Staff Appreciation Day - November 15

“Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.” - David Thomas

Posted on behalf of MattKinsi:

Today, November 15, is Staff Appreciation Day! The ML Mentors got together and decided that if there was a ML Appreciation Day on November 22nd, there ought to be a Staff Appreciation Day this year, especially with the hectic year they've had from Camp NaNoWriMo to the brand new site. We want to let the staff know how much we appreciate their 20 hour work days, 7 days a week at times, always there to answer our questions, to motivate us to achieve something we never thought possible, and make sure we get our shirts in good time.

So here’s to you staff. Please use the thread in the All Ages Coffeehouse (here) to write your note of thanks to staff, who are listed below. But don’t let this stop you – use your creativity! Make a pretty thank you card/graphic, record yourself on youtube saying thanks or singing thanks, however you unleash your creativity (and post the links!!)

(As a note, we wanted to let you know that this is, well, was by the time you read this, a surprise for the staff. They didn’t know we MLs are/were up to these shenanigans.)

I leave you with this quote from Thorton Wilder. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” To the all the staff who are listed individually below, you are some of those treasures. Thank you.

Program Director Lindsey Grant
Community Liaison Sarah Mackey
YWP Director Chris Angotti
OLL Exec Director Chris Baty
Operations Manager Tavia Stewart-Streit
Office Captain Tim Kim
Technical Director Dan Duvall
Web Developer Jezra Lickter
Site Wrangler Cybele May
ML Captain Emily Bristow
Forums ModGod Heather Dudley
Beta Test Wrangler and YWP Forums ModGod Cylithria Dubois
Shipper Gentleman Ian Waldrop
Shipper Gentleman Frankie Koeller
Intern Max Berwald
Intern Arianna Asercion
Intern Paige Knorr
Ticketmaster Rob Diaz, who isn’t staff but is pretty darn incredible with all the amazing volunteer work he does for Tech Support, so he got voted in as honorary staff person for the day :D