Certified Travel Services elects Grayson president

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Jun 14, 1999

Tommy Grayson has been elected president of Certified Travel Services. Glenn Burroughs, founder of the company will continue as CEO. Grayson joined Certified Travel two years ago after a career in the insurance business.

Energy

Robert A. Hefner III, Breene M. Kerr, Brian F. Egolf, Sir Mark Thomson Bt., Robert B. Panero, Gary F. Fuller, Larry A. Ray, William W. Daily and Robert M. D. Cross have been elected to the board of directors of Houston-based Seven Seas Petroleum. Hefner is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and in 1959 founded The GHK Co. in Oklahoma City. Ray has been an officer with GHK. Kerr is a former director of Kerr-McGee Corp. of Oklahoma City. Egolf has been active in the energy industry in Oklahoma City and Fuller is a member of the Oklahoma City law firm McAfee & Taft. Services Bob Johnson has joined Emrick's Van & Storage as director of operations. He is responsible for management of the operations department in Enid and Oklahoma City. He was with another Allied Van Lines agency in Nashville, Tenn. Carl Robinson Sr. has been named director of marketing for Hydraulic Specialists of Oklahoma City. He will be based in a new office in Memphis, Tenn. Lisa A. King has been named a sales consultant for the north Oklahoma City Express Personnel Services office. King was with the Economic Development Commission in Midwest City for 10 years. Kenneth Benton of Edmond has joined The Fountains at Canterbury as community relations coordinator. Etc. Debra South has been named director of resource development for the Center for Nonprofit Management. She will be responsible for planning, organizing, directing and administering money raising efforts. She was associate director of university advancement at Southern Nazarene University. Amber Crothers has joined the Oklahoma Restaurant Association as community affairs representative. She will represent the association in public relations, including promotion of activities linked to a new government contract regarding alcohol awareness education. She also will assist lobbying efforts and in planning of association events. She was editor and associate producer for KWTV Channel 9. Richard A. Cosier, dean of the University of Oklahoma's business college since 1993, will succeed Dennis J. Weidenaar as dean of Purdue University's Krannert School of Management. Weidenaar will return to the Purdue faculty. Cosier's appointment is effective Aug. 1, subject to ratification by the Purdue Board of Trustees. During his six years as dean at OU, Cosier worked to improve the business college curriculum and restructured the MBA program. He established the J.C. Penney Leadership Center, the traveling Oklahoma Business Outlook Panel and the Oklahoma Business Conference. Under Cosier's leadership, the business college's endowment increased from $13 million to more than $60 million. In 1997, Wall Street fund manager Michael F. Price donated $18 million to the OU College of Business Administration, to be paid over five years. The college was subsequently renamed the Price College of Business.