DRG executive crochet editor Carol Alexander received the Crochet Liberation Front’s 2011 Flamie Lifetime Achievement Award. Alexander is editor of both Crochet! and Crochet World magazines.

Mike Thomas Realtors hired Wendy and Bob Bellamy in the Southwest Illinois Road office and Valarie Bartrom in the Dupont office.

Mary Beth Weisenburger joined DRG as editor of Looking Back, a nostalgia magazine. Weisenburger was most recently the editor and publisher of Happenings Magazine.

Greg Poore joined Baden Tax Management LLC as a senior real estate consultant. Poore will be responsible for real estate tax evaluations and appeals for clients in the Midwest and Southeast.

Taffy F. Troup, director of operations of Joseph Decuis LLC and a member of the Insurance Women’s Association of Fort Wayne, was elected Region IV vice president for the 2011-12 membership year of the National Association of Insurance Women (International).

John Coupe joined DeKalb Memorial Hospital as vice president of quality and risk management. Coupe previously spent 25 years in the defense electronics industry as a systems engineer.

Abonmarche hired Graham Lewis as a project manager and Aaron Springer as a project surveyor in the Fort Wayne office.

Family Hospice and Palliative Care announced the board certification in Hospice and Palliative medicine by Dr. Roger Lemmen.

Kevin Mullett of Cirrus ABS was recently a guest on Twitter’s #SEOChat. The recurring session is dedicated to search engine optimization.

Allison Nickle Egidi, Najeeb A. Khan and Christopher J. Murphy IV were elected to the 1st Source Corp. board of directors.

Members of the Allen County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals elected the following to its board of directors: Michael DeFreeuw of Northeastern REMC, Terah Brogan of Lakeside Middle School and Chris O’Rourke of US Foods were re-elected; and Amber Eagleson of the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo and Stan House of Home Infusion Services were newly elected. Board officers for 2011 are Mick Stewart of ISU Stewart, Brimner, Peters and Co., president; O’Rourke, vice president; Brogan, secretary; and Kathleen Smith of Swiss Re, treasurer. DeFreeuw was recognized for serving five years as ACSPCA board president.

Suining Ding, IPFW associate professor of interior design, was elected Midwest regional chair for the Interior Design Educators Council. Ding will begin her duties in May and will serve as Midwest regional chair for a two-year term.

Rudolph A. Mahara, president of Strategic Benefit Consultants of Fort Wayne, qualified for the Million Dollar Roundtable’s “Court of the Table” recognition. It recognizes Mahara for demonstrating exceptional professional knowledge, client services and ethical conduct in the field of global life insurance and financial services industries.

Preferred Auto Service Southwest hired Ivan Almodovar as assistant service manager and Larry

Jackson as an auto technician.