PERSONNEL

Michelle Tucker has joined Heartland Telephone Services as a sales representative.

Tucker is a graduate of Shawnee High School in Southern Illinois and Mineral Area Community College at Flat River, Mo.

She recently completed an AT&T sales training course at Chicago, Ill, and will be selling AT&T products to small and medium businesses. She previously worked in management with Drury Restaurants, Inc.

Heartland Telephone, with offices at 2707 E. Jackson Blvd., Jackson and 523 E. Vienna St., in Anna, Ill., is an authorized AT&T dealer.

Pat Halvorson, owner of Taco John's Restaurant in Cape Girardeau, has received the "Mr. Taco: The Pursuit of Excellence" award from Taco John's International, Inc., during the company's recent national convention, held at Newport Beach, Calif.

Halvorson was honored for overall excellence of his restaurant operations, his leadership and contributions to the chain, innovative employee relations and marketing programs.

In addition to the Cape Girardeau restaurant, Halvorson owns 11 other Taco John's in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois, and has signed a development agreement with TJI that calls for development of more restaurants.

Halvorson opened his first Taco John's restaurant in Moscow, Idaho, in 1976 at the age of 19. He relocated to Kentucky and opened the first Taco John's in Paducah in 1980. He purchased the Cape Girardeau restaurant and assumed its management in 1989.

Debbie Popp, neurosurgery clinical resource nurse and intensive care nurse at St. Francis Medical Center, has been named 1994 "Nurse of the Year" at St. Francis.

Popp, of Cape Girardeau, joined St. Francis in 1985. In her position as neurosurgery clinical resource nurse, she works with neurosurgical patients and their families, starting with the pre-admission process through the rehabilitative phase.

Popp serves on a number of patient care committees at St. Francis, including the patient education committee, clinical resource council, and coordinated care task force. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses.

She is a member of the medical center's cardiothoracic surgery team, the intra-aortic balloon pump team, the hemodialysis team and the hospital's code blue team.

Dr. Shanon T. Kirchhoff has successfully completed the examination for certification by the American Board of Orthodontics for board certification.

Kirchhoff, who specializes in orthodontics in Cape Girardeau with satellite offices in Chaffee and East Prairie, received his dental degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He also received his orthodontic training at UM-Kansas City.

Kirchhoff is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists, Midwestern Society of Orthodontists and the American Dental Association.

Robert P. Rueseler, of the St. Louis-Kickham Agency of Massachusetts Mutual, has been named 1993 "Agent of the Year" for a second consecutive year.

Rueseler, who operates the Cape Girardeau office at 113 S. Broadview, has represented Mass Mutual since 1988. He specializes in personal, business and estate planning with an emphasis on life insurance and investments.

Lonnie Mobley, manager of the Cape Girardeau and Perryville offices of Miracle-Ear Centers, recently completed classes in Kansas City to become certified to fit Soft Choice Hearing Instruments.

Mobley is a Missouri state licensed hearing instrument specialist.

Doris Jean Arnold and Gary Turner, sales associates with Century 21 Ashland Realty, have been honored for performance by Century 21 South Central States, Inc.

Arnold was recognized as the number two agent in the Eastern Outer Brokers Council, and Turner was honored as the number three agent, based on first quarter closed commissions. Arnold, and Herb Annis, were both named million-dollar producers for the quarter.

Century 21 Ashland Realty, 105 S. Broadview, was recognized as the number one office in the council, which consists of 122 Century 21 offices.