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Sergeant Lori Girard
OUR DC TIMEWATCHERS STILL WORKING
This article is about one of the most popular
staff members to have worked at BCI over the
years. She is also one of the few that worked
their twenty-five year plus career entirely at
BCI. Lori Girard has been a vital player at BCI
over the years and has always been there for all
of us and always been a friend.
She began her career in Classification at the
ripe old age of 21 as a clerk typist on 1/19/81
for then classification supervisor, John Bibby.
In August of 1981, Lori was promoted to
Secretary in Classification.
In August of 1982, Lori transferred to Security.
Her first day on shift, she was assigned to the
control room at the Main Unit (There were no
other units back then) and was given her one
shift training from Sergeant Bill Boyett and she
was on her own. At this time Robert Fischer was
Major and Danny Wilkins was the Administrative
Lieutenant.
After one and a half years or so there, Lori
went to the Mail Room. In 1984 while assigned to
the Mail Room, Lori worked on June 30 and later
that evening was admitted to the hospital where
her son, Stacy was born on July 1st.
That weekend, there was quite a disturbance on
the compound due to the 4th of July
Holiday and she missed it. Lori was in the Mail
Room until September 1989, when she was promoted
to Administrative Sergeant at the New Work Camp
that was to be built. Superintendent Ray
McCleese promoted her. (She was the first female
Sergeant Ray had promoted as Superintendent).
Lori was also the first official employee to be
assigned to the Work Camp. During this time,
Lori worked with Carl Mullinex to assist in
ensuring all building materials and equipment
was received and properly assigned to the new
facility. Brevard Work Camp opened in June of
1990 with Major Robert Baldonado as Chief.
After about a year she went to 3rd
shift for almost a year then to 2nd
shift for about a year and then returned as the
Administrative Sergeant for several months, then
was moved to urinalysis testing for
approximately 3 years. Lori then was assigned to
Institutional Inspector Don Bowling for a year.
Lori then returned to the Work Camp as the
Administrative Sergeant for the following 3
years. In 2007 Lori returned to shift duties as
the 2nd shift Control Room Supervisor
where she currently works.
During Lori’s career she has been a supporter
and leader with the Employee Club (now EBTF) and
FCCD holding officer positions from President,
VP, Secretary and Treasurer in each. Lori has
been recipient of the Employee of the Month at
both units over her career.
Lori enjoys riding motorcycles with Dan, her
husband of 17 plus years. She is an excellent
baker and is always making some kind of goodies
and bringing them to work to share with her
coworkers. She can always be found at the DC
TIMEWATCHERS events and is usually volunteering
at them to help make them a success. She plans
on doing four more years before she joins the
ranks of the retired. If you want to drop Lori
an email to say hello, you can at
Girard.Lori@mail.dc.state.fl.us.
Around the Breakfast
Table
June
Breakfast
JUNE BREAKFAST A RECORD BREAKER!!!
WE HAD 25 IN ATTENDANCE, INCLUDING
TIMEWATCHERS FROM IRAQ, NEW ZEALAND AND KANSAS!
Hey everyone, our June
6, 2009 Breakfast was INCREDIBLE. We had 25 in attendance
and here is our list: Steve & Kathy Senter, Richard & Carol
Ward, George & Ruth Merklinger, Jackie & John Shearer, Allen
Spence, Keith Kiser, Larry Cruce, David Amstadt, Uwe
Schwersenski & his daughter and 2 friends, Larry Reed, Rich
Lopresto, E.J. Smith, Bob Cope & Jerico (his son), Bill &
Carole Rickenbrode (Carole has just retired in
Kansas-Welcome to the group), Bernie & Chris Elvin.
It was a great time of
sharing and hanging out. Steve Senter is in from his job in
Iraq till the end of the month, Bob Cope is on one of his
international jaunts from his new home in New Zealand and Bill
and Carole Rickenbrode surprised us from Kansas. The rest of us
both hailed from South Brevard, North Brevard, Lake and Volusia
counties. It was really a nice gathering. Everyone enjoyed
themselves, no one left hungry and both Keith and Larry forgot
their cameras. Don’t fret, Bob Cope and Carole Rickenbrode saved
the day and will be forwarding Photographs of this Historic
record breaking Breakfast very soon. So if you are reading this
now and the pictures are not attached, you have to come back and
check out the photographs in a couple of days. Make sure you
don’t miss the next historic event and plan to join us for our
DC TimeWatchers monthly breakfast. You can find the date by
checking out the upper right hand corner of our website for the
next one. See you there.
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Happy BirthdayDC TimeWatchers
IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THIS
MONTH AND YOU DON'T SEE YOUR NAME IN THE CALENDAR BELOW...EMAIL US AT:
RETIRED FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
OF CORRECTIONS?
INTERESTED IN STARTING A DC
TIMEWATCHERS RETIREE GROUP IN YOUR
AREA?
WE WOULD LOVE TO HELP LAUNCH IT!!!
IF YOU ARE A
RETIRED EMPLOYEE OF THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, YOU ARE A
MEMBER OF OUR GROUP. IF YOU AND
FELLOW DC RETIREES ARE INTERESTED IN
DEVELOPING A DC TIMEWATCHERS GROUP
IN YOUR AREA, EMAIL US AT
dctimewatchers@yahoo.com
! We would love to help you launch
your group. We even have a website
set up for you to use, just for your
specific locality. So drop us an
email or come on out and join us for
one of our activities. We would love
to have you!
If you want
to learn more about our
organization, click on “About us” at
the top of our webpage. Check out
our photo album and activities.
Don’t forget to join our facebook
group, DC TimeWatchers, where we are
building a networking and
socializing point to stay in touch
with friends, mentors and coworkers
as they move on in their careers and
with those friends who have retired.
New Retirees
Join me in congratulating George Megailitis and
Roy Ratcliff,
who both had their Retirement gatherings today. They are
now Full time DC TimeWatchers and we are happy for them
both. I hope to add them to the Group shortly.
Don't forget if you have a message about an up coming
retirement don't forget to come to the DC TimeWatchers Group
page and let everyone in the Group know the news.
Thanks to those folks who let me know. Dick Puglio and I
visited George's gathering at lunch time at Brevard and E.J.
Smith, my wife and I stopped and wished Roy a happy
retirement this afternoon at Durangos.
Good luck to those senior staff who fill those big shoes,
look forward to seeing you all as well one of these days.
PS: It was super seeing all those still working folks and
friends.
Talk to you all later,
Keith Kiser
DC
Officers Coming Home From War
Come and welcome home the troops from Iraq at the Melbourne
National Guard Armory
Four of our DC officers serving overseas are set to come
home on Thursday, July 2nd, arriving in
Melbourne, FL between 9:30 -10:00 am at the Armory. Among them are Jeffrey
Pilgrim and Matthew Prestridge from Martin CI, Anthony
Chess
from Hardee CI, Dorthea King from Brevard CI. They have been
in some of the most dangerous areas of
Afghanistan for more than a year and I know they
would love to see
DC
support in the crowd when they return. They are the one
group from DC, that I know of, that was stationed together
and we have been sending
care packages and interacting with their families
since October 08. What would be the best way to get the word
out to their fellow co-workers and friends about their
homecoming? It would be great to have an outpouring of
support from DC.
Hey everybody - if
anyone can spare some time on July 1st we would
appreciate a good turn out for the troops
----------------- know it is a work day for some of us -
but even one body to show is appreciated :)
Ok Everybody - this is the an update on the homecoming
it is now going to be on the 2nd of July - rounding up
around noon Thursday, July 2nd at the armory in
Melbourne and buses are due in between 1 and 2 - again I
know this is a work day for some but we would really
like a good turn out - a lot of us were there last year
when we sent them off so let rally together and welcome
them home.
thanks
Linda Patricks
UPDATE - 2
Please let the Families know that I received an
email from the unit's higherheadquarters this morning, moving the 715th
return to Melbourne to July 2nd, arriving between 9:30 am - 10:00 a.m. Again, this
date is still not in stone. We will have a better feel for the date once they
arrive in MS.
Thanks, Nancy
Nancy Lay Family Assistance Center Specialist 321-231-0102
Sharing
Places and Things of
Interest
Know of a great deal, volunteer opportunity, hobbies and interests, websites and
anything that would
that would be great for folks in our group… email and share
the site and information with us, so we can pass it on.
Does this remind you of someone?
Elkin, North Carolina
Submitted by Bernie Elvin
Send us your unusual pictures that remind you of BCI
Help! Attention! Read!Help us keep everything updated. View the album pages and help us with
the missing peoples names.Please send us your work related pictures to put in the Album.
Send your stories to post on the page for other to share.
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Don't forget, get on our email list. Send us
an email with the following information and you will be
added.
Your name:
PERSONAL EMAIL and/or CONTACT INFO:
MONTH AND DAY OF BIRTHDAY:
WHERE YOU WORKED & RETIRED:
SERVING SINCE (START YEAR):
_________
RETIRED? YES-
WHAT YEAR _____
STILL WORKING? _______YES
_____NO
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FACEBOOK page for all senior staff and DC TimeWatchers.
Please help us build
our statewide team of retirees and senior staff. With your
participation and help we hope that we can begin to further
build more and more active chapters of our retiree
organization. Take a few minutes and join us on our FACEBOOK
page at:
Our
Spotlight this month is on our friend and fellow DC TimeWatcher, Marilyn Acierno.
Marilyn grew up in Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama and New York…..
In February 1978 Marilyn began her career with the Department of Corrections as
a clerk-typist in Classification, briefly working for the Parole & Probation
department with Phil Catalfano from March 1979 through early summer. In June
1979, Marilyn was the Secretary for John Bibby, Classification Supervisor.
In September of 1980, Marilyn’s husband, Lou, was seriously
injured and Marilyn transferred to security department. She worked posts in the
control room, mail room & mostly on special assignment ensuring the work of DR
investigators, major incidents and anything that needed to be neat, correct and
understandable, was transcribed correctly, and professionally presented, was
done the way it needed to be done prior to submission.
Marilyn worked circles around those of us who inundated her
with huge volumes of investigations, reports, program changes, ACA documentation
and every kind of document, report that can be imagined and made it look easy.
In November 1985 Marilyn took a voluntary demotion to
accept a data entry position in Classification and again in May 1986 was
secretary to John Bibby, Classification Supervisor.
In
May of 1987, Marilyn was moved to Medical Records and in 1988 she was promoted
to Secretary Specialist to the Assistant Superintendent of Operations, Ray
McCleese, where she remained in position as secretary to Mr. McCleese and to Mr.
Danny Wilkins who succeeded Ray as AWO.
A young Marilyn
Marilyn retired from that position in
February 1998 and was missed terribly by everyone who relied
on her so much on her excellent abilities as Marilyn always
lent a hand to those of us she worked with even though her
current position was not required to do so, she always
helped out. Marilyn was a loyal friend, outstanding Officer
and employee and was always there to help when needed.
Since retiring, Marilyn has again taken up golf and is on a
league at Cocoa Beach and plays twice a week. Lou and Marilyn have 6
grandchildren ranging in age from 10 to 29. They travel more now, especially
since Lou invested in a GPS and now can find his way around. (Lou, she made me
put that in there!)
Marilyn is also a CHARTER DC TIMEWATCHERS member and can be
found on frequent occasions at our functions, especially our annual luncheon. So
if you want to catch up with Marilyn make sure to mark our Get2Gethers on your
calendar and plan to join us there.
If you want to contact Marilyn, her email is,
marilynacierno@yahoo.com I know that she would love to hear from you.
If you can name the officers, send an email to us and we will acknowledge the
first correct answer. (Click to enlarge)
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Part 2
1.We have also committed to outreach and support new
staff at our closest institution by doing a cookout for new
recruits in every academy at Brevard Community College. It
is our opportunity to encourage new employees and further
show them that a full career is viable and worthwhile. It
also gives us the personal contact and recognition to those,
who will replace us one of these days in this organization.
If you are interested in helping or joining us for this or
future similar activities, please let me know or email us at
dctimewatchers@yahoo.com
2.DC TimeWatchers also supports the Second Grade
Class at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. We are
unofficial Class Grandparents of Mrs. Kaspar’s, Second Grade
Deaf Class. We send care packs, school supplies (ie
backpacks- supplies for needy students) provide snacks,
treats and sometimes a pizza party for the great students of
the Second Grade at FSDB. Again, if anyone wishes to assist
in providing such things in this endeavor please contact
Keith Kiser at
keith@dctimewatchers.com
3.We are so pleased to have such a great group
and welcome all first time attendees. We do hope you plan to
come again and join us for every function. Remember we have
a monthly breakfast the first Saturday of each month at the
Whistle Junction Restaurant located on SR-405 near Wal-mart
in Titusville at 9am. Come and join us, it’s a great way to
stay in touch and start every month.
4.If you have had an email or address/phone
number change, please email the changes to us at
dctimewatchers@yahoo.com
5.I want to thank everyone who has supported
this group, but want to recognize those who have volunteered
to help with each function we have.
6.If you have an idea or want to help fuel and
support our Organization, or want to volunteer for any
activity, don’t hesitate to contact us at
dctimewatchers@yahoo.com
or contact Keith at 321-794-8044. If you don’t want to use
the computer for donations, you may mail them the old
fashioned way, making out checks payable to the DC
TimeWatchers, Inc. and mailing them to me at my address.
(Please contact me for the address).
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May of 1987, Marilyn was moved to Medical Records and in 1988 she was promoted
to Secretary Specialist to the Assistant Superintendent of Operations, Ray
McCleese, where she remained in position as secretary to Mr. McCleese and to Mr.
Danny Wilkins who succeeded Ray as AWO. 
