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STAFF RECOGNITION LUNCHEON TICKETS ON SALE NOW
The 2008 Recognition Ceremony for Staff Personnel will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the Memorial Union Ballroom. Employees will be recognized for years of service in five-year increments, 10 Meritorious Service Award winners will be presented, and the winner of the Ken and Toby Baker UND Proud Award will be announced. Tickets may be purchased in Human Resources, 313 Twamley Hall, for $4 each or from the human resources manager in your department. Tickets must be purchased no later than Friday, May 2. All members of the University community are invited.

YEARS OF SERVICE RECOGNITION FOR DCE EMPLOYEES
Here is a list of DCE employees being recognized for Years of Service (at UND) at the annual luncheon on May 13, 2008.
40 yrs - Diana LeTexier (Woo Hoo!!!)
20 yrs - Kathy Williams
15 yrs - Becky Rude and Monte Koshel
10 yrs - Corey Quirk
5 yrs - Dara Faul, Kari Holter, Denis MacLeod, Robyn von Ruden

Anyone wishing to participate in the luncheon that may require an accommodation should contact Joy Johnson at 777-4367 or e-mail joyjohnson@mail.und.edu. –
Human Resources.

APRIL 8 CELEBRATION WAS FUN
Many DCE employees as well as about 100 guests attended a celebration for the support of Outreach Programming this past Tuesday, April 8 at the North Dakota Museum of Art. They enjoyed some great musical entertainment by Jazz On Tap and some light hors d'ouevres. Dean Riedy, Vice President Bob Boyd, and President Kupchella all expressed appreciation for the work done within UND Outreach Programming.

Thanks to the committee members on PPRC who planned and helped with the event!

Please look over the check list for your area and get it back to Mary Schmidt on or before April 15.
Thanks!

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
Learn why one city becomes a part of history on this week’s edition of Studio One.

Two years ago, thirty-five hundred people attended the North Dakota Democratic Convention. However, this year that number grew to more than 15,000 because presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spoke at the event. Learn how the candidates’ visit could affect North Dakota politics.

A MINIATURE HOBBY
Also this week, it takes two miles to stop a train, but the Holt County Railroad can have up to twelve trains on the track at one time. These locomotives are only miniatures, yet it has taken a group of men ten years to create their tiny world. Find out how these railroad gurus built a miniature train masterpiece.

Studio One is an award-winning news and information program produced at the University of North Dakota Television Center. The program airs live on UND Channel 3 on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Re-broadcasts can be seen at 7 a.m., noon, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. daily and on Saturdays at 10 a.m. Prairie Public Television airs Studio One on Saturday at 6 a.m. The program can also be seen by viewers in Fargo, Bismarck/Mandan and Minot, N.D.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Denver, Colo.; and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Meghan Flaagan

Above & Beyond the Call of Duty!!

Is there someone in your program area who has gone beyond the call of duty recently? Please tell us about it by submitting it to Doodles next week!

For baseball fans everywhere, the answer is Abbott and Costello, whose famous routine “Who’s on First” has become a part of baseball lore (the last name of the first baseman on their fictional team is Who). If you have difficulty distinguishing between who’s (the contraction for “who is” or “who has”) and whose (the possessive form of who that may refer to people or things), this sample from Abbott and Costello’s dialogue may help, or perhaps, like Lou Costello, you will never figure out who’s on first:

                        Costello: Have you gotta first baseman on first?
                        Abbott: Certainly.
                        Costello: Then who's playing first?
                      Abbott: Absolutely.
                       Costello: When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
                        Abbott: Every dollar of it. Why not? The man is entitled to it.
                        Costello: Who is?
                        Abbott: Yes.
                        Costello: So who gets it?
                        Abbott: Why shouldn’t he?
                      Abbott: Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.
                        Costello: Whose wife?
                        Abbott: Yes.*

This dialogue doesn’t do justice to their routine. Here is a link to their full act on YouTube:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Watf8_Rf58s

DONATE SHOES
Vicki T. had a flyer to share about a Recycling Donation of used shoes. See FLYER for more info.