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Crimson Spirit Award -- Teresa Overton
UA Press Books Win Awards

Teresa Overton

Teresa Overton, mail delivery clerk in Campus Mail, has an early shift -- 4-11 a.m. Nevertheless, she is not only very responsible, but she sets a good example for everyone else, even at that early hour. According to her nominator, DeLane Bailey, facilities business administration, she works long hours and, if necessary, on Saturdays to ensure operations go smoothly.

"She is responsible for the processing of fee bills from Student Receivables and has done a great job in making this a top priority," wrote Bailey. "Teresa once worked from 4 a.m. until 6 p.m. Then she came in at 2 a.m. the next morning to get a jump start on her day to meet the 2:30 p.m. deadline at the Post Office." After the Sept. 11 crisis, Overton made patriotic pins for co-workers. She is an asset to the operations at Campus Mail and embodies the spirit of the Crimson Spirit Award.

The Crimson Spirit Award recognizes individual staff members who make extraordinary contributions and demonstrate a winning spirit. To nominate an employee, who must be a current non-faculty employee, contact UA Human Resources at 348-6690 or Human Resource Development at 348-7125. Crimson Spirit Winners who wish to have their picture taken for Dialog and for office records may come to the photography department in G-5 Rose Administration Building on Wednesdays April 24, May 8 and May 22 from 2-4 p.m. to have photos made. No appointment is necessary. For information, contact Jennifer Sanford at 348-8332.

UA Press Books Win Awards

Four UA Press books recently won awards.

"One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser" by Helen Norris won an Alabama Author Award from the Alabama Library Association
"Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995" by Mark Newman won an American Studies Network Book Prize in a unanimous jury selection from The Roosevelt Study Center in the Netherlands
"Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives" by David J. Carey won an honorable mention for the 2002 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award given by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
"Mobile" produced by Michael V. R. Thomason, editor, and Michelle Myatt Quinn, designer, won in the category of Scholarly Illustrated from the 2002 American Association of University Presses Book, Jacket and Journal awards.

For information about these and other UA Press books, contact Priscilla McWilliams at 348-9534 or pjmcwill@uapress.ua.edu.

Collage of award-winning UA Press books