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Vol. 38, No. 18
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11-5-2008
By: Top 3 on 2, 11/6/08
 Why did you choose to work at Ohio State?
As a graphic designer, part of my job is to inform, educate and persuade through communications, and I need to believe in the product and/or service I’m promoting. I worked in the corporate world for a couple of years right out of college and quickly realized the corporate philosophy didn’t mesh well with my own approach to life and work.
What do you like about your job?
I consider myself very lucky to be able to use my artistic talent on the job. I get to do what I love day to day.
If you weren’t working at Ohio State, what would you be doing?
I would have loved to work on Life magazine in its heyday or at Rolling Stone magazine. Magazine or editorial design has always been my passion; I’d love to work on a communication that challenges the status quo and makes readers think while maintaining high design standards.
What is your favorite activity outside of work?
Tinkering around in my garden. I can be creative without having to please anyone else, and in a small way I stay connected to my farming roots.
Of what honor or recognition are you most proud?
When a colleague compliments me on a brochure or piece we produced in UAFYE, I feel great pride not only in the work but also in my coworkers. We have an amazing team in UAFYE Communications, and our pieces have set the tone and look for other communications produced across campus.
Who is your hero?
My parents. If you ever want to be humbled, try agriculture for a living. They are the epitome of “small farmers.” They started with next to nothing and have weathered the ups and downs of hard economic times, the onslaught of corporate farming practices and the ravages of nature.
What would you improve at Ohio State?
Streamline the fiscal/administrative paperwork processes. It’s the 21st century; we have amazing technology at our fingertips. Yet it seems more and more manpower is needed to track these processes, and I find it hard to ignore the environmental impact of paper, paper, paper required to maintain them.
What are you going to do when you retire?
Settle with my husband in a cabin tucked in the woods. We’ll surround ourselves with family, friends, good food, books, music and art, then sit back and savor them all — the most important things in life.
If you were the university president for a day, what would you do?
Personally thank the hundreds of people — the behind-the-scenes people like our administrative assistants and physical facilities folks — that keep this big, wonderful place running smoothly on a daily basis.
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The National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) has selected Nationwide Children’s Hospital as one of 16 hosptials to participate in a task force to identify best practices of hospital-based clinical pediatric weight management programs. Hospital members of the task force, known as the NACHRI FOCUS Group on Obesity will examine and refine successful components of the weight management programs at their collective hospitals.
Supported through an exploratory grant provided by the Mattel Children’s Foundation, the task force will hold its first meeting in November at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., and will continue its work through 2009.
The final findings will be published in January 2010.
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