{"id":5486,"date":"2011-12-08T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2011-12-09T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:47:12","slug":"last-staff-meeting-for-2011-for-relaxing-and-socializing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5486","title":{"rendered":"Last staff meeting for 2011 for relaxing and socializing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nancy<\/a>
Nancy Gadachy, program assistant II, Student Health Center, seems to be enjoying the Bingo game more than her table mates Karen Brown, assistant dean, Finance and Administration, College of Education, and Vicki Schober, physician and medical director, Student Health Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other than a couple of announcements, the Dec. 7 Staff Council\/PESA luncheon was just for fun. UCCS classified and professional exempt staff enjoyed conversation, laughter and lively Bingo games followed by musical entertainment.<\/p>\n

“Don’t eat the Bingo markers!” has become almost as familiar a seasonal expression as “Happy holidays!” for UCCS staff. Bingo at the year’s end staff luncheon has become something of a tradition, with colorful M&M’s candies for markers. Just in case someone in the group isn’t aware of this, staff executives make it a point to declare the candy off-limits at least until game play begins.<\/p>\n

Mark Hoffman, associate director, Client Services, Financial Aid\/Student Employment, enjoys participating as a member of the Velcro Barbershop Quartet. He brought his group to campus to entertain staff with a repertoire of holiday songs, traditional barbershop harmonies, and 1960s a cappella rock ‘n’ roll.<\/p>\n

— Photos by Ron Fitz, University Advancement<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Vicki<\/a>
Vicki Schober, physician and medical director, Student Health Center, Ida Dillwood, director, Disability Services and University Testing, and Rachel Gibson, program assistant, Disability Services and University Testing, look up from their game to see who yelled "Bingo!"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Carrie<\/a>
Carrie Arnold, program manager, Freshman Seminar and Honors Program, displays her prize for winning at Bingo, a tray of holiday cookies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Velcro<\/a>
Mark Hoffman, associate director, Client Services, Financial Aid\/Student Employment, brought the Velcro Barbershop Quartet to the luncheon to entertain staff. From left are Lee Jolly, Gary Hickenlooper, Hoffman, and Tim Simmons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary Lou Kartis, assistant to the dean, School of Public Affairs, enjoys being serenaded with a barbershop rendition of "Hello Mary Lou."<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Photos by Ron Fitz, University Advancement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Other than a couple of announcements, the Dec. 7 Staff Council\/PESA luncheon was just for fun. UCCS classified and professional exempt staff enjoyed conversation, laughter and lively Bingo games followed by musical entertainment. “Don’t eat (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/stf-11dec-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-1qu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}