NEW EMPLOYEES

Rebecca L. Payne has joined the Safehouse for Women Inc. in Cape Girardeau as executive director.

Payne, of Jonesboro, Ill., has extensive experience working with women's shelters at Urbana, Alton, Kankakee and Cairo, Ill. She served as executive director at the Cairo Women's Shelter three years and as outreach coordinator there since October 1991.

In her new position she will prepare grant requests, develop programs and help in the overall operation of the center.

At Cairo she was responsible for the coordination of walk-in programs, including supervision and counseling services to victims of domestic violence.

She is also chairman of the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence Public Policy Committee. While at Urbana, she worked with judges, law enforcement and attorneys on behalf of domestic violence victims.

Payne, a native of Indiana, attended Loyola University at Chicago, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1981. She also completed one year toward a master's degree at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb, Ill.

Payne is a member of the Southern Illinois NOW Chapter and the NAACP.

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Carole W. Clayton of Sikeston has joined the staff of Targeted Publications, a division of the Southeast Missourian, as an advertising account executive.

Clayton, who is experienced in both hotel and restaurant management, will concentrate on helping produce such specialized publications as Business Today and Tipoff.

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Mike Todt has joined Ford Groves Motor Co., 1501 N. Kingshighway, as a sales representative.

Todt has more than a year's experience in auto sales.

Prior to entering the sales field, he worked more than six years in construction management for a local firm.

Todt is a resident of Cape Girardeau.

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Rosetta Danker, a registered nurse, has joined St. Francis Medical Center as a diabetes rehabilitation nurse.

Danker most recently worked in the medical office of Dr. James R. Dzur as a certified diabetes educator. She has eight years of experience in diabetes education and counseling and has experience working with insulin-dependent and non-dependent diabetic adults, diabetic children, gestation diabetes and pregnant diabetics.

"She fills an important role in the diabetes program at St. Francis," said the medical center's critical-care director, Jeanne Fadler. "She is responsible for inpatient and outpatient diabetic education as well as community education about diabetes. Her responsibilities also include caring for patients in the St. Francis Diabetic Foot Care Clinic."

She is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the American Diabetes Association.

Danker and her husband, David, reside in Perryville. They are parents of two children.