Rebecca and Michael VanHook leave IT Systems
Photo courtesy of Nate Tucker
Assistant to the director of IT Systems Rebecca VanHook and husband Michael, a report writer/analyst for IT Systems, strolled into the Systems office to work for the last time yesterday, May 7.
Rebecca and Michael left after two and a half years of working for IT at Lee to move to Birmingham, Ala.
Michael recently got a job there in the IT Department at the corporate offices of Regions Bank.
The couple will be missed by their supervisor and fellow staff.
“Rebecca came at the perfect time and was the perfect fit,” Nate Tucker, director of IT Systems, said of his assistant.
Michael and Rebecca are Lee alumni with many relationships at Lee and in the Cleveland area. Michael is a Cleveland native, and Rebecca was a student worker while she was working on her bachelor’s degree at Lee.
The entire IT Department, both Systems and Operations, as well as several other friends, faculty and staff from the university, came to say goodbye to the pair at their in-office going away party on May 6.
Programmer analyst II Pam Fromm was teary-eyed as she said her goodbyes to the VanHooks, but expressed her enthusiasm about their futures. It’s a sentiment that the couple shares.
“It’s sad,” Michael said. “There really isn’t another community like Lee. . .But we will adjust.”
“I’m sad, but I’m more excited,” Rebecca said.
IT Systems is currently in the interviewing process to fill the now vacant assistant to the director position.