Advertising Digital LunchBox received three gold American Advertising Federation awards and one silver. The gold awards were for ads produced for the Branson/Lakes Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Revel Advertising was awarded three AAF awards for its work in 2014. It received two Silver awards and a Gold award was for a video produced for Missouri State University Athletics.
Banking & Finance Metropolitan National Bank promoted Dustin Ross to loan officer at its Marshfield-Spur branch. Ross has a bachelor’s in hospitality administration from Oklahoma State University and joined the bank last year as a mortgage loan originator.
Forbes ranked Edward Jones the top financial services firm in the America’s Best Employers 2015 edition. Edward Jones also was rated No. 6 in Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Old Missouri Bank promoted John Maupin to senior vice president and senior commercial lender. Maupin has 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and construction lending.
Education The Missouri Association for Colleges of Teacher Education recognized Callie Beard, a fifth-grade teacher in the Lebanon School District, and Fernando “Ferne” Sustaita, a seventh-grade teacher with Nixa Public Schools, as Outstanding Beginning Teachers. Beard has a bachelor’s in elementary education from Drury University, and Sustaita has a bachelor’s in business administration and a master’s in education from Drury. In their second years as full-time teachers, the two were selected among 61 educators statewide.
Springfield Public Schools Superintendent John Jungmann completed the American Association of School Administrators National Superintendent Certification Program. Among 28 superintendents selected from nearly 80 applicants, Jungmann completed 18 months of seminars, webinars and professional development in the inaugural class.
Nonprofit Lost & Found Grief Center was selected among five agencies to receive a partner grant from Mid-America Transplant Services. The $67,000 grant allows Lost & Found to create new components to their existing therapeutic support, specifically designed to assist families of organ and tissue donors.
The Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks hired Sam Pippin as senior financial director. A certified public accountant, Pippin previously served as vice president of accounting and finance for The Doctor’s Co., an interinsurance exchange.
Champion Athletes of the Ozarks named Jason Whitesell of Old Missouri Bank to its board of directors and appointed new officers: President Amy Rinne and Vice President Michael Roberts, both of Abacus CPAs LLC; Secretary Michael DeArmon of Neale & Newman LLP; and Treasurer Stephen Evans of Evans Wealth Planning LLC.
Law Springfield attorney Adam Woody was honored by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel as a member of its 2015 list of the top 1 percent of attorneys in the nation. Members are vetted by a research team and selected by an independent panel.[[In-content Ad]]
