NEWS RELEASE



For further information please contact:

Sergeant Brent J. Bernhardt

(660) 385-2132

B06022

February 9, 2006



EMPHASIS: Retirement of Carlene F. Waller





Captain John W. Elliott, Commanding Officer of Troop B, Macon, announces effective February 28, 2006, Clerk IV Carlene F. Waller will retire from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.



The Missouri State Highway Patrol employed Carlene, a native of Callao, Missouri, on January 9, 1974, as a Clerk Typist at Troop B Headquarters in Macon. She was reclassified to Clerk Typist II on September 1, 1974; Clerk Typist III on February 1, 1977; Stenographer III on August 1, 2000; and to Clerk IV on August 1, 2004. She has been married to her husband, David, for 34 years and they have two sons: Travis of Columbia, Missouri; and Matthew of Mexico, Missouri.