PIU Staff-Faculty Christmas Party

We have a great and dedicated group of people we work with here at PIU. We all worked hard all semester so it was nice to have a time to celebrate Christmas and the end of another good semester together. This year our Christmas celebration was held in the back yard of our house. Most of the food was provided by local Guam businesses for which we are very grateful. It was just a fun, relaxing time where we celebrate what God has done in the past semester. It is also the time we take our annual faculty and staff picture.I think we got almost all the staff, faculty and volunteers in the picture (left). Here are a few more pictures of the event… (Thank you to Hartmut for taking most of these pictures – the few bad ones in here I took.)

The “Set-up Team”

We set up the tables under a canopy in our backyard. Joyce and Christel Wood enjoyed a quiet moment as the party began

Samantha, Lisa and Nino planned the program

The food and fellowship were excellent

These “great minds” had to really put their heads together to win the very competitive party games.

We also gave out service awards (handmade by Mary Lou Carruthers) Celia (right) was recognized as employee of the year. It is hard to believe that Joyce and I have been at PIU for almost 19 years now.

The Scherers (left) and the Chorams (right) began their PIU service back in the 90’s in Chuuk and have since moved to the Guam campus.

The Woods also began their service at PIU in Chuuk and moved up to Guam in 1995 when Bill became the 2nd president of the school and Christel served as Academic Dean. Though they are “retired” they both continue to serve as faculty and in key administrative roles. May Vigil (right) is our longest serving PIU staffer. She became our office manager/librarian assistant before we moved into our present campus.