EMPLOYEE PROFILE

Name: Mary Hoss

Title: Secretary 3, Division Street Campus

Major responsibilities: Secretarial work for assistant dean and faculty as needed: answer phones, maintain monthly activity calendar, interview work-study students and handle their paperwork, order office supplies, design fliers for activities, prepare classroom schedules for each semester, serve as campus photographer and serve as treasurer for Support Staff Council.

Length of service at the College: 8.5 years

Place of birth: Loudon County

Family members: Son, daughter, two granddaughters and one grandson in Lenoir City; one son and two grandsons in Evansville, Indiana. Jay and I live in Morgan County, and we have a home in Arcadia, Florida, where he is spending this winter.

Something no one knows about you: I have a true “guardian angel” that I know personally.

Greatest achievement or proudest moment: My greatest achievement was having my children, and my proudest moment was when I accepted God into my heart.

Favorite things outside work: Travel, reading and spending time with family.

Most rewarding part of your job: The students and people I work with.

Most influential person in your life and why: Eunice Reynolds and John Hatfield. If it were not for them, I would not be here today. They gave me the strength/opportunity to go on through a very difficult time in my life.

Favorite quote: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”—1 Corinthians 10:13