July employees of the month named

Leanea Wales
University support staff employee of the month

Started at KU: Wales began her KU career in 1980 as a clerk-typist in admissions. In 1989, she moved to the economics department as a secretary.

Current title: Accounting specialist in the Department of Economics.

What that means: Wales maintains the departmental budget and assists the chairman with administrative duties including promotion and tenure, visa processing, arranging seminars and supervising office staff.

Notable: Wales has a remarkable ability to keep current on regulations affecting immigration laws that affect visa requirements for international faculty and students.

Recent feat: In recent years, responsibilities for the support staff have greatly increased. Even so, one faculty colleague noted, the quality of Wales’ work remained outstanding even though her duties had increased.

Edith Bond
Unclassified employee of the month

Current title: Computer network support specialist in the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies.

What that means: Bond provides technical assistance to more than 200 users, installs software, provides backup for the network administrator, creates new user accounts and communicates with Networking and Telecom-munications Services.

Notable: Numerous important but unexpected needs have developed because of the rapid growth of the technology needed to support research.

Bond has taken on extra responsibilities, many of which have become permanent because of her resourcefulness and commitment to helping the institute achieve its goals.

Recent feat: When the server crashed recently, Bond reported to work to help even though she was on vacation.