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Alpha Baking Co., Inc.,
Chicago, IL,
announced
three newly
created viceNARCISI
NEMETHY
president
positions. Joe Nemethy,
director of retail sales, was
promoted to vice-president
of sales, retail division.
Tim J. Gill, director of
GILL
sales, frozen food service
division, was named vice-president sales,
frozen food service division, and Gary
D. Narcisi, vice-president of sales, was
promoted to group vice-president, frozen
food service and retail divisions.
H.C. Brill Company, Inc., Tucker, GA, a
subsidiary of CSM, named Bret Weaver
president and c.e.o. Previously, Mr. Weaver
held leadership positions with CSM North
America, CSM Bakery Supplies North
America, Westco and BakeMark East.
The American Association of Cereal
Chemists International (AACC), elected
Boris Nemzer, Ph.D., vice-chairman of
AACC's newly developed Technical Methods Committee for Bioactive Compounds.
Dr. Nemzer, director of product development and quality assurance, FutureCeuticals, Inc., Momence, IL, will organize
an inter-laboratory collaborative study of
bioactive compounds in grains and review
methods for final approval.
The Organic Trade Association (OTA)
named Christine Bushway executive
director. Before joining OTA, Ms. Bushway
served as director of state programs for the
American Egg Board.
The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery
Association elected the 2008-09 board of
directors and officers. The new officers are
executive vice-president, John Sullivan,
president and c.e.o., Norseland, Inc., Stamford, CT; vice-president, Mark Rudy, vicepresident of sales, Hubert Co., Harrison,

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OH; treasurer, Steve Beekhuizen, senior
vice-president, commercial, Dawn Food
Products, Inc., Jackson, MI; and president,
Ray Burke, president, in-store bakery, Rich
Products Corp., Buffalo, NY. Past president
Rick Goodman, senior vice-president,
Smithfield Deli Group, Smithfield, VA, will
continue to serve on the board of directors.
D.D. Williamson,
Louisville, KY, hired
Greg Kreder as product
development scientist
for the support center
in Louisville. Mr. Kreder
KREDER
brings 18 years of
experience in the brewing industry, where
he worked on product development and
research projects.
MGP Ingredients, Inc., Atchison, KS,
appointed Don Coffey, Ph.D., as an officer
of the company, effective immediately. Dr.
Coffey serves as executive vice-president of
ingredient solutions. He joined MGPI in
July 2007 as vice-president of innovation
and was promoted in June.
The Bread Bakers Guild of America,
Sonoma, CA, appointed Natalie Gould acting director of operations. Previously, Ms.
Gould worked for the guild on a part-time
basis in the areas of product development,
human resources and managed the wholesale and retail departments.
Shick USA, Kansas City,
MO, named Franz Streiter,
president, Process in
Motion, as its new
exclusive representative in
the Canadian region. Mr.
STREITER
Streiter will be responsible
for managing and optimizing relationships
within existing and potential key accounts
and overseeing sales efforts.
Gerald Reed, Ph.D., former vice-president
of research for Red Star Yeast, Milwaukee, WI, which later became Universal
Foods Corp., died June 11. Mr. Reed held

various positions in the food industry as a
research biochemist. Known as "the walking encyclopedia," he wrote many research
papers and books, including the wellknown "Enzymes in Food Processing" and
"Yeast Technology." He worked full-time
into his 80s, culminating a long career by
editing the series Biotechnology published
by Wiley VCH. Burial was private with a
memorial celebration in August.
John J. (Jack) Simoneau
passed away Oct. 2. He was
82. An icon in the cookie
and cracker industry, Mr.
Simoneau was a manager of frozen products for
SIMONEAU
Nabisco, a division of Kraft
Foods, Northfield, IL; technical director
of Werner Lehara, Grand Rapids, MI;
and president of Archway/Mothers Cake
and Cookie in Oakland, CA. He retired as
senior vice-president of manufacturing at
Keebler, a division of the Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, MI, in 1985.
Kermit L. Murphy Sr., founder and c.e.o. of
Mother Murphy's Laboratories, Greensboro,
NC, died Sept. 28 in Bermuda. He was 91.
Mr. Murphy, along with Richard Stelling,
Ph.D., founded Southern Laboratories
Co. in 1947. The company was renamed
Mother Murphy's Laboratories in 1955.
Mr. Murphy was a former president of
the Allied Trades of the Baking Industry
and a former chairman of the Southern
Bakers Association. He also was a founding member of the Cookie and Snack
Bakers Association and a member of the
Flavor and Extract Manufacturing Association, the National Association of Food
Retailers, the American Society of Baking
and the American Bakers Association.
Anthony A. Degnan, former vice-president of sales, ADM Milling, Overland
Park, KS, died Oct. 13. He was 66. Mr.
Degnan began his career in milling as a
flour broker with his uncle James Degnan.
He later joined ADM in 1978 and retired
from the company in 2005.

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