SSOE, Shrader Tire win award from UT college of business

6/3/2008

SSOE Inc., a Toledo engineering and architectural firm, and Shrader Tire and Oil, a Toledo vehicle fleet service provider, have won the Human Resources Management for Excellence Award given by the University of Toledo College of Business Administration.

Brent Gerken, president of the Gerken Cos. in Napoleon , has been inducted into the hall of fame for the Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Association.

New officers have been named for the Toledo Women's Bar Association. Denise Mueller is president; Janine Avila is president-elect; Maara Fink is vice president; Shelly Musshel-Kennedy is secretary; and Clare Luddy is treasurer.

The women's association gave Gabrielle Davis, a clinical professor at the University of Toledo, its Arabella Babb Mansfield Award and Student Legal Services Inc. at Bowling Green State University its Family Friendly Award.

Shannon Overmyer has been hired as senior vice president for KeyBank's business banking in northwest Ohio.

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