Accounting BKD LLP partner Mike Schnake received the firm’s 2013 Pride Award honoring passion, respect, integrity, discipline and excellence. Schnake has 30 years of industry experience.
Agriculture Sunshine Valley Farm raised $2,500 for the Greene County Extension Council through its Dinner at the Orchard fundraiser. Ticket proceeds from the event featuring locally grown food benefited the Friends of Greene County Extension.
Architecture Bates & Associates Architects Inc. hired Christine Bono, Timothy Brandt, Justin Rios and Bryan Stockton as associate architects. Bono and Stockton hold master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Kansas, and Brandt and Rios have master’s degrees in architecture from Drury University.
Bates & Associates also hired Catie Neuber to work in design, marketing and information technology and named Tanya Chadha an intern architect. Neuber holds a bachelor’s in Spanish from Drury and a master’s in teaching from Missouri State University, and Chadha is seeking her master’s in architecture from Texas A&M University.
nForm Architecture LLC hired Danielle Clay as intern architect and Stephanie Shadwick as project manager. Clay, who received a bachelor’s in architecture from Drury, has experience working on retail, residential and hospitality projects. Shadwick, who received bachelor’s degrees in architecture and art history from Drury, has experience in hospitality, retail and civic projects.
Banking & Finance First Home Savings Bank promoted Abby Rinehart to assistant vice president and bank manager for the Gainesville branch and Kiley Bengtson to operations manager at the Sparta branch. Rinehart has six years of banking experience, and Bengtson four years of experience.
The Missouri Division of the International Association of Administration Professionals elected Theresa Brown as board president of the Missouri division. Brown works as an investor services sales assistant with Empire Bank.
Certified financial planner and private wealth adviser Paula Dougherty qualified to attend Ameriprise’s 2013 Circle of Success Conference in New Orleans.
Graphic Design USA selected BluCurrent Credit Union as a winner of the 2013 American Inhouse Design Awards. BluCurrent was recognized in the Directed Mail & Direct Response category for its checking account introduction postcards.
Education Isabel Eisenhauer, MSU Small Business & Technology Development Center consultant, and Brian Kincaid, business incubator coordinator for the eFactory at MSU, received certifications as economic development finance professionals from the National Development Council. Completed courses include training in credit analysis, real estate financing, loan packaging, deal structuring and negotiating.
Tona Hetzler, MSU’s department head of sports medicine and athletic training, received a departmental grant of $14,660 from Evangel University for MSU graduate assistants. The money will pay student tuition and provide a monthly stipend during students’ work with Evangel.
Rebekah Wright joined Southwest Baptist University’s marketing and communications team as marketing assistant. She previously worked in SBU’s admissions department for three years.
Springfield Public Schools named Kelly Allison principal of Kickapoo High School, succeeding David Schmitz, who was named director of secondary operations. Allison has 26 years of experience with SPS, serving as Hickory Hills K–8 principal the last 14 years.
Engineering Schultz Surveying and Engineering project engineer Brad Allbritton passed the professional engineering exam to become a licensed PE in Missouri. The exam comprises 80 multiple choice questions split into two four-hour sessions. Allbritton, an Arkansas State University graduate with a bachelor’s in civil engineering, joined SSE in 2000 and has managed its Branson office since 2010.
Government Missouri Citizens for the Arts awarded Rep. Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, with the 2013 Arts Advocacy Award for his support of funding for the Missouri Arts Council.
Health Care Mercy Springfield Communities Dr. Sunthosh Parvathaneni was inducted as a Fellow of the Society while attending the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions.
Smith Glynn Callaway Medical Foundation awarded the Discovery Center a $2,400 grant for its ChromoZone Gallery and Visitor Lab. The funds will help provide resources for visitors to extract their DNA, test types of bacteria and maintain a supply of fruit flies for observation.
Fremont Senior Living named Brad Eldridge as executive director. Eldridge manages the senior living community’s 22 villas, 33 apartments, 56-bed assisted living facility and 16-bed memory care unit.
Terri Courtney-Miller received the Kathryn Boone Outstanding Play Therapist Award at the annual Missouri Association for Play Therapy Conference. Courtney-Miller has worked in private practice since 2001 at Ozark Psychological Association LLC and has been a registered play therapist supervisor since 2003.
Mercy expanded the responsibilities of Springfield clinic President Dr. Alan Scarrow to include clinics in Aurora, Cassville, Mountain View, Rolla, Lebanon and Berryville, Ark.
Hospitality Springfield area Hampton Hotels received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Award recognizing TripAdvisor.com’s top 10 percent of traveler reviews.
Law The American Health Lawyers Association ranked Husch Blackwell No. 9 in its 2013 Top Honors for health care law. Three Springfield attorneys – partners Virginia Fry and Paul Satterwhite and associate Elizabeth Wente – work in health care law.
Nonprofit The National Development Council awarded Jonas Arjes, director of business development for the Taney County Business Development Partnership, certification as an economic development finance professional. Completed courses include training in credit analysis, real estate financing, loan packaging, deal structuring and negotiating.
Convey of Hope received $57,500 from the Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield Charitable Foundation. The money is designated for tornado recovery in Moore, Okla.
The Darr Family Foundation awarded five grants totaling $35,000 to The Forest Institute’s The Hatching Project, $5,000; Springfield Public Schools’ Robberson Continuous Learning Community School, $10,000; The Junior Achievement of Southwest Missouri’s work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy programs, $5,000; The Ozarks Counseling Center’s Supervised Visitation Program, $10,000; and The Victim Center’s Children Services Program, $5,000.
Technology Killian Digital received a People’s Choice Award on a government project for its work on the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management from Infocomm International and New Bay Media. Winners were chosen from 15 installations in the categories of corporate, education, health care, arts and leisure, and government. Killian’s work in the newly constructed building includes establishing a 911 call center on the second floor.[[In-content Ad]]
