Don Wallace
Staff
appreciation award
winners announced
LBJ School staff members Debra Moore, Bob Nichols, and Debra Dzwonczyk (left to right) are this year's winners of the LBJ Appreciation Award. Moore is a member of the faculty support group, Nichols is an administrative associate at the Governor's Center for Management Development, and Dzwonczyk coordinates the School's student job placement program. The award recognizes staff members whose initiative, reliability, and attitude make life easier for others in the School.
Staff Notes
New fiscal officer named
Don Wallace was named Business Office Director and
Assistant to the Dean in June. He replaced Judy Caskey, who
retired last summer.
Wallace has a master's degree in management and administration and a bachelor of business administration in accounting. Before coming to the LBJ School, he was Assistant for Fiscal Affairs at the UT Austin General Libraries.
As a controller and budget officer in the U.S. Army, Wallace formulated and executed budgets in excess of $90 million annually and managed a personal staff of over 200 employees. He has extensive managerial experience and has supervised a diverse staff of many nationalities that included civilian, military, and foreign employees.
Wallace is a career Army officer who achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and had international assignments in Germany, Vietnam, and Korea. He is also a graduate of the Army War College.
UT presents staff recognition
awards
Four LBJ School staff members will be honored at the
university's 38th annual staff recognition program and
president's reception on May 6. This year's event--which
salutes classified employees and administrative/professional
employees with 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 years of
service--will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Frank C.
Erwin, Jr., Special Events Center.
Fifteen-year honorees include Courtney Brown, director, Office of Student and Alumni Programs; María de la Luz Martínez, production manager, Office of Publications; and Yayoi Narita, administrative assistant and member of the faculty support group.
Le Na Chung-Cantrell, formerly marketing and distribution manager in the Office of Publications and now personnel manager in the Business Office, will be honored for 10 years of service.
Public affairs librarian honored
Stephen Littrell, head of the LBJ School-based
Wasserman
Public Affairs Library, was among
the recipients of the 1999 Director's Staff Honors Awards of
the UT Austin General Libraries.
In making the announcement, General Libraries Director Harold Billings said that under Littrell's management, the programs and services in the Public Affairs Library have been "shined and tightened." He added that Littrell had garnered enthusiastic comments from LBJ School faculty and students for extending information technology and traditional information support.