University Honors Employees for Years of Service

VALDOSTA—Valdosta State University honored 162 faculty and staff during the annual Employee Recognition Luncheon on March 3. Employees were given a certificate and pin for 5,10,15, and 25 years of service. Faculty and staff with more than 25 years of service were presented with a silver plaque embossed with the VSU logo.

The following faculty and staff were honored for years of service:

40 Years

Academic Affairs: James Baxter

30 Years

Academic Affairs: Judy Bailey, Larry Hilgert, and James Peterson

Finance & Administration: Adolphus Butler, Monroe Inman, Robert Kellner, and David Plair 

25 Years

Academic Affairs: Rex Devane, Linda Floyd, Michael Griffin, Jacquelyn Guess, Michael Johns, Harold Williams, Mary Willis, and Gary Wood

Finance & Administration: Todd Howard 

20 Years

Academic Affairs: Lee Allen, Charles Backes, Lora Backes, Napoleon Bamfo, Alan Bernstein, Melanie Byrd, Carl Cates, Deborah Davis, Michael Eaves, Mary Fares, Janet Foster, Lyle Indergaard, Thomas Manning, James Muncy, Andrew Ostapski, Rudy Prine, Patricia Rozier, Marvin Smith, and Robert Smith

Enrollment, Marketing & Communications: Jeff Grant

Finance & Administration: Barbara Meeks, Margie Thompson, and Shana Yorkey

President’s Office: Melinda Cutchens

Student Affairs: Sharon Mashburn

15 Years

Academic Affairs: Cecilia Barnbaum, Joe Brashier, William Buchanan, Mary Dallman, Guy Frost, Wei-Sung Huang, James Humphrey, Jack Lockhart, Scott Manley, Walter Rollenhagen, Michael Savoie, Richard Schmertzing, Michael Scott, Cynthia Tori and Mark Whatley

Advancement: Sandra Fletcher and Joella Gaiss

Enrollment, Marketing & Communications: Thressea H. Boyd

Finance & Administration: Bethanie Bass, Carlos Davis, Marjorie Davis, Ted Davis, Jason Lewis, James Muzzey, Ebony Wade, Larry Williams, and Christina Beth Coons Yates

10 Years

Academic Affairs: Terrie Adrian, Perry Baskin, Mary Block, John Dunn, Raymond Elson, Ellen Friedrich, Melody Fuller, Bahram Hojjatie, Fred Knowles, Lavonna Lovern, Lorna Mullis, Lisa Pirkle, Marcella Prater, Paul Riggs, David Springfield, and Yakov Woldman

Athletics: Richard Purvis

Finance & Administration: Darli Devane, Travis Dular, Dianetra Green, Shanika Hezekiah, Steve Jackson, Curtis Lowe, Nicolas Parks, and Deborah Reagan

Student Affairs: Alice Carter, Michael Lee, and Shawn Phippen

5 Years

Academic Affairs: Jason Allard, Gretchen Bielmyer, Philip Bishop, Carlotta Braswell, Sudip Chakraborty, Norman Earls Jr., Aubrey Fowler, Ted Geltner, Maren Hyer, Linda Jurczak, Jonghoon Kang, Jason Kassel, Amanda King-Spezzo, Gwendolyn Kyles, Tod Leavitt, Teresa Paliwoda, Beverly Porter, Lorrie Proal, Connie Richards, Alicja Rieger, Douglas Robinson, Nancy Sartin, Vincent Spezzo, Barbara Warren, Max Williams, and Laura Wright

Advancement: John Crawford

Athletics: Deborah Frocks

Enrollment, Marketing & Communications: Keisha Roberts, Nancee Storey, and Gary Kuhlmann II

Finance & Administration: Tobias Barrett, Desmond Bell, Latesha Bennett, Renee Bishop, Olivia Blakely, Drew Burgering, Charlotte Foster, Thomas Foster Jr., Benjamin Graham, Steven Haineault Jr., Johnnie Harris, Kelvin Hunter, Donna Knight, Diana Kohr, Anna Landers, Lynette Lewis, Colt Smith, Rosetta Stewart, Lori Stokes, Martha White and Leslie Williams

Student Affairs: Marie Hart and Gwen Manning

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