[Eoscstudents] Thank you!

[Sue Lovett]

I want to thank everyone who helped to make our luncheon to honor our 
SSS graduates a success.  Everything was so nice!  Special thanks to 
Mildred and her crew.  The food was awesome! (Especially the rolls --you 
guys make the best rolls!)  Everything was so good. 

Also, my sincere thanks to Dr. Harrison who is always there for us 
whenever we need her.  Every single time she comes through, and that is 
important!  Thanks to Nikki and the McAlester folks, Steve Banker and 
Lisa Gray,  for making a special effort to join us.  I was happy to see 
Terry Haynes and Cheryl Wood-Myer there as well.  They, and all the 
faculty, really support us in a most fundamental way.  We couldn't 
function without the faculty, and the administration backing us.  Donna 
Rice and Karen Clark often help us out with the information we need to 
keep our records on the students and the reporting we have to do.  Mimi 
Kelly and the financial aid folks help us and our students so much!  
Mimi always helps me with determining who is eligible for Grant Aid from 
us, and Patricia and the other ladies in Financial Aid help us to keep 
records of  students who are considered low income.  That is a very 
important task since it is what helps us keep our objectives met.  
Actually, we have been very fortunate that several people, in most of 
the offices on campus, help us to reach objectives and maintain our 
funding.  I don't want to forget Marci (who stepped in for Dr. Smith) 
and Rudy.  Rudy definitely hears from us a lot, and he and his people 
always steps up to the plate for us, as they do for everyone on campus.  

I especially want to thank Dennis Meadows, our Teacher of the Year, 
Jason Willoughby, our Tutor of the Year, Mary Hope, our Professional 
Tutor on this campus, and Dr. Blanchard a wonderful volunteer who tutors 
our students at the McAlester Campus.  He was a great surgeon, (I know 
this from first-hand experience) and he is an awesome tutor!

I sure don't want to forget about Steve Akins and Kristen Turner.  They 
took pictures for us. Another part of what we are supposed to do for our 
grant is to advertise and report when we have any activities involving 
SSS participants, and these two are invaluable to us. 

If you have supported our program--in any way--I want to thank you, and 
if I forgot to mention someone who was at our luncheon today, just know, 
that it is because I was so NERVOUS! Please forgive me, I'll probably 
remember after I hit send on this message.

Congratulations Graduates!  You've done good!

Sue Lovett,  Director
Student Support Services
Eastern Oklahoma State College