VALDOSTA -- Valdosta State University recognized 185 faculty and staff during the annual Employee Recognition Luncheon on Nov. 15. Employees were honored for various years of service and presented with a certificate and commemorative pin identifying years of service from Interim President Louis H. Levy. Employees with 30 and 35 years of service also received a special VSU medallion.

5 Years of Service
Melissa Adams; Beverly Amiot; Daniel Baracskay; Valerie Bayman; Shawn Bennett; Glenn Blount; Edward Braun; Michael Broam; Andrew Bruce; Rhett Burroughs; Earl Chambers; Li Mei Chen; Jessica Clapper; Lorena Cole ; Hazel Dasher; Debra Davis; Linda De La Garza; Meghan Donathan; Victoria Douglass; Larry Elliott; William Faux; Cecilia Furey; Robert Gannon; Michelle Gilbert; Ransom Gladwin; Carolyn Glock; Daniel Goff; Mary Gorham-Rowan; Nicole Gunn; Dixie Haggard; Leighia Hammond; Thomas Hardy; Verna Harvey; Kelly Heckaman; Philip Hester; James Holland; Ramona Ice; Eric Jackson; Virginia Jacobs; Jason Kumpik; Leonard Kumpik; Chunlei Liu; Thomas Macera; Susanna Martin; Reynaldo Martinez; Buffi McCambridge; Kenneth Moates; Margaret Moore; Jane Murray; Ivan Nikolov; Lisa O’Barr; Beverly Phelps; Laura Pitts; Arthur Ponder; Beatriz Potter; Nancy Redfern-Vance; Arthur Rinberger III; Brian Ring; Alicia Roberson; Brian Roberts; Betty Rowland; Matthew Rudisail; Sterlin Sanders; Sonya Sanderson; Michael Sanger; Jeanne Severns; Jonathan Sizemore; Carol Smith; Lisa Copeland Snipes; Kimberly Snow; Barbara Thomas; Caleb Thomas; Jennifer Wadman; and Shani Wilfred.

10 Years of Service
Willie Bartee; Elizabeth Bartello; Annon Beepath; Whit Chappell; Charles Conner; Patricia Cook; Loretha Copeland; Clarence Dunaway; Marilyn Dyke; Iris Ellis; Carl Fesler; Ted Gaskins; Jennifer Gill; Crystal Goode; Ruth Hannibal; Sheree Hudson; Karen Jarvis; Johnnie Kier; Linnie Kinard; Regina Lee; Donald Leech; Teresa Lohr; Yahya Mat Som; Benjamin McCranie; Helen Morgan; Wendolyn Nathan; Michael Noll; Chere Peguesse; Kim Rasmussen; Bobby Ray, Sr.; Dwayne Richardson; Steven Scheuler; Lorraine Schmertzing; Sally Sensing; David Starling; Serina Taylor; Vida Thomas; Lisa Wagner; Cassandra Ward; Kathy Warner; John Wright; Michael Young; and Winest Zanders.

15 Years of Service
David Bechler; Joann Bryant; Josie Butler; Jonathan Campbell; Honey Coppage; Suzanne Ewing; Doug Farwell; Clifford Giddens; Martha Giddings; Carol Glen; Elizabeth Goode; Donna Gosnell; David Hedgepeth; Vinson Houston; Kristen Johns; Johnnie Lamb; Susan LaPlant; Traycee Martin; David McGriff; Michael McKinley; Karin Murray; Sheila Muse; Corine Myers-Jennings; James Nienow; Jeffrey Olson; Denise Reid; Debra Ryals; Rozelle Slaymon ; Daniel Smith; Victoria Soady; Ruth Stonestreet; Charles Talor; Michael Taylor; TrishaTaylor; Shirley Thompson; Marsha Walden; David Wasieleski; and Angie Wills.

20 Years of Service
Vanessa Brunston; Willie Earl Carter; Sammy Dees; Wanda DeWeese; Delois Hargett;
Lisa Hayes; Donna Jones; Wing Lee; Patrick McElwain; Jay Rickman; and Barbara Stanley

25 Years of Service
Harry Ally; Lisa Baldwin; Chester Ballard; Hollis Barnett; Said Fares; Francis Flaherty; Sandra Griffin; Michael E. Jones; Stephen John Lahr; Julia Lee; David J. Morris; Eric Nielsen; Tonja Lee Root; Robert Tindall; and Calvin Walker

30 Years of Service
Alan Park and Tony Wilson

35 Years of Service
Moses Hardin