Personnel File for Friday, July 3
Originally published: July 03. 2009 3:01AMLast modified: July 02. 2009 9:58PM
Tilson sales director at MainStay Suites
Teagan Tilson has joined MainStay Suites in Alcoa as director of sales, The Hamister Group Inc. announced.
Tilson brings experience in outside sales to the extended stay hotel property. Most recently, she was a regional sales representative for American Lighting, a national architectural and commercial manufacturer and distributor of lighting technologies including fiber optics, halogen, xenon and LED systems.
She is a summa cum laude graduate of East Tennessee State University.
Keller to lead team at ORNL's biological lab
Martin Keller has been named to lead the Biological and Environmental Sciences Directorate at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The appointment was effective July 1.
As associate laboratory director, Keller will integrate the directorate's biological capabilities with high-performance computing, nanotechnology and catalysis with a thrust toward integrating ecological and molecular environmental research in climate and carbon modeling.
He came to ORNL from the Diversa Corp. in San Diego, Calif., where he directed new technology development and high-throughput screening. At ORNL, he has previously served as director of BESD's Biosciences Division and as director of the BioEnergy Science Center.
Keller, a native of Germany, earned his doctorate in microbiology at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
Keller succeeds Gary Jacobs, who served as the directorate's interim director over the past nine months. Jacobs will return to his position as director of the Environmental Sciences Division.
Dr. Bell elected to surgical association
Dr. John L. Bell, of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, has been elected to membership of the Southern Surgical Association, one of the nation's most prestigious regional surgical organizations.
Bell, a surgical oncologist, director of UT Medical Center's Cancer Institute and professor of the Department of Surgery for UT Graduate School of Medicine, becomes one of just three Knoxville-area surgeons to be elected as a member of the organization.
Bell is widely recognized for his work in the establishment of the Breast Health Outreach Program at UT Medical Center, a program that brings breast cancer education, outreach and screening mammograms to women throughout the East Tennessee region, with an emphasis on the medically underserved.
Rogers marks 50 years at Pilot
Charles "Buddy" Rogers, manager of the Pilot convenience store at 700 E. Broadway in Lenoir City, is celebrating 50 years at the corner lot where he has worked since 1959.
Rogers, 69, started working at the station in 1959 when it was owned by Lonas Oil Co. and stayed on when Pilot bought it in 1978. "I have worked here since we had pea gravel in the parking lot and two pumps to what it is today," Rogers said.
"When I started, we used a pencil and paper to add, subtract and keep reports. Then we got an adding machine with a lever, which was awesome in those days. Then we got electric adding machines and computers after that."
Rogers teaches his employees that good customer service is what drives business.
"Someone would come in and only have 50 cents to buy gas. I told employees that you have to clean his windshield just like the customer who fills up. That person may end up doing better in life, and he would come back here because we would give him good service and treat him like somebody, with respect."
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