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Vol. 38, No. 18
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11-19-2008
By: Top 3 on 2, 11/20/08
Why did you choose to work at Ohio State?
Because it’s the best.
What do you like about your job?
I’m surrounded by creative, innovative and devoted people who are passionate about their commitment to health care. I work with the best.
What would you improve at Ohio State?
I would standardize job descriptions and make clear career paths.
What advice would you give a new employee?
Unless someone tells you otherwise, there’s nothing you can’t do, so go ahead.
If you weren’t working at Ohio State, what would you be doing?
I’d like to be sailing a charter boat around the Virgin Islands.
What is your favorite activity outside of work?
I enjoy taking classes here at the university, knitting, gardening, cooking, reading and, more than anything else, I like hanging out with my husband.
Of what honor or recognition are you most proud?
As a member/officer of the University Staff Advisory Committee, I am honored to work with talented and enthusiastic staff to improve communication with the Ohio State community. My involvement in USAC has afforded opportunities to meet and speak with university leadership, both here at Ohio State and around the Big Ten, about issues that impact staff. I also am proud of the blue ribbon I won this fall at the Fairfield County Fair for the afghan I knitted.
Who is your hero?
My husband Chip — for many reasons. He is the one who suggested I might leave the University of Nevada, Reno, and work at The Ohio State University because it’s the best.
What are you going to do when you retire?
I’m glad you asked this. I completed my certification in gerontology here last spring. I want to be “good” at being old (since I’ve never done this before). I’d like to write editorials for AARP about consumer science, ageism and public affairs. I will wax philosophic from my Barcolounger.
If you were the university president for a day, what would you do?
I’d walk the back routes of campus, drop in for coffee with whomever I wanted, arriving unannounced. I’d sit in the lobby of various buildings and watch the goings on — pick up on the atmosphere of the employees and the colleges, sit in on classes.
To nominate a staff member for an upcoming issue, e-mail oncampus@osu.edu.
OSU graduate student Emily Douglas has received $5,000 from L’Oréal Paris as one of its 10 “Women of Worth” national honorees. Douglas founded Grandma’s Gifts, which provides food, clothes, toys and books to families in the Appalachian Mountain regions where poverty rates are between 13 and 45 percent. Since 1993, more than $2.5 million in goods have been donated. Douglas began the charity at age 11 to honor her grandmother, who grew up poor in Appalachia during the Great Depression and died of cancer in 1991.
Douglas can receive another $25,000 for her organization if she is the top vote-getter at womenofworth.com through Nov. 24.
To learn more about Douglas’ charity, visit grandmasgifts.org.
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