2001-02 Outstanding Staff Awards

Back row: Betha Whitlow, Kathy Atnip, Cindy Kahn, Rita Kuehler, Liz Peterson-Schmidt, Greg Potter

Front row: Terri Schneider, Cathy Marler, Joan Greenberg, Diane Willis, Edward S. Macias, Annaliesa Hanebrink. Not pictured: Kerri Friedman

KATHY ATNIP
Arts & Sciences Computing
Kathy's leadership has been essential in realizing our goals of supporting teaching and learning with technology. She is available to Arts & Sciences faculty to help them make creative use of computer technology - her unflappable and gracious demeanor, combined with great skill, has helped even the most technophobic faculty come to terms with their computers. She has also organized the teaching lab in Eads Hall where faculty can get advice on innovative use of technology in their courses, and she is the visionary and organizer of the upcoming ITeach Symposium.

JOHN EPSTEIN
Physics
John's skill and dedication have been absolutely essential to the success of the department's cosmic-ray research group. He has advanced from a relatively inexperienced technician to become a highly skilled designer of complex one-of-a-kind instrumentation, including two instruments that have flown successfully on spacecraft and several that how flown successfully on high-altitude balloons. He has worked closely with generations of students, both undergraduate and graduate, teaching them much of the technical know-how that is essential to successful work in experimental science.

KERRI FRIEDMAN
Political Science
In charge of most matters dealing with both undergraduate and graduate academics, while also serving as webmaster, Kerri is incredibly valuable to the department's efforts. She is personable as well as professional in carrying out her responsibilities, which include scheduling of classes, assigning advisees, assessing the status of majors, and compiling reports on academic issues. On a regular basis, she takes the initiative to improve the way the department conducts business; for example, she designed forms for assessing the progress of advisees, assigning credit for overseas courses, and for enrolling students as teaching assistants.

JOAN GREENBERG
Biology
Always friendly and smiling, Joan is the mainstay of the department in its relationships with undergraduate students. She has supervised the advising of biology majors for many years and, in the process, has developed personal connections with the students that help them feel like they are an important part of the department before they join laboratories. With cheerful efficiency, she organizes enrollment, grading, and room assignments. She is also generous with her time even while attending to her other responsibilities.

ANNALIESA HANEBRINK
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
A hardworking and dedicated employee, Annaliesa is revered by graduate students, faculty, and staff alike. Not only can she navigate our university systems, accounts, and budgets, her talents also run the gamut from dealing with an office crisis with competence and tact to taking an international student grocery shopping and teaching her to cook. Moreover, she always makes time to pay attention to everyone else's programs and projects; for example, she attends the conferences put on by the Olin Fellows and the Chancellor's Fellows.

CINDY KAHN
Performing Arts
Cindy is an indefatigable and imaginative worker of extraordinary versatility. She combines financial, organizational, and communication skills with a personality that is driven by her selfless love of the arts. Whether she is involved in complicated budgetary matters, reconciling production costs, overseeing the department's technical and office staff, negotiating production rights for shows, or supervising work study students, she exhibits an unquenchable energy and passion that she is able to communicate to staff, students, and faculty alike.

RITA KUEHLER
Romance Languages & Literatures
Rita has been a constant source of professionalism, good will, exemplary competence, and inventiveness, whether she is scheduling classes, working with the budget, or on personnel matters. She is a delight to work with, and her cooperative attitude lets everyone feel that she is ready and willing to do whatever is asked of her. She never gives the impression that she is too busy, even when her desk is piled high, and whatever she does is done punctually, carefully, and with seeming ease.

CATHY MARLER
Classics
Classics faculty are constantly in debt to Cathy for her outstanding organizational skills and the way she handles the day-to-day affairs of the department. Her patience and sympathetic interactions with students, both undergraduate and graduate, are the foundation of the excellent spirit the department has seen in recent years. Typical of her willingness, generosity, and positive attitude, she immediately agreed to take over the secretarial support of the Association of Women Faculty when a department member was elected President of that organization for 2001-02.

GREG POTTER
Chemistry
Always ready with a helping hand, Greg is indispensable to the effective operation of the department's research group headed by Professor Jacob Schaefer. He is self-motivated and takes responsibility for operation of the NMR laboratory, including all aspects of maintenance and repair of the customized electronics systems. He can build complicated circuits and make them work as well as can the department's graduate electronics engineers, and he is also both patient and skillful in teaching the beginning graduate students how to make rotors behave.

TERRI SCHNEIDER
Mathematics
In charge both of the department's graduate program and of providing support to the chair, Terri is known for her hard work, high standards, generosity, and a terrific sense of humor. She anticipates needs and jobs before they are fully recognized or enunciated, completing all tasks
efficiently and with enthusiasm. She has performed to everyone's highest expectations for many years while also raising a family and completing a bachelor's degree in University College and a master's degree in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

BETHA WHITLOW
Art History & Archaeology
Betha is not only helpful to a broad range of faculty and students who use the slide collection, but she has contributed in highly creative ways to the integration of teaching and technology in the department. She has unfailingly volunteered time and energy to the many initiatives regarding new technology, technology and teaching, and the building of image and data banks for the future. Especially notable is her work on the AMICO project and her collaboration with Professor Elizabeth Childs in helping students use these resources in their classes.

DIANE WILLIS
University College
Diane is the ultimate student advisor, a fact officially recognized by the Missouri Academic Advising Association when they made her Advisor of the Year. With skill, efficiency, and good humor, she advises students - while also challenging them to be the best they can be - on educational, career, and (when needed) personal matters. She also coordinates advising and academic support, makes presentations to prospective students, coordinates the honor society and the Student Advisory Committee, and is an active members and former officeholder in regional and national professional groups.

DEAN'S AWARD
LIZ PETERSON
The Teaching Center
An indispensable member of the team of academic support personnel in Eads Hall, Liz is a key person for Arts & Sciences faculty. Whether they need assistance with chalkboards, overhead transparencies, microphones, Power Point presentations, or the use of Smart Board technology, Liz is the resident expert - she is always ready to take care of our faculty's needs with grace, good humor, patience, and great skill. As a member of the Classroom Monitoring Committee, she also works to make sure our Hilltop classrooms are up-to-date and well-maintained.

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