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PPSA
Election Meeting: May 29
PPSA
invites all professional staff to
attend the annual PPSA Election Meeting
in Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall on Thursday,
May 29 at noon. Clifford Stanley,
executive vice president,will be the
special guest speaker. The candidates
for the chair elect, vice chair elect
and members at large are listed below.
Candidate
for Chair Elect
Andy
Atzert, associate director, Executive
Education, Wharton. He has been part
of Penn for seven years, and has served
as a Member-at-Large on the PPSA board
for the past two years. He is associate
director at Aresty Institute of Executive
Education where he collaborates with
faculty and corporate clients to design
and manage customized educational
programs for senior executives. He
had been coordinator of Business English
Programs at the English Language Programs.
He earned a bachelors degree from
Rutgers and a masters from GSE.
Candidates
for Vice Chair Elect
Sharon
E. Smith, director, Student Intervention
Services, VPUL. She brings more than
15 years of experience working at
Penn in various positions of increasing
responsibility. Her experience includes
associate director of Student Transitional
Programs, assistant director of PENNCAP,
and most recently, director of Student
Intervention Services. For eight years,
as associate director of Student Transitional
Programs, she managed and implemented
orientation programs for undergraduate,
graduate and professional students
and developed a number of programs
focusing on mentoring. She also served
on the New Student Orientation Committee,
which was instrumental in redesigning
orientation week; the Women of Color
Committee and the African American
Senior Awards Committee.
Kath
Ward-Gaus, MS Ed, associate director, Office
of Health Education, VPUL. She has
been at Penn since 1995. She has staffed
and/or chaired a variety of University
committees and task forces including:
Alcohol and Other Drug Task Force,
1998 President's Special Committee
on Alcohol Abuse, and the 2002 Mental
Health Outreach Task Force. She served
as co-chair of the Community Programming
Committee, one of the three committees
for the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
University of Pennsylvania Partnership
School.
for
Member-At Large (choose 3)
Betty
Thomas, staff assistant, Tobacco
Use Research Center, Psychiatry. She
has worked at Penn for the past 17
years. She worked in the Office of
Student Financial Services as a financial
aid counselor. She has earned her
B.A. from the Wharton Evening School.
As a former vice-chair of the A-3
Assembly, she has served on various
University-wide committees, including
Benefits Redesign, Women of Color,
and Safety and Security.
Ty
Furman, director, Student
Performing Arts in the Office
of Student Life, VPUL. He has
been at Penn for six years and
he advises and facilitates the
activities of the 43 member organizations
of the Performing Arts Council.
He also assists in coordinating
the all-campus leadership retreats
through the Office of Student
Life. He is the building administrator
for the ARCH, and the director
of Penn Life Sketches, a new
student orientation program.
He has served on several search
committees for University Life
and as a committee alternate
of the Parking Violation Review
Board.
Joseph
D. Fischer, sergeant, Division
of Public Safety. He has been
in law enforcement for 32 years,
beginning with the Philadelphia
Police Department. He joined
Penn in 1998; in 2001 he was
promoted to corporal with the
responsibility of crime prevention
initiatives. In 2002 he was promoted
to sergeant. He is responsible
for developing crime prevention
measures and acting as liaison
to various departments throughout
Penn. He has routinely worked
with the FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshall's
Office and Secret Service.
Isabel
Sampson-Mapp, CSW,
associate director, Faculty,
Staff, & Alumni Volunteer
Service; director, Penn VIPS,
Center for Community Partnerships.
She has been with Penn since
1986. She is responsible for
creating and managing volunteer
activities. She has held positions
with the School of Social Work
and the African American Resource
Center. President Rodin named
her as a distinguished employee
on behalf of the Service Recognition
Program. She received an award
for extraordinary service and
commitment to enhancing the quality
of life in Philadelphia communities;
the Women of Color's Recognition
for Excellence; and the Vice
President for Government, Community
and Public Affairs' Certificate
of Merit for services performed
as a mentor. She was selected
to represent Penn at the HERS
Summer Institute.
Tabitha
Dell'Angelo, MS, house
dean, Hamilton College House.
A former GA in both Hill and
Hamilton College Houses, she
was appointed House Dean of Hamilton
in fall 2002. She is currently
completing a doctorate in Human
Development at Penn and holds
an M.S. in education from Penn
and a B.A. in special education
from Rowan University. Since
1997 she has been a research
coordinator at Penn's Center
for Health, Achievement, Neighborhood,
Growth and Ethnic Studies. Her
honors include a Kellogg Fellowship,
Annenberg Summer Statistics Fellowship
and Washington State University
Summer Doctoral Fellowship. She
has taught courses on Human Development
and Child Development at Penn
and is a New Jersey certified
teacher of the handicapped.
Paulina
Sockolow, IT project manager,
Business Services. She received
her bachelors and MBA degrees
from Penn. She has worked for
over 20 years in information
systems. Four years of her career
were spent at the Health System
doing information systems strategic
planning and special projects.
She returned to Penn two years
ago as a project manager in the
Business Services Division of
Information Technology Services.
For the past three years she
has been an alumni interviewer
for first year applicants to
Penn.
-- PPSA
Executive Committee
Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 34, May 27, 2003
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