Annual Employee Awards Presented Nov. 5
The 2021 Employee Awards Ceremony took place Friday, Nov. 5 as part of a State of the College program. Among highlights was the presentation of the Gator-Great Customer Service and Outstanding Employee of the Year awards.
Outstanding Employee of the Year Award recipients are Myleah Kerns (AP faculty), Shaheem Abrahams (teaching faculty), Julie Lambert (classified), Doreen Dougherty (wage), and Adrianna Hardage (adjunct faculty),
Gator-Great Customer Service Award recipients included Keisha Matthews, Leonid Lembersky, Esther Alston, Felicia Woodard, and Jason Vance. Recipients of the Gator-Aide Award were Terry Allen, Sharon Dotson, Doreen Dougherty, Julie Lambert, Keisha Matthews, Kris May, LaRai Petway, Randie Trestrail, Eve Walker, and Jason Vance.
The College Support Staff Association's person of the year, Julie Lambert, was also honored. Also part of the ceremony, special recognition went to faculty members for various achievements as follows:
- Valerie Burge Hall - Excellence in Service
- Stacey Schneider Excellence in Service
- Jackie Spencer - Excellence in Service
- Steven Felker - Excellence in Strategic Engagement
- Lauren Williams - Excellence in Strategic Engagement
Faculty Focus Awards
- Julie Young - Diversity Inclusivity & Multicultural Enrichment
- Peter Berquist - Diversity Inclusivity & Multicultural Enrichment
- Patrick Smith - Leadership
- Cecilia Wheeler - Leadership
- Jennifer Martin - Leadership
- Alandra Ginon Simmons - Leadership
- Stacey Schneider - Collegiality & Teamwork
- Jackie Blackwell -Collegiality & Teamwork
- Michelle Dean - Collegiality & Teamwork
- Sofoklis Hiotellis - Collegiality & Teamwork
- Josh Ostraff - Student Success
Special Recognition
- Christopher Harris - master's degree from George Washington University
- Benjamin Holliday - Scholarship for FBI trilogy course
- Shanda Jenkins - Doctoral degree from ODU, a certificate in community college leadership, a certificate in diversity & inclusion, presented research at the Council for the Study of Community Colleges and had research accepted by the American Education Research Association
- Summer Davis - master certificate in health education specialist certification
- Will Moore - Career studies certificate in web design from Thomas Nelson
Years of Service Awards
One year: Renny Boyd, John Young, and Asia Randolph
Five years: Amy Anderson, Katheryn Carbaugh, Dana Cook, David Harris, Shanda Jenkins, Natalie Keeling, Christopher Kirby, Richard Long, Debra Loving, Karen Lynch, Keisha Matthews, Krystle McMahon, Jennifer More, Edward Morris, Jason Moulenbelt, Olufunke Olangungu, Nicholas Pierce, Scott Rei, Keisha Samuels, Marshall Shuff, Ian Taylor Roslyn Upshur, Dorothy Wentworth, Doreen Dougherty, Tyler Curling, Tyler Reeves, Ronnie Best, Katherine Bickley, Donna Galganski-Pabst, John Hansen, Christopher Somma, Richard Weneck, Martha Haley, and Randy Trestrail
10 years: Billy Alvis, Avery Canady, Rimma Feygelson, Jean Frank, Latasha Holmes, S. H. Sathish Indika, Elena Kuchina, Sylvain Poosson, Damond Pope, Pamela Roberts, William Scheepers, James Tussing, Mayra Vazquez, Kristinia Washington-Bey, Rich Wilcox, Carolyn Holmes, Suzanne Lindley, Joelle Hariston, Richard Chew, John Dey, Melanie Houle, Toni Meranda, Lisa Jones, Laura Spencer, and Robert Michaels
15 years: Michelle Alexander, Sonia Burford, Curtis Coleman, Toni Colonna, Anthony Fotinos, Vicki Herzog, Frank Johnson, Michelle Manfred, Riham Mahfouz, Michael Mann, Jennifer Martin, Barbara Mason,, Geraldine Mathey, Kelvin Maxwell and Kathy Shannon
20 years: Jacqueline Blackwell, Marla Latimer, Daniel Plymate, Thomas Rockson, Lisa Smith, and Jason Vance
35 years: Terry Allen and Lisa Bailey
In case you missed it, watch the entire event online at http://tncc.edu/stateofthecollege.