Teresa McCammon joined People's Bank of the Ozarks as a mortgage loan officer covering Greene and Webster counties. McCammon has 17 years of experience.
Lyndall Magers joined Guaranty Bank as senior vice president of commercial lending. Magers attended Missouri State University, The Graduate School of Banking of the South, the University of Oklahoma National Commercial Lending School and FDIC Bank Examiner School. He has served as president of the Ozark Bankers Association.
Mark Mallian joined Guaranty Bank's residential lending team and focuses on mortgage originations in southwest Springfield and Nixa.
Joan Ohlgren was promoted to Guaranty Bank banking center officer. Ohlgren has 15 years of banking experience and has been with Guaranty Bank since 2004.
Construction
David Atkisson, Craig Kline and Grant Miller of Walton Construction Co. LLC earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design professional accreditation.
Education
Marilyn Odneal, horticulture outreach adviser at Missouri State University's Mountain Grove campus, received $20,700 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Enterprise Program to explore technology that could extend crop production seasons.
Nancy Colbaugh, principal of Springfield's Eugene Field Elementary School, is the 2009 recipient of Evangel University Alumni Association's President's Award. Colbaugh, who earned her bachelor's degree from Evangel in 1970, has been principal at Eugene Field since 2001.
Jean Orr, associate professor of psychology at Evangel University, visited Bible College of Malaysia this summer to teach a weeklong class on basic counseling skills to 43 students.
Food Services
Hiland Dairy president and general manager Gary L. Aggus received the Missouri Southern State University 2009 Outstanding Alumni Award. Aggus graduated cum laude from MSSU in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in marketing and management, and an associate degree in computer programming. He joined Hiland Dairy in 1984 and in 2003 was promoted to his current position. In 2006, Aggus added the positions of chief operating officer and president of joint ventures for Prairie Farms Dairy, and that year was inducted into the Missouri Dairy Hall of Honors.
Media
Joplin Tri-State Business Journal hired advertising executives Cindy Sundy and Whitney Warren.
Sundy, a Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce ambassador and member of its Small Business Council, was formerly a member representative of small-business advocacy group National Federation of Independent Business. Warren, a recent Missouri Southern State University mass communications graduate, previously served as a field marketing specialist for Joplin's Babies R Us and was a Freeman Health System marketing intern.[[In-content Ad]]
