APPLAUSE AWARDS
Diana Carll - Dining Services
I find faith in the future of the world again when I get my morning coffee at Toast and Diana Carll doesn't just look at the register and dump my change in my hand, but actually counts it back to me, in the way people used to do all the time before computers took over our lives. Thanks Diana. And you're always smiling too, which is a great way to start a day. - Susan Kashack, University Affairs Office
Mike Zito - Facilities Services
On Halloween I was walking next to the Duck Pond, on my way to the SSALI office, when my pumpkin (which I needed that morning to carve with students) rolled off my bag and, slowly but surely, into the Duck Pond! I stood there for a moment watching it float, when I saw one of the small white carts (that the facilities people use) go by on another path. I shouted to the man inside, "Excuse me? Do you have something on your car that could help me retrieve my pumpkin?" He promptly came down to where I was, got a ladder off his roof, moved the pumpkin closer, and then stuck the ladder into the pond, climbed down and retrieved the pumpkin! What kindness! I believe that Michael Zito went beyond the call of duty and I just want to say thank you for saving my pumpkin and my lesson that day! - Daniela Kingwill, instructor, Sonoma State American Language Institute (SSALI)