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Yale University yale university 2019 Long-Service Recognition 26 March 2019 From the President Honorees may request a copy of their Long-Service portrait by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. Welcome to our twenty-third annual Long-Service Recognition Awards dinner. Tonight, we recognize 292 talented and devoted employees who are celebrating milestone anniversaries at Yale. Collectively, you have contributed 8,950 years to the university. This includes 95 of you who have reached twenty-fve years of service and 115 who are celebrating thirty-year milestones. Forty-four of the staf gathered this evening have been here for thirty-fve years, and 27 of you have devoted forty years to the university. This year we also have the privilege of honoring 9 forty-fve-year career milestones and two colleagues who have been at Design Fritz Hansen Yale for ffy years. Your dedicated support of the mission has helped to sustain the vibrancy of Yale. Print Produ tion Carmen Cusmano, Yale Printing and Publishing Services Writers Ashley Blackwell, Linda Clarke You contribute to our community’s many traditions in your roles as assistants, chefs, coaches, custodians, directors, Photographers Tony Fiorini, Beatrix Roeller groundskeepers, librarians, managers, police, and researchers, and you represent the heart and soul of the university. Cover and hapter-head photos Robert DeSanto I am reminded every day of the extraordinary commitment and dedicated eforts of our staf, who are the lifeblood of this university. Together, we have achieved great things in the decades during which you have worked here, and together we The annual Yale University Long-Service Recognition commemorative book and dinner are a presentation of Internal Communications led will continue this success in the decades to come. by Lalani Perry, assistant vice president. Other members of the department who worked on the project are Brenda Naegel, Katie Pomes, and On behalf of the university leadership and our colleagues all across campus: congratulations and thank you! Kalisha Fitzpatrick of Staf Engagement and Recognition. Each year the university recognizes staf members who celebrate 25 years of service to Yale and each fve-year anniversary thereafer. Peter Salovey r The 2019 Long-Service Recognition Dinner was awarded Yale Sustainability’s Platinum-Level Green Event Certifcation. This publication President, Yale University is printed with soy inks on paper that is comprised of 30% post-consumer waste. Several other steps were taken to ensure that this event Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology minimizes impact on the environment. For information on sustainable event certifcation, please visit http://sustainability.yale.edu. © 2019 Yale University Y Long-Service Recognition Celebration Yale University | Yale on York 26 March 2019 Welcoming Remarks 5:30 p.m. Hosts Janet Lindner Peter Salovey President Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Benjamin Polak Provost Jack Callahan Jr. Senior Vice President for Operations Invocation Alexander Dreier Vice President and General Counsel Sharon M.K. Kugler Kimberly Gof-Crews Secretary & Vice President for Student Life University Chaplain Janet Lindner Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Stephen Murphy Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Ofcer toast Nate Nickerson Vice President for Communications President Salovey Joan E. O’Neill Vice President for Alumni Afairs and Development Dinner Scott Strobel Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development Dessert recognition program 50 years 50 years50 Lee Heston | Pediatrics Infectious Diseases 4 Lee Heston, research associate, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, has been growing cells in Yale labs for 50 years. Fresh out of Goucher College, she came back to her home state and was hired by Dr. Dorothy Horstmann, a noted epidemiologist who became the frst woman at the School of Medicine to earn tenure as a full professor. When Horstman recruited Dr. George Miller to her team, Miller asked Lee to conduct research for him and she has been supporting his world- renowned work on the Epstein-Barr (EB) Virus, Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus, and Tumor virology ever since. Lee is a local girl who made good in the STEM feld long before the term even existed. Her parents met at Hillhouse High School and her father received a scholarship to Yale while her mom went of to college and then to the Yale 50 years50 School of Public Health. She likes to tell the story of how her father had many jobs on campus including delivering dry cleaning to fellow students through the university’s underground steam tunnels. Afer the war, her parents settled in New Haven, then in Hamden. Lee has memories of swimming lessons in Payne Whitney Gym, the Peabody Museum, “fabulous” Woolsey Hall, and the Art Gallery. Once a staf member at Yale, Lee eventually lived close enough to walk to work Dr. Miller says that “Lee has been a major contributor to our and experienced once again all that Yale has to ofer, including free concerts and lab’s work identifying a viral protein that mediates a switch for student recitals. Like many of her colleagues all over campus, she ofen made her the EB virus to move from a resting state, latency, to a state of way to the Old Campus area to witness Commencement and vividly remembers active replication. Lee is a truly talented experimentalist whose one exciting scene: “There I was watching the parade, and I saw a very dapper- work has shed light on a fundamental problem in virology.” looking gentleman in cap and gown striding down Elm Street when a man next When Lee looks out over her fve decades at Yale, she says, to me yelled out, ‘That’s Duke Ellington!’ And wouldn’t you know, the Duke “I always fnd as the years go by that just practicing a little came right over and shook this man’s hand. Afer Mr. Ellington received his gratitude every day is something that gets me through a lot honorary degree, he said into the microphone, ‘Take the A Train,’ and the crowd of things.” went wild, clapping endlessly and standing on their seats. It was such a joyous moment.” Lee likes to point out that the one thing that has not changed in 50 years is that she is still growing cells. While modest about her contribution to infectious disease research, she is pleased that one particular “cell line” that she helped develop was used not only by the Miller Lab, but also other universities. 5 50 years50 Lee Petrowski | Yale Medicine, Clinical Cashiering 6 “Working hard is very central to my well-being,” says Lee Petrowski, a fnancial assistant in Clinical Cashiering at Yale Medicine. “The value of hard work was instilled in me by my parents; my mother woke up at three o’clock in the morning, every morning, to walk to work, even in the snow, so she wouldn’t miss a day. When you strive to work hard, everything afer that is a reward.” Lee spent most of her Yale career in the Child Study Center, with the last 11 years in her current position. A summer job at Yale in Accounts Payable, post–Hillhouse High School, became her frst full-time job—she needed to buy a car, so she attended college at night. “At the time,” recalls Lee, “I fgured I would only stay a couple of years to appease my parents, who wanted me to work at Yale for the good benefts, but lo and behold, here I am 50 years later. And I couldn’t 50 years50 be happier.” Today Lee’s work centers on processing all the payments that come through Clinical Cashiering and taking care of the main desk. “We are so lucky to have Lee,” says supervisor Joel Ball, “she is our counselor, our compass, always contemporary with all our new methods and systems, and always a friendly face for our visitors.” Both of Lee’s parents worked in Yale dining halls. She remembers riding her most recently was the party Joel threw to celebrate her 50 years bicycle to where her mom was a baker in one of the colleges and feasting on at Yale. “Joel outdid herself. She had an open house. She had lefover desserts and iced tea. Born at Yale New Haven Hospital, Lee grew up on trivia. We had everything. Everybody came in. Everybody Mechanic Street until she was fve years old and then at various other New Haven congratulated me. It was like a big family. And I will never locations before moving to Hamden afer high school. forget that.” Lee has fond memories of working in the Child Study Center and interacting with the parents, patients, social workers, and clinicians. A special moment was when the clinicians and social workers had a picnic at one of their houses for her and other colleagues. “It was wonderful to see that they recognized how hard we worked,” Lee says, “and showed how much they appreciated it.” Moving to her current workplace in Clinical Cashiering was particularly welcoming because Lee knew a lot of colleagues in the building. She credits Joel for “making it very warm and very inviting, which means a lot the older you get and makes coming to work just so nice.” But what really bowled her over 7 45 years Denise Castellano Born at Yale New Haven Hospital, Denise likes to joke that her cradle rolled across the street Marketing & Trademark Licensing to Yale School of Medicine for her frst job working for a Noble Prize winner. She eventually moved to the Ofce of the Secretary and Vice President where she managed the conferral of degrees and the issuing of diplomas, and organized major ceremonial and special university events that were attended by thousands of students, parents, and guests.
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