PERSONNEL

In new positions

Suzy Glasscock has joined Mercantile Bank of Cape Girardeau as assistant vice president and loan officer in the real-estate loan department, announced O.J. Miller, president and chief executive officer of the bank.

Glasscock has more than 10 years experience. She previously worked with Farm and Home Savings and Loan.

Miller also announced the promotion of Deborah Bess to real-estate loan representative. She has been with Mercantile Bank five years.

Sue Anne Rademacker of Cape Girardeau has joined Ford and Sons Funeral Homes of Cape Girardeau as a family service counselor. Rademacker sells prearrangements. She previously operated a preschool.

Joe Fraley has been named national sales manager of KBSI-TV in Cape Girardeau, announced Steven Engles, president and general manager of the station.

Fraley rejoined KBSI, the local Fox affiliate, last year as assistant sales manager. He was previously a sales account executive at KFVS-TV, and served as marketing director at Allen Christian Motors Inc.

Rod Sievers, Dean Leipsner and Veronica Kelly have new positions at KFVS-12.

Sievers has been promoted to the position of bureau chief for KFVS's Southern Illinois Bureau, Leipsner has been appointed to the position of operations manager, and Kelly has been named to the position of account executive.

Sievers, who has lived in Carterville, Ill., for 20 years, started at KFVS in 1992. Prior to that he was anchor-producer for WSIL-TV at Carterville. He has a bachelor of science degree in radio and television from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Leipsner, who will head the promotion, production and commercial production departments for the station, previously worked as promotion manager at WITN-TV in Washington, N.C., a sister station to KFVS. He is a graduate of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., with a bachelor of science degree in television, radio and film. He has a master's degree in television management from Syracuse University.

Kelly will work out of the Southern Illinois Bureau in Carbondale. She was previously an account executive trainee for WTOC-TV in Savannah, Ga., a sister station to KFVS. A native of Miami, Fla., she is a graduate of the University of Florida at Gainesville, with a bachelor of science degree in telecommunications.

Richard Allgood has been promoted to vice president at First National Bank of Cape Girardeau, announced Greg Smith, president of the bank.

Allgood, of Cape Girardeau, joined First National in April 1991. He has more than 20 years banking experience and has held positions in trust operations, investments, commercial and consumer lending, and new business development.

He is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, with a bachelor of science degree in business management. He also attended the Graduate School of Banking in Madison, Wis.

Shirley Cracraft was honored recently at a retirement reception at Boatmen's Bank, 2 South Mount Auburn Road.

Cracraft announced her retirement from Boatmen's after more than 40 years in banking.

She joined First National Bank in December 1949 as a bookkeeper. She has served as teller, personal banker, secretary, safe-deposit and ATM representative.

She later joined Centerre Bank Corp. and eventually Boatmen's.

Mary Miller, director of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, has been approved for membership in the International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus.

Miller was one of 35 memberships approved during the association's recent board of directors meeting in Budapest, Hungary. Membership in the international organization includes 409 bureaus in 26 countries.

Maria R. Robbins, director of Nursing Services at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, has been installed as the Southeast Missouri unit chairperson of the Missouri League For Nursing.

Robbins, who will serve a two-year term of office on the league's board of directors, was installed during the league's annual convention at Osage Beach.

Robbins received her associate nursing degree and a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Southeast Missouri State University. She has also obtained gerontological nurse certification by the American Nurses Association.

She is a member of the Missouri and national leagues for nursing, National Gerontological Association and National Association of Health Care Quality.

Three Cape Girardeau physicians -- Jon Downey, Paul Andrew and Deborah Thomas -- have received the Physician's Recognition Award.

The award, presented by the Missouri State Medical Association and the American Medical Association, is earned by physicians who voluntarily complete 150 credit hours of continuing medical education courses in a three-year period.

Purpose of the award is to recognize physicians who keep up to date in their medical specialties.

Three Cape Girardeau Century 21 agents have been recognized for gross closed commissions for the first quarter in the Century 21 Eastern Outer Brokers Council.

Recognized during a recent Champion Luncheon were Doris Jean Arnold and Karla Marquart of Century 21 Ashland Realty and Birdie Rader of Century 21 Key Realty.

Century 21 Key Realty was recognized as the top office in the council based on total units closed during the quarter.

David Rudert of Perryville recently attended a national sales and education conference at Tucson, Ariz., sponsored by Aid Association for Lutherans, a fraternal benefit society based in Appleton, Wis.,

Rudert qualified to attend the conference based on outstanding sales and service to AAL members. Rudert, who joined the AAL's field staff in 1990, was also honored for achieving excellence in fraternal service and attended special volunteer recognition events at the conference.

Rudert is an associate of the Jack Hollingsworth Agency of AAL, Independence.

Sharon Faulkner, Cheryl Amos and Patricia Schreiner, all of Jackson, and Glendella May, Jackie Givens and Mary Tripp, all of Cape Girardeau, recently attended the annual meeting of the Missouri Association of Legal Secretaries at Union Station in St. Louis.

May and Givens received certificates for serving as co-chairmen of the state Chapter Achievement Contest and Faulkner received a certificate for serving as chairman of history book competition. The Cape Girardeau chapter placed third in the achievement contest and second in the history book competition.

Kenneth Keesee of Jackson, the local legal secretaries chapter's entry for the state scholarship, won the first-place $750 scholarship.

The local chapter's next meeting will be held Thursday. Additional information is available by calling May, 335-3316, or Amos, 243-8463.

John Mehner, president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, has been selected by the Missouri Bar to serve as a volunteer in its Fee Dispute Resolution Program.

Mehner recently attended a two-day training session in Jefferson City where he received training in mediation and arbitration techniques.

People who believe they have been charged unfairly by a lawyer may use the Missouri Bar Fee Dispute Resolution Program at not cost.