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Donald Louis Harrison has been named chairman of the board of AmeriFirst Bank of Cape Girardeau.

Harrison is a founding director of AmeriFirst. He succeeds the late Lehman Finch of Cape Girardeau as chairman.

He and his wife, Shirley, are natives of Cape Girardeau. A graduate of Western Military Academy at Alton, Ill., Harrison attended Southeast Missouri State University for two years before his graduation from Yale.

He has been chief executive officer and owner of a number of companies, most of which emphasize highways, heavy construction and production of stone, sand and gravel in a four-state area.

He is a member of the Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State University and of civic and social clubs in Cape Girardeau.

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Allen L. Schaper, executive vice president of Mercantile Bank of Cape Girardeau for three years, has been named president and chief executive officer of Mercantile Bank of Doniphan.

Schaper succeeds Charles R. Bowman, who is retiring from day-to-day bank operations. Bowman, who has been with Mercantile for 31 years, 12 as president and chief executive officer, has been elected chairman emeritus.

John W. McClure, executive vice president of community banking, Mercantile Bancorporation Inc., said Bowman will continue to be available for counsel and support.

Schaper has worked in the financial services industry since 1976. He joined Mercantile in 1988 from Hawkeye Bancorporation in Des Moines, where he was responsible for six Iowa banks.

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he received a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics.

Schaper's appointment at Mercantile was effective Oct. 8. He and his family will move to Doniphan soon.

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Scott Dunning has been named store manager of Phegley's Shooter Supply, 779 Enterprise, announced Rodney Phegley, owner. Dunning, of Tamms, Ill., has been with the business for four years.

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David Trotter has been named service adviser at Auffenberg Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge at Auffenberg's Cape Girardeau Auto Park in the 600 block of S. Kingshighway.

Trotter, of Cape Girardeau, has worked with Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge for more than two years. He served as a repair technician before his latest promotion. He has 17 years of automotive experience.

Trotter and his wife, Christine, are parents of three girls: Brandy, Cheryl and Sarah.

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Alan Penick of Buchheit Inc. near Perryville, recently attended feeding and management school at Kent Feeds Inc., headquarters in Muscatine, Iowa.

About 200 people attended the sessions, which included topics on basic nutrition, methods of merchandising, and grind-and-mix practices. There was also a tour of the company's 650-acre research farm.

Kent Feeds, founded in 1927, manufactures livestock and poultry feeds at a dozen plants. Dealers handle the products in 14 Midwestern states.

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Jeffrey S. Hartle has been named assistant vice president in the Global Trading and Distributing Division of NCNB Texas at Dallas.

Hartle, a Cape Girardeau native, graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in 1982.

NCNB Texas has more than $35 billion in assets and serves customers through a network of 300 banking facilities in 79 Texas communities.

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Robert F. Shuck has been named vice chairman of Raymond James Financial Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla.,-based firm.

Shuck, formerly of Cape Girardeau, will assist Chairman Thomas A. James.

The position was created to give James more time to handle duties he will assume next year as head of the Securities Industry Association. Shuck was formerly executive vice president of retail sales for Raymond James & Associates, the brokerage subsidiary of Raymond James.

Shuck is a graduate of Trinity Lutheran School, Cape Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He has a master's degree from Northwestern University in Chicago.

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Don Fadler has retired after 41 years of driving a truck, 36 of which were for ABF Freight Systems Inc.

Fadler, of Cape Girardeau, received numerous safety awards. He had only one accident in 4,100,000 miles of driving.

Fadler worked out of ABF's Cape Girardeau terminal.

ABF, which serves 50 states, Canada and Puerto Rico, is headquartered at Fort Smith, Ark.