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Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Oct 8, 2006

CALENDAR

Monday, Oct. 9

After Lunch Bunch of the Topeka PC Users Club, 1:15 p.m., Classic Bean at 2125 S.W. Fairlawn Information: 272-8444.

Graphics SIG of the Topeka PC Users Club, 7 p.m., Stoffer Hall, Room 200, on the Washburn Campus Room 200. Information: 267-1531.

Tuesday, Oct. 10

Skills for Professional Written Communication - Writing Productivity in the Workplace is the next course in Washburn University's Management and Leadership Series. The course is from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and the cost is $130 per session. Get more information at www.washburn.edu/ce or by calling 670-1399.

Thursday, Oct. 12

"From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy," 7 p.m., Washburn Room, Memorial Union, Washburn University. Presenter: Edward J. Larson, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history. Free.

Saturday, Oct. 14

Computer Genealogy Group of the Topeka PC Users Club, 9:30 a.m., Kansas History Center, 6425 S.W. 6th.

Tuesday, Oct. 17

Meadowlark Chapter of the American Business Women's Association, 5:30 p.m., Shawnee Country Club, 913 S.E. 29th. Speaker: Kathy Damron, president of Strategic Communications of Kansas and lobbyist for the city of Topeka, on "Being a Woman Lobbyist." Make reservations by Thursday with Sharon Land, 249-9223.

NEW FACES

Savitri Manda, M.D., has joined the staff at Cotton-O'Neil Clinic North, 1130 N. Kansas Ave. Manda received her medical degree from Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, India, and completed a clinical internship at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, an affiliate of the University of California, Davis, in Sacramento. She then completed a family medicine residency at The University of Kansas Hospital and is board certified in family medicine.

Frisco R. Morse, D.O., has joined the Stormont-Vail Hospitalist Program. Morse received his osteopathic medicine degree from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Most recently, Morse was attending physician in an internal medicine practice affiliated with Cambridge Medical Center, in Cambridge, Minn. As a hospitalist, Morse dedicates 100 percent of his time to inpatient care. For more information about the Stormont-Vail Hospitalist Program, call (785) 354-5242 or (800) 944-0573.

David E. Pierce, professor of law, has been named director of the Business and Transactional Law Center at Washburn University School of Law. Pierce succeeds Steven Ramirez, who has joined the faculty at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Pierce received a juris doctor from Washburn University School of Law and earned a master's of law at the University of Utah. Pierce was a solo practitioner in Neodesha and city attorney for Cherryvale and worked as an oil and gas attorney for Shell Oil Co.

RETIREMENT

Joan Holman retired Oct. 3 from the U.S. Postal Service with 26 years of federal service. Holman was a supervisor of maintenance operations at the Topeka Processing and Distribution Facility.