June 25, 2009

CSSAC seats emeritus member, plans for new members and bus trips

Cynthia Dalton will serve as an emeritus member next year on the Clerical and Service Staff Advisory Committee.

Dalton was elected at the group's June 9 meeting at the Purdue Calumet campus.

Emeritus members are non-voting and provide knowledge to newer members, assist with continuing or ongoing projects, and assist CSSAC in representation on University committees.

They serve a one-year term, which starts Sept. 1. Jamie Hendershot has been an emeritus member this year.

Also on June 9, chair Maggie Grogan reported that 19 applications for CSSAC membership next year have been received. There are six positions available next year.

CSSAC's membership subcommittee interviewed applicants June 10-12.

In other business June 9:

* Carrie Hanson, Human Resources adviser to CSSAC, reported that Spring Fling in May went smoothly. She said between 6,000 and 6,500 people were served lunch during the annual employee appreciation event.

* Jaylene Nichols of the Purdue Employees Activity Program, a CSSAC subcommittee, said the July 26 bus trip to Chicago for the Cincinnati Reds-Chicago Cubs baseball game is sold out.

Nichols said a few tickets were available for the June 20 bus trip to Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

The PEAP subcommittee is planning future trips, Nichols said, including the annual shopping trip to Chicago on Dec. 6.

She said there likely will be another trip to a Cubs game next summer. Other possible destinations the committee is considering include a horse-racing track, Kings Island and Northern Indiana Amish country.

For more information on employee trips, go to www.purdue.edu/cssac/Employee_Trips/  

* While at Calumet, the group took a tour of the campus, including the Insight Visualization Lab.