Shirley Staton, accounting technician in Accounting Services, is retiring after 35 years of dedicated service, spending her entire career on campus in this department. Please join us for a drive-by retirement parade. Feel free to bring gifts or cards to celebrate her. Treats and refreshments will be provided. In order to participate, you must complete the daily health screening before checking into the screening checkpoints and entering the drive-by parade.
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 16
Time: 11 a.m. - 1:30 p. m.
Location: Behind Joyal Building
Richard Smith is retiring after 15 years of invaluable service, nine of those years spent in the Henry Madden Library as the facilities point-person. His last day is Thursday, Dec. 31. Smith has been the key source of all library building operations and facilities management. He has kept our library functional, beautiful and all systems going. Smith has been that daily hidden gem, tirelessly making himself available, a Johnny-on-the-spot and everyone's favorite problem-solver.
Read more about Smith at the Madden Library News blog where you can leave a message to wish him well! “Thank you, Richard, for all you’ve done!” – Richard Smith to retire. – Madden Library News
Dr. Francine Oputa, director of the Cross Cultural and Gender Center, is retiring after 30 years at Fresno State. She came to the University as a graduate student in 1979 and worked as a teaching assistant for Mass Communication. In 1990, Oputa was hired as an adjunct faculty in African Studies, then a year later, she became the director of the Women's Resource Center while also teaching women's studies. She was director of the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute and the Center for Women and Culture, which now exists as the Cross Cultural and Gender Center.
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