Promotions and new on the job

• Tricia J. Purcell has been named assistant manager of First Security Trust Bank in Edgewood. Purcell has worked in banking in the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area for five years with experience in consumer and mortgage lending and retail banking. She has a bachelor's degree in finance from Northern Kentucky University.

• Julie Mitchell-Barney has been appointed vice president, strategic sales at General Revenue Corp. (GRC), university-focused collection agency and subsidiary of Sallie Mae.

• Roxie B. Nonu has joined Comey & Shepherd Realtors as an associate specializing in residential sales in the Anderson office.

• Harold J. Coleman has joined Bayer Becker as civil engineering design technician in the Covington office.

• Steve Hunt has been named vice president, project manager for Intelligrated. Hunt has taken on pivotal roles involving the integration of Oracle and project management, while continuously representing the company in numerous design-build initiatives. He has more than 30 years of relevant industry experience. Before joining Intelligrated, he also held various selling and account management roles and managed the design-build department. He graduated from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y.

• Kenneth J. Jenkins has been named a principal at Rippe & Kingston Co. PSC, Mount Adams-based firm.

• Appointed new members of the board of directors at Women's Crisis Center are: Molly Knight, counsel and assistant vice president with Fifth Third Bank; and E. Paul Hitter Jr., finance vice president, Messer Construction Co. Dawn M. Shinkle has joined the center as development coordinator.

• Heather Braulin-Jones has joined Coldwell Banker West Shell as residential real estate specialist in the Northwest office.

• Thomas G. McIntosh, an associate with the law firm of Ulmer & Berne LLP in Cincinnati, has been admitted to the Ohio bar. McIntosh practices in the firm's liability defense group. He earned his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2003 and his bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky in 1998. While in law school, he was a member of the Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law.

• Christopher A. Poliak has been appointed director of maintenance, part 135 aircraft at Executive Jet Management Inc.,provider of aircraft management and charter services worldwide.

• Ann Dinan has joined Xavier University as director of the learning assistance center, and Norah Mock as assistant director for the annual fund in the development department.

• Elliot Fisher and Brandon Atwood have joined Messina Management Systems as executive recruiters in the engineering manufacturing department.

• Brandy Haggard has been named mortgage sales executive at Heartland Home Finance in the Cincinnati office.

• Chris Kraft has joined Electronic Art Internet Solutions as programmer.

• Judge John P. O'Connor has been appointed to the board of trustees at the Hamilton County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ADAS) Board. O'Connor brings 40 years of experience and service to the board. He has served the Hamilton County courts since June 23, 1960. He was appointed as chief magistrate of the Hamilton County Juvenile Court in 1967. He was elected in 1973 to the Hamilton County Municipal Court, and in 1979 to the Hamilton County Juvenile Court. In 1993, he was elected to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. He retired in December 2002 and has since served as visiting judge for courts throughout Ohio.

Awards

• Beth Schneider Naylor, a partner in the law firm of Frost Brown Todd LLC, litigation department, has been recognized by her peers in the new fourth edition of An International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers (2003-2004).

• Boys & Girls Clubs of America has recognized the efforts and accomplishments of Lawra Baumann, president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati, by awarding her the prestigious 2003 Vision and Spirit Award.

• Louise Kursmark of Best Impression Career Services Inc. has been named winner of the "Best Resume" contest sponsored by the Professional Association of Resume Writers.

• Laura Maret-Puls, local authorized representative of Kaeser & Blair Inc. attended Kaeser & Blair's annual national sales conference and was recognized as a National Sales Leader and one of the Top Thirty representatives in the United States.

• Adecco, a human resource services company, is ranked 18th in InformationWeek 500. Innovative technology puts Adecco in the top spot among staffing and human resource services companies.

• Albert F. Storace, consulting engineer-dynamics at GE Aircraft Engines and Dr. Hyoun-Woo Shin, senior research engineer will be honored by ASME International (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers). Storace and Shin are being recognized for a co-authored paper, Unsteady Flow and Whirl-Inducing Forces in Axial-Flow Compressors: Part I - Experiment and Part II - Analysis. They will receive the society's Melville Medal.

• Lee Robinson, Marc Chafe, Jennifer Dye and Cynthia Dammel of Robinson Realtors, Cincinnati, have been awarded the President's Sales Club Award from the Ohio Association of Realtors.

• James T. Fitzgerald, chairman of FRCH Design Worldwide, has been honored by the American Institute of Architects board of trustees as recipient of the prestigious 2003 AIA Ohio Gold Medal Award.

Acquisitions

The Idea House - Kanet, Chambless & Baker, a downtown Cincinnati marketing and communications firm specializing in conceptual creation and implementation of marketing communications plans has acquired Joyce Wise Communications Inc., a 16-year-old creative communications company specializing in public relations, event management and video production.

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