Behind every faculty member there was A Willing and Able Servant

Amodest group of peo- ple kept theuniversity together during the 1988/89 school year. They stood just outside ofthespotlight,helping faculty,students and visitors. They answered phone calls, gave directions and explanations. They wrote and typed They organizedand filed They corrected papers and administered tests. They were everywhere doing everything. Wait butamoment and they were soon back at their desks

LU secretaries,as a whole, didn't like thespotlight

"If we say how much work we do,it sounds like we are complaining Ifwe saythat we do a good job under allof the different circumstances, it sounds like we're bragging.It is a Catch-22," explained one secretary.

"Mainly, we're servants," said another "We're here to serve thestudents and the faculty Inreturn, allwe askfor is an occasional thankyou."

Professors who complained about the secretary's work didn't receive the same treatment as those who expressed their appreciation No individual faculty member was ever intentionally ignored or slighted, however

"Knowing the work you're doing will be appreciated isa powerful motivator," said a secretary who has been at Liberty forfiveyears.

The perfect faculty member, several secretaries said, realized thatsecretarieshave more to do than just his/her work. Additionally,hewasorganized and didn'twaste thesecretary's time needlessly. Most importantly, hesaid "thank you"and indicated he appreciated the work thesecretariesdid.

Students soon realized each secretary tried to do her best on thejob She could notand would notoverride the policies of the university or professor for the student. This included items such assigning students

Intoclassesorallowingthemto

drop.

"We did what the professor instructed us todo.Ifhesaid not toallow anystudentstosign in to a class, then we couldn't However, students felt we could and should," said a secretary who began in 1987.

"We're willing servants. We're here to serve the facultyand students. W e want thingsto run smoothly and weappreciate it when people realize that," said a secretary for one of theuniversity'sdeans

Wayne Kompelien Ernest Liddle

Arts & Sciences Library Services

Music and Art Dean

Corinne Livesay

Bus. & Govt. Management

Montecue Lowry

Arts & Sciences History

Ralph Mawdsley

Bus. & Govt. Educational Law