{"id":51514,"date":"2015-07-24T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=51514"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:48:51","slug":"meet-julys-staff-member-month-lionel-e-jones-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/meet-julys-staff-member-month-lionel-e-jones-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet July&#8217;s Staff Member of the Month, Lionel E. Jones Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51555\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/meet-julys-staff-member-month-lionel-e-jones-jr\/lionel-jones\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51555\" class=\"wp-image-51555 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lionel-Jones-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Jones\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lionel-Jones-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lionel-Jones.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lionel Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">Lionel E. Jones Jr., a property control auditor in the UM office of <a href=\"http:\/\/procurement.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Procurement Services<\/a>, has been selected as Staff Council&#8217;s Staff Member of the Month for July. To help us\u00a0get to know him better, Jones answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong>\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">How long have you worked at Ole Miss?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">13 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What is your hometown?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">New Orleans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>IOM:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">What is your favorite Ole Miss memory?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The people that I&#8217;ve gotten to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What do you enjoy most about your position or the department in which you work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Meeting people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What do you like to do when you are not at work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Watch sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What is one thing on your bucket list?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">To grow closer to God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What is your favorite movie?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What is your favorite Ole Miss tradition?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Football.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What is a fun fact about you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I love people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What are three words you would use to describe yourself?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fun, loving and peaceful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If you could visit one time or place in world history (past, present or future), what would it be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The Holy Land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>IOM:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If I could be an animal for a day, I would be ____.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>Jones:<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>An eagle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\">To nominate a colleague for the Staff Member of the Month, email<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"mailto:staffcouncil@olemiss.edu\">staffcouncil@olemiss.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>with 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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel E. 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