{"id":50468,"date":"2015-06-18T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=50468"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:16:58","slug":"meet-dion-sanford-junes-staff-member-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/meet-dion-sanford-junes-staff-member-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dion Sanford, June&#8217;s Staff Member of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50553\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/meet-dion-sanford-junes-staff-member-month\/dion-sanford\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50553\" class=\"wp-image-50553 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dion-Sanford-2048x1150.jpg\" alt=\"Dion Sanford, a UM procurement assistant and mailroom billing clerk, has been selected as Staff Council\u2019s Staff Member of the Month for June.\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dion-Sanford.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dion-Sanford-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dion-Sanford-580x326.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dion Sanford<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dion Sanford, a <a href=\"http:\/\/procurement.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UM procurement<\/a> assistant and mailroom billing clerk, has been selected as Staff Council&#8217;s Staff Member of the Month for June. To help us\u00a0get to know him better, Sanford answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong> I was a student worker in the biology department from January through July 2011, was a campus mail student worker from October 2011 until June 2014, and have worked at Campus Mail full-time since June 2014, and have worked at Procurement since November 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is your hometown?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0Courtland\/Batesville<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM: What is your favorite Ole Miss memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0Walking across the stage as an Ole Miss accountancy graduate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM: What do you enjoy most about your position or the department in which you work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0I love the environment that I am around and love helping people across campus. I also love working with numbers and doing things right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM: What do you like to do when you are not at work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0I like to spend time at church or relaxing with family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM: What is one thing on your bucket list?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;d like to go to the White House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is your favorite movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0I don&#8217;t spend too much time watching movies, so I&#8217;ll choose the last one I saw and that was &#8220;Furious 7.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOM:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What are three words you would use to describe yourself?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanford:<\/strong>\u00a0Honest, passionate, respectful<\/p>\n<p>To nominate a colleague for the Staff Member of the Month, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:staffcouncil@olemiss.edu\">staffcouncil@olemiss.edu<\/a>\u00a0with the name of the individual you&#8217;d like to nominate as well as why you feel he or she should be recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dion Sanford, a UM procurement assistant and mailroom billing clerk, has been selected as Staff Council&#8217;s Staff Member of the Month for June. 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