Take a Daughter to WorkDay

	At left, Molly Miller concentrates on writing her story about Amy Thaci, director of career services for the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences.             Photos by Nathan Robinson
Staff photo, from left: Samantha Shigley-Giusti, Rachel Peck, Lisa Berlin, Karin Miller, Stephanie Patterson, Emily Bogenschutz and Molly Miller.

onCampus invites seven cub reporters to take over the newsroom for an April afternoon

This year marked the second consecutive "Be a Reporter for a Day" workshop hosted by the onCampus staff as part of Take a Daughter to Work Day. Our temporary staff conducted interviews with faculty and administrators across campus, and wrote stories about their work experience at the University. This page is devoted to the stories they wrote on deadline.

Our expectation is that this workshop will become an annual event. We're happy to report that one participant offered an unsolicited endorsement of the workshop. At the conclusion of her story, she wrote, "If next year you want to be a reporter, I can tell you it is FUN!!!"

Holland oversees all campus mail

Lesley Holland is the manager of University Mail Distribution. Her job involves overseeing distribution of campus mail and the collection and metering of all U.S.P.S. mail. She enjoys doing this job because she has a background in distribution and logistics.

She also said, "Much of enjoying my job so much is due to working with a staff that shows dedication to customer service on a daily basis."

Holland works at 2500 Kenny Road. She has had her job for five years. Holland is the busiest in the fall and winter and is least busy during brief periods in June.

Holland thinks her job is important because mail is communication, and, she says, it is "important to communicate." About 3,000 pieces of mail go out a day.

She says that in her job, you have to understand about communication and have to manage constant change.

Her job is very fast paced. Holland says that "from the minute I walk in to the moment I walk out, there are always problems to be solved."

Every building in the University can visualize her work because every building has a mailing area.

If you are interested in having a job like Holland's, you have to understand about communication managing and understand that there are always work and improvement opportunities. Holland's job is very interesting and she is a nice person to talk to!

Mom balances job with event planning

Margie Bogenschutz likes to be connected with big projects, and Take a Daughter to Work Day sure is a big one.

She has worked at Ohio State University for about 15 years and directs the internship program of undergraduate students in the Fisher College of Business. Her favorite part of her job is when students get a really cool internship and thank her for the help. Bogenschutz earned her job by knowing a lot about career development and her previous experience.

Bogenschutz is always busy in the spring with Take a Daughter to Work Day, which this year had 408 kids attending -- but she "loves every minute of it!"

Lamb-Peale directs FCOB marketing

Melissa Lamb-Peale is the director of marketing and communications at the Fisher College of Business. She manages a staff of people responsible for marketing, media relations and Web communications. Her work is most visible at the College of Business.

Lamb-Peale tries to get undergraduates, MBAs and other graduate students and business executives to come to Fisher College. She works in Fisher Hall, one of the five new buildings built for the college. She has worked as the director of marketing and communications for three and a half years.

Lamb-Peale's job at the Fisher College of Business is important because many people major in business. Her first job at Ohio State University was in marketing communications for the University. Now Lamb-Peale works at the Fisher College of Business because she had done work with the college, and when the job for the director of marketing and communications opened, she took the job.

She is most busy in the summer because she is preparing for the new school year coming up.

"I think Take a Daughter to Work Day is great!" Lamb-Peale said. "My daughter isn't with me today, but she comes to work with me four or five days a year."

College life sparked interest in job

Amy Thaci is the director of career services for the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. She is responsible for a staff of four full-time employees, four graduate students and nine other student workers.

She is located at 05 Brown Hall. Thaci helps students decide what they want to do when they get out of school. Thaci said that the busiest time is fall and spring. Summer is the least busy time. Since summer is not busy, they use it to plan for the upcoming year and to organize files and resources within their Resource Center.

When Thaci was in college at Ohio University, she heard a woman who was talking to students about leadership. Afterwards she went up and talked with the lady about it and that's one of the reasons that she wanted to do this. The other was that she loved the college atmosphere.

When Thaci applied for a job in Arts and Sciences, there were no jobs open, but she mailed her resume anyway. Thaci got a call from the person in charge of Arts and Sciences who told her that if she waited, she would have a job opening soon.

Thaci has had this job for five years and she loves it. When she first started her job she was assistant director, and now she is director. She doesn't get to counsel as many students as she did when she was the assistant director; she sees mostly the students in her class, ASC 400.

"I love to work with students," Thaci said.

One of the really nice things about her class is that there are no requirements to get in. To pass the class, you need to have good attendance and you need to put together a portfolio. Thaci helps the students with resumes, cover letters, internships and networking. Doesn't that sound like a great person?

Professor in business of making knowledge

Bunny Clark's job is very important because she educates students.

"We want to take our best students and make them even better," Clark said. "When you are a professor, you are in the business of making knowledge."

Clark is Distinguished Professor of Physics at OSU. She has been working at OSU since 1969.

She teaches students and she teaches a course for non-science majors. She is also a member of a few committees. She does research at Smith Lab in room 4020.

She wanted to do this job because it was a great way to do things for the future. She also says that you can learn a lot from your research.

Although she is almost always busy, the most busy times are before class starts at 8:30. She is usually there at 6:30 so she can teach a good class. Another busy time was when she was trying to get a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Before she became a Distinguished Professor of Physics, she had a job in Detroit. And before her job in Detroit, she worked in the state of Washington.

WOSU's Walston has caught the radio bug

During Take A Daughter To Work Day, I interviewed Natalie Walston. Walston is a broadcast producer at the radio station WOSU.

When I asked her what she liked to call her job, she said jokingly, "A radio diva or a girl reporter." She didn't always start as a diva, though.

Before her job at WOSU, she worked at a small radio station. She liked it so much she got an internship at WOSU while a student at Ohio State. The people at WOSU liked her work so they gave her the job she holds now at WOSU. She said that her self confidence went up when she got hired.

Walston LOVES her job.

"I got the radio bug!" she said. She has covered almost everything from presidents coming to town to an interview with John Glenn. John Glenn was the most important person that she met because she said he was inspirational.

If you are interested in following in Walston's footsteps, she suggested, "Work hard and be nice to everyone you meet because you never know who will give you a job."

Walston is not sure how long she will stay at OSU but she loves working here, she loves her co-workers, she loves her job, and OSU loves having her on its staff. She really is a "radio diva" to the people of OSU.

Teaching, research make Fisher's job fun

I am doing a report on Susan Fisher. She is the secretary of University Senate and a professor of entomology. I am going to talk about her study of insects.

Fisher wanted to study toxic chemicals because she is fond of controlling insects.

She started her job in 1981. She said she gets (in her office) 50 to 100 emails a day. WOW!

She also said that she likes her job so much that she could work 20 or more years.

She said, "If I were a reporter, I would ask the person (whom I am talking with): Why are you doing this job? What makes it different? Why would anyone want to do your job?"

She also said, "When I was young, I was always interested in teaching and doing research on insects, and at this job I can teach and do research, and at school almost every day it changes with the day and work. That's why I like this job!"

Well, that's my report on Susan Fisher.

Daughters participate in "Computers and Microscopes in Medicine," one of more than 40 workshops offered on April 26.

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