{"id":38095,"date":"2025-05-12T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38095"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:12:38","slug":"john-kemp-95-named-staff-member-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/john-kemp-95-named-staff-member-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kemp \u201995 named Staff Member of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring on Furman\u2019s campus is award season for students, faculty and for staff, who gather by the hundreds in Younts Conference Center for the annual Staff Recognition Event to see who will be named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/staff-advisory-council\/programs-events\/staff-member-of-the-year\/\">Staff Member of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following a buffet breakfast, many staff members were recognized for their years of service, including Steve Long, a project manager in Facilities Services, who has worked at Furman for 50 years, since the Ford Administration. \u00a0Others recognized for 20 years or more:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38097\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38097\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38097 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/05\/2025-5-8-Staff-Member-of-the-Year-Award-Pics-Edited-2-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and a man pose with a clock.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/05\/2025-5-8-Staff-Member-of-the-Year-Award-Pics-Edited-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/05\/2025-5-8-Staff-Member-of-the-Year-Award-Pics-Edited-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/05\/2025-5-8-Staff-Member-of-the-Year-Award-Pics-Edited-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/05\/2025-5-8-Staff-Member-of-the-Year-Award-Pics-Edited-2-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/05\/2025-5-8-Staff-Member-of-the-Year-Award-Pics-Edited-2.jpg 1132w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Furman President Elizabeth Davis poses with John Kemp, who received the 2024-2025 Staff Member of the Year Award on Thursday, May 8, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>20 years: Alan Bryson, Michelle Shaw, Chandra Dillard, Tianne McCullough and Michael Morgan<\/li>\n<li>25 years: Pam Breedlove, Michelle Young, Paul Brandenberg, Joy Brown, Tory Coleman, K.C. Cox and Jason Cassidy<\/li>\n<li>30 years: Jimmy Looper, Richard Lange and Kim Keefer<\/li>\n<li>35 years: Nina Anthony<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, President Elizabeth Davis called forward the finalists for Staff Member of the Year: Jim Benes from Facilities, Tammy Cureton from the Office of Integrative Research in the Sciences, John Kemp \u201995 from Development and Erin Mayes from Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>And the winner was: Kemp, associate vice president for Development and staff ombudsperson. Kemp\u2019s nominator said he \u201cupholds only the highest level of ethics, kindness, and professionalism and called him an \u201cexemplary representative\u201d of Furman\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp received a check for $1,000, a meal for four prepared by campus dining vendor Bon Appetit, a seat in the president\u2019s suite for a Furman football game and other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the nomination process and see past Staff Members of the Year on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/staff-advisory-council\/programs-events\/staff-member-of-the-year\/\">Staff Advisory Council website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Staff Recognition Event also celebrated employees who were celebrating milestone anniversaries with the University, including Steve Long, who has worked at Furman for 50 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":38098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38105,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095\/revisions\/38105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}