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Shannon Y. Davis of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a bachelor of hamburgerology degree from McDonald's Hamburger University after completion of the advance operation course.

The course is required of all McDonald's restaurant managers, franchisees, mid-management and company executives.

Course work includes customer service, equipment fundamentals, accounting, marketing, and personnel practices.

Students must complete McDonald's management development program, which consists of classroom instruction and more than two years of restaurant training, before being accepted to the school at Oak Brook, Ill. The advanced operation course is approved for 34 hours of college credit by the American Council on Education and can be applied toward an associate or baccalaureate college degree.

Hamburger University was founded in 1961.

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Cape Girardeau physician Mark C. Kasten has assumed responsibilities as 1992-93 chairman of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians.

Kasten has served as a director of the academy for eight years, and just completed a term as president of the organization. Currently he is an alternate delegate to the academy's Congress of Delegates.

He is a member of the Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Society and serves as a delegate from that body to the Missouri State Medical Association. He is also a member of the Missouri State Task Force.

Kasten, a member of the Board of Trustees at Southeast Missouri Hospital, served the hospital as chairman of the family practice department from 1984-1990. He is currently secretary to the medical staff and a member of the Credentials and Executive committee at Southeast Hospital. He is a primary care preceptor for the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Kasten is a graduate of UM-Kansas City. He completed a three-year family practice residency at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Kansas City. He is board certified in family practice.

The academy is a state chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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Jennifer Halter of Benton and Sandra Bounds of Cape Girardeau recently attended a summer institute held at St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

A limited number of students were selected on the basis of academic merit achieved in high school and motivation to pursue a career in pharmacy to attend the session. It included lectures, laboratory sessions, and visits to community and hospital pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.

Bounds, daughter of Emmett and Harumi Bounds, will be a senior at Central High School this fall. Halter is the daughter of Larry and Diane Halter, and will be senior at Kelly High School near Benton this fall.

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Several associates of the Jana Jateff Unit of Mary Kay Cosmetics were recently honored during an awards banquet at Victorian Inn in Cape Girardeau.

Honored for recruiting were Darla Beggs and LaDonia Beggs of Jackson and Sonya Lappe of Bonne Terre.

Sales honors were presented to Dixie Jones, Jeneva Crampton and Lou Meuller of Cape Girardeau; Betty Wills, Sheila Venable and Carolyn McElrath of Jackson; Margie Jackson of De Soto; and Rita Milam of Benton.

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Melvin J. Van de Ven has been recognized for his contribution to the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants. He recently completed three years of service on the organization's board of directors.

Van de Ven, a certified public accountant, is a partner in the firm of Schott and Van de Ven, a full-service accounting firm in Cape Girardeau.

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The Cape Girardeau Travelers Protective Association Post M received an award during the 102nd TPA national convention at Las Vegas.

The local post was ranked second in the nation for publicity.

Perry Grindstaff of Jackson has served as publicity chairman for Post M a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartle of Jackson attended the national convention.

It was announced during the convention that membership is now open to women. TPA membership is by invitation only.

TPA is a fraternal benefit society with about 170,000 members in 38 states. The organization actively promotes child safety and community service programs on local, state and national levels.