{"id":7135,"date":"2010-12-10T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2010-12-10T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:23:01","slug":"staff-honoured-at-holiday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/12\/staff-honoured-at-holiday-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff honoured at holiday celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7137\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7137\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7137 \" title=\"Joanne Boekestyn and Guy Desjardins\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/staffawards1.jpg\" alt=\"Joanne Boekestyn and Guy Desjardins\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanne Boekestyn and Guy Desjardins received awards for their work at Brock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a festive mood in Market Hall this week as President Jack Lightstone hosted the annual holiday celebration for faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s Annual Holiday Celebration and Faculty and Staff Recognition on Dec. 7 included punch, hors d&#8217;oeuvres and lots of smiles as Lightstone handed out awards for leadership, distinguished work and long service.<\/p>\n<p>Lightstone praised employees for driving knowledge forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone works very hard for the institution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s Distinguished Staff Awards were presented to three staff members from the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Social Sciences<\/a>. They were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Jeanette Ramsay, undergraduate student affairs officer<\/li>\n<li> Jill DeBon, administrative co-ordinator, Sociology<\/li>\n<li> Joanne Boekestyn, administrative assistant, Psychology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Human Resources Distinguished Service Award for Leadership went to Guy Desjardins, manager of Telecommunications and Network Services in Information Technology Services.<\/p>\n<p>Nine employees were honoured for having 35 years of service to the university. They were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Lorne Adams &#8211; Athletics<\/li>\n<li> Debbie Codes &#8211; Campus Store<\/li>\n<li> Ruth Esau &#8211; HR\/EHS<\/li>\n<li> Carol-Ann Farinacci &#8211; Dean&#8217;s Office, Social Sciences<\/li>\n<li> John Novak &#8211; Graduate and Undergraduate Studies<\/li>\n<li> Barbara Whittard &#8211; Library<\/li>\n<li> Terrance Carroll &#8211; Political Science<\/li>\n<li> Elaine Jaeger &#8211; Library<\/li>\n<li> Mary Little &#8211; Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twenty-nine were honoured for working at Brock for 25 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7138\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7138\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7138  \" title=\"June Corman, Jill DeBon, Jeanette Ramsay, Jack Lightstone\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/staffawards2.jpg\" alt=\"June Corman, Jill DeBon, Jeanette Ramsay, Jack Lighstone\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: June Corman, Associate Dean of Social Sciences; Jill DeBon; Jeanette Ramsay; Jack Lightstone<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jack Lightstone handed out awards for distinguished service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[112,60,93,134,24,42,29,31,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}