Mrs. Gail Rasberry, Secretary II

Mrs. Rasberry has been with the Communication Disorders Program since May 2000.  As the only support staff in the program, Mrs. Rasberry functions as receptionist and secretary for the ASU Speech and Hearing Center as well as the academic program.  She also is the webmaster and self-proclaimed "official" photographer at CD student graduation ceremonies and other CD events. 

She is actively involved in the Research and Academic Affairs Support Staff Mentoring Committee, having served as chair from 2003-2006 (since the committee's inception) and currently serves as a mentor to new support staff in academic programs on the Jonesboro campus.

In 2007, she was elected to serve a 3-year term on Staff Senate for the Secretarial/Clerical EEO Category.

In her spare time, Mrs. Rasberry enjoys spending time with her young granddaughter and is an AVID gardener.  She has been a volunteer/member of the Craighead County Master Gardeners since 2005, and served as Publicity Committee Chair in 2005/2006.  In May of 2007, she presented her first educational program (see below). 

She also joined the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) in 2006 and has published several gardening articles for the AHS Region 13 Newsletter, The Arkla Daylily, as well as for the Master Gardener newsletter, The Weeder's Digest.  Her educational program on Hemerocallis (daylilies) to the Craighead County Master Gardener group was in May of 2007.  The program will be presented again in March 2008 for the Transplants Garden Club in Jonesboro. 

Her love of the daylily has also been expanded with the formation of  a local daylily club, named Northeast Arkansas Daylily Society, and interested persons are welcome to contact her for more information at her off-campus email gardenergail@yahoo.com .