Mark Stitch has completed 26 years of service at the Conway Human Development Center. Stitch began employment in residential care. He has held positions of residential care supervisor, recreation leader, administrative assistant, shift coordinator, and program coordinator. 

He currently serves as a residential services manager on the Intensive Training Team. Stitch and his wife, Kerry, reside in Conway and have two children. 

Donna Quattlebaum and Agnes Rappold have completed 31 years of service at the Conway Human Development Center. Rappold began employment in residential care and is currently an OT Therapy Aide in the medical services department. She resides in Houston, Ark. 

Quattlebaum began her employment as an occupational therapy aide and is currently an orthotist aide in the medical services department. She and her husband, Stan, reside in Conway. They have two children and one grandchild.

Dr. Stephen Carter is the new medical director for the Perry County Nursing and Rehabilitation center in Perryville. Carter, who practices at Morrilton Medical Clinic, has been admitting patients to Perry County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center since he first began practicing in Morrilton in 1988.

Carter earned a bachelor’s degree at Hendrix College in Conway in 1981 and his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1985. He completed a three year residency in family medicine from the UAMS-Area Health Education Center in Fayetteville in 1988 and moved to Morrilton with his wife Paula, and sons Chris and Richard in June of that year.

He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians since 1985 and is a member of the Medical Staff at St. Vincents-Morrilton Medical Center, serving two years as Chief of Staff and six years as a member of the Board of Directors.

Gulf Coast Business Credit (GCBC), the working capital finance division of Gulf Coast Bank & Trust, added Grant Gordy to its Business Development Team.

Gordy joins GCBC as vice president of new business development in the Arkansas market.

Prior to GCBC, Gordy was a business development officer for an independent financial firm in Arkansas. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Central Arkansas.

Gulf Coast Business Credit is recognized as a leading provider of working capital finance throughout the United States, specializing in accounts receivable financing.

Bo Conner and Theresa Sartain of Conner and Sartain, Pa/; Robert Greg Schichtl, II; and Jennifer Tucker of American Management Corp., all of Conway, recently attended the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants 2011 Accounting and Auditing Conference at Harrah’s Hotel & Casino in Tunica, Miss.

Pamela Jolly of Greenbrier and Robert Greg Schichtl II, of Conway, were among the leaders of the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants who recently attended a Leadership Conference at Harrah’s Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Miss.