Staff Activities

Transitions

We welcome the following new employees:

• Dan Freise, ACS UNIX Computer Systems Manager.

• Patti Price, Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant (part-time).

• Michael Glover, Help Desk Assistant (part-time).

• Earnest Woodall, Production Services (part-time).

• James Martin, Production Services (part-time).

The following people no longer work in the Computing Center:

• Steve Rowell, Data communications Analyst.

• Robert Holland's, Mainframe CPU Operator.

• John Rauschuber, ACS General Access Lab Monitor (part-time).

• Conrad Bell, Data communications Analyst.

• Craig Henderson, Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant (part-time).

• Susan Ming-Ping Tsang, Production Services (part-time).

• John Arns, Help Desk Assistant (part-time).

Awards, Recognition, Presentations

• Richard Harris, Associate Vice President for Computing and Communications Services,was recognized in the June/July 2000 issue of the Human Resources Newsletter as a Soaring Eagle for spending "more than two hours . . . helping fix a computer problem for a faculty member."

• Bruce Pollock, ABN Server/User Support Computer Systems Manager,was also recognized in the June/July 2000 issue of the Human Resources Newsletter as a Soaring Eagle for going out of his way ". . . to get some special AV equipment at the last minute for a conference recently."

• Patti Price, new Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant, is the statistician and on the the national Board of Directors for FRUA (Families for Russian and Ukranian Adoption - a group of 3000 parents who have adopted or are adopting from Eastern Europe). She presented results from a survey that she completed on 800 of those kids in Washington D.C. Friday, July 7th. The name of the study is "Health and Development Survey" and its purpose was to obtain a balanced picture of how the kids who have been adopted from Eastern Europe are doing - both their issues and talents (as recognized by others). Patti and her husband and I are in the process of adopting a little girl from Romania and should hope to have her home before Christmas.

• Samantha Moss, part-time Clerical Assistant in Administrative Services, and her band Jetscreamer got rave reviews in the June 22 "Entertainment Chronicle," a tabloid feature of the Denton Record-Chronicle. Mike Searcy, the Music Writer for DRC summed up his feelings about Jetscreamer in the last paragraph of his article "Night screams": "Any way you look at it, Jetscreamer puts on an explosive show, and the raw sound of their latest album matches that live flare."