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Employees honored for excellence |
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Vicki L. Kroll |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
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| President Dan Johnson, right, posed for a photo with Outstanding Staff Award winners, from left, Patricia Uzmann, Linda Neuhausel, Dan Saevig, Rosie Galloway, John Jaegly and Brenda Leady. |
Six employees each received a plaque and a check for $1,500 at the University’s 2005 Outstanding Staff Awards Ceremony and Luncheon.
President Dan Johnson told some 270 who attended the Oct. 17 event the University is more than faculty and students. “It is the people in this room today who create the foundation, the environment, that allows learning to thrive.”
The president and his wife, Elaine, invited the winners to their home for a reception. A total of 45 people were nominated this year.
Award recipients from the Communication Workers of America Local 4530 and the UT Police Patrolman’s Association were:
• Rosie Galloway, custodial worker in the Academic House. She has worked at the University since 1989. “She can always be found performing daily tasks and conversing with the residents and staff of the building,” wrote one nominator. “Her willingness to help out her co-workers when asked, answering residents’ and parents’ questions, her excellent attendance record, her attitude toward her work confirms her leadership and loyalty to her job and the University. She sets the bar high when it comes to cleaning and maintaining her area in the Academic House. Rosie is well-liked by everyone who comes in contact with her. Her attitude is always up, and she can always be found with a smile on her face.”
• Linda Neuhausel, secretary in the political science and public administration department. She joined the department in 1984. “Linda has served the department for 21 years, under the supervision of at least five department chairpersons. She is the glue that keeps the department functioning,” wrote one nominator. Another noted, “One of Linda’s strengths is that she is a real booster of UT; she cares about the success of the University in its academic mission and has a keen sense of the importance of UT to the city and people of Toledo. This is important because it sets an example to students, faculty and staff about what a great place UT is and can be.” Another wrote, “Linda contributes to the department by holding it together with her good spirits and fantastic organizing skills.”
• Patricia Uzmann, secretary 2 at the Lake Erie Research and Education Center. She was hired to work at the center 10 years ago before it was built and has been at the University since 1987. “She has exemplified true professionalism and acted as the ‘face’ of hospitality and welcomeness to the Lake Erie Center for its many agency contacts, university professors, environmental organizations, the visiting public, and our graduate and undergraduate students. The Lake Erie Center’s success has increasingly resulted in many budgetary responsibilities and duties for her, with an exponentially growing number of grants, personnel and meetings,” wrote one nominator. Another wrote, “You can ask her almost anything and she will gladly tell you what she knows, help you solve the problem, or point you in the right direction.”
Winners from the Professional Staff Association were:
• Brenda Leady, laboratory coordinator in the biological sciences department. She joined the department in 1993. “As a lab coordinator, she is required to coordinate all of the undergraduate laboratories in the department. This is a major task, involving the instruction of about 1,000 students each semester,” wrote one nominator. “Brenda completes her responsibilities with professionalism, enthusiasm, creativity, dedication and good humor. She is responsible for ensuring that all of the introductory biology laboratory sections (40 strong with 24 students each) are ready each week with the appropriate equipment, specimen and reagents, as well as teaching the graduate teaching assistants how to teach the labs. Thus, for the past 12 years, she has had a tremendous impact on all the undergraduates that take introductory biology.”
• John Jaegly, laboratory supervisor in the mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering department. He has worked at UT since 1983. “John’s title is laboratory supervisor but he does far more than supervise the numerous teaching laboratories even though the number of laboratories and the sophistication of the equipment would keep most individuals very busy full time. In addition to the laboratories, John also supervises the MIME machine shop, which builds devices for research, teaching and the capstone engineering design course,” wrote one nominator. Another noted, “John is doing an excellent job taking care of our machine shop and the maintenance of our lab equipment in the department. He uses his staff very effectively. He delivers whatever he promises on time. He is a polite person and listens carefully to others.”
• Dan Saevig, associate vice president for alumni relations. He joined the UT staff in 1990 , served as alumni director from 1993 to 1999, left during the Kapoor administration, and returned to the University in his current post in 2003. “When he returned in 2003, he found alumni programming had dropped from 135 events a year to a scant 64 and membership had also dropped. He had to begin from scratch to rebuild what he once had in place, but he was not deterred. Since his return, alumni programming has gone from 64 events in 2002 to a record 141 last year. Membership has increased as well,” wrote one nominator. “He is the first one to roll up his sleeves to cook hot dogs, set up tables and chairs, carry trash — whatever needs to be done, he does it.”
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