[ School nurse hired ]

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Aug 12, 2001 by Capital-Journal

School nurse hired --- Tammy Beaver, R.N., has accepted a position with Shawnee County Health Agency as a school nurse in Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450.

Beaver received her nursing degree from Washburn University. She has 16 years of orthopedic office nursing experience, two years experience caring for children in her own home child care business and six years experience working with teenagers in a foreign student exchange program. She lives in Tecumseh with her husband, Ken, and two sons.

Goodyear hires public relations manager --- Randy Barth has been named public relations and employee communications manager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Topeka. His duties will include overseeing employee communications, media relations, community relations, donation requests and special events.

He began his career with Goodyear in 1989 as a summer relief associate in the earth mover business center. From there he built tires in bias trucks and radial trucks. For the past 3 1/2 years he was plant communication coordinator overseeing the plant's face-to- face communication system.

Barth graduated from Washburn University with a bachelor's degree in communications. He is the treasurer for the Topeka chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, chairman of the Topeka Convention and Visitors Bureau's Race Ranger committee and vice chairman of the deacons committee at Northland Christian Church. Barth and his wife, Katie, reside in Topeka with their four children.

Dance classes offered --- David Heard has joined the Dance Attic, 3450 S.E. 29th, and is offering instruction in street- and break- dancing.

Heard has over 14 years of experience in the entertainment industry, including music and dance and talent development. He has performed, written and produced and has administered management for record label companies in Virginia and North Carolina.

Jenny Brees, owner of Dance Attic, has served the Topeka area for the past 25 years. The school teaches child and adult classes, group and private lessons in all types of dance, and tumbling and baton. For more information call 266-6294.

Human resources director hired --- Christina Kamer has joined Harting Inc., an electronic component and connector manufacturer headquartered in Espelkamp, Germany. She was named director of human resources for Harting's North American operation in Elgin, Ill.

A graduate of Hayden High School in Topeka, Kamer has more than 20 years of human resources management experience. She earned a bachelor's degree in leadership in educational policy studies with emphasis in adult education from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. She is the daughter of Frances Brame of Topeka.

Burgen joins staff at Capper Foundation --- Linda Burgen has been hired as an early childhood special educator for The Capper Foundation's Kidlink preschool and child-care program.

Burgen graduated from The University of Kansas and received a master's degree of early childhood special education from Emporia State University. Previously she worked for Wabaunsee East Unified School District 330 as in a preschool classroom. Burgen also is a field-based consultant for the Kansas State Board of Education's Inclusive Network of Kansas.

She lives in Eskridge with her husband, Ronald, and three children. The family owns Burgen's Wood Specialties.

Highway Patrol promotes --- Robert D. Ladner, Kevin G. Brinker, Craig Corbett, Karl J. Koening and Damon L. Carlton have been promoted by the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Ladner was promoted to lieutenant and assumed command of the patrol's professional standards unit. He will supervise administrative reviews of internal agent matters.

Ladner joined the patrol in 1978. His most recent assignment was as a field supervisor with Troop B in Topeka. He has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and sociology from Washburn University.

Brinker, Corbett, Koening and Carlton were promoted to master trooper, an advanced professional and technical law enforcement position within the patrol.

Brinker joined the patrol in 1990 and was assigned to road patrol as a field trooper in Salina. He has served as a field training officer and an observer on the patrol's Topeka-based helicopter. He has an associate degree in criminal justice from Washburn University.

Corbett joined the patrol in 1990 and was assigned road patrol duties as a field trooper in Goodland. In 1999, he transferred to Topeka and was assigned to the patrol's Troop G, which is responsible for patrolling the Kansas Turnpike.

Corbett attended Barton County Community College. Before joining the patrol, he was a police officer with the city of Hoisington.

Koening joined the patrol in 1989 and was assigned road duties as a field trooper in Topeka. He has served as a member of the patrol's legislative security detail and roving aggressive violations enforcement team. Koenig received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Benedictine College in Atchison. Before joining the patrol, he was a narcotics agent with the Shawnee County Sheriff's Office in Topeka.