UNIVERSITY SPONSORS ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE APRIL 12

Everything is on GO for the annual business conference to be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus April 12.

Cost of the seminar, including the noon luncheon, is $40 a person. Cost for students is $10 for the luncheon (conference sessions are free for students). Additional information is available by contacting the Chamber of Commerce at 335-3312.

Arnold M. Weimerskirch, Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, will be keynote speaker during the luncheon.

"Quality Service: A Constant Challenge" will be the topic of Weimerskirch. He is president of corporate quality for Honeywell.

The program is divided into two sessions, a retail panel discussion with opening remarks by Dan Wood, executive vice president of the Tommy Hilfiger Line, Hart, Schafer and Marx of Chicago, and a special health care panel with opening remarks by Kathleen Steele, Region VII, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at Kansas City.

The event is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce University Relations Committee and Southeast Missouri State University's Donald L. Harrison College of Business.

"Creating Value" is the theme of the 1995 conference.

The retail session, starts at 8 a.m. Following Wood's remarks, a local panel will discuss area retailing.

Bert J. Kellerman, associate dean of the Harrison College of Business, will serve as moderator. The panel includes Judith R. Wilferth, president, Children's Bazaar; Harry Rediger, manager, J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; Charles L. Hutson, president, Hutson Furniture Co.; and Dennis Marchi, manager, Schnucks.

The health panel will start at 9:45. Steele, who serves a four-state region for the health and human services group, is a former Missouri state representative, serving three terms from District 2. She will discuss "current issues facing business and what the future holds."

Karen Hendrickson, assistant administrator, Southeast Missouri Hospital, will serve as moderator of the health session. Health care panelists will include Belinda Heimericks, executive director, Missouri Nurses Association, who will discuss "Patient Care Issues in a Reformed Environment"; Charlotte Craig, administrator, Cape County Public Health Department, who will talk about "Health Care Issues at the County Level"; Ron Cates, deputy director, Missouri Department of Health, who will discuss "Missouri issues"; and William Shell, president MedAmerica HealthNet Inc., who will discuss "Physician Hospital Organization."