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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: Nov. 9, 1999

Contact: Anthony Flott

aflott@mail.unomaha.edu

(402) 554-2989

 

 

1999 Outstanding Service Awards

(OMAHA, NE) — The UNO Alumni Association issued four of its Outstanding Service Awards during the organization’s annual Chairman of the Board Dinner Tuesday, Nov. 9. The dinner, hosted by Alumni Association Chairman of the Board Mike Jones, was held at the W.H. Thompson Alumni Center in appreciation for the efforts of the 25-member UNO Alumni Association Board of Directors.

 

Receiving Outstanding Service Awards were Wendell Quist, Gary Repair, Robert Runyon and Michele Sperle. The award honors faculty, staff, alumni or friends who have shown long, outstanding service to the alumni association and/or university.

 

Quist, a partner with the Seim, Johnson, Sestak and Quist accounting firm, began assisting the university in the late 1980s with the startup of the Maverick Pickle Card Program. Since then he has served as the program’s Utilization of Funds Officer, a post he will resign at the end of this year.

 

Repair is senior producer for UNO Television. A 1982 UNO graduate, he is being honored for his longtime efforts on behalf of the UNO Chancellor’s Scholarship Swing, for which he produces a video each year.

 

Runyon, dean of University Libraries, has been instrumental in providing UNO graduates access to library services through the UNO Alumni Card. He also has facilitated the association’s efforts to archive the university’s history through the library’s Archives Department.

 

Sperle, who was owner and president of CIT Networking Inc. before selling that company earlier this year, was instrumental in establishing and maintaining the UNO Alumni Association’s computer records system. She also has played an integral role in the organization of the annual UNO Chancellor’s Scholarship Swing.

 

 

 

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