Newsmakers

Springfield accounting firm Davis, Lynn & Moots PC added Jamie Randolph as staff accountant and Nancy Harris as executive assistant. Randolph is a Missouri State University graduate and performs audit services for the company. Harris has several years of administrative experience in Nebraska.

Arts

Springfield Regional Arts Council announced its 2006–2007 board of directors. They are: Jeanie Morris, president; Lisa Blumenstock, vice president; Carl Price, secretary; Jared Scott, treasurer; and Jodie Adams, immediate past president. New board members are: Bette Sellars, an artist and the wife of Drury University president John Sellars; Amy Muchnick, principal violinist with the Springfield Symphony and a professor at MSU; Terry Bond, curriculum facilitator for communication arts with Springfield Public Schools; and Pam RuBert, member of the Art Quilt Guild and a former member of the Springfield-Greene County Park Board.

Education

Three MSU faculty will be honored at the National Academic Advising Association national conference in October. Political science professor George E. Conner will receive the Outstanding Advising Award in the Faculty Academic Advising category. Academic adviser and retention specialist Deborah Goodale will receive the Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit in the Primary Role category. Academic adviser Amy Marie Aufdembrink will receive the Outstanding New Adviser award in the Primary Role category.

Finance

Brad Pollard joined Northwestern Mutual Financial Network’s Yaktine Financial Group of Springfield as a financial representative.

Lois Weston of Tax and Financial Services was elected first vice president of the Missouri Society of Accountants at its annual meeting in Kansas City. Tammy Weston-Seibel, also of Tax and Financial Services, was installed as president of the society’s Heart of the Ozarks Chapter.

Health Care

St. John’s Clinic added three physicians. Dr. Timothy J. Young joined St. John’s Clinic-Neurosurgery. Young received his degree from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and completed a neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Christopher Spinelli joined St. John’s Clinic-Pediatrics/Health Tracks. Spinelli received his medical education from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville and completed a pediatrics residency with Kessler Medical Center, Kessler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss. Dr. Tony Cauchi joined St. John’s Clinic-Emergency Medicine. Cauchi was educated at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, and completed an emergency medicine residency with Michigan State University.

Insurance

Greg Goodson, commercial sales representative with United Insurance Group Inc., was promoted to commercial producer. Goodson has been with United Insurance for more than a year, and he won the companywide sales contest in June. [[In-content Ad]]