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Katie Green: A true Green
Katie Green, administrative assistant, has made the Career Opportunities Center a little greener. And it's not just because of her name.
Of everything she has done since joining the center in 1974 — including organizing all 26 annual career days and setting up job interviews for thousands of students — Green is most proud of "bringing the green" to the office.
"For years, we had this yucky orange furniture. Our school colors are green and white, and why everything was orange, I have no idea," Green says. "One of my main priorities before I retired was to bring the green back to this office."
So for a year, Green worked to make the center look more school-spirited. She solicited donations, ordered furniture and asked Jonathan Reynolds from the Center for Media Production to take pictures of the campus for wall decorations. In all, Green raised $127,000 to renovate the center.
Now the office has green couches, chairs and lamps, and large, framed UNT pictures hang in each of nine interview rooms and in the lobby.
Bringing more school spirit to the office isn't her only major accomplishment. Green helped bring the first computers into the office in the 1980s.
"About 15 years ago, all of the offices in Student Affairs were given a chance to apply for computers," Green says. "My boss and I wrote a proposal asking for a computer and printer for every desk in our office."
The university awarded eight computers to the center.
"We got all of these computers and we didn't even know how to turn them on," Green says. "No one in the office had ever used one before, so we called our student worker, Abraham John, to come help us. When he told us to ‘boot it up,' we had no idea what he was talking about."
John now works as the computer systems manager in Student Development.
When she retires in May, Green and her husband of 28 years, Gene — a retired Denton police officer — will travel in their new motor home for two years. The couple will visit Ohio, her home state, and upstate New York.
"I'm looking forward to retirement, but I will miss the students and workers," Green says. "Some people have been here almost as long as I have and we are like a family here. I'll miss it, I really will."
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JENNY McCORMACK paiswri2@unt.edu |
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