{"id":8190,"date":"2019-11-10T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2019-11-10T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T03:51:55","slug":"staff-spotlight-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/staff-spotlight-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight – November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leigh Cassidy \u2013 Academic Advising Coordinator, SCPS \"\"<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Leigh Cassidy is an Academic Advising Coordinator in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where she supports enrolled students from admission through completion.\u00a0 This includes providing information on program requirements, policies and procedures, and making course recommendations.\u00a0 In this position since March 2017, she has a role in developing educational plans and providing resources to students to promote success.\u00a0 As a child, Leigh moved around a lot because of her father\u2019s job.\u00a0 Growing up she was able to enjoy much of our country, including Atlanta, Michigan, Massachusetts, California, New York and Delaware.\u00a0 This may have sparked her love for travel.\u00a0 Experiencing various places and cultures gives her a different perspective and is a reminder that there is a big world of possibilities out there.\u00a0 Leigh claims that she is devoid of any musical talent, but would love to learn to play the piano like a virtuoso and sing like an angel.<\/p>\n

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Bill Hiestand \u2013 Environmental Services<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In Bill\u2019s three years in Environmental Services here at the college, he has ensured a clean, sanitary environment inside the academic, administrative and residence hall buildings.\u00a0 Married to his wife, Cindy for 31 years, they share three children and three grandchildren. Cindy, and Bill\u2019s youngest daughter, Katie are both current students here at Elizabethtown.\u00a0 As an author, Bill has written seven novels and credits Bleak House<\/em> by Charles Dickens as his favorite book.\u00a0 A fan of the Oakland Raiders, he also enjoys reading, writing, traveling and playing chess in his free time.<\/p>\n

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Chris Perzinski \u2013 Head Men\u2019s Lacrosse Coach<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In his fourth academic year as Men\u2019s Lacrosse Coach, Chris is charged with the recruitment, development and mentorship of the men\u2019s lacrosse program.\u00a0 His career didn\u2019t start in coaching, however, and he wanted nothing to do with lacrosse as he finished his time as a player in 2008.\u00a0 Chris worked briefly in supply chain management for a private label toddler nutritional company before lacrosse called him back in the form of coaching a high school team in Charlottesville, VA.\u00a0 He has played for and was named captain of the Polish National Lacrosse team in the 2010 and 2014 World Lacrosse Championships. Polish is a part of his heritage and he has always wanted to learn to speak fluent Polish, like his grandmother.\u00a0 Throughout all of his lacrosse games, he has managed to never break a bone or endure a serious injury\u2026and, he hopes to keep this streak going! \u00a0Outside of work and lacrosse, Chris enjoys playing guitar, seeing live music of any genre, and saltwater fishing in Ocean City, MD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leigh Cassidy \u2013 Academic Advising Coordinator, SCPS Leigh Cassidy is an Academic Advising Coordinator in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where she supports enrolled students from admission through completion.\u00a0 This includes providing information on program requirements, policies and procedures, and making course recommendations.\u00a0 In this position since March 2017, she has a role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":8270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,7],"tags":[1254],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-staff-spotlight","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/8272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}