April Volunteers of the Month

by Cindy Pao, Information Developer, BMC Software, Inc.

The 2004 Awards Banquet is history now, and so it is time to recognize those who were instrumental in its execution.

STC Houston is pleased to name Doris Beetem, Deborah Crockett, Maurice Guertin, and Melinda Patrick as the Volunteers of the Month for April.

Doris Beetem

Doris describes herself as a "service professional," and many of us in STC Houston see this side of her time and time again. If you attended the banquet, you saw Doris at the registration table helping people check in and selling raffle tickets.

Doris has been both a librarian and a technical writer during her career. Currently, she works at Schlumberger, where she obtains documents and information from various contracting groups.

Deborah Crockett

Deborah has been active with STC Houston for several years. Deborah was also part of the registration crew at the banquet.

Deborah is an 18-year veteran at Hewlett Packard and started her career there when it was Compaq.

Maurice Guertin

Moe is a new face at STC Houston gatherings. He volunteered to help out at the banquet registration table. Moe also won an award of excellence in the technical publications competition this year.

Moe is a Marketing Manager at Hewlett-Packard, where he has worked since 1990.

Melinda Patrick

Melinda's work on the banquet was behind the scenes, yet right in front of our faces. She was responsible for the table centerpieces that were raffled off at the banquet.

Melinda works in the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she coordinates all things related to the Internet for her team. She also works on a team that is responsible for merging the Compaq and HP Intranets of the commercial desktop organizations.

Would you like to be a volunteer? See the "Help Wanted" list.