CSB employees recognized for years of service, retirement, special awards

Administrative and support staff from the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, were recognized for their years of employment and retirement at the Employee Recognition Luncheon  May 20 at the Gorecki Dining and Conference Center, CSB.

Those honored included:

Five years - Angela Arens, admission; Brad Bechtold, security; Chong Beckius, culinary services; Mary Jo Beuning, internships;  Clarke Davis, theater department; Barbara Grelson, culinary services; Michelle Hemmesch, financial aid; Julie Hofer, custodial maintenance; Karen Hoffbeck, communication and marketing services; Patrick Jacobson-Schulte, business office; Kaela Kantor, culinary services; Mike Killeen, communication and marketing services; Philip Kramer, academic affairs; Tina Molacek, information technology services; Anastasia Nathe, registrar's office; Maribeth Overland, student activities; Rita Poepping, culinary services; Kim Poganski, events and conferences; Diane Scheierl, library; Jane Stromme, Registrar's Office; Darren Swanson, security; Lee Tungland, transportation; Shelby Wentworth, residential life.

10 years - Delbert Brobst, education; Jim Cossairt, transportation; Joan Ellering, culinary services; Don Forbes, bookstore; RaMona Gruber, custodial maintenance; Jennifer Miller, counseling and health promotion; Miranda Novak, library; Julie Reitmeier, institutional advancement; Molly Renslow, president's office; Nicole Reuter, library; Arleen Roelike, bookstore; John Sundet, information technology services .

15 years - Shawn Beckers, information technology services; Donald Harlander, culinary services; George Hemmesch, maintenance; Elizabeth Knuth, library; John Miller, computer science; Diane Muske, custodial maintenance; Michael Thelen, custodial maintenance.

20 years - Gary Nelson, custodial maintenance; Mary Niedenfuer, modern and classical languages, Hispanic studies; Paul Theis, information technology services.

25 years - Carol Howe-Veenstra, athletics; Karen Knutson, institutional planning and research; Jackie Miller, career services.

30 years - Juliann Rule, Fine Arts Programming.

35 years - Maryjean Opitz, education; S. Stefanie Weisgram, OSB, library.

40 years - Neil Spanier, power plant.

Retirement - Cindy Beuning, president's office; Barb Fahnhorst, student employment; Stephanie Jussila, institutional advancement; Stuart Lang, institutional advancement; Bill Minier, security; Larry Schug, physical plant.

In addition, two individuals and two teams were recognized for their contributions with WOW Awards. The individual recipients were:

Marah Jacobson-Schulte, coordinator of Service Learning, for her work in expanding the program to more than 500 students and 50 community partners, as well as the establishment of the CSB Jackson Fellows and Bonner Leader programs;

Jody Terhaar, CSB dean of students, for a presentation to the National Association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. She co-presented a case study of several initiatives implemented over the past several years as a community and college partnership to address off-campus student behavior.

The teams recognized were:

The nine-member Health-at-Work Committee, which provided healthy opportunities for employees. Special recognition was given to Shelly Athmann for her initiative in writing and receiving a grant for $7,500 to make many of the offerings possible. The other committee members including Amanda Anderson, Jon Bruns, Anastasia Nathe, Jessie Sandoval, Jennifer Schwichtenberg, S. Janelle Sietsema, OSB, Diana Symons and Jeanne Terres;  

Julie Phillips, Maryke Taute and Heather Nicole Saladino, who developed and co-chaired a campus-wide initiative for CSB women titled "VOICE." They designed a week of events empowering women to learn about their own voices through art, poetry and songs.