The News Argus
March 31, 2008
Campus News
Rams on the Move
Bridges, Cooley and Smith named Outstanding Employees
Winston-Salem State University employ
ees Kay Bridges, Jiidy Cooley and Mary
Young Smith are recipients of WSSU's out
standing employee award.
The award, titled Recognition of
Employees When Achievement and
Responsibility are Displayed (REWARD),
recognizes employees who are observed
exemplifying extraordinary acts.
"The award is an excellent way to honor
our colleagues who take the extra steps to
make the WSSU community a better place
to live, learn and work," said Dr. Donald ].
Reaves, WSSU Chancellor. "On behalf of the
WSSU community, I am very pleased to rec
ognize these three outstanding employees."
The award includes a certificate of appre
ciation presented by Chancellor Reaves, a
story in the WSSU newsletter RamPages
and a dinner for two at the well-known
Piedmont Club, a Winston-Salem premiere
private membership club with an outstand
ing restaurant.
Bridges is an
administrative sec
retary in the
Department of
Chemistry. She is a
recipient for
November 2007.
She is celebrating
her 20th year of
service to WSSU.
Among her laurels,
students noted that
"her dedication of
time and her thor
oughness in ensur
ing that all
details" assisted with the successful partici
pation by WSSU students and faculty in a
National Research Conference, which
included the receipt of a research presenta
tion award by the students.
JUDY COOLEY
KAY BRIDGES
Cooley, accounts
payable supervisor
in WSSU's Division
of Finance and
Administration, is
recipient of WSSU's
December 2007
award. A WSSU
graduate, Cooley
has worked for her
alma mater since
2000. According to
her nominator,
"She can always
be counted on to
help with the daily workload, even if they
are not her assigned tasks. When one of her
employees is out, the work is not left
undone."
Smith, assistant director for assignments
in Housing and Residence Life, is the
January 2008 award i
recipient. An
alumna of WSSU,
Smith graduated
magna cum laude,
and has worked at
WSSU since Fall
2004. A relentless
volunteer in the
city. Smith's col
league noted she
"works endless
hours making sure
that students are
properly housed.
She is truly a team
player, will solve a problem and will not let
it go unsolved without contacting the
proper resources for the correct informa
tion."
Award nominations can be submitted by
any student, faculty or staff member or the
general public.
MARY YOUNG SMITH
Tomikia LeGrande named Assistant
Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services
Tomikia LeGrande, director of
Admissions at Winston-Salem State
University (WSSU), was recently named
assistant vice chancellor for Enrollment
Services at WSSU, effective March 1.
"Mrs. LeGrande has done an outstanding
job in her role as director for undergraduate
admissions,"said Dr. Melody Pierce, WSSU
vice chancellor for Student Affairs and
Enrollment Services. "She has demonstrated
that she is ready to assume increasing
responsibility and we are pleased she has
accepted the challenge of her new role."
LeGrande will provide leadership in the
following Enrollment Services areas:
Undergraduate Admission, Financial Aid,
Recruitment, Peyton T. Hairston Visitor's
Center and the Solutions Center. She was
previously employed as the director of
Undergraduate Admissions and as the
director of Graduate Enrollment
Management.
LeGrande received her Bachelor of
Science in chemistry from Savannah State
University and her Master of Science in
chemistry from North Carolina A&T State
University.
TOMIKIA LeGRANDE
Dr. Uchenna Vasser named Interim
Director of International Programs
Dr. Uchenna Vasser,
assistant professor of
Spanish in the Department
of English and Foreign
Languages at Winston-
Salem State University, has
been appointed interim
director of the Office of
International Programs
(OIP), effective March 15.
Vasser assumes the role
of Dr. Funwi Ayuninjam,
who had served as direc
tor of OIP since February
2006.
Vasser has taught
Spanish for more than 15
years in a several places,
including the University of
Minnesota at Morris. She
also served as chair of the
Department of World
Languages at Dillard University in
Orleans. Vasser has been educated
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UCHENNA VASSER
Europe, and North
America. She possesses an
appreciation for global
communities and the abil
ity to speak several lan
guages including
Portuguese, Spanish, and
Ibo.
She continues to travel
extensively in Western
Europe; Africa; and North,
South, and Central
America.
Vasser earned her bache
lor of arts in psychology at
Schiller International
University in Madrid,
Spain and her master of
arts in Romance
Languages at the Ohio
State University, and her
doctorate in Romance
Trygeania Dowell
STAFF REPORTER ^^
50 Years Ago ^
The average U.S. motorist who drives 10,000 miles in 1958 will spend $1 078, about
$76 more than it cost to operate the car in 1957... Sales of mid-priced cars ave
declined from 37 percent of the market in 1955 to 29 percent in 1957...
Warning: There is a growing danger of in-hospital epidemics caused by the common
germ Staphylococcus aureus, some of whose strains are resistant to most antibiofacs ...
"Hollywood at last has made a motion picture about a newspaper and newspaperman
that is thoroughly authentic and technically perfect from the newspaperrnan s point of
view," writes Norton Mockridge, city editor of the Nezv York-Tekgram ana Sun.
Source: Time Magazme, March 31, 1958
35 YEARS AGO
Few grocery shoppers are pleased by the price ceilings placed on meat. Many con-
tend the president should have rolled back the prices of beef, pork, and lamb...
Two die in Navy jet crash on a routine training mission out of Whidby Island Naval
Air Station ...
A Vietnam veteran described by police as a heroin addict who kept saying he
wanted to die, fired 23 shots into the walls and ceiling of a Bronx methadone clinic ...
Two-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue in New York City rents for $450 a month.
Source; The New York Times, Late City Edition, New York, New York, March 31, 1973
25 YEARS AGO
Dr. Michael Montgomery is named instructor of the month at WSSU. Montgomery
received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati in Social Science ...
On February 14, the WSSU Student Government Association sponsored a pro
gram featuring the Rev. Tyrone Crider, National Youth Director of Operation PUSH
for Excellence ...
The Art & Music Department of the Forsyth County Public Library presents water-
colors by Muir Stewart.
Source: The Neivs Argus, March 1983
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Licensing requirement won't stop drunken boaters, according to a letter to the editor
regarding the November boat accident where six people were killed on the intra
coastal after being hit by the intoxicated boater ...
St. Paddy's Day small boat fishing tournament for boats under 35 feet will be held
March 14 at Harbour Towne Marina. Entry fee is $55 for adults and $30 for juniors ...
Jerry Herman's romantic musical comedy, "Mack & Mabel," runs through May 31 at
Jan Me Art's Royal Palm Dinner Theatre...
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Library, WSSU.
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