KASFAA Newsletter Spring 2000 Volume 13 Number 1 A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT... Inside This Issue ANTHONY BOWLES News From Around Dear KASFAA Friends & Colleagues Kentucky...Page 4 I hope each of you had an enjoyable and safe holiday. It appears everyone New Members...Page 5 survived the Y2K bug. Also, I hope all had a good start for the spring Absentee Ballot...Page 7 term. Believe it or not, it is now time to look forward to our Spring Conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2000 at the Holiday Inn Capital Candidates...Pages 8-11 Plaza in Frankfort. When you receive your registration packet please return it to Chris Tolson. KHEAA Korner...Pages 13- 15 Thanks again to Tim Green and the Program Committee for putting KASFAA Public Relations together a wonderful Fall Conference. The Program Committee met on Report...Page 18 December 2, 1999 to put together our Spring Conference. Sandy Neel, our Spring Program Chair, will do a fantastic job in jump-starting the new What’s Up With Ed?...Pages century with KASFAA– A CAPITAL IDEA. We hope the session will be 21-22 beneficial to all who attend. Please remember to vote. We have a slate It’s Ok Ed...Page 23 of outstanding candidates running for office, and it is our responsibility to take a few minutes to vote. In Memory of Karen Clark...Page 24 I was able to attend the SASFAA regional meeting held in Hilton Head, MPN Tips...Page 25 South Carolina, in November. There were a lot of topics discussed and debated. Hopefully, those of you who attended the SASFAA Conference Thanks Paul...Page 27 in Biloxi, Mississippi had a wonderful time. NetWizard Furman University will be the site of the New Aid Workshop headed by Improvements...Page 29 Judy Deines. The dates are June 17-23, 2000. The cost will be $600.00 Spring Conference...Pages for registration and membership fees. Please contact Judy if interested. 30-31 Continued on page 3 1 Continued from page 1 Editorial Note I want to extend a special thanks to Tim Rhodes, Rhonda Swim and Kristy Green for The KASFAA Newsletter is published three the fine job they did with our Counselor times a year for distribution to members and Workshops. As always, the turnout was friends of the association. excellent. Advertisements, articles and items of interest are gladly accepted and can be given to any Thanks also to Michael Morgan and his member of the newsletter committee. Financial Aid Awareness Committee. Contact the editor for rates and/or insertion Michael was very busy coordinating the KET dates. program held on December 7, 1999. I was one of the panelists, and it was a wonderful Editor: experience. A toll-free financial aid hot line Meredith Robinson was available in January and February. The Student Loan People 502-329-7100 Again, thanks to all of you for your help and [email protected] support. Newsletter Committee: Tasha McDaniel, Key Bank, 513-662-0989 Yours truly, Tori Torres, KCTCS, 502-595-0070 Kathy McCrea, U of L, 502-852-8342 Anthony Bowles 3 News From Around Kentucky Ruth Eigel in Guarantee Operations at Wedding bells have been ringing at Brescia KHEAA recently married and is now Ruth University’s Office of Student Financial Aid! Sweetman. Even though her name has Shelli Crawford, Financial Aid Assistant, is now changed, her e-mail address is the same: Shelli Kennedy and Vivian Pearson, Director of [email protected]. Financial Aid is now Vivian Rinaldo. Midway College has had a lot of changes Congratulations to Teffenie Davies of EFS on lately. Charisse Jillette is the new Financial her recent promotion to Assistant Vice Aid Director. Joining the college as Financial President, Campus Relations. Her Aid Counselors are Kimberly Wallace and responsibilities will include the Kentucky region. Erica Hayslett. Robert (Bob) Begley has joined Kentucky Higher Judy Reynolds is the new Financial Aid Education Student Loan Corporation (The Counselor at Thomas More College. She Student Loan People) as Assistant Loan replaces Dolores Fink who accepted a new Servicing Manager. In this position, he is position within the College. responsible for loan servicing operations including skip tracing, consolidation, loan origination, repurchasing, claims, and alternative programs. 4 Welcome New Members Bob Begley Kim Frost Janile Rayborn The Student Loan People Cumberland Valley Technical College Bank One Education Finance Sandra Bennett Malissa Gatton Deborah Reining Sullivan College Owensboro Community College Asbury College Yolanda Benson Anne Gibbs Alma Robinson Kentucky State University Campbellsville University Morehead State University Elizabeth Bishop Rebecca Gilpatrick Sara Sexton Morehead State University KHEAA Berea College Sylvia Butler Linda Hawkins Twyla Sheffield The Student Loan People Kentucky State University Transylvania University Dana Case Dail Howard Susan Shelton KHEAA Morehead State University Midway College Patty Caudill Anna Hubbard Lisa Shue Morehead State University KHEAA Sullivan College Lori Chitwood Connie Jesse Rhonda Smith University of Louisville USDE Sallie Mae Kalynda Cook Jill Leah Kelly Bernice Spare Bank One Education Finance Spencerian College Hazard Community College Harold Cousin Patricia King Kelly Sparrow Rets Electronic Institute Spalding University KHEAA Sabrina Crouch Angela Lawson Christy Spurling Morehead State University Kentucky Career Institute Campbellsburg University Matthew Cushing Sheila Mattingly Deborah Wales Galen Health Institutes Owensboro Jr. College of Business Jefferson Technical College Elizabeth Daniel Steve McCoy Teri Wiley National Education The Student Loan People KHEAA Sandy Dawson Amy McLoney Melinda Willis Midway College Morehead State University Kentucky Mountain Bible College Heather Eden Sonja McMullen Amy Wilson Eastern Kentucky University First American National Bank TERI, The Education Resource Institute Teresa Estes Becky Miller Gene Winbun Transylvania University Computer Education Services Sullivan College John Fish Karen Moore Eastern Kentucky University Kentucky State University 5 Spring 2000 Election Candidates President... Secretary... Michael D. Morgan Zelena O’Sullivan Associate Director of Financial Aid, Director of Student Financial Services, Transylvania University Pikeville College University of Kentucky. Pikeville College Bachelor of Science: Merchandising, Apparel and Bachelor of Arts, Secondary Education and Textiles History/Political Science University of Kentucky. Morehead State University Graduate Studies: Martin School of Public Working on Master of Arts in Adult and Higher Administration Education Lexington Community College KASFAA Service: Program Committee 1996- Computer Information Systems 97 and 1999-00. KASFAA Service: 1999 Chair of KASFAA Financial Statement of Candidacy: I have been in Aid Awareness Committee. KASFAA member since financial aid for four years. During this time, I have 1991. 1993 member of the KASFAA Program grown to love my job as well as the students I Committee. 1994 co-chair of the KASFAA Financial serve. KASFAA has given me the opportunity to Aid Awareness Committee. grow professionally and to meet colleagues who have proven to be great mentors and cherished SASFAA Service: 1995-1996, 1998, instructor for friends. I am honored to make my candidacy for the Southern Assoc. of Financial Aid Administrators the office of Secretary of KASFAA and will work (SASFAA) Summer Workshop Program. diligently to serve the organization in any capacity deemed necessary. I look forward to working with Statement of Candidacy: I am honored to be everyone in the next year and the years to come. nominated to run for KASFAA President-Elect. The Kentucky Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has a rich tradition of professionalism, leadership and knowledge. I have grown professionally through the extraordinary support of the association and its members. I would like the opportunity to return that support to the association. Should I be selected as your president-elect, I pledge that I will devote my energies to further the mission of our association, and to increase the state’s involvement with SASFAA. Thank you for your consideration. 8 Spring 2000 Election Candidates Private School Private School Representative... Representative... David Wuinee Gerry Covert Director of Financial Aid, Bellarmine College Director of Financial Aid, Kentucky Weslyan College University of South Carolina - Columbia Master of Education Eastern Illinois University Bachelor of Science, Career Occupations/ Saint Anselm College emphasis in Management Bachelor of Arts, Criminal Justice Certificate, Human Relations and Work KASFAA Service: Member, three years KASFAA Service: Vendor Sponsor Chairperson, SASFAA Service: Member, three years 1999 - 2000, Program Committee, 1995 - Present, High School Counselor Trainer, 1997 - Present, KET NASFAA Service: Member, twelve years Call In Show Guest Commentator, 1996, 1998, Financial Aid Awareness Committee, 1997 - 1999, MASFAA Service: Member, nine years Support Staff Workshop Committee, 1998 - 1999, Member, 1994 - Present Other: AIKCU Memeber, three years; focus group member for KHESLC 1997; test site person SASFAA Service: Professional Development for SFATech federal listserv 1999; financial aid Committee/Trainer, 1999 New Aid Workshop, professional for 25 years. Professional Development Committee/Trainer, 2000 New Aid Workshop, Program Committee, 1999 Statement of Candidacy: I appreciate the Conference, Member, 1994 - Present honor of being nominated as a candidate for the KASFAA Private School Representative. It