{"id":1335,"date":"2018-05-04T11:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:37:54","slug":"farewell-reception-honors-pvm-staff-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/farewell-reception-honors-pvm-staff-member.php","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Reception Honors PVM Staff Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"img-responsive img-thumbnail wp-image-1332 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0603_2_Karla_reception-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Karla Calvin pictured with colleagues\" \/>\n<p>Account Clerk Karla Calvin, in Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Department of Veterinary Administration, was recognized at a farewell reception recently for her dedication to the College during the past 13 years.\u00a0 In her position, Karla worked in PVM\u2019s Purchasing Center, doing all of the purchasing and also travel, along with various other tasks. \u201cIn her time, she has been a part of many changes, both internally and externally,\u201d PVM Business Assistant Peggy Hershberger said as she congratulated Karla on her accomplishments. \u00a0The event was held in the Continuum Caf\u00e9 Wednesday, April 25, just before Karla left to assume a new position in the Purdue University School of Aviation and Transportation Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Karla started her Purdue University career in 1990 when she joined the Conferences office, and from there went to work as a data entry operator before transferring to the Department of Chemistry. There she began placing orders and took a position in the Chemistry Business Office, before transferring to the Krannert Business Office.\u00a0 After a leave, during which she worked as a senior buyer in a plumbing business, she returned to Purdue in 2005, joining the Purdue Veterinary Medicine staff.\u00a0 Peggy noted that during Karla\u2019s time at Purdue, she developed really good working relationships with the faculty and staff.\u00a0 \u201cI believe she\u2019s shown that by the extra care she has given placing orders and helping the staff getting reimbursed when they travel,\u201d Peggy said. \u201cIt is no small task when placing orders, especially when it comes to the research items that we need here in this college. She will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dean Willie Reed also thanked Karla for her years of work in the College.\u00a0 \u201cObviously you have touched a lot of people, just look at all the people here today to wish you well,\u201d Dean Reed said.\u00a0 \u201cThank you for the many contributions you have made to the success of our college.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Account Clerk Karla Calvin, in Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Department of Veterinary Administration, was recognized at a farewell reception recently for her dedication to the College during the past 13 years. The event was held in the Continuum Caf\u00e9 Wednesday, April 25, just before Karla left to assume a new position in the Purdue University School of Aviation and Transportation Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29],"tags":[373,106,372,371,374,129],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","tag-business-office","tag-event","tag-farewell-reception","tag-karla-calvin","tag-peggy-hershberger","tag-vad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29423,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/29423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}