Sarnia Native Named Calvin Student Employee of the Year

April 19, 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Full story, including a JPG, see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/student-employee.htm

Calvin College faculty, staff and students gathered on April 12 in the Chapel
Undercroft on campus to learn the identity of this year’s Student Employee of
the Year.

The honoree — senior Kristin Kingma, who until recently was a lead manager
for Creative Dining Services — did not learn that she had won until she
arrived at the ceremony a half-hour later, due to a scheduling conflict with
her student teaching assignment.

“I was floored,” says the 22-year-old elementary education major who hails
from Sarnia, Ontario. “I did not suspect it.”

Kingma won a $300 gift certificate to the Campus Store and her former
supervisor, Jennifer Witham, a service manager with Creative Dining Services,
says both the honor and the prize were well-deserved.

“Food service is a very hard, dirty, demanding job, and she did it for five
years,” Witham says of Kingma, who worked her way up through Creative Dining
ranks during that span.

In the lead management position, she was responsible for the orientation,
training, discipline, scheduling and overall management of her fellow student
employees.

Following her graduation in May, Kingma and her husband will move to China,
where she will teach an elementary class at the International School of China.

Kingma was chosen from a pool of 18 student employees from the entire array of
Calvin academic and administrative offices and departments, separated into
divisional categories. Each division furnished a runner-up into the pool from
which the winner was chosen. (See website for full list of nominees.)

All of the nominees won both a backpack and a gift bag full of prizes,
including gift certificates to local restaurants, stores, theatre and symphony
events, museums—even the zoo. The gifts came through the courtesy of donors
to the Human Resources (HR) department and the Calvin Alumni Association, which
for the first time this year partnered on the event.

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Received on Thu Apr 19 14:30:01 2007