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In This Issue<br />
Celebrating <strong>Facilities</strong><br />
<strong>Management</strong>’s People &<br />
Accomplishments<br />
The November 11 Annual BBQ wrapped up the<br />
Combined Virginia Campaign with great fanfare.<br />
To celebrate our diverse workforce – many from<br />
other countries, many who have always lived<br />
within a few miles of UVa and others from all<br />
over the state and country, employees were<br />
asked to place map pins showing where on the<br />
world, U.S. or Virginia map they called “home.”<br />
Top photo: Wei Sun from Shanghai, Doug Lane<br />
from Hopewell, VA, Chris Smeds of Palmyra and<br />
Donald Eubanks from Maryland marked their homes. Right:<br />
Gidey Gezahey of<br />
Ethiopia and Ibrahim<br />
Ali and Mahmoud<br />
Ibrahim of Sudan<br />
marked their homes<br />
on the world map.<br />
Left: Tim Spencer,<br />
Don Goebel and<br />
Earnest Scott were<br />
among the landscapers who set up and took down the event. Thanks!<br />
Leaf season: Gathering, bagging and removing the leaves from the <strong>University</strong>’s many trees is<br />
necessary for safety and aesthetics. (Left) Earnest Scott, David Starkes and Shawn Tindell harness a<br />
heap on Alderman Road while Sheik Mohammed and Kassim Hassan clear sidewalks on McCormick<br />
Road.<br />
Hoo’s in Focus...........2-3<br />
Customer Profile............2<br />
Recognition Awards.......4<br />
Hoo’s Retired & New....5<br />
Hoo’s Promoted............5 On September 22, more than 75 <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> employees from 10 different divisions<br />
Compliments.................6 volunteered their time and talents to improve the facilities of selected non-profit community service<br />
News for Hoos ............6 agencies identified by the United Way. This is <strong>University</strong>’s traditional opening of the annual<br />
Photos from Events.......7 Combined Virginia Campaign. Above left: Bonnie Hurtt and Christine Eppard clean windows at<br />
Work in Progress..........8 Barrett Early Learning Center. Right: Heat Plant staffers Richard Lilly, Tom Frazer, Kris Henderson<br />
and Kennedy West placed posts for a handrail at Camp Holiday Trails. More photos on page 7.<br />
Perspective 4th Quarter 2004 1
Part of the Zone 4 team: Mark Conner,<br />
Steve Powell, Scott Borelli, Mark Rash,<br />
Larry Dean and Rita Durrer. See page 3, too.<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong>’s newest addition is<br />
Health System Physical Plant Zone 4, an<br />
energetic team of highly skilled, witty and<br />
totally dedicated individuals who are<br />
responsible for 20 facilities including Kluge<br />
Children’s Rehabilitiation Center (KCRC),<br />
Northridge Medical Building, and Stuarts<br />
Draft Family Practice. Previously known as<br />
the Kluge Maintenance Team with a staff of<br />
eight, Zone 4 now has 10 members .<br />
Previously located in KCRC, the team has<br />
moved to the nearby Seig Building on Ivy<br />
Road for a larger, more efficient base of<br />
operation.<br />
Customer<br />
Profile<br />
Doug Hurd greets his interviewer with a sincere<br />
smile and a warm welcome. He speaks highly of<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> – he mentions many times<br />
how all sectors of <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> have<br />
been extremely helpful to him and he mentions<br />
the employees by name and the services they<br />
performed.<br />
Doug Hurd came to UVa in 1981 after<br />
receiving his Masters in Library Sciences<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> of North Carolina,<br />
Chapel Hill. After his first five years at the<br />
Sciences and Environmental Library in Clark<br />
Hall, he moved on to become director of<br />
Interlibrary Services, managing several<br />
functions including Library Express on<br />
Grounds (LEO). He also managed the<br />
Interlibrary Loans from other countries and<br />
worked with the Continuing Education<br />
Library Services around the state. In 1994,<br />
Doug was selected to be director of the Ivy<br />
Stacks Storage. Earlier this year, Doug<br />
began his present position as Director of<br />
Library <strong>Facilities</strong>. He is responsible for<br />
facilities and budgetary support to 13 of<br />
the <strong>University</strong>’s libraries located in 10<br />
different facilities.<br />
Hoo’s in Focus:HSPP ZONE 4<br />
Early on a November morning, a visitor to<br />
HSPP Zone 4’s Ivy Rd. office sees a flurry<br />
of mechanics in their crisp new uniforms,<br />
planning their routes and sorting their work<br />
requests. Two of the mechanics are just<br />
back from hunting vacations so occasionally<br />
their work conversation is interspersed<br />
with hunting anecdotes such as Scott<br />
Borrelli’s story about being dive-bombed<br />
by a hawk and Steve Powell’s comical<br />
demonstration of how a fox evaluated him<br />
as a possible threat, and then charged at<br />
him. (Fortunately Steve out-foxed the fox.)<br />
With all this going on, there’s an atmosphere<br />
of true teamwork and camaraderie.<br />
Leon Morris, the senior electrician - who<br />
can also do painting, plumbing, drywall<br />
and locks - has worked at the <strong>University</strong> 30<br />
years. His after work hobbies include<br />
fishing, landscaping, being on the water,<br />
generally being outdoors, and raising<br />
Douglas P. Hurd, Director of Library<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong>, has held various library<br />
positions during his 23 years at UVa.<br />
miniature Dachshunds. Leon is also the<br />
stand-up comic on the team. Keep reading.<br />
Larry Deane, the senior carpenter, started<br />
work in 1966 at Alderman Rd. and has<br />
spent the last 15 years at KCRC. He has<br />
an easy smile, a quiet voice and perfect<br />
enunciation – good characteristics for an<br />
entertainer, which he is. Larry’s well<br />
known in the Central Virginia area as the<br />
mandolin player in the gospel blue grass<br />
band, The Deane Family. He started<br />
playing music years ago when he traded a<br />
gun for a banjo – his brother took over the<br />
banjo so Larry bought himself a mandolin<br />
– “I’ve taught myself what little I know<br />
over the last 20 years,” Larry said modestly.<br />
Mark Rash, a five-year veteran of HSPP, is<br />
the “can do” man for the Health Services<br />
Foundation and Northridge, Leon says.<br />
continued on pg. 3...<br />
Customer Profile is a feature written by Bonnie Hurtt, customer relations manager, to help<br />
us, as <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> staff, learn more about our customers and how they view our<br />
roles in their environments.<br />
would also like to add green spaces adjacent<br />
to Clemons and, with the assistance of<br />
Architecture students and the <strong>University</strong><br />
community, Doug’s office is exploring the<br />
possibilities of enhancing the terrace to make<br />
it more functional. Also, there are plans with<br />
Chemistry Library faculty to make needed<br />
improvements there.<br />
How can <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> help him be<br />
successful in meeting his challenges?<br />
“Continue to be patient with me,” he says.<br />
Doug admits that he is pretty demanding at<br />
times: the library has many facilities and each<br />
has its own culture and its own character.<br />
Doug wants to see continued timely<br />
responses and he wants to be kept current<br />
on what is going on. He values being able to<br />
talk to the FM supervisors and he realizes<br />
that that resource has saved a lot of time and<br />
increased accuracy in <strong>dec</strong>ision-making and<br />
work order requests.<br />
Doug noted that a challenging and aggressive<br />
schedule that is on the horizon. First,<br />
the area vacated by Special Collections’<br />
move to the new facility will be renovated<br />
to office and public spaces. With a grant<br />
from the McGregor Foundation, Library<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> plans to restore the McGregor<br />
Room to a quiet, comfortable reading room.<br />
This will also be a place that students and<br />
faculty can use to study and meet with<br />
friends. Other plans include a move<br />
toward making Clemons Library more<br />
accessible to international media information<br />
by adding satellite capabilities. They<br />
When Doug is not at work he likes to sit<br />
down with a good book—mostly fiction.<br />
He also follows college baseball and keeps<br />
up with UVA’s team. Doug and his wife<br />
have two children. His 23-year son and<br />
daughter-in-law are both in the military and<br />
currently serving in Iraq. His 15-year old<br />
daughter is a freshman at Charlottesville<br />
High School.<br />
2 <strong>University</strong> of Virginia <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong>
continued...<br />
Hoo’s in Focus:HSPP ZONE 4<br />
Mark is skilled in all the trades. Afterhours,<br />
he is home in Boswell’s Tavern with<br />
his family and pets – three pugs and a<br />
chow. His dad was an Air Force engineer<br />
and later a civil engineer who finally settled<br />
his family in Christiansburg after living in<br />
at least five other states. Mark’s wife has<br />
family in Charlottesville so they were<br />
drawn to settle here.<br />
Scott Borelli, an electrician and a native of<br />
Long Island, New York, came to Central<br />
Virginia 20 years ago. Scott wanted an<br />
environment similar to his great memories<br />
of family vacations at their cabin in the<br />
Catskills when he was growing up. “My<br />
wife and I bought 113 acres in Greene<br />
County,” he explained. “We share the<br />
property with our three sons, my sister and<br />
her three daughters, my parents and<br />
another sister.” Scott has several hobbies;<br />
he enjoys hunting and he has also<br />
refurbished a 1968 Dodge Charger.<br />
Keith Tyler is the quiet one in the group –<br />
he has worked at HSPP for 15 years doing<br />
electrical and plumbing work. After hours,<br />
he enjoys his time with his two-year old<br />
son. One of their hobbies is flying remote<br />
control airplanes. “Yes, I know there’re<br />
clubs for that, but we’re still crashing<br />
planes so we’re not ready for a club,” he<br />
smiled. Keith’s quieter hobby is attending<br />
classic car shows.<br />
Randy Campbell, one of the team’s two<br />
HVAC technicians, lives on Afton Mountain<br />
with his family, which includes four<br />
children, ages 16, 15, 10 and 5. Outside of<br />
work, he’s an inventor – he designed a<br />
dump truck that will dump from 3 sides.<br />
Randy and two friends have also designed<br />
and built rehab aquatic equipment to help<br />
special needs swimmers into and out of the<br />
pool. “I get a lot of satisfaction from<br />
helping someone with disabilities so their<br />
quality of life is improved.” He has even<br />
built a frame for a friend with no arms so he<br />
can hold and hunt with his 243 caliber rifle.<br />
“The deer got away but he’s shot a few<br />
squirrels with it!” Randy added proudly. “I<br />
enjoy hunting, too,” he added. “It is<br />
serene, calming – helps reduce stress.”<br />
“Stress?!” Leon quipped. “Who has<br />
stress?!”<br />
Larry Bebout grew up in Guatemala,<br />
Kenya, Pakistan and California as the son<br />
of a State Department official.<br />
He speaks fluent Spanish<br />
which, he says, he learned as a<br />
kid hanging out on the streets<br />
of Guatemala. He moved his<br />
family to Orange 14 years ago<br />
while he was working at a<br />
Northern Virginia hospital. He<br />
enjoys fishing and hunting. “I<br />
earned my piloting license a<br />
year ago,” he added, and with a<br />
quick smile, said “I’m not flying<br />
an F-22 Raptor yet, but I enjoy<br />
flying small planes when I can.”<br />
“I’m a pilot, too,” comes a quick aside<br />
from Leon, the comedian. “After I cut the<br />
wood, I take it to the shed and ‘pile it’.”<br />
Steve Powell has worked at <strong>Facilities</strong> for<br />
24 years, first in the cabinet shop at<br />
Alderman and then at KCRC. “I really<br />
enjoy the variety of the work,” he says.<br />
Steve is known for the standing tables and<br />
other equipment he designed and built<br />
years ago to accommodate the special<br />
needs of KCRC patients. He is a skilled<br />
carpenter but also a knowledgeable<br />
painter and locksmith. After hours, he<br />
enjoys hunting and fishing and spending<br />
weekends being with his 11-year old son,<br />
attending Fluvanna Travel Soccer games.<br />
Mark Conner, the quiet HVAC technician,<br />
started work at UVa in the Housing<br />
Division during the summers when he was<br />
still a student at Albemarle County High<br />
School. After graduation, he worked in<br />
Utilities’ Systems Control Center, then<br />
completed UVa’s four-year apprentice<br />
program. His two children, ages 9 and 7,<br />
are “very cute and smart, of course,” he<br />
adds. He’s a coach for his 9-year old’s<br />
Challenge League soccer team. Mark<br />
enjoys golfing and has fabricated his own<br />
custom golf clubs. “I knew I could buy a<br />
big name brand for $1000,” he said, “or<br />
spend $200 to get exactly the components<br />
I wanted and assemble them myself.<br />
Mark’s a musician, too: he plays guitar<br />
and bass for his church’s “praise band.”<br />
“Yep, I play music, too,” Leon chimes in.<br />
“Yeah? What instrument?” Scott asks.<br />
“The radio,” Leon replies, “but sometimes<br />
I get a lot of static.”<br />
Larry Shackelford came to HSPP 12 years<br />
ago as a project manager/planner estimator.<br />
Prior to that, the master electrician had<br />
worked for a local contractor. His move to<br />
Also Zone 4: Keith Tyler, Randy Campbell, Larry<br />
Shackelford (center) Larry Bebout and Leon Morris.<br />
superintendent of Zone 4 was a good<br />
move for him, he says. “This is a good<br />
group of people and I enjoy my work.”<br />
And when he’s not at work he enjoys<br />
hiking in the Blue Ridge. Around his<br />
office are several patriotic prints on the<br />
walls, and that leads to another important<br />
topic for Larry. His son Ken served in the<br />
U.S. Army in Afghanistan, and now is a<br />
MP sergeant at Ft. Drum, NY. In August,<br />
Sgt. Shackelford was awarded the Global<br />
War on Terrorism Service Medal, the<br />
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary<br />
Medal and the National Defense Service<br />
Medal for support missions of Enduring<br />
Freedom. Early in 2005, he anticipates<br />
being deployed again. Larry continues:<br />
“My daughter lives locally and, wait, I<br />
have to show you this.” He reaches under<br />
some work files and retrieves a color<br />
portrait of two little girls, “My granddaughters,”<br />
he says proudly.<br />
Then there’s Rita, who keeps the entire<br />
team in line. Rita Durrer has been at UVa<br />
20 years “this week” she said on November<br />
17, as she scanned and highlighted<br />
work orders, working with the proficiency<br />
of a woman who knows how to run a fastmoving<br />
shop. She applied at UVa after<br />
she and her husband returned from his Air<br />
Force assignments in different states.<br />
“This group here is like a second family<br />
and Kluge feels like home,” Rita said after<br />
she took a call. Indeed, she’s famous: “I<br />
was standing in line at J.C. Penney’s one<br />
day, talking to a friend and the person<br />
behind me said ‘Your voice is so familiar....’”<br />
“ I work at HSPP,” Rita hinted.<br />
“OH!” the obviously-a-satellite-facilitycustomer<br />
exclaimed. “You’re RITA!!”<br />
Most people have never seen her, but<br />
everyone in Zone 4 facilities has probably<br />
talked to Rita on the phone.<br />
Perspective 4th Quarter 2004 3
Hoo Received Employee Recognition Rewards<br />
One of Perspective’s goals is to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> employees. Recipients<br />
of Employee Recognition awards have been included over the years because we want all our colleagues and our<br />
readers throughout the <strong>University</strong> to know the many people for whom outstanding service is the custom rather than the<br />
exception. The Employee Reward and Recognition Program rewards staffers with a monetary or non-monetary award as<br />
allowed by <strong>University</strong> policy. (See Directive 135B, <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Employee Rewards and Recognition). We will<br />
continue to recognize a representative sample of the employees who receive recognition under the program. Our colleagues<br />
named here earned Reward and Recognition Awards September through November 2004.<br />
Operations<br />
Eugene Bellomy<br />
James Cashwell<br />
Ronald Clark<br />
Gregory Clements<br />
Michael Clements<br />
James Copeland<br />
Shirley Davis<br />
Edmond de Bary, Jr<br />
Marcellus Dent<br />
Emmett Dudley<br />
William Edwards<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Russell Jackson<br />
Gordon Jones<br />
George Kidd<br />
Mark Knight<br />
Cynthia Madden<br />
Melvin Marshall<br />
Joseph Mattera<br />
Danny McDaniel<br />
Troy Miller<br />
Laurence Morris, Jr<br />
Darrell Napier<br />
Richard Reuschling<br />
Health System Physical<br />
Plant<br />
Richard Barbour<br />
Robert Bishop<br />
Charles Carter<br />
Keith Chambers<br />
Roger Conner<br />
Brian Gibson<br />
Mike Lynch<br />
William S. Martin<br />
Glen McCain<br />
Eddie Morris<br />
Raymond Moton<br />
James Offield<br />
Business Mgmt Services<br />
Ernestine Burruss<br />
Brenda Buttner<br />
Joyce Chewning<br />
Utilities and Energy Director Cheryl Gomez presented Employee Recognition Awards to members of<br />
her staff for commendable work. Shown above are (standing L-R) Chuck Pugh, Bruce Lovelace, Vern<br />
Lamb, Robert Watson, Don Beyers, Alan Jarvis and Charlie Durrer; (L-R) Bud Hindes, Clayton<br />
Robertson, Director Cheryl Gomez, Bill Seibert and Bill Farish. In September at Health System’s<br />
Jordan Hall, the main heating system converter developed a severe leak, putting untreated water into<br />
the return line to the heat plant, jeopardizing the boilers. Bud Hindes, Alan Jarvis, Richard Barbour,<br />
Scott Martin and Brian Gibson performed a superior and extremely critical emergency replacement on<br />
the converter, saving the <strong>University</strong> potential boiler problems and avoiding future problems for<br />
Jordan Hall.<br />
In October, problems turned the scheduled annual 12-hour shutdown at the Heat Plant into a marathon<br />
27 hours straight for staffers Vern Lamb, Bruce Lovelace,<br />
Clayton Roberts, Robert Watson, William Siebert, Bud Hindes,<br />
Larry Shifflett, Alan Jarvis, Donnie Hackney, Bill Farish, Don<br />
Byers and Charlie Durrer. (Right) Fred Reese and David Gowen<br />
were recognized after they came to the aid of a pedestrian who<br />
took a bad fall while walking to her office. She was impressed<br />
by and appreciative of their act of kindness. “The <strong>University</strong> is<br />
very fortunate to have such men in their employ,” she said.<br />
Martha Creasy<br />
Karen Fischer<br />
Wanda Hedges<br />
Richard Maupin<br />
Josa Perry<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> Planning &<br />
Construction<br />
William Blodgett<br />
Clyde Edgar<br />
Amy Forbes<br />
Julie Garmel<br />
Karoline Kemp<br />
Amanda Kutch<br />
Sarah Kutch<br />
John Leonard<br />
Nancy Rush<br />
Eugenio Schettini<br />
Peter Thorsen<br />
Ruta Vasiukevicius<br />
Utilities<br />
Robert Adcock<br />
Barry Brock<br />
Mikel Clements<br />
Kenneth Collins<br />
Alanson Coss<br />
Michael Daddezio<br />
Russell DeShong<br />
David Dillon<br />
Sophal Enn<br />
Clinton Frazier<br />
Kristopher Henderson<br />
Earl Hindes<br />
James Jackson<br />
Alan Jarvis<br />
James Jefferson<br />
Vern Lamb<br />
Richard Lilly<br />
Bruce Lovelace<br />
Scott Messer<br />
Gary R. Moon<br />
James Morris<br />
Human Res. & Training<br />
Stephanie Burnette<br />
4 <strong>University</strong> of Virginia <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong>
Bonnie Hurtt (left), customer service manager, retired after 17<br />
years at <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> and a total of 40 years with the<br />
State of Virginia. Joining her colleagues for a farewell are Rick<br />
Rice, Mark Webb and Jay Klingel and the team with whom she<br />
first worked as supervisor of the service desk, Darlene Webb<br />
(center) and Brenda Buttner. In a letter of congratulations, CFO<br />
Bob Dillman wrote, “As we think about customer service in<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong>, we first think about Bonnie Hurtt.” She<br />
served as acting Customer Service Representative for nine<br />
months and was selected to fill the position permanently in<br />
October 1997. “That was probably one of the best <strong>dec</strong>isions<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> has made,” Bob continued. “You have<br />
been a model for us all.”<br />
Business Mgmt. Services<br />
Kimberly B. Cobbs<br />
Utililties & Energy<br />
Ibraham Abdalla Ali<br />
Brandon Lee Allen<br />
Duane L. Hogge<br />
Mahmoud M. Ibrahim<br />
Bradley D. Ingram<br />
Jonathan D. Ramsey<br />
Hoo’s New...<br />
FP&C<br />
Joseph D. Lahendro<br />
HSPP<br />
Larry Bebout<br />
Scott Borrelli<br />
Darryl Catay<br />
Larry N. Deane<br />
Rita F. Durrer<br />
please see next column...<br />
Hoo’s Promoted...<br />
Peter Ampuja, HSPP Landscape, to Groundsworker Lead<br />
Thomas Fischer, Lockshop, to Trades Technician IV in<br />
Business <strong>Management</strong> Services Contract <strong>Management</strong><br />
David Hamill, HSPP Zone I, to Master Maintenance<br />
Technician/Trades Technician IV<br />
Travis Mawyer, Operations Landscape, to Motor Vehicle<br />
Operator B<br />
Lee Meadows, from Electrical Distribution Division, to<br />
Systems Control Operator<br />
Doug Rush from McCormick Zone Maintenance to<br />
HSPP Zone 2 HVAC Installation & Repair Technician<br />
Senior<br />
Michael Stephenson from Recycling to Fire Systems<br />
Technician Assistant<br />
Congratulations!<br />
Hoo’s Retired...<br />
Harry Pontious, retired after 17 years at <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong>.<br />
His career here began as an HVAC mechanic leadman. He was<br />
promoted to senior technician with the Systems Control Center in<br />
1995, and later to B&G supervisor A. The Systems Control team<br />
has worked together through blizzards, hurricanes, thunderstorms<br />
and more. Being on the “thunderstorm shift” (starting at 4 p.m.),<br />
Harry handled more than his share of them, but that he did it so<br />
smoothly and with little notice by customers is a credit to him.<br />
Because Harry is also a World War I French history enthusiast, his<br />
colleagues presented him with a mounted bayonet on a plaque<br />
with the phrase “la votre connaissance et sagesse seront<br />
douloureusement manquees” (translation: Your knowledge and<br />
wisdom will be sorely missed.) With him here are (clockwise from<br />
lower left) J.J. Jefferson, Mike Dalton, Chris Greene, David Reed,<br />
Tommy McRay, J.B. Agee, Vince Muscarella, and Wesley Chesser.<br />
Sarah Ann Gooch<br />
Eric Hairston<br />
Robert K. Hendin<br />
Christopher Kern<br />
Corey Kuck<br />
Ronald D. Lackey<br />
William J. B. Mayo IV<br />
Robert L. McKenney, Jr.<br />
Joseph J. Molenda, Jr.<br />
Kevin J. Monroe<br />
Leon Morris<br />
Dale H. Novotny<br />
Stephen G. Powell<br />
Shirley N. Racer<br />
Jonathan A. Shomo<br />
Allan E. Thomson<br />
Stanley J. Tokarz<br />
Samuel K. Tyree<br />
Human Res.& Training<br />
Judith Mendoza<br />
Blair Morris<br />
Operations<br />
Donnie C. Armstrong<br />
Dassa M. Chambers<br />
Laura A. Cook<br />
Hoo’s New...continued<br />
Jerry Craig, Jr.<br />
J. Hunter Pearce<br />
Richard Davis, Jr.<br />
Karen Ann Easley<br />
Grace M. Gough<br />
Monica E. Johnson<br />
Paul M. Johnson<br />
Christopher Land<br />
Wanda E. Lucas<br />
Paisius Robert McGrath<br />
George E. Prokopic<br />
Tina Marie Redmond<br />
Philip C. Saunders<br />
James E. Sayre<br />
David H. Simpson<br />
James M. Staton<br />
Saramma Varughese<br />
M. Todd Wills<br />
Jessica L. Worley<br />
Pera Zarubica<br />
Angela C. Zuniga Giron<br />
Health Systems FP&C<br />
Amelia C. Gunn<br />
Shiloka Kachabe<br />
Daniel C. Moore<br />
Brian R. Pinkston<br />
Perspective 2nd Quarter 2004 5
Important<br />
News for Hoos:<br />
Information sessions on the electronic<br />
payroll system (paperless payroll) will<br />
begin in January. Sessions will be held at<br />
both HSPP and Alderman Road and will<br />
be scheduled to allow all shifts to attend.<br />
Watch for flyers with more information.<br />
<strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong> is sponsoring<br />
English as a Second Language classes<br />
Mondays and Wednesdays from 2-3:30<br />
p.m. in the Alderman Road Training<br />
Room. This is for employees for whom<br />
English is not their native landuage.<br />
GED classes will continue to be offered<br />
Tuesday and Thursday from 2-3:30 p.m.<br />
in the Alderman Road Training Room.<br />
More information or to register, contact<br />
the Human Resources & Training Office,<br />
982-5898, Room 124.<br />
Congratulations<br />
on Professional<br />
Development:<br />
Roger Conner, landscape supervisor<br />
for HSPP, earned certification as<br />
Grounds Manager from the Professional<br />
Grounds <strong>Management</strong> Society<br />
in October. He joins a select group<br />
since there are less than 100 certified<br />
grounds managers in the U.S.<br />
Tracy Tanner Bond, real estate<br />
contract administrator with FP&C,<br />
recently completed the <strong>University</strong><br />
Human Resources Employee Career<br />
<strong>Management</strong> Program in November.<br />
Warren (Hubba) Wood of the Sign<br />
Shop earned a Certificate of Achievement<br />
from the United States Sign<br />
Council’s Continuing Educational<br />
Program in Sign Technology and<br />
Marketing in December.<br />
Customer Compliments to...<br />
Reggie McGhee, Sharon Eldridge, Larry<br />
Brooks, Louise Toliver, Wanda Snead,<br />
Catherine Miles, Dora Gholson, Jesse<br />
Johnson, Christine Vaughan, Sandra<br />
Morris, Cindy Drumheller, Ann<br />
Gatewood, Lystra Cedeno — These<br />
housekeepers did great work in Gilmer in<br />
responding to the flood on 12/16/04. In<br />
trying to track the water’s source, I came<br />
upon six housekeepers from Chemistry<br />
and told them of the problem. They<br />
literally took off running down the hall to<br />
secure some vacuums. Our own building<br />
staff responded immediately. Were it not<br />
for these workers starting to vacuum water<br />
early, the damage would have been far<br />
worse and would not have stopped at<br />
ground floor...(and) losses would have<br />
been much higher. Thanks for a job well<br />
done! – Ed Lumadue, <strong>Facilities</strong> Coordinator,<br />
Biology Dept.<br />
Scott Burns: I want to express my<br />
gratitude for your support of Scott Burns<br />
and his service to the EVP/COO Employee<br />
Communications Council. Serving on the<br />
Council may require employees to conduct<br />
Council business and attend meetings…<br />
during the regular workday. Thank you<br />
for your flexibility, and for helping<br />
facilitate the service of one of your team<br />
members. I also wanted to commend<br />
Scott’s active and responsible service to<br />
the Council since his term began. … Scott<br />
has demonstrated a high level of leadership<br />
in fulfilling his duties as a Council<br />
representative. – Leonard W. Sandridge,<br />
Executive Vice President & Chief<br />
Operating Officer<br />
Diane Morse & Materials Division: This<br />
is a note of appreciation to the Materials<br />
Division for your help obtaining special<br />
items for the Zehmer Hall A/C job. In<br />
particular, I’d like to commend Diane<br />
Morse for “going above and beyond the<br />
call of duty” when she ordered a nonstandard<br />
sized high temperature rise door<br />
for me. As usual, this job had tight time<br />
constraints, and according to one vendor I<br />
spoke with, this special door had a very<br />
lengthy lead time. Diane voluntarily found<br />
another vendor who could easily supply<br />
the door and hardware well within the<br />
allotted time. I look forward to working<br />
with you all in the future. - Jennifer Oman,<br />
FP&C Engineering & Design<br />
Kathy Moon: The new housekeeper on 5 th<br />
Floor of Alderman Library – Kathy Moon -<br />
does an amazingly fantastic job – everything<br />
sparkles when she’s done! - Anne<br />
Behnke Kinney, Professor of Chinese &<br />
Direct East Asia Center “Kathy Moon is<br />
the best we have ever had and she has a<br />
great attitude, too. She is a gem and we<br />
just love her.” – Karen Kates Marshall,<br />
Director of Humanities & Social Sciences<br />
Linda Brown: I am writing to tell you what<br />
a truly outstanding job a member of your<br />
staff, Linda Brown, does each and every<br />
day. She is friendly, helpful and works<br />
hard every minute of the day. Linda is<br />
doing an exceptionally wonderful job. -<br />
Cristina Van Sant, Laboratory Technician,<br />
MR-5 Linda Brown takes care of all<br />
our cleaning needs on MR-5 3 rd floor for<br />
Pathology Admin and Pathology Labs.<br />
My co-workers and I commend her for her<br />
services on this floor. She is a wonderful<br />
employee, caring and hard working. When<br />
she is on duty, everything is done even<br />
before it is asked of her. -Sue Vaswani,<br />
Accountant, UVa Dept. of Pathology<br />
Deborah Palmer and her staff: We are very<br />
pleased with Deborah’s work. When I called<br />
for the cleaning schedule, I got a prompt<br />
response. In addition, Deborah managed to<br />
fit us into her floor waxing schedule- I was<br />
stunned that anything could be arranged so<br />
quickly! She and the staff did a beautiful<br />
job on the floors. Deborah is a “takecharge”<br />
person and delivers what she<br />
promises to do. She knows who to contact<br />
to get things done- she is professional,<br />
personable and diplomatic. You have a real<br />
winner on your team! – Sarah Hudson,<br />
IACUC Director, Cobb Hall<br />
Charlotte Philen: I have received very nice<br />
Special thanks HSPP’s Mike Meade, Tammy Dean, Jonathan Smith, McKinley Gowan,<br />
compliments on Charlotte’s work from her<br />
Chris Fox and Melissa Berry for helping with Andrew’s Toy Drive. Melissa made<br />
customers in Old Cabell Hall. They<br />
arrangements and the team quickly unloaded over 1300 toys from the trucks and<br />
appreciate the organization of the work,<br />
moved them into the Clinical Engineering Conference Room for distribution . The<br />
and Charlotte’s communication with them<br />
annual holiday event gives toys to pediatric patients in memory of Andrew Shifflett<br />
during the process. Your work has very<br />
who loved to share toys when he was a patient in oncology. — Elaine M. Finley,<br />
much improved the auditorium. – Bonnie<br />
MSW, Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology<br />
Hurtt, Customer Relations Manager<br />
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In Service to Our Community<br />
Among the 77 Day of Caring volunteers<br />
were (clockwise from top left) Trish<br />
Mathews and (next photo) Alton Morris,<br />
Roger Henry and Joan Im fixed playground<br />
equipment at Westminster Child Care Center.<br />
Steve Clark, Jo Lawson, Wendy Steesy,<br />
Margie Freeman, Josa Perry, Lou Persinger,<br />
Ronnie Herrion and Robert Garland built a<br />
<strong>dec</strong>k at Innisfree Village.<br />
Keith Payne, John Toney, Gary Shifflett and<br />
Ron Herfurth built cabinets for the<br />
Charlottesville Free Clinic.<br />
Joyce Chewning, Thomas Evatt, Beth<br />
Harper, Barry Wood, Brenda Buttner and Bill<br />
Martin built a handrail at Camp Holiday<br />
Trails.<br />
Sallie Carter and Ann Gatewood,<br />
Johnny Turner (in bucket) with David<br />
Gentry and Travis Henderson<br />
operating the lift, Ike Turner, Christine<br />
Vaughan and Armando Vasquez<br />
polished windows at the Senior<br />
Center.<br />
At the Barrett Early Learning Center,<br />
Linwood Ayers and Lynn Rush<br />
scraped paint and did general<br />
cleanup while Amy Forbes (inset)<br />
attacked the yard work and Bobby<br />
Shafer repaired plaster.<br />
Perspective 4th Quarter 2004 7
Work in<br />
Progress<br />
Construction of the new<br />
Observatory Hill Dining<br />
Hall is progressing.<br />
(Right) Gary Conley,<br />
facilities & system<br />
engineer in the Office of<br />
the Associate Vice<br />
President for Business<br />
Operations, reviews the<br />
work with Libba Bowling,<br />
project manager, and Jackie Darnell, construction manager, in front of the window<br />
overlooking Alderman Road. The 62,000 square ft. dining hall has a March 2005 finish<br />
date; site completion is anticipated for Summer 2005. The staircase to the right leads<br />
to the upper level serving and dining area<br />
shown.<br />
(Left) Wendy Steesy, AIA, senior project<br />
manager for the Hospital Expansion Project,<br />
and Christopher Hoy, senior construction<br />
manager, noted another project milestone<br />
November 22 when the operating rooms were<br />
occupied. Clinical labs, morgue/autopsy and<br />
Heart Center offices occupancy are scheduled<br />
for February 2005. The project involves<br />
construction of a new six-level addition at the<br />
rear of <strong>University</strong> Hospital as well as substantial<br />
renovations. New construction<br />
accounts for approximately 130,000 sq. ft.<br />
The east elevation shows where the new<br />
construction joins the existing hospital.<br />
The Mary and David Harrison Institute for American<br />
History, Literature and Culture, and the Albert and Shirley<br />
Small Special Collections Library reached final completion<br />
in November. Donald Riggin, P.E., was project manager,<br />
and Steve Ratliff was construction manager.<br />
Photo by Scott Crittenden<br />
8 <strong>University</strong> of Virginia <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Management</strong>