Employees of the Month
Editor's Note: Each month, the Illinois
EPA recognizes outstanding employees for efforts to make quality
part of every job they do. Below are three Agency-wide Employees
of the Month for the most recent quarter. Congratulations to all
of them for a quality job well done!
![[Pam Thull]](pam-thull.jpg) |
Pam Thull (Administration) is the September
Employee of the Month. Working in the manager's office
for the Division of Administration, she earned
recognition by her extra work in expediting the moves of
entire divisions from the Churchill Road headquarters to
a new headquarters location across town, frequently
spending weekends assuring that items and equipment being
moved would arrive where they were needed, minimizing
loss of time before employees could resume work. She also
was instrumental in coordinating repairs when heavy rains
and a leaking roof generated "flooding"
problems. In other efforts, as a committee member for the
Governor's Environmental Corps program, she was credited
with initiating a number of improvements that resulted in
the program running with increased smoothness and
efficiency. |
![[Cynthia Gorrell]](cynthia-gorrell.jpg) |
Cynthia S. Gorrell (Bureau of Water, Division
of Public Water Supplies) was named Agency Employee of
the Month for October. The designation honored her work
as design leader for a complex data base management
system in the Division's groundwater section, entailing
design, documentation, debugging, data conversion and
coordination with Agency units as well as outside
developers. She also is a liaison to the Governor's
appointed Groundwater Advisory Council and was
instrumental in developing a format for interest group
input into regulated recharge area rule making. |
![[Dan Rion]](dan-rion.jpg) |
Dan Rion (Bureau of Land) was honored as the
Illinois EPA's Employee of the Month for November. Dan's
accomplishments included taking a lead role from
conception to implementation of the innovative Partners
for Waste Paint Solution Program, that accepts unwanted
or leftover paint and reblends it for new use. He was
recognized for his enthusiastic participation in the
Agency's household hazardous waste collections, as well
as his outstanding courtesy and professionalism in
dealing with the public, even in sometimes adversarial
situations. |
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