PERSONNEL

Jack Higdon, a former manager of West Park Mall, is moving south.

Higdon, group manager for Centermark Properties Inc. Midwest Region at St. Louis, will become manager of the Oaks Mall, a Centermark shopping center at Gainesville, Fla.

"The mall has five large department stores and 185 other stores," said Higdon, who will assume the position May 1.

Meanwhile, Centermark has started the process that will lead to a new manager at West Park Mall here. Tony Stephens, who has been mall manager since April 1991, has resigned at West Park effective Friday. He has accepted a position with another mall group in the Champaign-Danville, Ill. area, where he will manage two properties: a shopping mall and a shopping strip.

Desma Reno, gerontological clinical nurse specialist at St. Francis Medical Center, has been appointed to represent the Missouri Nurses Association Board of Directors on the Institute of Constituent Members on Nursing Practice.

Reno will represent the state in a nationwide effort to identify trends, developments and issues related to nursing practice. Institute members meet in Washington, D.C., twice a year.

Reno has been a member of the St. Francis nursing staff since November 1976.

David Shell has been promoted to vice president and manager of the real estate department at Boatmen's Bank, where he will be responsible for administering all operations involved with residential and commercial real estate lending.

Shell joined Boatmen's in July 1991 as real estate loan officer. He was promoted to assistant vice president.

Before joining Boatmen's, Shell served as loan officer for Mercantile Bank of Stoddard and Bollinger counties for four years. He also previously worked at Savings of America in Sikeston.

Shell, a graduate of Sikeston High School, attended Arkansas State University and the Graduate School of Banking of Colorado.

Mark C. McCormick, a sales representative with Davault Agency Inc. of Cape Girardeau has received the Distinguished Sales Award and qualified for the President's Cabinet of the Old American Insurance Co. Both are for sales achievements.

Jennifer Elfrink of Scott City, a graduate of Jackson High School and Trans World Airlines Travel School, has joined Elite Travel Inc., 354 Silver Springs Road. Elfrink is experienced in the travel industry; she previously served as office manager at Reppert Travel Center.

Jack Kramer and Jim Burke, AAA insurance agents in the company's Cape Girardeau office, have received the AAA-Auto Club of Missouri 1994 Gold Seal Agent Award based on auto insurance sales, loss ratios and policyholder service. Kramer has worked with AAA Insurance since 1961. Burke joined the firm in 1987.

Wanda Evans, Corrie Young and Julie Collins have joined KBSI-TV, Steven Engles, president and general manager of the business, announced.

Evans, who worked in KFVS-TV Illinois sales, was named KBSI Illinois regional manager in the Marion office; Young, who previously worked at TCI Cable, joins KBSI as an account executive in the Cape Girardeau office; and Collins, who previously worked at KGMO-FM, is a new account executive in the Cape Girardeau office.

Virgil Hargan of Metropolis, Ill., has been selected to serve on the Country Companies 1994 Agency Advisory Committee.

Hargan is agency manager of the company's Pulaski-Alexander-Massac Agency.

Hargan started his career with Country Companies in 1962, and has been manager of the agency for Pulaski, Alexander and Massac counties since 1986.

Two Cape Girardeau men have retired from ABF Freight System Inc.

William Davis, a road driver at the Cape Girardeau terminal, retired after 16 years in the trucking industry, seven of them with ABF. Byron Fluegge, a mechanic at the local terminal, retired with 20 years service with ABF. He has been in the trucking industry for 36 years.

Physicians at Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Development Center in Anna, Ill., were honored for contributions and dedication during a reception held in connection with National Doctors' Day recently.

Among those receiving honors were: Dr. David A. Taylor, medical director; Dr. Julia Heath, psychiatry resident; and Dr. Reeta Rohatgi, all of Cape Girardeau; Dr. David Busby, psychiatrist; Dr. Nurettin Guler, physician; and Dr. Harold Stoner, psychiatrist, all of Anna; and Dr. Ralph Eisaman, psychiatrist, and Dr. Charles Levie, psychiatrist, both of Jonesboro, Ill.

Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative of Dongola, Ill., has announced winners of its annual Youth to Washington contest.

Casey Stahlheber, a student at Anna-Jonesboro High School, and son of Eric and Anna Stahlheber of Jonesboro, Ill., and Andrea Jackson, a Dongola Unit student and daughter of Walter and Robin Jackson of Dongola, will have an opportunity to observe the federal government at work during a tour of Washington, D.C., June 17-24.

Stahlheber and Jackson, along with 1,300 contest winners from other states, will see the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and other sites.

Runnersup in the contest are Mark E. Boaz, A-J School; Liam Duffy, Tyler Clutts and Jennifer Ling, Cobden School, and Jasson Reichert, Nathan Cross, Mary Ledbetter, Tiffany McClelland, Amy Junkerman and Emily Blackburn, Century Unit School.

Winners and runnersup will be honored by SIEC at a banquet at Shawnee Community College April 18.