Born and raised in Owensboro, KY.  Moved to Lexington in 1997.  Have two fabulous kids – Ben (age 10) and Madelyn (age 9).  Have had an interesting career including working for Mayor Newberry as the City’s WEG liaison and producer of the 17 day festival in downtown Lexington during WEG.  I started at UK in March 2014. 

Favorite

Ambition/Goal for next year

finish my MBA and begin my PhD

I love ALL animals

I have one dog, two cats.  I rode horses until I became pregnant with Ben (my first child).  If my kids get their way – we will add a bunny and a hamster at Christmas.

Most interesting place I have been

Cologne Cathedral in Köln, Germany. 

Favorite food

can’t pick just one - my mom’s chicken & dumplings and porcupine meatballs

The A&S United Way campaign GOAL for 2014 is $30,000. We started the campaign with the $115 donation from the Chili Cook-Off. As on Monday, October 10, A&S Faculty and Staff have donated $2,674.96, which is just 8.9% of our goal.

Payroll deduction is the preferred method of giving. A tutorial on how to accomplish this in MyUK can be found here. Please note that in order for you to continue an existing Payroll deduction contribution, YOU MUST go into MyUK and authorize the donation for the 2015 calendar year. Existing contributions do not roll over from one year to the next.

If you prefer to make a one-time cash or check donation, please reach out to me and I will bring you a donation form to fill out. 

Please make plans now to participate in our Fall Potluck on Friday, October 31. You can RSVP at this link. If you would like to dress in costume and compete in the Halloween Costume Contest, participants are asked to pay a $2 entry fee which will be donated to United Way of the Bluegrass. 

I was asked to provide a picture I loved but it had to have me in it so thank you Dick Gilbreath!

I have been married to Roy for 24+ years, we have 3 amazing children, Andrew, Elizabeth and Emily, I am very proud of the wonderful adults they have grown into. I grew up on a small resort island, Wildwood, in Southern New Jersey. The house I grew up in was literally across the street from the beach. It sounds fun but summers didn’t consist of lounging on the beach and playing at the boardwalk, the local people began working as young as the law would allow from the time it started getting warm until the first hint of fall! We moved to KY 22 years ago and I have now been working at UK for 10 years 8 of which have been in Geography.

1. What do you do in your spare time?

I have to admit, in my spare time I’m pretty lazy. I do a little cooking, hang out with my husband and my kids if they happen to stop by but also like to watch history documentaries and old TV shows:  Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy and the list goes on. Napping is high on that list too!

2. What is your favorite movie?

1. What do you do in your spare time? 

While keeping up with two kids, I do my very best to make an attempt to go to the drag strip, truck pulls, or dyno events.

2. What is your favorite movie or book?

Major Payne, hands down.

3. Are you a cat person or a dog person (or do you like another species entirely)?

Love them both! I have two cats now, Chevy and Smokey, but hopefully we will be able to get a dog next summer.

4. What is the most interesting/your favorite place you've been? 

Cairns, Australia. Even though we couldn’t swim in the ocean because of the jellyfish, it was by far one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited.

5. What is your favorite food?

I love summer time foods, good ole burgers and hotdogs (slightly burnt of course) off the grill. 

The preferred method of donating during the UK United Way of the Bluegrass Campaign for 2014 is payroll deduction. It is so simple and allows you to designate your funds to a specific agency. All donations that do not have a designation request will go into the general funds category and will be used for the most pressing needs in our community. 

If you need a tutorial on how to complete the payroll deduction, please visit the link here. 

As the official start of the UK United Way Campaign is set to begin on October 1 and run through October 31, I wanted to share with you a brief update on how we are doing so far.

Since the beginning of September, several areas are collecting "Change for Change." I am purposely not counting these funds until the campaign ends with hopes that more contributions will come in via this method of giving to the United Way.

In addition to the "Change for Change" program, we also held our first-ever Chili/Soup Cookoff as a kickoff to our United Way campaign.

Thank you to the following people for their contribution to the Cookoff:

Meaty Chili with Spaghetti -- George White

Bean Soup -- Beverly Clayborne

As we get ready to kick off the 2014 United Way campaign at UK, I would like to share with you information about upcoming opportunities to participate either by monetary or community service gifts.

First of all, on Tuesday, September 23, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., in Conference Room 318 in POT, we will kick off our Brown Bag sessions for the Fall. The first topic will be United Way and we are raising awareness and funds by hosting a Chili/Soup Cook Off. To participate, please plan to donate $2 to get samplings of soups, chili and deserts prepared by your co-workers. If you are interested in participating, please RSVP here and let us know if you will be bringing your special recipes for chili, soup or a desert. It should be a fun and informative session.

At the great suggestion from a mentor, I made an appointment and met with Diane Kohler.  She is Manager of UK Human Resources Career Development.  It really was a fantastic meeting. 

Before the meeting, I made an appointment as directed on the website and, after instruction from the office, filled out the required online questionnaire found here: http://www.uky.edu/hr/forms/career-development.  This step was important, I found, because it made me think.  It does ask for brief background information about career and education, other employment at UK, where you are currently, and how long you’ve been in your position.  Then comes the real “meat”.  What are your career goals?  What outcomes do you hope to achieve as a result of career counseling and/or job search coaching?  Oddly enough, as someone who considers myself a definite “Planner”, I really had to put thought into these answers.  As simple as it sounds, it was a great exercise for me.

Charlie Cai is an international student from China, studying here at UK. In this interview, we discuss his time here in Lexington.

Find out what two participants of the GEAR UP KY Academy@UK are saying about some of the classes offered in MCL!



Summer Cottrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvSxX3Tvoqs&feature=youtu.be



Maison Nichols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXI_oerKIo&feature=youtu.be