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Paragon Global Resources, Inc.
What’s Inside Award Winners RSM Blood Drive Shop Crocs Toyota Office World Vision Support WRV “Hot” Dog Days Tommie’s Baby Shower Service Results A Day in Cambridge Recipe of the Month
Happy Fall!
What’s Inside
Employee Spotl ght
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Award Winners
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RSM Blood Drive
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Shop Crocs
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Toyota Office
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World Vision Support
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Dallas Office Baseball
Job Title: Relocation Associate II
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WRV “Hot” Dog Days Lunch & Photo Contest
Hometown: Wheaton, IL
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Tommie’s Baby Shower
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Service Results
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A Day in Cambridge
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Recipe of the Month
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Staff
Editor-in-Chief Kristin Eubanks, CRP
Director, Global Marketing and Communications
Contributing Editors/Writers Thomasina Larkin Manager, Global Marketing and Communications
Teresa Mahlberg
Marketing Technology Specialist
Lori Forgay
Proposal Specialist
Design & Production George Rigg
Lynette Wilson
Birthday: September 22
Hobbies & Interests: Skating and exercising, styling hair, long walks, women small group – Bible studies, volunteering and DIY projects.
Congratulations! Award Winners January-June 2013
Please extend congratulations to Paragon’s 2013 1st and 2nd quarter Peak Performer & Double Diamond winners. Peak Performer Sarah Chavez -TX, Operations Drew Krycerick - RSM, IS Applications
Graphic Designer
For future issues of Paragon Perspective, please send any news or suggestions for articles to paragonperspective@paragongri.com
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Double Diamond Linda Sims - TX, Client Accounting Nancy Shaunessy - TX, Operations
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RSM Blood Drive
RSM recently hosted a blood drive for the American Red Cross. Long Tran and Bryant Nguyen from Accounting and Kevin Sheehan from IT participated. Karen Rose’s daughter and former Paragon employee Christina Rose Johnson also donated.
Amanda Ward and Nancy Shaunessy are showing their support for one of Paragon’s newest clients, Crocs.
Long Tran and Bryant Nguyen
Paragon Relocation’s valued client, Toyota, has hung a sign outside Steve Ford’s office indicating our presence. It is Paragon Relocation – Torrance!
Kevin Sheehan’s arm did a great job donating blood
Steve Ford has been onsite at Toyota for 7 years Karen Rose’s Grandkids came up to visit
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Paragon Sponsors a Child Through World Vision Meet Jose Hilario Mejia L, born September 10, 2011, in Najhe, Mexico. He is our newest addition to the Paragon-sponsored family of World Vision. This sponsorship is the result of a company match to one of our employees in RSM.
Jose Hilario Mejia
Jose lives with his parents and two brothers. His parents struggle to provide for the family. His father is a farm laborer. Jose is growing up in a poor community in central Mexico. Typical homes are made of adobe with tile roofs and have only one room. Beans, corn tortillas and sometimes chicken or beef are staples of the local diet. Jose likes to play with toy cars and helps at home by being good. He is in satisfactory health.
Paragon’s sponsorship commitment will help provide Jose and his community with school supplies, immunizations against childhood illnesses, health checkups, dental exams, access to clean water and improved nutrition. In addition, our support provides agricultural training so parents can raise the standard of living for their children. Finally, through Christian witness, these precious families will have the chance to know the love and grace of God; and most of all, to know there is a company in the U.S. whose employees love and support little Jose.
Frisco RoughRiders Baseball Game In August, more than a dozen Dallas employees, their friends and family attended a Frisco RoughRiders game. Although the RoughRiders lost, a great time was had by everyone who attended.
Everyone had a great time at the game!
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WRV “Hot” Dog Days Lunch & Pet Photo Contest
Pet photos display
Thomasina “Tommie” Larkin’s Baby Shower
In August, the Warrenville office celebrated the Dog Days of Summer with a Hot Dog Lunch and Pet Photo Contest.
The photo contest winner – Nicole Stumpf and her winning photo (inset)
Left to right: Jackie Moroney, Pauline Allentin, Tommie Larkin and Celine Hoey
Her bags are packed and she left the Paragon Dublin office in September faster than Usain Bolt! Baby Larkin is due to make his/her first public appearance on October 15. The team in Dublin, never a bunch to miss out on an opportunity for a contest, have already started up a “guess the arrival date fund” revealing that one or two of us have hidden gambling tendencies! We threw a small baby shower for Tommie at lunch time. We ordered some lovely hot curry with the secret intention
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of inducing early delivery. We’ve had plenty of Dublin Paragon babies but it would have been one for the record books to have one delivered on-site! The team and Tommie all had a ball and there were plenty of name suggestions and tales from the labor ward to be heard. Everyone who’s had the chance to work with Tommie over the last five years at Paragon are over the moon for her and her husband Barry. Best of luck to the both of them.
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Service Results Congratulations to all of our Consultants who have achieved extraordinary results on behalf of our customers and clients. Job well done! We have 97% service results year to date and a total of 18 Consultants who have achieved this result. This is fantastic and represents 82% of all Consultants worldwide. And better than that, we have 11 Consultants who have achieved 100% during this period.
Location Dublin Dublin Texas Texas Texas Toyota Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Warrenville Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong
Consultant’s Name Claire DeLacy Joanna Turek Sheila Kelly Kelly Moore Pam Shepardson
Satisfaction Rate 100.0% 95.9%
Steve Ford Donna Campbell Katherine Heil Jacqueline Likvan Lisa Otto Nancy Sigel Jessica Stroede Nichole Stumpf Leann Tantillo Christi Wenzel Bonnie Chung Otis Lau Jerome Sozzi
100.0%
100.0% 97.8% 96.2%
96.4% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 98.1% 98.5% 96.7%
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Cambridge
By Jacqueline Walker and Julie Pratt The name Cambridge brings instant images to the mind’s eye: the breathtaking view of the King’s College Chapel, Christmas Eve service of Nine Lessons and Carols and thousands of students cycling frantically to their lectures. But Cambridge is more than the sum of its images. It manages to combine happily its role as a historic city with a world famous university, a regional center and more recently, as the internationally renowned hub of technological, scientific and commercial excellence. It is impossible, of course, to separate ancient city from ancient university for the two are now inextricably intertwined and they are more at ease with each other than at any time in the past 800 years. Jacqueline has lived in Cambridge for six years and studied for her business management degree at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Julie also worked in Cambridge for many years. She moved to the United Kingdom twenty years ago and now lives just outside of Peterborough. Julie and her husband Nigel met with Jacqueline and her husband Clive for lunch in one of the oldest pubs in Cambridge called The Eagle which is situated near King’s College and was opened in 1667.
The Eagle is one of the oldest pubs in Cambridge
Jacqueline Walker and Julie Pratt in front of King’s College Chapel
King’s College Chapel
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Recipe
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Cranberry Orange Cookies Source: allrecipes.com
These orange-flavored cranberry cookies are tart and delicious, not to mention beautiful. Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup white sugar ½ cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon of grated orange zest 2 tablespoons of orange juice 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon of salt 2 cups chopped cranberries ½ cup chopped walnuts (optional) ½ teaspoon grated orange zest 3 tablespoons of orange juice 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
Directions Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a large bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg until well blended. Mix in 1 teaspoon orange zest and 2 tablespoons orange juice. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the orange mixture. Mix in cranberries and if using, walnuts, until evenly distributed. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Cookies should be spaced at least 2 inches apart. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges are golden. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks. In a small bowl, mix together 1/2 teaspoon orange zest, 3 tablespoons orange juice and confectioners’ sugar until smooth. Spread over the tops of cooled cookies. Let stand until set.
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