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Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 11-19-1998 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (1998). The George-Anne. 1564. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/1564 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Established 1927 Covering the campus like a swarm of gnats The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia Southern University End of the Week Weather Today Friday Saturday Mostly cloudy Scattered t- Partly cloudy with a high of 76 storms with a with a high of 63 and a low of 58. high of 75 and a and a low of 52. low of 59. GOLD EWTION Thursday Recipients announced Curtis Frink takes pride in his 40 years of November 19,1998 in the 1998 Awards of employment with GSU's food services Vol. 71, No. 44 By Jana Aiken The oldest continuously Excellence Ceremony Staff Writer published newspaper in GSU faculty and staff with the award going to Campus Bulloch County Recreation and Intramurals. Working at GSU is a family tradition for Bulloch honored recently in Service awards were given to County native Curtis Frink. the annual Awards of faculty and Staff members rang- Frink, 57, was honored at last Thursday's Excellence Ceremony ing from five to 40 years of ser- Awards of Excellence Ceremony for his 40 years of vice in various departments. employment in food services. By Jana Aiken In the presidents division, six Before joining the GSU staff himself, Curtis' Staff Writer employees were honored for five mother, Lile May Frink, worked in food services The 1998 Awards of Excel- and 10 years service. for 52 years and his late sister, Ole May Frink, also lence Ceremony for GSU fac- In other divisions there were worked at GSU for 15 years. ulty and staff was held last numerous service awards includ- Working for GSU is something Curtis takes a Thursday in the Russell Union ing husband and wife George and lot of pride in. Ballroom. Phara Lynch from the student "GSU has been real good to me," Frink said, "I Among the awards given affairs division for 30 years of don't have any plans to leave until I reach about were merit awards, president's service. age 62." staff team awards for excellence James Bradley, from business After helping to build the Williams Center as a in service to students as well as and finance, was recognized for construction worker, Curtis was offered a job in HOLIDAYS. service awards. 35 years of service and the em- food services. The eight winners of the ployee that has been at GSU the After two weeks of washing dishes, Curits was award of merit, out of 52 nomi- longest, Curtis Frink, was hon- moved up to cook by dietitian May Wells. Sports nees for their success in meet- ored with a standing ovation Curtis remembers the days before Landrum ing job related goals were Pam for his 40 years in food services. Center was built and all the food was prepared in Harley, of development and uni- A special film presentation was a small kitchen. versity relations; Barbara made by broadcasting professor Curits' duties then consisted of cutting meat, File photo Anderson, of pay roll; Shirely Sharyn White-Coe in demon- shelling peas and shucking corn. Curtis Frink is probably best known around Hughes, of biology; Michelle strating "Customer Service The In this homestyle manner, Curtis served thou- the GSU campus for his watermelon slicing Smith, of testing; Sheryl Lewis, GSU Way." sands of hungry students each day. talents displayed annually at the Watermelon of materials management; The film was put together After the construction of Landrum, Curtis gladly Cutting, Arnie Whitley, of physical plant; by White-Coe, Kent Murry, adapted to the ways of a growing university. annual watermelon cutting, and parents day Maryanne Kee, of HPS student Hal Fulmer and Kimberly Whether he is running the cash register, cook- cookouts. Double Trouble: services and Clinton Wilson, of Barnes. ing, or overseeing his fellow staff members, Curtis On game days Curtis can be found in the the physical plant. Immediately following the is always willing to lend a hand. concessions stand at Paulson Stadium doing his watch out for The semifinalists for the awards ceremony was a re- Curits takes great pride in his peers admiration part to support the Eagles. these two guys president's team awards for ex- ception by GSU food services of his efforts. In his 40 years service, Frink says he has The dangerous duo of cellence in service to students and special events catering. "They tell me they don't think Landrum could missed less than 10 days of work and has accu- Greg Hill and Adrian were admissions counselors and The ceremony was arranged run without me," Frink said. "If anybody has a mulated over 3,000 sick hours. secretaries, Campus Recreation by personnel advisory commit- question they just come to me, I have a lot of Frink is also a proud father of four including Peterson help keep GSU and Intramurals, Counseling tee, and funded by the GSU experience." GSU alumna, Sharonda Frink. He is also a football in the running. Center, and the Russell Union, Foundation. Outside of Landrum, Curtis also helps in the grandfather of four. Please see story, page 6 A&E Operators move satellites to protect them from meteor storm BY Michael White perts said. Chinese astronomers in 902, the Associated Press Writer "The chances of any one satel- storms are known as Leonid LOS ANGELES—The meteor lite getting smacked by a particle showers because they appear to shower that hit the skies last is probably less than one in one come from the constellation Leo. Tuesday had NASA and federal thousand, but on the other hand, What makes this year excep- government employees a little some of these satellites are worth tional is that Tempel-Tuttle sped The Miscellany's concerned. hundreds of millions of dollars, past the Earth's orbit last Febru- Evening for the Satellites were being maneu- so you do take whatever precau- ary, leaving behind a fresh wake vered, in an attempt to reduce tions you can," said Don Yeomans, of dust and gas. This happens Arts is a success the possibility of damage as Earth a senior research scientist at only every 33 years. With poetry readings, art moved through debris in the tail NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora- Liebrecht said that the last exhibits and music, those of a comet that produced the tory in Pasadena, Calif. time Tempel-Tuttle went by, in heaviest meteor shower in de- Greenwich, Conn.-based 1966, it left an even denser path in attendance enjoyed a cades. PanAmSat, which operates a net- of debris, setting off a spectacu- variety of art mediums. The space storm peaked late work of 18 satellites, put the odds lar show of shooting stars. in the evening, exposing the at one in 20,000. Please see story, In 1966, when there were world's 600-plus satellites to pos- "We fully expect that the me- fewer than 100 satellites in or- page 9 sible collisions with speeding teor storm will be a non-event," bit, the comet produced show- . Internet photo particles of grit from comet said Dan Marcus, a spokesman ers of 144,000 meteors per hour, Today's Word The heaviest meteor shower Earth has seen in decades Tempel-Tuttle. for PanAmSat, whose fleet serves LOOK OUT! but the show resulted in no Nikhedonia n. proved to be a bit of a problem for NASA and the federal government. The particles, most no bigger The Walt Disney Co., Time- major damage. This time, the Pleasure derived from than a grain of sand, can poke Warner, the BBC, long-distance business. pect disruptions in service. As a shower was expected to range anticipating success. holes in solar panels, pit lenses, telephone companies MCI and Government agencies took precaution, however, the AP took from 5,000 to 100,000 meteors Source: Weird Words blast away mirror coatings or Sprint, and other big corporate similar measures. The Hubble steps to deliver news and data per hour. Index cause damaging electromagnetic customers. telescope was being turned away through the World Wide Web if Although tiny, the particles pulses. Even so, PanAmSat put addi- from the storm to protect lens necessary. move at more than 155,000 mph Announcements 2 While private and government tional personnel on duty at its surfaces. And the crew of the Meteor showers from the (248,000 kmph). Even a small Classifieds 11 satellite operators took precau- Long Beach, Calif., operations Russia's Mir space station had to dusty wake of comets are fairly grain can have great destruc- tions to reduce exposure during center, which monitors company Comics 11 wait out the worst of the storm in common. In fact, the Earth an- tive force. The impact of a par- the 10-hour Leonid meteor storm, satellites plus three others it their emergency escape vehicle. nually crosses the path of Comet ticle also creates an electrical Crossword 11 the odds were against any satel- manages for DirecTV, Hughes The Associated Press advised Tempel-Tuttle and encounters discharge that could cause a Briefs 2 lites actually being damaged, ex- Electronics' satellite-to-home TV its customers that it did not ex- the Leonids.