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Summer 2000                                               OCR UPdate - 17
Staff Notes

New Employees

OCR welcomes to its family the following new employees:

Headquarters
Kathryn EllisPrincipal Deputy Director
Claudia SchlosbergSenior Civil Rights Analyst
Erica ThomasSecretary
New York
Cheylisia EdwardsEqual Opportunity Assistant
Chicago
Lisa SimeoneRegional Manager
Dallas
Karen ToddEqual Opportunity Specialist (EOS)
Christopher KirnEOS
Myra FainEOS
Denver
Sherita StewartEOS
Carol CarterOffice Automation Clerk
San Francisco
Scott SeabornPresidential Mgmt Intern
Emma RobertsEOS
Sonja ReddyStudent Clerk
Seattle
Christina JacksonAdministrative Officer
Marcea Joyce StevensSecretary/Reader

Retirements

OCR says a fond farewell to several long-time employees and wishes them well in their new lives after OCR:

Valita Shepperd, Deputy Director—Program Development and Training Division (HQ)

Joyce Orange, Equal Opportunity Specialist (HQ)

Richard (Dick) Joyce, EOS/Investigator—Philadelphia Regional Office

Marie Chretien, Regional Manager—Atlanta Regional Office

Delores Wilson, Special Assistant to the Regional Manager—Dallas Regional Office

George Jackson, Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist—Dallas Regional Office

Vada Kyle-Holmes, Regional Manager—Denver Regional Office

Other Departures

OCR wishes best of luck to Omar Guerrero, the Deputy Director from January 1994 until last October. Omar is now a senior adviser to Bill Lann Lee in the Civil Rights Division of the U. S. Department of Justice. In addition, Ellen Miyasato, who was the Civil Rights Attorney in the Seattle Regional Office, is now working with the Health Care Financing Administration. Special thanks to Amandeep Matharu, Presidential Management Intern, who was on loan to us for a four month tour from the Office of Management and Budget.

Congratulations!

Congrats to Peter Chan in the Boston Regional Office who was recently promoted to Deputy Regional Manager....Velveta Howell is Acting Regional Manager in the Denver Regional Office....Roosevelt Freeman is Acting Regional Manager in the Atlanta Regional Office....Lisa Simeone is the new Regional Manager for our Region V office based in Chicago.

Special thanks to Al Sanchez in Chicago for his great work in managing the region for over a year. We are fortunate that Al returns to his position as Deputy Regional Manager.

Congrats to Caroline Chang, Regional Manager of our Boston office, who was recently honored as one of "Boston's Millennium Leaders." Caroline's picture was taken by the renowned Bachrach Photographers, and the collection of photographs of all the millennium leaders will be donated to the Boston Public Library for its archives.

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