PERSONNEL

A legacy ended Friday at the Federal Building when J.B. Malone left at 3:30 p.m.

After 24 years as a maintenance worker, Malone retired.

"You couldn't work with a better group than these people," he said about his co-workers.

One fellow worker even joked that a wrecker was waiting outside to finally pull him out. Malone said he would probably need two of them to accomplish the task.

Malone doesn't have any definite retirement plans other than a trip to Europe in the spring. He will also do a lot of fishing.

"I'll find something to do, I don't know what yet," he said.

Monte Findley, a field office manager, presented Malone with several plaques and gifts.

Malone has been training his replacement for about a month. But in an emergency he said he's only a phone call away, Findley said.

Ron Swift has been appointed executive director of the Southeast Missouri Private Industry Council.

Swift has been serving as interim director since August, when Mary McBride resigned.

McBride had worked with the council almost 10 years before leaving to join the Sikeston branch of Manpower Inc.

Swift of Cape Girardeau has been with the council eight years.

He is a native of South Dakota. He is a graduate of Northern State College in Aberdeen, S.D., with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

Mary Richards has joined the Otahki Girl Scout Council as program-field director.

The Otahki Council also announced that Laura Hinkebein has been appointed as fund development-marketing-field director.

Hinkebein has been employed by the Otahki Council as administrative assistant since 1983.

Richards, previously affiliated with Southeast Missouri State University as assistant director of the University Center, will also direct the council's summer resident camp program.

The Otahki Council serves more than 2,500 girls and 900 adult volunteers in 11 Southeast Missouri counties.

Melissa Hampton Pearlman has been appointed director of operations for the Atlanta Jewish Community Center.

Pearlman, formerly of Cape Girardeau, will coordinate department and program operational needs at the center.

Pearlman is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, with a bachelor's degree in management, marketing, economics and business law. She previously worked for Waldenbooks in Cleveland and Media Play in Atlanta.

Cora Heidelbach of Marion, Ill., a licensed speech-language pathologist, has joined Tip of Illinois Health Services and will be based at Tip's Metropolis office.

She will be working in Alexander, Pulaski and Massac counties.

Heidelbach is a graduate of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and has an master's degree in speech and language pathology from Sangamon State University, Springfield, Ill. She previously worked at JAMP Special Education Services at Olmsted, Ill.

Bill Orrill, president of Robert L. Morgan Inc., of Murphysboro, Ill., has been elected president of the Southern Illinois Builders Association.

SIBA is a trade association representing commercial and structural building, highway and utility contractors.