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COMMUNITY
COLLEGE NAMES BANKS VP OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
MICHAEL BANKS
vice president of academic affairs,
St. Charles Community College |
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Michael Banks, who has served as dean of the Arts and Humanities
Division at St. Charles Community College since 1994, has been appointed
as vice president for academic affairs. Banks succeeds former vice
president Dan Larson, who was recently named vice president for
instruction at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, N.Y.
In this new position, Banks supervises five division deans, 75 full-time
faculty members, 270 adjunct faculty, and nine staff members. During
his nine years at SCC, Banks has led the Arts and Humanities Division
and has overseen the operation of the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts
Building, the facility where the college’s theater performances
and many other cultural events are held.
Prior to joining SCC, Banks served as the director of performing
arts at Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio, and as the theater department
chair at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
WAGNER TO SERVE ON IRS OVERSIGHT BOARD
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The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment
of Raymond Wagner Jr., (center) legal and legislative
vice president of Enterprise Rent-A-Car to the IRS
Oversight Board. Treasury Secretary John Snow (left)
conducted the swearing-in ceremony, which was also
attended by Attorney General John Ashcroft and Wagner’s
wife Ann. Ray is an active leader in the region’s
public policy efforts and a member of the Greater
St. Louis Economic Development Council. |
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McEAGLE WELCOMES VP OF LEASING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHRISTOPHER MCKEE
vice president,
McEagle Development |
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McEagle Development has added Christopher McKee to their team as
vice president. Prior to joining McEagle, McKee served as vice president
of sales for industrial markets at BOC Water Services. His new responsibilities
include generating new leasing and development opportunities, coordinating
sales and marketing, and identifying acquisition and investment
opportunities.
ZIMMER
JOINS SSM HEALTH CARE AS SENIOR VP/CFO
KRIS ZIMMER
senior vice president/
chief financial officer,
SSM Health Care |
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SSM Health Care has named Kris Zimmer as senior vice president/chief
financial officer. Most recently, Zimmer served as senior vice president
and chief financial officer at Norton Healthcare in Louisville,
Ky. Also, he has served in similar positions at Mount Carmel Health
System and St. Ann’s Hospital, both in Columbus.
THE
IMPACT GROUP’S PRESIDENT SELECTED FOR ENTREPRENEURS MENTORING PROGRAM
LAURA HERRING
president, CEO and founder,
The IMPACT Group |
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Laura Herring, president, CEO and founder of The IMPACT Group, has
been selected as a protégé for the Committee of 200’s (C200) Growing
Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program.
The program helps women entrepreneurs whose businesses gross between
$3 and $10 million to take their businesses to the next level. Herring
was one of eight women in the U.S. chosen as a protégé for 2003.
GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE WELCOMES NEW
PRESIDENT
THERESA
MAYBERRY-DUNN, PH.D.
president & CEO,
Grace Hill Settlement House |
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The 100-year-old Grace Hill Settlement House (GHSH) has selected
Theresa Mayberry-Dunn, Ph.D., as the next president and CEO. She
succeeds Rodney Wead, Ph.D, who retired at the end of May 2003.
Most recently, she served as the Director of Early Care Education,
Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation & Schott Center for Public
and Early Education, Boston. Prior to earning her Ph.D. from the
Jane Adams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois,
Chicago, Dr. Mayberry-Dunn was the ceo of the Center For New Horizons
Inc. in Chicago.
Her other accomplishments include establishing the first TANF training
program for research reviewers in the country, opening the first
HIV emergency infant care centers in Metropolitan Chicago, managing
Illinois’ first Fatality Review Board for infants and children,
reducing the number of children waiting for adoptive placement from
3,000 to 200 in three years in Cook County, Ill., reducing the deficits
of two organizations by $4 million and $2 million.
The GHSH organization, with a $30,000,000 operating budget, yearly
serves 100,000 disadvantaged individuals throughout the Greater
St. Louis Region, through neighborhood organization, six public
health clinics, Head Start, Business Development and a nationally
and internationally renowned and copied self-help system entitled
the Member Organized Resource Exchange.
LAW FIRM ADDS NEW PARTNER TO LAUNCH MUNICIPAL
FINANCE PRACTICE
Attorney John Brickler has joined the law firm of Spencer Fane Britt
& Browne LLP as a partner and head of a new municipal finance practice
area in the firm’s St. Louis office.
Brickler brings experience as counsel on more than $630 million
in tax-exempt bond financing to the firm, which has more than 120
attorneys at its offices in St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., and
Overland Park, Kan.
Prior to joining Spencer Fane, Brickler practiced for 30 years with
another major midwestern law firm, including serving as a partner
since 1979.
PRESTIGIOUS
INTERNATIONAL COSMOS PRIZE GOES TO PETER RAVEN
PETER RAVEN, PH.D.
director,
Missouri Botanical Garden |
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Missouri Botanical Garden Director Dr. Peter Raven received the
Expo ’90 Foundation of Japan’s 2003 International Cosmos Prize.
This prestigious prize, which will be awarded to Dr. Raven in October,
includes a monetary award of 40 million yen, or approximately $340,000.
The Cosmos Prize is given annually to an individual or group who
embodies the spirit of the International Garden and Greenery Exposition
held in Osaka, Japan, in 1990. Raven’s work over the past 40 years
has promoted biological diversity, international cooperation and
conservation of the natural world.
Previous Cosmos Prize recipients include the Charles Darwin Research
Station in the Galapagos Islands (2002), filmmaker and naturalist
Sir David Attenborough (2000), and evolutionary biologist Richard
Dawkins (1997).
BKD ELECTS MATHER TO PARTNER
JOHN MATHER, CPA
partner,
BKD, LLP. |
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The St. Louis office of BKD, LLP, has named John Mather, CPA, as
partner of the accounting and advisory firm. Mather is a member
of BKD Manufacturing & Distribution Group.
VATTEROTT COLLEGE APOINTS CEO
MARK DEFUSCO, Ph.D.
president and CEO,
Vatterott College |
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Mark DeFusco, Ph.D., has joined Vatterott College as president and
CEO. Dr. DeFusco brings 20 years of experience for-profit and post-secondary
education, most recently with the Apollo Group as a vice president
developing centers for University of Phoenix.
“Our decision to place an executive of Mark’s caliber in the leadership
role at Vatterott is based on the very positive perspective that
we have regarding the for-profit, post-secondary sector and our
desire to pursue growth and value creation,” said William Dawson
Jr., partner at Wellspring Capital Management, LLC, the private
equity investment firm that owns St. Louis-based Vatterott College.
FRONTENAC BANK APPOINTS CHARIMAN OF ST.
CHARLES ADVISORY BOARD
Frontenac Bank has appointed Keith Hazelwood to chair its newly
developed St. Charles Advisory Board of Directors. Hazelwood practices
corporate law with Hazelwood & Weber, LLC.
The bank will be opening its third location in late fall of 2003
at the intersection of W. Clay and Duchesne/Hawk’s Nest. Frontenac
Bank’s other two locations are in Earth City and Frontenac. Rocco
Russo Jr., senior vice president of Frontenac Bank, will be responsible
for commercial development for the facility.
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