UMaine Honors 24 Student Employees for Service, Professionalism
Contact: Mary Skaggs, 581-1349; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — The University of Maine honored 24 of its more than 2,000 student employees on campus April 9 for exceptional professionalism, responsibility and service to their departments and the university.
The students were selected after being nominated by supervisors from two dozen offices or departments. During the annual Student Employee of the Year Reception, an undergraduate student and a graduate student were named as the top two employees of the year, chosen by a campus selection committee.
One of the two top employees also was selected by a statewide panel to go forward to the National Student Employee Association’s Northeast Region competition. The nomination of Gabriel Belanger, a senior in a dual degree program, zoology and psychology, will be considered among other college and university nominees from the Northeast, one of four regions in the country. The regional winner competes in the national competition.
Belanger, a Moscow, Maine native, has been a work-study student at Fogler Library for four years. He has been accepted into the Dartmouth Medical School program for the fall.
The graduate student employee of the year award went to Marie Dubord, formerly of Lewiston, who works at the Women’s Resource Center on the Orono campus and is scheduled to receive a master’s degree in higher education in May.
Held at the Bodwell Lounge in the Maine Center for the Arts and organized by the Student Employment and Bodwell Volunteer Center, the ceremony also included congratulatory remarks by center director Mary Skaggs, a proclamation by Provost Edna Szymanski, and a presentation of awards by Dean of Students Robert Dana and Mary Young, a student employment and volunteer assistant in the Bodwell Center.
All of the student employees were praised for their dedication, integrity, motivation and positive approach to their work.
April 9-13 is Student Employee Appreciation Week at UMaine and includes several free events for the campus community.
On Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Walker Room on the third floor of the Union, free massages are being offered. On Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., free caricatures will be drawn in Totman Lounge in the Union and on Friday, from 11 a.m. on, free hot fudge sundaes will be given away in the Student Employment Office and Bodwell Center. The center also is offering free coffee, doughnuts and popcorn for students and UMaine employees.
This year’s student nominees were: Kimberly Almeida, Science & Engineering Center, Fogler Library; Bethany Asquith, Cutler Health Center; Emma Banks, Student Employment; Gabriel Belanger, Fogler Library; Keith Berube, AEWC Center; Ashleigh Briggs, Campus Activities; Shannon Coyle, Office of Student Records; April Davis, Bodwell Volunteer Center; Marie Dubord, Women’s Resource Center; Louis Fortin, Anthropology; Keenan Goslin, AEWC Center; Amy Mason, Department of Residence Life; Jennifer McCurry, Modern Languages & Classics; Sarah Michaud, Cooperative Extension 4-H Foundation; Naomi Muhlberg, Franco-American Centre; Mandee Nadeau, Modern Languages & Classics; Emin Okutan, Maine Business School; Kelly Pelc, Connections Program; Lauren Reich, University Bookstore; Kristen Sutherland, Bodwell Volunteer Center; Katie Wing, Maine Folklife Center; Lynn Wolfe, Campus Recreation-MaineBound; Stephen York, Maine Christian Association; and Jennifer Young, Department of Residence Life.