[ It's your business ]

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Aug 27, 2000 by Capital-Journal

- It's your business

- Changes at Sunflower --- Sunflower Marketing, a division of M- C Industries Inc., 3601 S.W. 29th, recently announced several staff changes.

Tim Carson was promoted to sales associate for northeast Kansas. He had been a sales associate. He will conduct sales in the northeast Kansas territory of catalog fulfillment programs, custom screen- printed and embroidered apparel and advertising specialties.

Carson has a bachelor's degree from Washburn University. He has a wife, Jan.

Mike Bergkamp was promoted to sales associate for college, military and recreation markets. He had been a sales associate. He will be responsible for developing new sales in apparel and ad specialties in these markets.

He has a bachelor's degree in communications from Washburn University.

Keirston Dexter changed positions to become a customer support associate for northeast Kansas. She had been a customer support associate. Dexter will assist with sales and handle customer service inquiries on catalog fulfillment programs, apparel and advertising specialties.

Dexter is a graduate of Washburn Rural High School. She has three children, Ashley, Zac and Jared.

Stacy Drake changed positions to become a customer support associate for college, military and recreation markets. She had been a customer support associate. She will assist customers with orders, manage customer files and handle communications.

Jeff Harmon was promoted to special markets coordinator. He had been a national accounts sales associate. He will conduct new business development in the school market as well as handling national business accounts.

Harmon has a bachelor's degree in business management from Washburn University.

- Changes at SCMHC --- The Shawnee Community Mental Health Center recently promoted several staff members.

Nancy Rapp was promoted to director of quality assurance. She is responsible for risk management and serves as SCMHC's compliance officer. She has been with the center since 1994 and most recently served as manager of quality assurance and acting director of mental health services. She has a master's degree in social work from the University of Illinois.

Chad Holtzman was promoted to director of information technology. He is responsible for design, development and on-going support of SCMHC's telecommunications, computer management information systems and computer networking environment. He has been with the center for a year and most recently was manager of information systems. He has a master's degree in psychology from Pittsburg State University.

ZoeAnn Amey-McCleary was promoted to director of mental health services. She supervises medical services, community support services and adult psychotherapy services at the center. She has worked at the SCMHC since 1995, most recently as community support services manager. She has a master's degree in social work from The University of Kansas.

- Midwest Grain Products promotes three --- Midwest Grain Products recently promoted three executives to vice president positions in the organization.

Steve Pickman was promoted to vice president of corporate relations. He joined MGP in 1985 and initially served as director of public relations and marketing administration for the company's former subsidiary, McCormick Distilling in Weston, Mo.

Pickman has a bachelor's degree in English and communications from Benedictine College in Atchison. He and his wife, Joyce, live in Atchison and have two children.

Dave Rindom was promoted to vice president of human resources. He has been with MGP since 1980, when he joined the company as a distillery operator in Atchison.

Rindom attended Kansas State University and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Benedictine in 1978. He is also owner and president of Atchison Wholesale Grocery and is a licensed real estate agent. He and his wife, Brenda, live in Lenexa and have two children and a grandson.

Bill Thornton was promoted to vice president of quality management. He worked for MGP in various plant positions from 1972 to 1980. In 1994, he rejoined MGP as corporate director of continuous quality improvement and was promoted to corporate director of quality management in 1997.

Thornton, a Topeka native, earned a bachelor's degree in communications and English at Benedictine in 1980. In 1992, he graduated from the Washburn University School of Law. He and his wife, Rozetta, live in Atchison.

- Zerbe appointed at Menninger --- Dr. Kathryn Zerbe, an internationally known authority on eating disorders, was appointed director of the Menninger eating disorders program recently.

Menninger treats children, adolescents and young adults of both sexes with eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, compulsive overeating and activity disorders.

Zerbe is the Jack Aron chairwoman in psychiatric education and women's mental health at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences and is a training and supervising analyst in the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is also editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. Her book, "The Body Betrayed: Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment," has been widely accepted as a textbook because of its comprehensive and humanistic perspectives.