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December employees of the month

Cathy Schwabauer Unclassified employee

Cathy Schwabauer

Current title: Director, Engineering Career Center.

What that means: Schwabauer hires and trains staff, maintains and enhances services offered and manages the ECC Advisory Council.

Notable: Schwabauer takes student appointments, visits classes, holds workshops and plans student events. She and her husband hold a cookout every year to provide students an opportunity to learn what resources are offered by the ECC.

Virginia Sayler University Support Staff

Virginia Sayler

Current title: Administrative officer, Graduate School.

What that means: Sayler facilitates approvals and changes to graduate programs, serves as the university's resource person regarding Graduate School rules and evaluates transfer of graduate credit.

Notable: Sayler trains and provides guidance to staff in the graduate divisions, administrative specialists and the office receptionist. She also works with associate deans and directors of the graduate divisions to make sure regulations are met.

TOPONYMS

In December 1923, after nearly 15 years of construction delays, the third and final wing of teh Administration Building opend on Jayhawk Boulevard. Early occupants included art and music faculty as well as he chancellor and the registar. The building was named in 1938 for Frank Strong, the sixth chancellor (1902-20) and the driving force behind its construction