{"id":29928,"date":"2014-12-02T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T00:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=29928"},"modified":"2021-10-18T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:34:10","slug":"uh-recognizes-excellence-in-building-and-ground-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/02\/uh-recognizes-excellence-in-building-and-ground-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> recognizes excellence in building and ground maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner, left, and UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents Chair Randy Moore presents Leeward Community College’s Joseph Tan with his award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner, left, and UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents Chair Randy Moore awards UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>’s Erline Vasconcellos with her plaque.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leeward Community College’s Joseph Tan<\/strong> and University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span>’s Erline Vasconcellos<\/strong> were honored with the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President’s Award for Excellence in Building and Ground Maintenance.<\/p>\n

The award is given to an individuals who has exhibited sustained superior performance in a maintenance, landscaping, custodial or trucking position.<\/p>\n

Joseph Tan<\/h2>\n

Joseph Tan<\/strong> is a custodian at Leeward Community College.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tan is called the “energizer bunny” and the “Leeward McGyver” for his never-ending dedication to his work and his innovative solutions to campus custodial problems.<\/p>\n

His colleagues praise his efforts to go above and beyond his job duties with a positive attitude.<\/p>\n

Erline Vasconcellos<\/h2>\n

Erline Vasconcellos<\/strong> is the building and grounds supervisor at UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Vasconcellos is a dedicated worker who can sometimes be found on weekends working in the parking lots when there are fewer cars in the way.<\/p>\n

She is praised for her diligence, resourcefulness and commitment to making West Oʻahu<\/span> a safe, beautiful and well-maintained campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leeward CC<\/abbr>’s Joseph Tan and UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>’s Erline Vasconcellos were presented with the President’s Award for Excellence in Building and Ground Maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142,65,699,1094,698,71,59],"class_list":["post-29928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-award","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-maintenance","tag-presidents-maintenance-award","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29928"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149967,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29928\/revisions\/149967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}