McNeill gets promoted

at Queens Library



Queens Library has named Dale McNeill, formerly of Enid, as director of public library services.

In his expanded role, his mandate will be to maximize the level of service Queens Library’s customers receive. McNeill has been with Queens Library since 2005 as director of community library services. He oversaw operations and staff in 61 community library facilities. He was a key contributor toward conceptualizing and implementing the library’s new integrated library software and also has been instrumental in moving Queens Library’s capital improvement program forward.

McNeill has a bachelor of arts degree in education in 1984 from Phillips University. While at PU, he worked at the Public Library of Enid and Garfield County under the direction of Jean Harrington.



Haymaker joins Carter

HealthCare staff



Pat Haymaker has joined Carter HealthCare and Hospice as a registered nurse.

She graduated from Northern Oklahoma College, where she received her RN degree. She received her certificate of spiritual direction from Red Plains Monastery in Piedmont and also has certification in chemo administration.

Haymaker owned Greetings ‘n’ Gifts in Enid from 1983 to 2002. She is a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.

Caldwell elected to hospice board



Hospice Circle of Love Executive Director Chad Caldwell has been elected to the board of directors of Oklahoma Hospice and Palliative Care Association (OHPCA).

His term will run for two years.

The purpose of OHPCA is to advocate for quality hospice care throughout the state. The association assists its 77 member hospices with education, communication, technical advice and representation at the national, state and regional levels of government.

Members of the board must be active employees of a member hospice. Caldwell represents Hospice Circle of Love, Enid’s only not-for-profit hospice.

Hospice Circle of Love was founded 26 years ago to provide physical, emotional and spiritual support to terminally ill patients helping them to live a higher quality of life at the end of life. For information, call 234-22273.



Allen selected as SNB

Employee of the Year



Phyllis Allen has been selected as the Security National Bank Employee of the Year for 2009.

Allen has been with Security National Bank since 1988. She has worked as teller, a switchboard operator and a customer service representative and now is a lending administrative assistant.

“Our customers have only good things to say about Phyllis,” said SNB President Brad Blankenship. “She treats them as she would like to be treated and that is important to us.”

Allen was honored as the bank’s Employee of the Quarter for the second quarter during the 2009 year. Allen is a past member of the SNB Employee Council and is a member of St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church.



DeRossett has been named

executive director of IPA



Dennis DeRossett, publisher of the Enid News & Eagle from 1997 to 1999, has been named executive director of the Illinois Press Association.

DeRossett, currently publisher of the Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, was chosen for the position following a six-month nationwide search. The IPA is the largest state newspaper association in the U.S. with more than 500 daily and weekly newspaper members. The executive director also serves as executive director of the Illinois Press Foundation and the Illinois First Amendment Center, all of which are housed together in Springfield, Ill.

DeRossett is a native of Murphysboro, Ill., near Carbondale, and worked at the Southern Illinoisan in college. After graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, DeRossett worked at newspapers in Illinois, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma and was active with press associations in those states.