Archive for January, 2013

You are invited to attend a retirement reception for Bonnie Bailey, Administrative Coordinator in Biology. The event will be in the Campus Center Living Room on Wednesday, January 30 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. with a presentation at 2:45 p.m. Please come help us show our appreciation to Bonnie who has graciously served at ACU for 29 years.

Nominate graduating seniors planning to attend graduate school for a chance to receive the V.W. and Loreta Kelley Scholarship. See criteria and nominating forms.  Nominations are due by Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013.

The Alpha Scholar’s and Upward Bound Programs will be hosting an Open House on Friday, January 25, 2013 from 1:00-3:00 pm in the Hardin Administration Building rooms 311 to 314. The event is open to all ACU Faculty and Staff to come and visit the departments’ new location and to ask questions about any TRiO programs. Coffee and cookies will be served. We hope to see you there!

Classical Chorus of Abilene will host a come-and-go coffee on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 10:30 a.m. in the central lobby of the Williams Performing Arts Center. Singers interested in participating with the Chorus for the  Apr. 13 performance of Brahms’ German Requiem under the  direction of Dr. Michael Scarbrough are welcome to drop by. For more information call 325-673-7464 or email info@chorusabilene.net.

Abstract submission for the ACU Undergraduate Research Festival is now open.  We will accept submissions until 5 p.m. on February 8th. We hope you will encourage your research students to participate. Links to the Abstract Submission form, abstract writing tips, and information on the review of abstracts are available on the Research Festival Blog. The 5th Annual ACU Undergraduate Research Festival will be Thursday and Friday, April 4 and 5, 2013.

The 2013 benefit elections recently made will be effective starting 1/1/2013. Payroll deductions for these benefits will not be seen until 1/15/13 for the non-exempt (semi-monthly) payroll, and 2/1/13 for the exempt (monthly) payroll. If you have questions regarding your benefits, please contact the Human Resources Department at x2359.

Looking for notaries on the ACU campus: The ACU switchboard receives calls almost weekly where the caller is needing a notary.  If you are a notary and are willing for people to stop by your office for that service, please send Adria Kastner an email (aak03c@acu.edu) or call the switchboard and give your name and whether or not you charge for this service.

Please remember that all ACU employees that have elected the BCBS medical plan for 2013 will use an ID card with group number 068773 starting 1/1/13. If you currently do not have an ID card with this number, please go to www.bcbstx.com, log in, and click on “Get a Temporary ID Card” under the quick links on the right-hand side. You can then “order a new ID card” and “Print a Temporary ID Card.” Also, if you elected the BCBS Dental plan for 2013, you should have received a BCBS Dental ID card with group number 107361. Please be sure not to confuse this card as your medical card. You may find it useful to write “Dental” on this card with a sharpie to help with any confusion.

Dear Friends,

What a blessing it is to be a small part of ACU and the ACU community.  It’s an honor to come to work everyday at such a great university and to be able to work with people you not only love, but for whom I also have such tremendous respect.

My family and i want to thank each of you for your outpouring of concern, compassion and love over the last two years as we dealt with our son Rex’s journey with cancer and, ultimately, his passing.

As some of you might know, Rex passed away late on the evening of Nov. 25, 2012, just five weeks after celebrating his 10th birthday.  He died at home on a Sunday night very peacefully, surrounded by his family, just the way he wanted to slip from this life to the next.

We know that after he took his last breath here on earth, he was greeted in heaven by Jesus and that he is now healed to a degree that we cannot comprehend.  As I wrote on his CaringBridge site, I will never say that Rex lost to cancer.  Rex was afflicted with cancer, but it never touched his heart, it never touched his mind, and it never touched his soul.  Those have always belonged to God; they never belonged to cancer.

We miss Rex tremendously, and I know we will for the rest of our lives.  But we have been held up by our loving family, by a tremendously supportive group of close friends, our community, our church, and by our tremendously supportive ACU family.  And we know we will see him again one day, and that we will never again be separated from him. That’s the thought that helps us get through each day.

We have been overwhelmed by the generosity that the ACU Family has shown us in so many ways.  We have been blessed by your calls, emails, texts, facebook messages, cards, letters, hugs, etc.  We will never be able to repay you for those acts of kindness.

So, from Jill, Ashley, Ryan (and even Rex, who loved the Wildcats), we say thank you and we love you.

Lance Fleming, Assistant Director of Athletics for Media Relations

Please note that the Payroll office has a new FAX number,  674-6899.