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[ Silence ]
>> Laurita Thomas: Our next honoree is for VOICES
of the Champion Staff Award is Mary Cardwell.
Mary. Where's Mary?
[inaudible] Mary is a registered nurse at the University
of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers.
From her start, from the start of her commitment to VOICES of the Staff,
she has helped make the University of Michigan a better and more caring place
to learn, work, heal, and discover.
Through Mary's dedicated service to Faculty and Staff Communication Team,
your commitment as a member of the VOICES Program Management Team, your dedication
and survey as a staff representative to the committee to study visiting options
for retirement savings plan, your inspiration and leadership as a facilitator
of the Work Climate Team, you help strengthen high-quality relationships, build connections,
improve communication, and make the University of Michigan a better and more caring place.
On behalf of VOICES, I personally thank you for your wisdom, compassion, activism,
and determination in promoting and facilitating dialogue between staff and leadership,
to improve the university life for all of us.
We are so lucky to have you, and your patients are lucky to have you for the care in your role
as a nurse, and congratulations, Mary, on your VOICES of the Staff Champion Award.
[ Applause ]
>> Laurita Thomas: You don't get away unless you want to say something [inaudible].
[laughter]
>> Mary Cardwell: Thank you.
I would just say it has been a labor of love, and VOICES has been one
of the most wonderful things I have done in my life.
I just do what I do because I like to do it, and I was,
didn't even know that I had gotten the award until about two weeks
after Ann had sent the e-mail because I don't always get my e-mails read.
[laughs] So, I was so shocked when I got it.
I had my son read it, and I said, "What does this say?
Does it say I'm getting an award?"
But, anyway, I, you're, you're in for a wonderful, wonderful experience,
and it really is just a great opportunity to learn about the university
and to be involved with other people.
[ Applause ]
>> Laurita Thomas: And she, too, gets $250 to invest in her professional development.
Our final award of the morning is to Provost Terry Sullivan.
Terry, from the moment you stepped foot on our campus, you helped make Michigan a better place.
For your leadership, vision, and passion that has safely guided our university
through very challenging times, for your steadfast focus on our research, competency,
and capability, teaching and service, for your recognition
of the important contribution the staff of the university make, for your commitment
to the value of engagement, for all these reasons and more, we are pleased to present you
with VOICES of the Staff Champion Award.
Your encouragement, innovation, passion [phone ringing] as a supporter
of VOICES has been essential to our success.
By working closely with VOICES volunteers, you have helped promote understanding
of the budget challenges and campus issues in a manner
that encourages and sustains staff involvement.
You are also, you also committed a half day of your incredible busy schedule to participate
in the Honor Awards Ceremony recognizing VOICES in the State
of Michigan as an, a high-quality program.
Along with this award, we are presenting you $250 in staff development money to be used
by one or more of your staff members that you are leaving us with,
a development of opportunity of their choice.
I personally cannot thank you enough for the contributions you have made
to our university community as a whole and to VOICES specifically.
The University of Virginia is fortunate to have you as their president,
and we do expect to be invited down to consult about how VOICES can be created at UVA.
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
>> Laurita Thomas: Congratulations.
We will miss you, and.
>> Provost Teresa Sullivan: Well, let me just echo what a wonderful community this is.
And it's a wonderful community not because of any one group.
Not just because of the administrators, and not just because of the faculty,
and not just because of the students.
It's because everybody works together, and anyone who's ever taught in the classroom knows
that there is a staff member who's made it possible for you to walk in that classroom
and start teaching, and every student knows that there was a staff member who made it possible
for them to figure out registration and get through a line at the dormitory
so they could be at class on time.
Every doctor in the hospital knows that their work could never get done without hundreds
of staff members standing behind them.
The work that you do is so important.