Fort Hays State\nUniversity exists to improve lives. Every day, I witness our relentless focus\non excellence and the unwavering resilience of my Fort Hays State colleagues.\nWe work hard at supporting our students, faculty, and staff. We are responsible\nto one another and for one another. Together, we build a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, Feb.\n7, we welcomed two new Tigers to Fort Hays State, ones who will join us in our\njourney to build a better world. It is my pleasure to introduce to the\ncommunity the newest members of our senior leadership team: Wesley Wintch, vice\npresident for Administration and Finance, and Ginger Williams, dean of Library\nServices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wesley is\nrelocating from Valley City, North Dakota, where he and his family have lived\nfor almost seven years. Wesley has been serving as the vice president for\nBusiness Affairs at Valley City State University. He and his wife, Natalie have\nthree children: Daniel (a college student), Anne (a ninth-grader), and David (a\nfifth-grader). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wesley likes to\nplay basketball (although he claims he is not very good anymore \u2013 sounds like a\nchallenge to me), piano, and guitar. He also likes dad jokes. I, too, love dad\njokes and am a loyal follower of @Dadsaysjokes on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wesley said\nthat he and his youngest son are excited about FHSU\u2019s Sternberg Museum of\nNatural History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor certain,\nwe are going to have to visit soon after we arrive,\u201d Wesley said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know David\nwill enjoy his visit to the museum, and I am betting he will want to enroll in\nsome of Sternberg\u2019s great summer camps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are excited\nto move to Hays and become part of the community,\u201d Wesley said. \u201cIt is my hope\nthat I can join the FHSU team, learn a lot from my colleagues and also make a\npositive difference to the campus and larger Hays community. I was very\nimpressed by the warmth I felt from the employees and students at FHSU and\ntheir passion for the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wesley shared\nhis start day with our new dean of Library Services. Ginger is relocating from\nWichita, where she has served as the associate dean for Academic Engagement and\nPublic Services for the University Libraries at Wichita State University. She\nwas born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After Ginger\u2019s\nyoung sons finish their school year in Wichita, she be joined in Hays by her\nhusband, Brent, and two energetic boys (second-grader Nigel and kindergartner\nDamian). Like Wesley, Brent likes dad jokes, basketball, and music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ginger and her\nhusband are both musicians. Ginger plays viola and has played with professional\nsymphonies in Georgia, Oklahoma, Florida, and Colorado. Brent has played all\nover the world with symphonies and his quartet, enhake, and has a DMA in\nviolin. They have also played with rock bands at SXSW and the Troubadour\n(California). Brent is planning to start a studio to teach violin and viola\nlessons in Hays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Williams\nfamily will fit in well with their love for music and our love for the song \u201cIn\nHeaven There is No Beer,\u201d as they are also homebrewers. They started brewing\nabout 12 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much like\nWesley, Ginger said she felt welcomed at Fort Hays State from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI also was\nreally impressed during my interview by how much the Fort Hays State folks\nloved the university,\u201d she said. \u201cI’m excited to get to know the library’s\nneeds and help shape its transformation during the upcoming renovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am very\nexcited to welcome our newest senior leaders, Wesley and Ginger, and their\nfamilies, to Fort Hays State University as well as to our wonderful Ellis County\nneighborhood. I know they will love our close-knit community, where people\nsmile, and their welcome is genuine and inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tisa Mason is president of Fort Hays State University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fort Hays State University exists to improve lives. Every day, I witness our relentless focus on excellence and the unwavering resilience of my Fort Hays… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12323,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mason-Tisa-040A6662.jpg?fit=750%2C1050&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63264,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263\/revisions\/63264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}