Feb2017

SON February 2017
STAFF
February celebrates the
New Staff arrivals: following:

Tammie Coffman, Assistant Professor, Abilene American Heart Month
Natl. Black History Month
Dana Bell, NP Wellness Center Feb. 2 – Groundhog Day
Feb. 9 – Pizza Day
Lisa Carranco, PSS Wellness Center Feb. 11 – Make a Friend Day

Tim Gallimore, SR LVN ACHC www.Brownielocks.com

Xochitl Muszar, RN ACHC Shared Governance

Roger Williams, NP SHC http://www.ttuhsc.edu/son/shared-governance/

Denise Brunner, Program Coordinator, APRN Staff Council Members:

Glad to have you in the School of Nursing! Chair – Rita Robison
Chair-Elect – Allison Pritchard
Departures:
Secretary – Cheryl Wright
Mary Paul CHW Parliamentarian – Ava Walker
Mike Kelley Driver
Stacie Alvarez – Abilene
Cindy Shumard – Odessa
Tonia Borrego - Odessa
Elizabeth Martinez – Student Affairs

Khadija Bakrim – IT
Brenda Stone – Lubbock
Michelle Hunter – Lubbock
Kayla Talbott – Lubbock
Pam Gandy - Lubbock
Donna Balko - Lubbock

Matt Pierce -Lubbock
Tiffany Hager - Lubbock
Mikel Coale - Lubbock

Now taking nominations for our Spring 2017

semester STAFF WINNER.
Faculty and Staff are encouraged to nominate.

Next winner announced May 2017

Follow link (or copy and paste into your browser) below to make your nomination.

http://nursing.ttuhsc.edu/ofm/view.php?id=86602

If you would like to see something in the newsletter
please send to:

https://nursing.ttuhsc.edu/ofm/view.php?id=110188

We want your input!!!

Great opportunity for growth?
Have a chance to present at a

conference?
Staff Council is here to help financially

if you are attending a conference.
Click on the link below and complete

the form. Staff Council will review
help where we can.

Staff Development Funding

Faculty and Staff can now nominate
STAFF for awards to be given in May.

Nomination timeframe:
Jan. 15 – March 15, 2017

Staff Awards Policy 10.095

Voting Link:

Staff Awards

Leadership

Community Engagement

Creative Innovator

Customer Service

Things to do…
places to go!

Abilene http://www.abilenevisitors.com/Calendar

Amarillo http://eventful.com/amarillo/events/january

Lubbock
http://www.visitlubbock.org/events/action~posterboard/page_offset~1/req
uest_format~html/

Odessa http://www.oaoa.com/calendar/

Take care of YOU!!

Did you know that YOU can attend or call into, any or all Staff Council
meetings? All it takes is an RSVP to let us know you’ll be joining us.
As a guest you will be a non-voting attendee but we would love to have
you join us, give us input and learn what we do.
Next Staff Council meeting – February 16th at 12:00pm, location to be
announced…lunch provided for those that RSVP by February 14th.

RSVP to: [email protected]

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Below is the link to the Staff Council Website.
Here you will find your council members,
agendas, policy links and

what it is that Staff Council is charged with as well
as the link to the Shared Governance page.

http://www.ttuhsc.edu/son/shared-governance/staff.aspx

February 5, 2017

Big Game Buffalo Wings
Kickin’ Buffalo
½ cup sweet chili sauce and ½ cup buffalo sauce
Tangy Teriyaki
½ cup tangy bbq sauce and ½ cup teriyaki sauce
Rockin’ Ranch
½ cup ranch, 1 tsp. cayenne pepper flakes, 1 Tbsp green chilies
Directions

1. Stir each sauce recipe in separate bowls.
2. Preheat oven to 400°F. Warm wings.
3. Pour sauce over wings. Serve.

Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwich
Ingredients
1 rotisserie chicken
4 cheese slices
1 Tbsp. olive oil
2 cups BBQ sauce
2 cups coleslaw mix
3 Tbsp. coleslaw dressings

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Heat oil in pan on stovetop. Add in pulled rotisserie chicken, BBQ sauce, and heat for 3-5 minutes. Take
off stove.
3. Mix together the coleslaw mix and dressing. Set aside.
4. Scoop the BBQ chicken onto your choice of bread and top with cole slaw.

Rotisserie Chicken Pinwheels
Ingredients
1 Rotisserie chicken, bones and skin removed, diced finely
2.1 oz. package fully cooked hickory bacon, or ready to cook bacon, crisp and crumbled
1 package hickory bacon and onion dressing
8 10 inch tortilla wraps
5.2 oz. chive-and-onion flavored cream cheese
12 oz. jar roasted red peppers, thinly sliced

Directions
1. Spread room-temperature tortillas with cream cheese and top with red peppers, bacon and diced
rotisserie chicken.
2. Roll filled tortilla and slice into 1.5 inch thick pinwheels. Serve with hickory bacon and onion dressing
for dipping.

Tip: Make sure tortillas are room-temperature and not cold when filling and rolling. If tortilla is cold, when
filling and rolling. If tortilla is cold, it may tear. Use toothpicks to rolls together.

• Saturday, May 13th, 4:00 p.m. (United Arena)
• Saturday, December 9th, 1:00 p.m. (United Arena)

Volunteers will be needed! Yes you will be paid for the overtime or
you can work out time out with your supervisor.
Your help and time is appreciated!

Combest, Abilene, Odessa, Lubbock folks we need your help …
we have a good time and this is why we do what we do.

Please contact Kayla Talbott if you are available to help!!
[email protected]

African American History and Texas Tech
(Referenced from Texas Tech University Archives)

Southwest Collection Archive The Southwest Collection Archive within the Special Collections

Library at Texas Tech University acquires, describes, preserves, and makes accessible to scholars and the general
public, archival collections of regional, national, and international significance.

Lucille Sugar Graves – the first African-American to attend Texas Tech in 1961. (She opened the first
private school in East Lubbock – Mary and Mac which is designated as a state historical
landmark.) https://southwestcollection.wordpress.com/tag/mary-and-mac/

Ophelia Powell-Malone - the first African-American to earn a bachelor's degree
from Texas Tech in 1964.

Danny Hardaway - the first African-American athlete to
receive a scholarship from Texas Tech in 1967.

Hortense Williams Dixon – the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Texas Tech in
1970.



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