{"id":12191,"date":"2012-04-10T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=12191"},"modified":"2012-04-30T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:08:46","slug":"wright-state-student-employee-resets-the-bar-wins-university-and-state-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/10\/wright-state-student-employee-resets-the-bar-wins-university-and-state-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State student employee &#8216;resets the bar,&#8217; wins university and state awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12211\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/10\/wright-state-student-employee-resets-the-bar-wins-university-and-state-awards\/student-employee-of-the-year-4-10-12-dr-randall-paul-ashley-leasure-hank-dahlman-david-hopkins\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12211\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/04\/Leasure1-260x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Leasure, Seen here with music department chair Randall Paul, choral studies director Hank Dahlman and Wright State President David R. Hopkins, has been deeply involved in providing student leadership for the Mad River Vocal Arts Festival, Holidays in the Heartland and Bernstein\u2019s MASS both as a performer and student employee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ashley Leasure has worked in the Wright State University Department of Music as a student worker for just two years, but the impression she will leave will last long after that.<\/p>\n<p>A senior undergraduate choral assistant from New Carlisle, Ohio, Leasure is the 2012 state of Ohio and Wright State University Student Employee of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>As an employee of Wright State, Leasure has closely worked with chair of the music department, Randall Paul, D.M.A., as well as professors James Tipps and Bill Jobert. Ashley has been deeply involved in providing student leadership for the Mad River Vocal Arts Festival, Holidays in the Heartland and Bernstein\u2019s <em>MASS<\/em> both as a performer and student employee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, Ashley Leasure is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">the<\/span><\/em> finest undergraduate assistant that I have had at Wright State in my 20 years at the university, and one of the finest student assistants, undergraduate or graduate, that I\u2019ve worked with anywhere,\u201d wrote Director of Choral Studies Hank Dahlman, in Leasure\u2019s nomination letter.<\/p>\n<p>Dahlman says Leasure\u2019s impact to the department has been felt in a myriad of important projects over the last two years, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her role in the renovation of the choral library<\/li>\n<li>Her effort in the coordinated registration for the 2010 and 2011 Mad River Vocal Arts Festivals<\/li>\n<li>Her work as choral assistant for Bernstein\u2019s <em>MASS<\/em> with the Dayton Philharmonic<\/li>\n<li>Her work as choral tour manager for the <em>Collegiate Chorale\u2019s<\/em> presentation at the Ohio Music Education Association Professional Conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cShe defines reliability, professionalism and initiative, and works at a highly productive and independent level, with a minimum of supervision,\u201d added Dahlman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is the kind of person who looks for tasks, and looks for ways to do them better next time. Ashley, in a phrase, \u2018gets it.\u2019 She has literally helped rewrite the job description for this position, and reset the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ashley is currently the choir director of the New Carlisle Church of the Brethren and the vocal director for Vandalia Youth Theater\u2019s summer production of <em>Legally Blonde: The Musical<\/em>. Ashley will be graduating in June 2012, with a Bachelor of Music in music education and is looking forward to future opportunities in choral music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Leasure has worked in the Wright State University Department of Music as a student worker for just two years, but the impression she will leave will last long after that. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/10\/wright-state-student-employee-resets-the-bar-wins-university-and-state-awards\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12717,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}