PERSONNEL

Vicki Curtis and Diane Caldwell have joined the Cape Girardeau office of Complete Health Care Inc., 1707 Mount Auburn Road.

Curtis, a licensed practical nurse (LPN), will be responsible for managing the agency's Division of Aging Contract and Private Duty Department, which provides service to at-risk elderly and disabled residents who require in-home assistance to maintain independent living status.

Caldwell, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in psychology and gerontology, will serve as case manager.

Complete Health Care, headquartered in St. Louis, has six offices in the 22-county Southeast Missouri area.

Kevin Williams, who has been a disc jockey and traffic director at KUGT Radio in Jackson for three years, has been appointed general manager of the station.

Williams, a graduate of Chaffee High School, Southeast Missouri State University and Central Bible College at Springfield, replaces Barbara England, who has accepted a position with Broadcast Cable Wireless in Malden as office manager/marketing director.

James Aaron McGranahan of Oran has been appointed to the position of KUGT music director. He is also marketing counselor for the station. McGranahan is a minister.

KUGT, which features Christian programming, is owned by Larry and Lisa Dunger of Scott City.

Cindy Vier has been named general manager of Garfield's Restaurant and Pub at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau.

Vier previously served as general manager of the Garfield's Restaurant and Pub in Laredo, Texas.

Steven Fritzler of Cape Girardeau has earned the title of Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF).

The LUTCF designation is awarded to individuals who have completed courses on a variety of topics, including personal, business and income insurance, and estate retirement and financial planning.

All LUTC Fellows are members of the National Association of Life Underwriters.

Fritzler, an Aid Association of Lutherans (AAL) district representative who serves Lutherans and their families in this area, is an associate of the Jack Hollingsworth Agency of AAL, Independence. AAL is the nation's largest fraternal benefit society.

John Mehner, president and CEO of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, recently completed a week-long program with the Institutes for Organization Management, held at the University of Notre Dame.

During the program, which is specifically designed for challenges facing chamber and association executives, participants learn the latest techniques in membership retention, quality management, volunteer leadership and other topics.

Prior to attending the week's course at Notre Dame, enrollees had to complete home-study and examinations.

The Notre Dame program is one of seven institutes held at different U.S. college campuses each year, and more than 2,100 individuals participate in the program annually.

Edwin T. Cato, a partner with Riley, Stubbs and Cato in Dexter, has been elected president of the 200-member Southeast Missouri Chapter of the Missouri Society of CPAs (MSCPA).

Other officers of the local chapter are Robert Mothershead of Benton, president-elect; Mark Eads of Poplar Bluff, vice president; Philip J. Black, Sikeston, secretary, and Lonnie Hasty, audit manager with Schott & Van De Ven in Cape Girardeau, treasurer.

Raymond C. Dockweiler of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Accountancy is the state MSCPA president.

Thomas Tucker, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission, headquartered at Perryville, has been elected second vice chairman of the National Association of Regional Councils' Executive Directors Advisory Committee (EDAC).

Tucker will represent rural regions on EDAC.

Robert G. Pikey of Cape Girardeau has received the 1993 Regional Sales Award from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp., headquartered in East Hanover, N.J.

Pikey, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration, joined Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, a division of Sandoz Limited of Basle, Switzerland, 31 years ago. He is in the Little Rock, Ark., region.

Pikey has previously won six regional sales awards and two national sales awards.

Randy Morse and Roger Champ of IV Care Inc., Cape Girardeau, recently attended the annual meeting of the Missouri Home Infusion Association, held at Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach.

The meeting provided for a continuing education program on treatment methods available for home infusion therapy.

Dr. Robert Kessinger, a Specific Chiropractic from Cape Girardeau, was principal speaker at the Kale Upper Cervical Specific Conference, held last weekend in Spartanburg, S.C.

Doctors of Chiropractic from across the U.S. and Canada attended the conference, which detailed the work of Dr. B.J. Palmer, known as "Father of Chiropractor."

Kessinger is a Kale-certified Specific Chiropractor and instructor. He has a Specific Chiropractic clinic at 1424 Kurre Lane in Cape Girardeau.