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Southeast Missouri Hospital Administrator James W. Wente has been elected president of District VII of the Missouri Hospital Association. He will formally assume office in early 1993.

District VII includes 19 hospitals in the southeastern portion of the state.

Wente succeeds Pat Bira, administrator of Perry County Memorial Hospital at Perryville.

Wente has been affiliated with Southeast Missouri Hospital since 1975, and has been its chief executive officer since January 1991. Prior to that, he served as an assistant administrator and chief financial officer.

In addition to work with district VII of MHA, Wente serves as vice chairman of the Missouri Hospital Association's finance and budget committee, a position he has held for eight years.

His professional distinctions include membership status in the American College of Healthcare Executives; advanced membership in the Health Care Financial Management Association; and membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.

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Connie Copsy, AAA Travel consultant, recently returned from a tour of the Hawaiian Islands of Oahu and Maui.

The purpose of the trip was to inspect hotel properties and area attractions to better advise clients when assisting them with Hawaii travel plans.

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Mike and Diann Newell, owners of Hansel and Gretel Shoppe in Town Plaza, have returned form a weeklong buying trip in Dallas, Texas.

The Newells attended the Apparel Market's showing of spring fashions for 1993. They said the fashion trend included decorated denim items with trims such as silk flowers and lace, large floral print fabrics for dresses in both long and short styles, and baseball uniform influence in several lines of sportswear.

In addition to buying spring '93 merchandise, the Newels also brought home new merchandise to supplement their Christmas inventory.

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Albert Elfrank, Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Electric Cooperative of Sikeston, was recently appointed a district representative to the executive committee of the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives in Jefferson City.

AMEC is the service organization of the state's 48 electric cooperatives, which serve more than 430,000 rural consumers. The executive committee consists of 12 members and is chaired by the president of the AMEC state board of directors.

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Dr. Robert Kessinger, a Cape Girardeau chiropractor, attended a specific chiropractic conference at Greenville, S.C., recently.

The conference was sponsored by the Kale network headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C.

Topic was "Precision X-rays Analysis in Upper Cervical Specific."

Future Kale conferences will be held in Greenville, New York, Canada and Japan.

Kessinger is certified in upper cervical specific.

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Dr. Paul D. Thompson, Dr. Frank McGinty and Dr. David J. Westrich, all of Cape Girardeau, have been inducted into the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.

The three were among 1,520 surgeons who became Fellows during a convocation ceremony held during the college's annual Congress in New Orleans.

Fellows of the college have earned the right to use the designation, "F.A.C.S."

Thompson practices at Cape Girardeau Urology Associates, 3 Doctors' Park, and is board certified in adult and pediatric urology; McGinty practices at McGinty Surgical Group, 35 Doctors' Park; and Westrich is medical director at Cape Retinal Surgery Center, 19 Doctors' Park.

The college was founded for the primary purpose of improving the quality of care of surgical patients by elevating the standards of surgical education and practice.