NEW EMPLOYEES

ROGERS JOINS IGA SUPERMARKET GROUP: Don Rogers, right, has joined the local group of IGA Supermarkets as a partner and general manager of IGA supermarkets at Jackson, Chaffee and Fredericktown. Rogers is shown here with Jim Maevers, manager of Maevers Management Co.

Don Rogers has joined the local group of IGA Supermarkets as a partner and general manager of IGA supermarkets at Jackson, Chaffee and Fredericktown.

Rogers is former director of merchandising for Wetterau Inc., Scott City Division.

"Rogers brings a wealth of experience to our organization," said Lester Maevers, president of the local IGA Corp. "He has many years experience in food retailing, wholesale retail service, produce procurement and merchandising. His experience will help our IGA supermarkets enter a new era of growth."

Under the new management operation, Rogers will be general manager of Schaper's IGA at Jackson, Chaffee IGA and Fredericktown IGA. Jim Maevers will continue to oversee the Main Street Fitness Center, Maevers Management Co., and the Super Video operations. Tim Maevers will continue to serve as general manager of the company's four Sav-A-Lot stores in Jackson, Cape Girardeau and Sikeston.

Rogers, his wife, Susan, son, Bryan, and daughter, Leigh, reside in Kelso.

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Ken Bryan has joined Concord Printing Services' sales staff.

Bryan has experience in printing and sales. He operated Prinit Press for 17 years. Prior to 1976 he was an advertising salesman for nine years for the Southeast Missourian.

Bryan founded Prinit Press in 1976. Concord Printing Services recently purchased Prinit Press assets.

Bryan and his wife, Diane, reside in Cape Girardeau. They are parents of a son, Scott, and daughter, Georgia.

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Alan Sellers has rejoined the Ford Groves sales staff.

Sellers started his automotive career with Ford Groves in 1988 and worked there until 1990.

He has spent the past three years with dealerships in Illinois and Alaska, where his wife was stationed in the Air Force.

Sellers is a 1987 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. He, his wife, Kimberly, and son, Joshua, have returned to the Cape Girardeau area.

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NEW YORK Hearst Corp. has named Alfred C. Sikes to head a new unit of the firm, founded to explore new media and technological breakthroughs.

Sikes resigned in January as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Hearst and its New Medical and Technology Group will work with the company's magazine, television, newspaper and entertainment groups to adapt editorial and programming formats to newly emerging electronic delivery systems.

The group will seek alliances with companies here and abroad that use "new and redefined technologies" to provide information, education and entertainment to consumers.

Sikes, a native of Sikeston, served as U.S. Commerce Department assistant secretary and administrator of the National Communications and Information Administration from 1986 to 1989. He also previously served as an assistant attorney general for the state of Missouri.

He has degrees from Westminster College and the University of Missouri Law School.

He was head of Sikes and Associates Inc., a broadcast management and media consulting firm in Springfield, Mo. In addition, he was campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond's 1972 campaign for governor and was later appointed to Bond's cabinet.

During his four years as head of the FCC, Sikes, 53, was known as a champion of new technologies. Under his watch, the panel opened up new radio frequencies for emerging communications. It also supported development of "video dial tone" service for delivering images over the telephone network, a new generation of cellular "personal communications" devices and digital high-definition television.