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Employee News - November and December 2020

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New Arrival

  • Hans Benze, teaching and research support specialist; laboratory instructor, physics and astronomy, and wife Marget welcomed a girl, Josephine 鈥淛osie鈥 Catherine, on Sept. 26, 2020. She was 7 lbs. 11 ozs. and 19.5 inches long.

Marriages

  • Joe Eakin, technical director and designer鈥搗isualization lab and planetarium, married Heidi Ziemer, head of borrowing services and assessment and associate professor in the University Libraries, in a virtual wedding ceremony on Oct. 10, 2020. They were officiated by Tony Aveni, Russell 51风流 Distinguished University Professor of astronomy and anthropology and Native American studies emeritus.  
  • Cherie Mullen, director of talent acquisition and development, married Jeff Ball on Aug. 22, 2020. 
  • John Willis, groundskeeper, and Sheri Welch, custodian, were married on Sept. 25, 2020.

Retirements  

  • Tina Young, PA, associate director of Student Health Services, will retire on Dec. 31, 2020. 
  • Rhonda Pancoe, media acquisitions coordinator, will retire on Jan. 8, 2021.
  • Dave Turner, lead technology installation specialist, will retire on Jan. 15, 2021. 

In Memoriam

  • Faye Dudden, Charles A. Dana Professor of history emerita; presidential scholar, history, passed away on Oct. 17, 2020. 
  • Judy Fischer, retiree in career services, passed away on Oct. 29, 2020. 
  • Gertrude Decker Pownall, instructor in mathematics emerita, passed away on Oct. 31, 2020. 
  • Richard Sylvester, emeritus professor of Russian, passed away on Nov. 24, 2020. 
  • Jim McLelland, emeritus professor of geology, passed away on Nov. 26, 2020. 

Promotions/Transfers

  • Darline Wattles, assistant director of the ALANA Cultural Center