Wes Sharpton, formerly of Bumble and Bumble in New York City, has joined babette, 924 1/2 Mass. He has worked with celebrities such as Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Paris Hilton. He cuts hair and is available for appointments. For more information, call 764-2443.

¢ Greg Tangari, of Family Therapy Institute Midwest in Lawrence, recently was granted status as diplomate in clinical social work by the National Association of Social Workers. This is an earned credential requiring passage of a nationally standardized test, licensure at the independent practice level, and a minimum of three years and 4,500 hours of clinical social work experience.

¢ David Guth, a financial planner in Lawrence, recently completed a course through the Society of Certified Senior Advisors and earned the designation of Certified Senior Advisor. The society keeps professionals from a variety of fields abreast of seniors’ needs by providing education, training, support and communication resources. For more information, contact Guth at his office, 2500 W. Sixth St. Suite B, 832-8300.

¢ Michael Peck has joined Open Prairie Equity Partners, a Midwest-based early-stage venture capital fund based in central Illinois, as a general partner. Peck, who comes to the partnership after serving as vice president of investments for the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., will lead the fund’s new office in the Kansas City area.

Peck’s experience with investing in and launching startup companies includes his role as a senior executive with a San Francisco-based Internet startup. He also has worked with USBX, a portfolio company of Los Angeles’ eCompanies business incubator. He began his career as a management consultant with Accenture’s Strategic Management Consulting group in Chicago and San Francisco, where his clients included technology and supply chain companies.

Peck has a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business, a Master of Engineering Management from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, and a Bachelor of Science from Kansas University.

¢ Doug Stephens has joined the governing board of directors at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. Stephens, a Kansas University graduate, is president of Stephens Real Estate Inc. He has served on the boards of Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Douglas County, Kansas Association of Realtors, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence Presbyterian Manor and the Douglas County Infant-Toddler Coordinating Council.

Deborah Edelman-Dolan has been named a team leader for child and family services at Bert Nash, supervising therapeutic classrooms and managing clinical teams. Edelman-Dolan previously worked at Florence Crittenton Center in the Kansas City area. She has a master’s degree in social work from KU. Her areas of expertise are in family dynamics, foster care/adoption/juvenile offenders and substance abuse prevention and treatment.

¢ Kent Needham, president and chief executive officer of Tonganoxie-based First State Bank & Trust, has been inducted as past chairman of the Kansas Bankers Assn. after serving the last year as chairman. His one-year term as past president began Aug. 6 at the association’s annual meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Needham received a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from Fort Hays State University and a master’s degree in finance from Wichita State University. He joined a two-man team that successfully turned around Western National Bank in Amarillo, Texas. He was instrumental in the growth of Farmers Bank & Trust, Great Bend, during the 1980s and, since 1993, has directed the growth of First State Bank & Trust to nearly $295 million in assets across eight locations.

¢ Diane Myers, Lawrence, has joined Peoples Bank in Lawrence as a commercial relationship officer. Her duties include developing and maintaining deposit and loan relationships with commercial businesses.

She previously worked in commercial banking at US Bank in Overland Park and National City Bank in Fort Wayne, Ind. She also worked at Taylor County Bank in Campbellsville, Ky.

¢ The Douglas County Medical Alliance, which conducts fund-raising for the American Medical Association Foundation, promotes health care education, and conducts legislative advocacy at the local level, announces its officers for 2005-06.

Anjali Dooley, a lawyer, is president. She plans to attend the American Medical Association Alliance Leadership Confluence in October in Chicago. She is married to Dr. Randall Dooley, of Lawrence Urology PA.

Julie Dunlap, a past president of Reno County Medical Alliance, is treasurer. Dunlap, a former human resources executive, has been an active member of the Kansas Medical Society Alliance at the state level and is a graduate of a previous leadership confluence in Chicago. She is married to Dr. David Dunlap, of First Med in Lawrence.

Amy Suiter, an occupational therapist, is secretary. Suiter is a past president of a group for spouses of residents at Kansas University Medical Center. She has attended Kansas Medical Society Alliance workshops and is a graduate of the national alliance’s leadership confluence. She is married to Dr. Beatty Suiter, of Lawrence Eye Care Associates.

Honors and awards

Affinity Resources LLC’s Web site recently received a first-place award from The Independent Consultants Assn. It was the winner in the Miscellaneous Consulting category at the ICA conference in Orlando. Mark Lee, a certified fundraising executive, is owner and Web designer of Affinity Resources.

The Web site, www.AffinityResources.com, promotes the services of Lee and provides resources for nonprofit organizations nationwide.

¢ Lawrence dentist Paul Kincaid has been honored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry and Dental Alumni Assn. for 60 years in the profession. Kincaid graduated from the school in August 1945 and established a practice in Lawrence a month later.

Kincaid worked out of an office in downtown Lawrence until 1953, when he was called to military duty. After two years in Korea, he returned to Lawrence and moved into a new office building at 23rd Street and Barker Avenue.

Although the office has since been remodeled, Kincaid has been seeing patients at the same location for 50 years. Now 84, he still works mornings four days a week, sharing the office with his son, Dr. Charles Kincaid, and Dr. Susan G. Hall.

Coming events

An information meeting on the Kansas Individual Development Account Program will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 26 at Junction City’s Municipal Building.

The program is designed to help Kansas families break the cycle of poverty, and get ahead, by promoting savings and financial literacy. The program is intended to help people own a home, start a business or get a college degree.

Dr. Michael Sherraden, an author and researcher, will be a guest at the event, “Achieving Dreams and Promoting Prosperity.” Other speakers will include state Reps. Sydney Carlin, D-Manhattan, and Ed O’Malley, R-Roeland Park, and officials from the Kansas Department of Commerce.

For more information about the event, contact Tiffany Jarvis at (785) 234-0878.

¢ The Kansas State University East-Central Research Field’s field day will begin at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the K-State Research and Extension East-Central Research Station.

Topics and K-State speakers at the field day will include:

¢ “Selecting Corn Hybrids Based on Maturity,” by Kraig Roozeboom, crop performance specialist.

¢ “Weed Control in Corn,” by Dave Regehr, weed management specialist.

¢ “Update: Striptill and No-Till Research,” by Keith Janssen, water quality researcher.

¢ “Update: Soybean Rust and Soybean Aphids,” by Doug Jardine, Extension plant pathologist, and Jeff Whitworth, Extension entomologist.

¢ “Wheat Variety Selection and Fungicide Research,” by Gary Kilgore, Southeast area agronomist, and Adam Sparks, graduate research assistant in plant pathology.

¢ “Rainfall Simulator and Water Quality Display,” by Herschel George, watershed specialist.

The program will end with a sponsored lunch.

Directions to the station: From Interstate Highway 35 at Ottawa, the station is south 1.7 miles on U.S. Highway 59, then east 1 mile and south 0.75 mile.

For more information, call the East-Central Research Station at (785) 242-5616.

¢ In October, Beauty Brands will join Redken, a global leader in professional hair care products, in leading the “It Takes Guts” campaign to raise awareness and funding for Reduce Abuse, a program that provides support to local domestic violence shelters.

From October 3 to 30, Beauty Brands, 3514 Clinton Parkway, will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of every Redken Guts volume-boosting spray foam to Women’s Transitional Care Services, its partner in the fight against domestic violence in Lawrence.

In addition, Beauty Brands customers have the opportunity to add a donation to their total purchase to support Women’s Transitional Care Services.

Since its inception in 2000, the Reduce Abuse program has partnered with 18 domestic violence shelters nationwide and raised more than $158,000. Redken donates all of the Guts hair volumizer for the program.