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MEMBERS ON THE MOVE                                                     FOCUS MAGAZINE  |  JANUARY 2023



        announce that five staff members     School Board. Glasscoe will serve a   called “Tell A Friend.” The intent
        have advanced to new roles in the    one-year term.                        was to get women to motivate
        organization. Melissa Nay, CTA, is                                         their friends and family to get a
        now the GLCVB's membership and                         Union Bank          mammogram. Now, almost 30
        community outreach manager.                            has announced       years later, the artwork has found a
        Lori Lanspeary, CTA, has advanced                      the addition of     new home inside McLaren Greater
        to marketing and community                             a new Board         Lansing's Breast Imaging Center.
        engagement manager. Brandie                            Member, Robin
        Putnam, CMP, CTA, has been                             Kleinjans-          Effective Nov. 1, 2022, Rehmann
        elevated to senior convention                          McKee, CPA.         continued its expansion into
        services manager. Other role                           She is the          the Florida market with the
        advancements include Anne                              current chief       announcement of a business
        Lavender, CTA, who is now an         Kleinjans-McKee   financial           combination with Orlando-based
        executive assistant to the CEO, and                    officer for         Vestal & Wiler, one of the most
        Valeri Gill, CTA, who is the creative   Open Systems Technologies,         comprehensive CPA firms in
        services manager.                    headquartered in Grand Rapids.        Central Florida. The partnership
                                                                                   unified two firms with a deep
        CBRE is pleased to announce Steve    COMPANY NEWS                          understanding of the particular
        Hershfield's promotion to vice                                             needs of middle-market clientele.
        president and thanks him for his     Sparrow has launched its fifth
        hard work and dedication.            innovative 24-week Medical            Ingham Intermediate School
                                             Assistant Apprenticeship class,       District (ISD) is seeking eligible
                          Shawn Turner       which provides one-on-one, hands-     families throughout the Lansing
                          has been           on instruction by Sparrow's highly    area to participate in the nationally-
                          named general      skilled caregivers. Sparrow covers    ranked Great Start Readiness
                          manager of         the entire cost of the program,       Program (GSRP). Families with
                          WKAR Public        including tuition, books, scrubs,     children who are four-years-old
                          Media at           and wages during clinical hours.      by December 1, 2022, and whose
                          Michigan State     This new class includes eight         household income is less than
                          University,        students who successfully met the     250 percent of the federal poverty
                          effective          testing requirements and have         level are eligible for tuition-free
                          December 1,        committed to serving as a Sparrow     preschool through the GSRP
        Bendall
                          2022. In addition   Medical Assistant for two years after   program. There are immediate
        to his role as general manager,      graduation in March 2023.             openings in the school districts
        Turner is a professor of practice in                                       of Dansville, Holt, Lansing,
        the College of Communication Arts    The accounting firms of Maner         Leslie, Stockbridge, Webberville,
        and Sciences at MSU and a national   Costerisan and Hall & Romkema,        and Williamston. To apply to
        security communication analyst for   PLC recently announced a merger.      the GSRP program, visit www.
        CNN.                                 Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, Hall &        inghampreschool.org or call
                                             Romkema, PLC is now recognized        517.244.1246 for assistance. Parents
        BOARD OF DIRECTORS &                 as Maner Costerisan. The merged       will need documentation of their
        EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE                  practices will retain the name        household income, the child's date
        UPDATES                              Maner Costerisan, and offices will    of birth, and the family's address to
                                             be in the current Maner Costerisan    submit their application.
        Lansing Community College            headquarters at 2425 East Grand
        Trustees Ryan Buck, Angela           River Ave., Suite 1, Lansing. The     Richardson & Richardson
        Mathews and Robert Proctor all       team at Maner Costerisan can be       Consulting, ThreatLocker , a multi-
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        won re-election to LCC's Board of    contacted at 517.323.7500.            disciplinary business consultancy
        Trustees on Nov. 8. Each will serve                                        service, announced it raised over
        a six-year term. Trustees Buck and   Nearly three decades ago, a piece     $200,000 for five charities: Hackers
        Mathews were first elected to the    of artwork was commissioned by        for Vets, Women Who Code, Bits
        Board in 2016. Trustee Proctor       an advertising firm that was doing    N' Bytes, Diversity Cyber Council,
        was first elected in 2003 and will   pro bono work for the American        and Bike Walk Wichita. Husband
        now serve his fourth term. Dr.       Cancer Society. The goal of the       and wife duo Ian and Carrie
        Toni Glasscoe, LCC's Associate       artwork was to encourage women        Richardson doubled their initial
        Vice President for External Affairs,   in underserved populations to       goal of $100,000 with the "Shave
        Development & K-12 Operations,       get mammograms. The program           that Beard for Charity" event at this
        was elected to the Grand Ledge       that the art was attached to was      month's IT Nation Connect 2022.

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