Kemper CPA Group LLP announces its membership with Leading Edge Alliance, one of the largest international professional associations of independently owned accounting and advisory firms. The Leading Edge Alliance enables member firms to access the resources of a multibillion dollar global professional services organization while continuing to provide clients with individual attention and personalized service.

In the Wabash Valley, Kemper CPA has offices in Clinton and Terre Haute.

By way of a peer-to-peer connection to other firms across the world, Leading Edge provides members with tools and resources to help clients succeed. The 189 firms in the Leading Edge Alliance represent more than 100 countries, and members are all successful firms who place an emphasis on quality service, lasting client relationships  and strong community ties. 

Kemper CPA Group LLP was founded in Mount Carmel, Ill., in 1958. With 24 offices in Illinois, Indiana, California, and Kentucky, Kemper CPA Group LLP is one of the 100 largest CPA firms in the nation. Corporate headquarters are in Greenfield. Services offered include tax return preparation and consulting, asset management services, medical practice management, computer network design and installation, as well as accounting software implementation. Additional services include employee benefit plan administration, as well as auditing, bookkeeping and payroll services.



Williams Randall was recognized with nine industry honors from the International Festival and Events Association for work created on behalf of the 500 Festival.

Nominated for the first time in the category, Williams Randall Marketing won the Silver Award in the category of Best Vendor/Supplier. The awards were distributed during the IFEA Pinnacle Awards Ceremony at the IFEA’s 56th Annual Convention in Fort Worth, Texas.

Following are the award-winning pieces conceived and developed by Williams Randall:

Gold Pinnacle Awards:

• Best Single Newspaper Display Ad

• Best Ad Series

• Best Event Invitation

• Best Press/Media Kit

Silver Pinnacle Awards:

• Best Vendor/Supplier

• Best Event/Organization E-Newsletter

• Best Newspaper Insert/Supplement

Bronze Pinnacle Awards:

• Best Sponsor Follow-Up Report

• Best New Merchandise

Each year, the IFEA recognizes outstanding examples of quality and creativity in the promotional programs and materials produced by its 2,400 member festivals and events around the world. More than 1,500 entries were submitted this year from the world’s top festivals and events.

Entries included posters, merchandise, websites, print and broadcast ads, volunteer programs, community outreach programs and many other categories.

“IFEA is pleased to recognize and fly the flag of those cities and markets who have worked, through concerted efforts, to provide an environment conducive to successful festivals and events,” said IFEA President Steven Wood Schmader. “The quality of all the entries paints a bright picture for our industry and those cities recognized with this award are helping to build a strong foundation and example that we hope all cities, globally, will work to emulate.”



Spencer A. Skorupski, a funeral director with Roselawn Funeral Home in Terre Haute, has recently qualified for rectification of the designation of Certified Funeral Service Practitioner, by the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice.

A number of professions grant recognition to members upon completion of specified academic and professional programs and CFSP is funeral service’s national individual recognition.

A select few have distinguished themselves among their peers within the funeral service profession as they continue their education to exceed the highest standards of care. This achievement is especially notable because Skorupski has voluntarily elected to participate in quality educational and service opportunities that far surpass what the funeral service licensing board in Indiana requires. Skorupski has committed to a program of lifelong learning to serve families in the community with the level of excellence expected of a CFSP.

Since its 1976 founding, the Academy has had goals to: 1) recognize those practitioners who have voluntarily entered into a program of personal and professional growth, 2) raise and improve the standards of funeral service and 3) encourage-practitioners to make continuing education a lifelong process in their own self-interest of the families they serve, and the community in which they serve.

To initially receive this award, the practitioner must complete a 180-hour program of continuing education activities and events. In addition, the practitioner is required to accumulate 20 hours per year to recertify. Credits are awarded by the Academy for work leading to personal and/or professional growth in four areas:

• Academic Activities

• Professional Activities

• Career Review (for retroactive credit)

• Community and Civic Activities



Union Hospital CEO Scott Teffeteller has promoted Jeanette Spradlin to the position of vice president of Quality; named Kim Perkins as the new system director of Marketing and Public Relations, and Mike King as the new marketing specialist. In addition, he has promoted Kelly Walker to public relations specialist, and James Twitchell to community benefits specialist.

Jeanette Spradlin has been promoted to vice president of Quality Management for Union Hospital, after serving as system director of Quality Management for 17 years.  In addition, she served as interim vice president of Patient Care from February 2011 to June 2011. Spradlin brings more than 30 years of health care experience, with 20 of those years focused specifically on quality assurance/performance improvement processes. She is a three-time recipient of the Standards of Excellence Leadership Award; chairs both the Performance Improvement Council and the Patient Safety Committee; and has been instrumental in several hospital initiatives, including leading both Union Hospital Terre Haute and Union Hospital Clinton to achieve successful accreditation surveys, design and implementation of both facilities Patient Safety Programs and facilitated the redesign of the Medical and Dental Staff structure for Union Hospital Terre Haute.

Spradlin graduated from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and business management, and the Nursing Diploma Program at Deaconess School of Nursing in Evansville.

Kim Perkins has been named system director, Public Relations and Marketing for Union Hospital. She has an extensive background in marketing, public relations and communications, including 15 years dedicated to health care. She also has served as national spokesperson for McFaddin Ventures of Houston, appearing on the Today Show and London’s BBC, and various Houston broadcasts, including hosting the H-Town Homes segment of Great Day Houston on CBS local station 11 for John Daugherty Realtors. In addition, she appeared as a guest speaker for the State of Alabama statewide forum. While working with HCA in Houston, she won the Mayors Proud Partner Award and Chamber of Commerce Star Award for Spring Branch Medical Center.

Perkins is the recipient of an Outstanding Young Woman of America Award; Who’s Who among Young Executive Professionals; Who’s Who of American Women; Who’s Who of Women Executives; Business & Professional Women Highest Recruitment Award; Vista Host Highest Sales Achievement Award, and the John Daugherty Rookie of the Year Award. 

Perkins is board president of Leadership Wabash Valley and a member of the Terre Haute Rotary Club. She graduated from Terre Haute North Vigo High School and will graduate in the spring from Indiana University with a specialization in social and behavior sciences.

Mike King has been named marketing specialist for Union Hospital. He began his professional career in broadcasting as a sophomore at Campbell University in 1978 when he was chosen to be the lead play-by-play announcer for basketball broadcasts on the CU Basketball Network. King has been involved professionally as a member of both the print and electronic media, and has captured media awards in both North Carolina and Indiana for writing and on-air presentations and coverage of both news and sports stories.

After on-air sports anchor work at two television stations in North Carolina (WNCT-TV, CBS Greenville WCTI-TV ABC, New Bern), he was offered the sports director position by WTHI-TV in Terre Haute in 1986 and worked in that position for 12 years.

In late 1998 he was named the fifth anchor of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network, and the Radio Voice of the Indianapolis 500. In 2012 King will celebrate his 14th anniversary as the radio voice of the Indianapolis 500, a tenure that has landed him second on the list of network anchors behind only Sid Collins, the original “Voice of the 500.” In addition to the Indianapolis 500, he also oversees the broadcast team and provides the play-by-play call of additional IZOD IndyCar Series events.

King is a native of Norfolk, Va., was raised in Winston-Salem, N.C., and has been a resident of Terre Haute for the past 26 years.

Kelly Walker has been named the public relations specialist for Union Hospital. She is responsible for employee communications, creating and designing marketing materials and assisting the system director of marketing and public relations in the development of marketing strategies for Union Hospital and its services. Walker has worked at Union Hospital since 2009 serving as the marketing communications specialist.

Walker is a member of the Indiana Healthcare Marketing and Public Relations Society and has more than 10 years of experience in the communications field including advertising, promotions, marketing and journalism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana State University and resides in Terre Haute.

James Twitchell has been named community benefits specialist for Union Hospital. He will be responsible for helping to maintain the not-for-profit status of the organization, planning and implementing the community health needs assessment, and coordinating the hospital’s participation in health fairs and other community events. Twitchell has been with Union Hospital since 2007, most recently serving as community liaison.

Twitchell graduated from Indiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and is currently pursuing his MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. He is active in the community, serving as the volunteer head track and field coach for St. Patrick Middle School, and also is a volunteer basketball coach at the Boys and Girls Club of Terre Haute, serving in that capacity over the past six years.



Terre Haute resident Terrie Franklin has been named Aramark’s Food Service Director of the Year for 2011. The Indiana Department of Correction contracts Aramark to provide Food Service for its facilities.

Franklin has been the Aramark Food Service Director at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle since March of 2010. Franklin began her career as a correctional officer with the DOC at Rockville Correctional Facility in 2001 and was quickly promoted to sergeant. In 2008, she began working for Aramark part time in Rockville and soon was promoted to Assistant Food Service Director at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in 2009. That same year she was named Aramark’s Assistant Food Service Director of the Year.

WVCF Superintendent Dick Brown said he is pleased with Aramark’s service under Franklin and, “She has been able to reduce food costs for the facility without sacrificing nutritional quality and improve variety,” Brown said.