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Ideas to Recognize the Important People in your Hall!

Memo

To: Department of Residence Life Staff Members.
From: Brian C. Steinberg (ADRLFP and MDHD).
CC: Division of Student Affairs.
Date: 09/18/00.
Re: Residence Life Appreciation Days.

Here are the official SDSM&T Department of Residence Life Appreciation Days:

November 22, 1999 Custodial Appreciation Day
December 6, 1999 Resident Appreciation Day
January 24, 2000 Hall Officer / Wing Rep. Appreciation Day
February 7, 2000 Resident Assistant Appreciation Day
March 20, 2000 Desk Clerk Appreciation Day
April 26, 2000 Professional Secretary’s Day

Please take the time to recognize these very important people who make a difference in the lives of EVERY SDSM&T Faculty, Staff, and Student. Here are some suggestions on how you can recognize these outstanding people:

IDEAS ON WHAT TO DO FOR EACH APPRECIATION DAY

Residence Hall Custodians

a) Certain student leaders from each hall can take out their custodians for lunch (Surbeck?)
b) Get together as a hall and help the custodians clean.
c) Make big custodian appreciation signs and post them everywhere throughout the hall/campus.
d) Put an add in the Tech Times and Raver newspaper recognizing your custodians hard work.

Residence Hall Residents

a) Put an ad in the Tech Times and Raver newspaper recognizing all of the residence hall students hard work on being involved and academic’s.
b) Make big student appreciation signs and post them everywhere throughout campus.

Residence Hall Officer(s) / Wing Rep.

a) Make big Hall Officer / Wing Rep. appreciation signs and post them everywhere throughout the hall/campus.
b) Take out your hall officer / Wing Rep. for dinner (home cooked meal?).
c) Put an ad in the Tech Times and Raver newspaper recognizing your Hall Officer(s) hard work.

Resident Assistant

a) Make big resident assistant appreciation signs and post them everywhere throughout the hall/campus.
b) Take out your resident assistant for dinner.
c) Put an ad in the Tech Times and Raver newspaper recognizing your resident assistant’s hard work.

Desk Clerk

a) Make big desk clerk appreciation signs and post them everywhere throughout the hall/campus.
b) If you are a resident assistant, offer to work a shift or part of a shift for a desk clerk.
c) Put an ad in the Tech Times and Raver newspaper recognizing their hard work.

Secretary

a) Have student leaders take the secretary out for lunch.
b) Make big secretary appreciation signs and post them everywhere throughout the hall/campus.
c) Have the Hall Directors and Resident Assistants work the Residence Life Desk for a day and let the Secretary and Staff Assistant have the day/night off.

The content on these pages was originally provided by Brian C. Steinberg, the founder of http://www.theallygroup.org and http://www.safezoneforall.com (Creater of the previous: http://www.residentassistant.com/reslifepro)