PERSONNEL

Dr. S. Edwin Noffel, a Cape Girardeau orthodontist, has received the Tweed Foundation's highest award, the "Distinguished Service Award."

Noffel was president and host for the biennial meeting of the Charles H. Tweed International Foundation for Orthodontic Education and Research, held at St. Louis.

About 200 orthodontists from more than a dozen countries, including the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Guatemala, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, New Caledonia and Spain, attended the meeting.

Assisting Noffel as host of the five-day conference was his wife.

Feature speakers for the program were Dr. Tom M. Graber, editor of the American Journal of Orthodontics, and Dr. Lyle E. Johnston, chairman of the Orthodontic Department at the University of Michigan.

Also in attendance were 30 graduate students and staff from the St. Louis University Orthodontic Department, and several graduate students from the University of Tennessee Orthodontic Department.

Vicky Grebe has been promoted to manager of Maurices, a women's and men's fashion store, in West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau.

Grebe joined Maurices in April 1991 as a floor supervisor and was appointed assistant manager that same month.

Grebe has an associate degree in fashion merchandising from Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Mo.

Maurices is headquartered at Duluth, Minn.

Don Schreiner has been promoted to vice president at Clarklift of Cape Girardeau Inc.

Schreiner, who has been with the company 18 years, serves as general manager of the Cape Girardeau operation at 4430 Nash Road.

The promotion was announced recently by Robert Whittingham, president of Clarklift of St. Louis.

Clarklift provides sales, rental and service for Clarklift equipment.

Doris Jean Arnold of Century 21 Ashland Realty Co., 105 S. Broadview, Cape Girardeau, has been honored for being in the top 1 percent out of more than 7,200 Century 21 sales associates in a seven-state region.

Arnold was recognized during the 1994 Divisional Conference of the St. Louis Division of Century 21 South Central States Inc.

More than 400 real-estate brokers, managers, sales associates and support people attended the conference.

John Oliver, vice chairman of the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department, will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's annual highway dinner, to be held Nov. 16, at the Drury Lodge.

Members of the state's highway commission and highway department have been invited.

A social hour will be held at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7.

Reservations and additional information are available by calling the chamber office, 335-3312.

Janell Medlin, Eric Pruemer, Lou DesPres, Neil LaVanchy and Suzanne Dufek, certified registered nurse anesthetists with Anesthesia Associates of Cape Girardeau, attended the annual meeting of the Missouri Association of Nurse Anesthetists, held at St. Louis recently.

Also attending the session was Carolyn Pruemer, a certified registered nurse anesthetist.

Gregory J. Pleimann of St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau has received a Department of Defense Certificate of Appreciation for support of the Naval Reserve Center.

The Naval Reserve Center presented the award on behalf of the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.

Pleimann was nominated for the award by Richard C. Fehr, an employee at the medical center, and a former hospital corpsman first class in the Naval Reserve Center's Fleet Hospital 11 detachment.

Fehr's hospital unit was activated in support of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He served at Awali in Bahrain from January to April 1991. St. Francis Medical Center has personnel policies that support and encourage employee participation in the National Guard and Reserve forces.

Helen Koenig of Cape Girardeau is the winner of a promotion by Elite Travel Inc. of 354 S. Silver Springs Road.

Koenig's prize will be an overnight stay for two at the Frontenac Hilton Hotel in St. Louis, any time before Sept. 30. The prize was awarded during an open house at the Cape Girardeau Airport.

Joe Domian of Cape Girardeau, an investment representative for Edward D. Jones & Co. of 1749 Independence Square, recently attended two seminars at St. Louis.

Local municipal issuer programs were discussed at one of the seminars. The purpose of the workshop was to provide the company's investment representatives with information and training to work with their communities and institutions to help increase the availability of local tax-free-municipal bonds.

A second seminar concerned retirement and was designed to teach representatives how to better assist clients in preparing for retirement. Topics discussed include Individual Retirement Accounts, Simplified Employee Pension Plans, profit sharing and other aspects of retirement planning.

Frankie R. Bankson of McClure, lll., and Ramona F. Kee of Cairo, Ill., have been honored for their service by Tip of Illinois Health Services Inc., headquartered at Carterville, Ill., for more than 10 years of full-time service.

Bankson, a licensed practical nurse, and Kee, secretary, both work at the Cairo branch of Tip, which serves Alexander and Pulaski counties.