Employee recognition
On Oct. 12, MCG will recognize employees with five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of service during the annual Employee Recognition Ceremony in the Auditoria Center. In this issue, the Beeper highlights a 20-year employee.
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When he was a young boy, James Gillespie liked “tearing things apart.” If a couple of screws were left over when he put everything back together, that was OK – as long as it worked, which it usually did.
Mr. Gillespie has been using his hands-on skills for MCG’s benefit since September 1985, when he was recruited from Athens Technical College for a new program – the Office Equipment Repair Department. “When we first started, it was typewriters, then word processors, then terminals and now computers.”
As a PC support specialist in information technology, Mr. Gillespie is a familiar face on campus. Sitting behind a desk doesn’t appeal to him: “I want to go out and meet the people,” he says.
A Philadelphia native and U.S. Air Force veteran, he originally planned to stay at MCG 10 years, but with that time now more than doubled, expect to have him around a good while longer.