January, 2007: Nancy Harris, Administrative Secretary for the Department of Music, is awarded the College's Staff Professional Achievement Award (SPAA).
One of the nominations on her behalf reads:
"I would like to submit Nancy Harris, Administrative
Secretary in the Music Department,
for the Staff Professional Achievement Award for January 2007. Nancy consistently puts
110% into her job. One of the daunting tasks she has to handle is the process
of Incoming Student Auditions each semester. This is a very detailed and
lengthy process that cuts into much of her other day-to-day work, yet she
handles it all without complaint. This involves arranging auditions with
applied faculty and ensemble directors, setting up campus tours with the
Admissions Office and scheduling Theory Placement tests for each and every
student interested in attending Missouri State as a music major. In essence, it is
a logistical nightmare. This semester, there was an added aspect that was
thrown into the mix. When we missed the first week of classes due to the ice
storm, Nancy was put very behind in this process. She still had her regular
start-of-the-semester issues, which were now combined with scrambling to contact
persons interested in attending the next audition date, February 2nd and 3rd. She handled it all beautifully and was able to work out a
schedule to everyone’s satisfaction. I am proud to work in the same office with
her and feel that she very much deserves this
award."
Marnie Farmer
Secretary, Department of Music
Congratulations and well done, Nancy!
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February, 2007: Wilma Catlin, Administrative Secretary for the Department of English, is awarded the College's Staff Professional Achievement Award (SPAA).
One of the nominations on her behalf reads:
"Wilma works wonders in our front office—training
and overseeing student workers, tending to daily crises, greeting and helping
visitors, etc.—in short, making sure the front office runs smoothly and makes a
good impression on those who walk through the door. But she does so much more!
She makes sure faculty work orders are done accurately, their desk copies and
textbooks are ordered on time, their classroom clocks have batteries—you name
it, she does it for us. But she does more! She helps Dr. Blackmon with his 'extra' projects, making sure rooms are booked, copies are made, fliers are
posted, etc. And she helps me in more ways than I can possibly list: she puts
the entire course schedule on the computer every semester, she schedules
teaching assistants, she books rooms and orders food and copies fliers for my
projects, and she manages my calendar and does as well as anyone could at
keeping me on track—whatever I need done, I can ask Wilma, and she will take
care of it. And she does it all with an amazing degree of efficiency and good
humor! Wilma has brought order to our front office and to our lives. I cannot
imagine having a more dedicated and efficient person in her chair, and I
wholeheartedly support her for the Staff Professional Achievement Award, for she
truly performs above and beyond expectations and shows extraordinary commitment
to us as individuals as well as to our department and college."
Kris Sutliff
Professor, Department of English
Congratulations and well done, Wilma!