PERSONNEL

Viney Mosley of Sikeston, Southeast Regional Executive Director of the American Cancer Society, has been named Area Vice President and State Director of Legacies, Planned Giving and Major Gifts.

Mosley has served in various capacities for the American Cancer Society, starting as a volunteer in 1979 following the death of her mother from cancer.

Mosley was a field representative and senior field representative during the 1980s and was promoted to regional executive director in 1992. In 1994 she became the Mission 200 Core Team Coordinator for Income Development for Missouri.

Tony L. Smee, former district executive of the Boy Scouts of America Southeast Missouri, has been named vice president of marketing and sales for Interquest Information Services, headquartered in Cape Girardeau.

Interquest Information Services serves companies nationwide with employment screening services, corporate profiles, criminal conviction searches, property records, searches and national locator searches.

Smee, of Cape Girardeau, is a graduate of Bernie High School and Southeast Missouri State University.

Michael F. Maguire has been appointed national sales and marketing manager of Spartech Compounding, the company's engineered thermoplastics operation in Cape Girardeau.

Maguire has domestic and international marketing experience with plastic sales. He previously worked with Allied-Signal, General Electric Plastics and CYRO Industries.

He attended Rutgers University, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He also has a master's degree in marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Maguire and his family will move to Cape Girardeau.

Jo Karen Moyers and Mary Dever have joined the staff of House of Brides, 238 N. Pacific in Cape Girardeau.

Moyers will serve as assistant manager and bridal consultant. She previously owned and operated Heart & Flowers Shop in Chaffee and is a Sally Wallace-certified bridal consultant.

Dever, who also is a bridal consultant, recently moved back to Southeast Missouri from Texas.

Mary Nistendirk, a Cape Girardeau native, has been named branch manager for a new Capital Bank set to open in June at Ashland, Mo.

Nistendirk has been with Capital Bank at Columbia since the Cape Girardeau-based Capital Bancorporation purchased the former Century State Bank in 1989.

Nistendirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Koelzer of Cape Girardeau, is a graduate of Cape Central High School and Columbia College at Columbia. She worked at First National Bank in Columbia while attending college and remained with that company until she joined Century State Bank in 1988.

Nistendirk and her husband, Steven, now live in Columbia, about 12 miles from Ashland.

A total of 156 Southeast Missouri Hospital employees were recognized for a combined total of 1,485 years of service during the hospital's recent 25th Employee Awards Banquet, held at the Holiday Inn Convention Center.

Commended for 25 years of service were: Nancy Deimund, admitting supervisor; Helen Farrar, dietary supervisor; Cletus Garrett, housekeeping; Wilburta Hemmann, labor/delivery nurse; Erica McBride, admitting nurse; Emma Nichols, neurology lab; Norma Jean Pind, 3-West; and Dorothy Walker, unit secretary in Emergency Services.

Twelve employees were recognized for 20 years service. They are Mary Amos, laboratory; Anita Baker, Home Health; Verna Eaker, business office; Laura Hurst, medical records; Juanita Johnson 4-East; Chuck Keppler, human resources director; Michael Myer, plant operations; Barbara Powell, Regional Home Health Services director; Viola Schlegel, Transport/messenger; Betty Shoaf, accounting; Bobby Stoffregen, plant operations; and Vanessa Tuttle, dietary.

In addition, 20 employees were recognized for 15 years service; 33 were honored for 10 years service; and 83 marked their fifth year at the hospital.

Two former Cape Girardeau residents recently were promoted in the office of State Auditor Margaret Kelly.

Shannon Davidson will serve as semi-senior auditor, and Ken Steinkamp has been promoted to in-charge auditor.

"I am pleased to recognize (Davidson and Steinkamp) for the excellent work they are performing on behalf of Missouri taxpayers," said State Auditor Margaret Kelly. "The success of the state auditor's office is attributable to our professional, independent staff."

St. Francis Medical Center recognized 182 employees at its annual service awards banquet held in conjunction with National Hospital Week May 8-14.

Members of the medical center's board of directors presented service pins and other commemorative items to employees who have been with the hospital for five, 10, 15, 20 and 30 years.

Also at the May 13 banquet, critical care services director Jeannie Fadler received the second annual leadership award, recognizing her for outstanding service and leadership.

Three employees -- Nelson Eaker of The Heart Institute and Marilyn Hughey and Margie Vinyard, both of the laboratory -- were honored for achieving more than 30 years of service.

Eleven employees were recognized for 20 years. They were: Fadler, Dianna Gammon, Joe Lee, June Oxford, Alene Penrose, Mary Raines, Mike Farrar, Pauline Irvine, Pat O'Gara, Angela Parks and Greg Pleimann.

Twenty-eight employees were recognized for attaining 15 years of service, 60 were honored for 10 years, and 80 were honored for five years.

Dr. Robert Kessinger, a specific chiropractor at Cape Girardeau, attended an Upper Cervical Specific Chiropractic Conference at Spartanburg, S.C., where he was a guest speaker.

Dr. Micheal Kale, an authority on specific chiropractic, was host and moderator at the meeting.

Kessinger, certified by Kale as a specific chiropractor as well as instructor, has a practice as 1424 Kurre Lane.