EMPLOYEE AWARDS FOR DISTINGUISHED AND LENGTH OF SERVICE
At the 2002 School of Law Holiday Luncheon held on December 11, Employee Service Awards were presented in addition to the inaugural Employee Distinguished Service Awards.
EMPLOYEE SERVICE AWARDS
Service years recognized are just to the School of Law and include
any previous years of service at the law school. Cut-off for service
year is December 31, 2002. Those receiving service awards were:
5 Years of Service
Peter A. Appel, J. Randy Beck, Catherine M. Dasher, Elizabeth Grant,
Jan Hoffman, Joyce H. Moss, Charles R.T. O'Kelley and Daniel U. White
10 Years of Service
Phyllis R. Cooke and Allison G. Hale
15 Years of Service
Dan T. Coenen, Willimenia L. Haynes, Laura J. Johnson (should have
been recognized in 2001 but was accidentally omitted from list), Edward
J. Larson, Joy N. Lester, Karen M. Sorrells and Carol A. Watson
20 Years of Service
Bertis E. Downs IV, Kathy E. Mitchem and Richard D. Reaves
25 Years of Service
Milner S. Ball
30 Years of Service
Gabriel M. Wilner
35 Years of Service
Diana S. Duderwicz
45 Years of Service
R. Perry Sentell Jr.
EMPLOYEE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS
The Employee Distinguished Service Award was designed to recognize
employees who have demonstrated a strong work ethic, commitment to service,
and the exceptional job performance and cooperation necessary to increase
the quality of education and service provided by the School of Law.
The Employee Distinguished Service Award will be given to two employees
each fiscal quarter. Employees are to be selected from nominations
by the law school community at large, including ICLE, ICJE, the law library
and all clinic programs.
The winners for the July-September 2002 quarter were Sandra Osborn, ICLE, and Ebony Thompson, Dean Rusk Center.
Excerpt from Sandra Osborn’s Nomination
I would like to nominate Sandra Osborn for the honor of being an
outstanding employee. We all need to be flexible in our jobs; but
she has been doing two jobs with a positive attitude. The Institute
of Continuing Legal Education provides approximately 180 seminars a year.
There are about 24,000 attorneys in Georgia, and they each need 12 hours
of continuing education yearly to keep their licenses. The speakers
at ICLE seminars are, for the most part, volunteer and do not receive pay
for participating in the seminar. Each speaker prepares a paper containing
substantive materials to be presented at the seminar; there may be from
6 to 26 speakers at each program. ICLE currently has a vacancy for
the job which entails paginating and preparing these papers for printing
and binding in the ICLE print shop and giving page count information to
the print shop so covers can be ordered and pricing can be determined.
Though Sandra is publications mail supervisor, in charge of the shipping
department, she has helped by doing this second job until the vacancy can
be filled.
Excerpt from Ebony Thompson’s Nomination
My nomination goes to Ebony Thompson, senior secretary at the Dean
Rusk Center, who has shown exemplary professionalism, especially in her
work with the International Judicial Training Program (IJTP). Ebony
has worked at the Rusk Center for the last three years and serves as one
of the coordinators of the IJTP. She is in charge of a great part
of the logistical work of bringing judges and court personnel from around
the world to the University of Georgia. Ms. Thompson does her work
with intelligence, efficiency and with a careful eye for details.
Her work reflects a higher standard of proficiency and responsibility than
the one dictated by the nature of her work. I have also seen her undertake
complicated bookkeeping and grant-keeping tasks on her own initiative,
with very little in-house guidance, and complete them with skill that's
way beyond requirements and definitions of the tasks of a senior secretary.
I highly recommend Ms. Thompson for the Employee Distinguished Service
Award.
Congratulations to all winners.