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Sunday, December 16, 2001     Page: 2D

HIRINGS/
   
PROMOTIONS
    Vogt/Wein: Wilkes-Barre native Selina Halat Watson has been promoted from
account executive to account supervisor at the full-service advertising
agency.
   
She served as an account executive at Greenwich, Conn.-based Genova &
Partners, where her clients included Bigelow Tea and General Electric. She
held similar positions at Stamford, Conn.-based Wahlstrom & Co. and
Scranton-based CBC Cos.
   
Watson earned a degree in business administration with a concentration in
marketing at Bloomsburg University. She is a resident of Stratford, Conn.
   
Riverside Rehabilitation Center: Jodi Dessoye has been hired as a staff
physical therapist.
   
Dessoye earned a master’s degree in physical therapy and a bachelor’s
degree in health sciences from the University of Scranton.
   
She has clinical experience from John Heinz Institute of Rehabilitation
Medicine, HealthSouth, Allied Services and Hazleton General Hospital.
   
She will work out of Riverside’s Plains Township facility.
   
She is a Plains Township resident.
   
Tobyhanna Army Depot: Tony Zelinski has been named director of Tobyhanna’s
Production Management Directorate.
   
As the production planning program manager, he oversees the work of about
200 employees who are responsible for the management and production scheduling
of the depot’s multimillion-dollar workload.
   
He was director of Business Management.
   
He started his depot career in 1982 as a management analyst and has held
numerous positions over the years. He also has earned several awards and has
been recognized for his work.
   
Zelinski attended the University of Virginia and King’s College.
   
AWARDS/
   
HONORS
   

   
Penn State Wilkes-Barre: Reese Smith, supervisor of maintenance and
housekeeping, has been named campus Penn Stater of the Quarter.
   
The honor is bestowed on a member of the campus community who has
demonstrated special concern for the campus community, achieved a significant
honor or goal that benefits the campus or demonstrated special dedication to
the mission of the campus.
   
Smith was recognized for undertaking two projects that went above and
beyond his normal duties: the arboretum pathway and pond renovation projects.
He coordinated all phases of the two projects, including solicitation of time
and materials for the pond project from private companies.
   
Penn Stater of the Quarter recipients from all campuses were honored at a
luncheon held at University Park.
   
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: The Wilkes-Barre-based architectural firm recently
received 13 awards, bringing its total to 204.
   
The latest awards received by the 36-year-old firm were bestowed at local
and state levels.
   
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects presented three of its seven awards to the firm. The William J.
Nealon U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in Scranton was chosen received
the Award of Excellence, the chapter’s highest award.
   
The firm received five awards from AIA Pennsylvania at its annual meeting,
leadership conference and design award ceremony.
   
And, the firm received an Award of Merit from the AIA Northwest and
Pacific Region chapter for the Turtle Bay visitor center in Redding, Calif.
The firm’s Seattle office designed the center.
   
Pixar Animation Studios, a Berkeley, Calif., office project, was chosen by
the East Bay Business Times as the best Interior Architectural Design Award
for 2001.
   
NOTEWORTHY
   
Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises: The company honored 44 employees
reaching 25-, 30-, 35-, 40- and 45-year service anniversaries during a dinner
at the Westmoreland Club in Wilkes-Barre.
   
Combined, the employees represented 1,455 years service.
   
Honored were Catherine Bernardi, Shavertown; Nancy Morris, Sweet Valley;
Connie Breining, Shavertown; Phyllis Sorber, Sweet Valley; Jean Steele,
Tunkhannock; Jo Carol Buckley, Dallas; Elizabeth Schray, Shavertown; Richard
Flora, Wilkes-Barre; Thomas Hoskins, Trucksville; Sharon Norconk, Sweet
Valley; Stanley Charnick, Shavertown; John Lasher, Montrose; Elmer Parker,
Towanda; George Narcum, Dallas; Russell Croman, Quarryville; and Robert Fera,
Larksville; John Martocci, Bangor; Bradley Ide, Dallas; Paul Shaffer,
Tunkhannock; Marlin Stone, Lewisberry.
   
Also, Charles Allabaugh, Stroudsburg; Clark Zimmerman, Shoemakersville;
Margaret Davis, Kingston; Larry Albert; Bangor; Edith Stock, Dallas; John
Balara, Wyoming; Eston Bird Jr., Montrose; Robert Brown, Tioga; Paul Coleman,
Lykens; Ronald Davis, Shickshinny; Alice Derby, Sweet Valley; Stephen Donovan,
Monroeton; Richard Evanoski, Swoyersville; Joseph Farnham, Dalton; John Hauk,
Shickshinny; Joseph Voytkowski, Wapwallopen; Alfred Wiest, Elizabethville;
Dale Wood, Towanda; Alvin Artz, Mohrsville, Barry Bonsell, Dover; Clifford
Cole, Wellsboro; James Guckenberger, Gilbert; Verne Hoover, Elizabethville;
and Paul Kubik, Conyngham.
   
INTERVIEW
   
Wilkes University: Vijay K. Arora, a professor in the Division of
Engineering, recently was interviewed by the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering on the topic of entrepreneurship.
   
He will present a short course on the topic next month at IIT Bombay under
the auspices of the institute’s Distinguished Lecture Program.
   
Allied Services Vocational Services Division: The organization will honor
several individuals and companies for support of its programs and
participants. The recognition will occur during Allied Services’ annual
holiday celebration this month.
   
Vance Coover, regional administrator of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation, will receive the division’s Mary Campbell Memorial Award,
which honors memory of longtime Allied board member and advocate of people
with disabilities, Mary Campbell.
   
The Topps Co. of Duryea, Harper Collins Publishers of Dunmore and Arlington
Industries of Taylor will be recognized for continuing excellence in providing
work opportunities for individuals with disabilities employed by Allied.
   
Tobyhanna Army Depot: Three employees have earned the Army Employee with a
Disability Award.
   
Monroe County resident John Haney and Northhampton County resident Marlin
Figles received the award Oct. 25 during a luncheon at the U.S. Army
Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J.
   
Linda Kresge of Monroe County also earned the award, but was unable to
attend the luncheon.
   
Haney a laborer in the depot’s Directorate of Production Support Services
earned the award based on his work ethic and initiative.
   
Figles, who recently retired from a 20-year depot career as an electronics
measurement equipment mechanic in the Command, Control and Computer Systems
Directorate, also earned Tobyhanna’s first Ability Awareness Award last year.
   
Kresge, a liquid dispensing equipment operator in the Directorate of
Production Support Services, has mastered the skills required to fill
engravings and markings on a variety of communications-electronics equipment
despite her visual impairment.
   
A fourth employee, Michael Chapman of Lackawanna County, received a
Certificate of Achievement for his award nomination. Chapman is an electronics
measurement equipment mechanic in the Test, Measurement and Diagnostic
Equipment Support Center, a tenant activity.
   
TRAINING
   

   
InterMountain Health Group: Physicians and staff of recently attended
special classes for the improvement of communication and patient satisfaction.
A component of the training includes staff members writing what they believe
should be the standards of care at all IMG offices.
   
As a result, in addition to the duties in any job description, all staff
are held to expectations called Quality Care Standards, including taking
active measures to protect patient privacy and dignity, communicating with
patients and family members throughout their visit and never placing a caller
on hold without first asking permission.
   
Mercy Hospital Wilkes-Barre: David W. Browning, pharmacist, attended an
Anticoagulation Management Service Traineeship Program at the University of
Maryland and Veterans Administration Medical Centers, Baltimore.
   
Browning was one of 16 applicants chosen to attend the training at four
different sites.
   
The five-day program was sponsored by the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists, Research and Education Foundation.
   
A 20-year Mercy employee, Browning earned a bachelor’s degree from the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science in Philadelphia and his doctor of
pharmacy degree from the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy, Shenandoah
University, in Winchester, Va.
   
He is an adjunct clinical instructor to the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, and the Nesbitt School of
Pharmacy, Wilkes University.
   
He is a member of the institution review board of the Scranton-Temple
residency program. He also participates in interdisciplinary rounds and has
been a member of Mercy’s Diabetes Care Committee and an instructor in the
outpatient diabetes self-management program.
   
He is a Moscow resident.