Movers and Shakers: July

Boone County National Bank

BCNB has announced four employee promotions. Erica Weathers of the Boonville West Bank was promoted to teller II. Krista Seidl, floater pool, was promoted to consumer banking representative. Katherine Landes was promoted to senior customer service representative for the Customer Service Center, and Shanita Hunt was promoted to payroll specialist.

Shawn Barbour

Barbour has joined Williams-Keepers LLC’s Columbia office as an audit supervisor. He specializes in financial statement audits of financial institutions and will also supervise audits in other industries. He has five years experience in public accounting and four in performing credit risk analysis.

Paul Hopkins

Hopkins has been appointed assistant director of the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital. In his new role, he will oversee facilities management, police, voluntary service, safety and the green environmental-management system. He has operated as the chief financial officer at Truman VA since 2008.

Clint Miller

Miller has been honored as one of Shelter Insurance Companies’ highest-achieving sales representatives of 2013. Miller has been with Shelter since 1991 and has received this distinction 14 times.

Cathy Richards

Richards was unanimously voted as the new president of the Missouri Association of Public Administrators. She is the first public administrator from Boone County to hold this position.

Kim Siegenthaler

Siegenthaler has been named director of Mizzou Online. She has served as interim co-director for the past three years.

David Coil

Coil, a project manager at Coil Construction, is one of 19 students of the inaugural class of MU’s executive MBA program. “My experience in the exec MBA program allows me to bring more structure and value to Coil Construction,” he says.

Columbia College

Evening Campus Director David Humphrey has received the Frazier Moon Administrator of the Year award for exemplifying the virtues of former Columbia College Dean Frazier Moon. The American College has recognized Melissa Montgomery-Carberry as a Chartered Adviser in Philanthropy. Additionally, Jeff Musgrove has been named vice president for Adult Higher Education. Musgrove is currently the southeast regional director.

Kee Groshong

Groshong received the sixth annual Howard B. Lang Jr. Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service to the City of Columbia.

William Woods University

Carrie McCray was promoted to associate professor of American Sign Language interpreting, and social work Program Director Elizabeth Wilson was granted tenure. Assistant professor of psychology Caroline Boyer Ferhat has received the school’s Louis D. Beaumont Dad’s Association Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Shelby Jobe received the Academic Service-Learning Award.

Brad Fresenberg

MU’s Fresenberg won the Founder’s Award from the Sports Turf Managers Association for his service to the industry as a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences. STMA is the professional organization of 2,600 sports-field managers worldwide.

MidwayUSA

Founder and CEO Larry Potterfield received the NRA’s Life of Liberty Leadership Award, and Brenda Potterfield has been presented with the first NRA Women’s Leadership Forum Lifetime Achievement Award.

Judy Wall

Wall has received the SEC Faculty Achievement Award, an annual award honoring one professor from each SEC university who demonstrates outstanding teaching, research, scholarship and mentorship. Wall is a curators professor of biochemistry at MU.

Kath Mayne

Mayne joined the American Red Cross Heart of Missouri staff as a disaster specialist and will assist in disaster activities throughout the chapter’s 21 counties.

Lawrence Ganong

Ganong was awarded the 2014 Friend of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance Award for guiding a new online program and inspiring faculty commitment to human science degrees. Ganong is the co-chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the MU College of Human Environmental Sciences and a professor in the MU School of Nursing.