Mary Alice Green Is January's Employee Of The Month

Mary Alice Green is one of two circulation clerks at the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library that people see every Saturday. She loves bright colors, has a great smile and an infectious laugh. And it was that laugh people heard on Saturday, the 10th, when library director Melody Jenkins presented her with the January 2009 Employee of the Month Award. She laughed even as Melody handed her the certificate and flowers, and when the patron at the circulation counter reminded her that her picture would be in the paper. "Oh,
no-o-o-o," she said over and over, but laughed all the time she
said it.
Mary Alice is a graduate of Colquitt County High School and attended Georgia State University in Atlanta where she majored in Business Administration.
While in college, she worked as a secretary for the Selective Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Social Security Administration of the Bureau of Hearings and Appeal.
After moving back to Moultrie, she was employed as a clerk at Arwood Drug and then was hired by the school system as a paraprofessional. She's presently employed at Norman Park Elementary School in the physcial education department.
And...congratulations, Mary Alice...she was recently named to the Cambridge Who's Who of Executive Professionals and
Entrepreneurs.
Mary Alice said a friend, who worked at the library, encouraged her to apply for a job. The friend felt she would be a great asset to the library. Melody Jenkins must have thought so also, for she hired her in February 1988 - twenty-one years ago. Mary Alice was still working for the school system at the time, so her job at the library was as a circulation clerk on Tuesday evenings and Saturdays. Now she works at the circulation desk on Saturdays only.
When I asked her what she likes most about her job, she said the people she works with, the atmosphere, and the people she helps and talks with at the library.
She also said she loves to laugh, eat, and travel. When she retires, she said she wants to travel more. She's already been to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Spain, the Bahamas, Mexico, Aruba, and
Barbados.
It's evident to anyone who talks to Mary Alice that she's in love with life and thoroughly enjoys it. She likes to make people happy and make them laugh.
What better way to get through life than to be a positive, smiling, laughing person like Mary Alice Green. She sets an example for all of us.