SOP employees to be recognized for 400 years’ worth of service
Once a VCU employee, always a VCU employee?
While this isn’t 100 percent correct, it is the case for many university faculty and staff. Each September for the past 41 years, VCU has honored university and medical center employees on their five-year anniversaries. This year, the 42nd annual service award celebration will pay tribute to more than 2,000 people who have worked at the university for anywhere from five to 50 years. A number of this year’s service awards will go to School of Pharmacy employees, whose total years of service equals 400! (See list that follows.)
With 35 years each, Betty Dobbie and Regina Scott share the honors this year as the School of Pharmacy’s longest-serving state employees. Like many, they have worked in more than one office or department over the years.
Dobbie began her VCU career in Records and Registration, where part of her job was to serve as graduation coordinator, and then went on to work at the university’s Department of Human Resources. In 1993, the School of Pharmacy hired Dobbie as assistant to C. Eugene White, then associate dean for admissions and student services. In 2004, she accepted her current position as experiential learning specialist with the School of Pharmacy’s Office of Experiential Education.
Scott worked for the state’s Department of Taxation for about a year before joining the VCU School of Medicine’s Dean’s Office, working in the area of finance and administration. Eleven years later, around 1990, she moved into the School of Pharmacy’s Dean’s Office, where she now serves as interim assistant dean for finance and administration.
A reception for faculty and staff with five to 20 years of service on this campus will be held 2:30-4 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Kontos Medical Sciences Building. A reception for faculty and staff with 25 to 50 years of service will begin at 6 p.m. Sept. 27 at the University Student Commons’ Commonwealth Ballrooms.
If you have questions about either event, contact Debbie Fitzgerald at (804) 828-1521 or [email protected]. Or click here.
To be eligible, employees must have worked the specified number of years by Aug. 1, 2013.
FIVE YEARS
Scott Crenshaw (Dean’s Office/Building Manager)
Keith Ellis (Medicinal Chemistry)
Barbara Jackson (Dean’s Office/Business)
Cynthia McMullen (Dean’s Office/Public Relations and Communications)
Erika Martin (Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science)
Pamela Miles (Dean’s Office/Business)
Donna Schulze (Medicinal Chemistry)
Douglas Sweet (Pharmaceutics)
Ben Van Tassell (Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science)
Shijun Zhang (Medicinal Chemistry)
10 YEARS
Joseph McClay (Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science)
15 YEARS
Jeffrey Delafuente (Dean’s Office/Academic Affairs)
Umesh Desai (Medicinal Chemistry)
Denise Emminger (Dean’s Office/Experiential Education)
Faik Musayev (Medicinal Chemistry)
20 YEARS
Sean Bates (Dean’s Office/Continuing Education)
Mia Martin (Dean’s Office/Business)
Susanna Wu-Pong (Dean’s Office/Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Programs)
Hanzhang Xia (Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science)
25 YEARS
Ron Ballentine (Dean’s Office/Admissions and Student Services)
Peter Byron (Pharmaceutics)
Randy James (Pharmaceutics)
Jürgen Venitz (Pharmaceutics)
30 YEARS
Brenda Jones (Dean’s Office/Admissions and Student Services)
35 YEARS
Betty Dobbie (Dean’s Office/Experiential Education)
Regina Scott (Dean’s Office/Business)
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