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Three
dedicated employees received Exemplary Employee Awards from Brigham Young
University-Idaho in Rexburg Nov. 19.
Margaret
Landon of Rigby, Dan Neumann of Lyman and Coleman Steel of Burton were
honored for their contributions to the university.
Landon
started working in the bakery in 1990 and later moved to Gramma’s Kitchen. Today, she is a supervisor at
the Manwaring Center’s
Nordic Landing, where people can buy fast food and full meals.
“What
makes the job is the students,” she says.
“They keep you young.”
She
is a “bright spot in the day,” says Dan Black, director of food
services. “She has a willingness to do whatever she’s asked. She
gets along with people and enjoys serving the customer. She’s very
interactive with the people she serves in the Nordic Landing.”
Neumann
works as an area head custodian and is mainly
assigned to the Eliza R. Snow Center for the Performing Arts. Having worked at the school
since 1976, he comes in at 3:30 each
morning and works to noon.
“I
have to motivate the students,” he says. “If the students see
me do the best I can, that helps a lot. I try to be happy.”
Doug
Watson, custodial department manager, says Neumann is a great friend to
everyone. “He continues to teach the students who work for him, and
we find they want to come back and work for him,” he says.
Steel
was honored for his work as supervisor of the mechanical shop, which
includes welding and plumbing. Having grown up on a farm in Plano, he first
worked at Ricks College from 1970-75 as a steam fitter and temperature
controller before trying his hand at dairy farming in Moses Lake, Wash. He
returned to the college in 1981 and today heads the shop of five full-time
employees and five or six students.
“There’s no better
place to work in the world,” Steel says.
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