physician and surgeon, was blessed by the pope for donations of equipment and expertise in eye surgery in Gdansk, Poland.

Kies recently returned from a humanitarian mission to the birth place of Solidarity in Gdansk, where he helped deliver $40,000 worth of laser and cataract eye-surgery equipment. He will now work on a fund-raising mission in the Cape Girardeau area to raise more money for eye-surgery equipment in Gdansk and other cities in Poland.

The effort is in conjunction with the Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation.