Archive for ‘Recognition’

After 35 years of dedicated service to Brown Library, Gary Oliver retired on January 14th. For most of Gary’s time at AVU, he worked as a Cataloging Librarian. In addition to his service to ACU, he spent numerous years as a participant in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging at the Library of Congress, where he has served our country well in doing original cataloging for the Library of Congress. In lieu of a retirement reception, please send your congratulations to Gary via a card or email at oliverg@acu.edu.

Each year during Pre-Session, we take the opportunity to present awards to two outstanding staff members.  Since we did not have the opportunity to gather in 2020 we will honor four outstanding members this year. Please take time to nominate staff member(s) for this honor by filling out this form. The Senior Leadership Team will select the honorees based on nominations they receive from faculty and staff. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, June 18.

Help us celebrate Darren Wilson’s service as Director of the Maker Lab on July 30 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Library Atrium. If you would like to send a note of thanks and encouragement instead, please do so on this Google form by 5:00 p.m. on July 29.

You are invited to join the Dallas Campus Executive Leadership Team in a virtual reception to thank Lyndell Lee for his service to ACU on Thursday, May 28, from 12:30 – 1:00 p.m.  Use this invitation to connect to event.

Jozell Brister is retiring from her position as Associate Professor of Management at the end of the summer. We hope to celebrate with Jozell in the fall but since we cannot celebrate her retirement in person at this time, we invite you to contribute to a virtual memory book we are creating to honor Jozell for her service to ACU and her contributions to the College of Business Administration and to ACU. You can send a short video greeting, note of appreciation, words of encouragement, memory, or anything else you wish to share with Jozell by filling out this link.

Staff Senate is proud to welcome the following new senators for the 2020-2022 term: Arthur Brant, Caddie Coupe, Crystal Cox, Scott Delony, Cory Driskill, Cara Flanders, Randy Motz, Deborah Niccum, Sherita Nickerson, James Scudder.

Thank you for your participation in this process. To learn more about Staff Senate, please visit the Staff Senate blog. The link to this blog may be found anytime through Quicklinks, on the the myACU homepage.

Dr. Steve Weathers is retiring from his position as Associate Professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at the end of this semester.  Since we cannot celebrate his retirement in person, we invite you to contribute to a virtual memory book we are creating to honor Dr. Weathers for his service to ACU and his contributions as an extraordinary and beloved professor, mentor, colleague, and friend. Please send a short video greeting, note of appreciation, words of encouragement, memory, or anything else you wish to share with Steve to denise.waldrop@acu.edu; or mikee.delony@acu.edu by May 15th.

You are invited to join us for a retirement reception to celebrate Jacki Hathorn’s more than 20 years of service to Abilene Christian University. The reception will be Thursday, January 30th from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., with a special recognition at 4:00 p.m., in the Library Atrium. Please join us to celebrate someone who has been such a blessing to so many at ACU!

You are invited to attend a retirement reception to celebrate Kristi Thaxton’s 23 years of service to Abilene Christian University. The reception will be Thursday, January 23rd from 3:00-4:30 p.m., with a special recognition at 3:30 p.m., in the Hunter Welcome Center lobby. Please join us as we celebrate a wonderful lady who has been a tremendous blessing to ACU!