Dion Sanford
Dion Sanford, a UM procurement assistant and mailroom billing clerk, has been selected as Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for June. To help us get to know him better, Sanford answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss.
IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss?
Sanford: I was a student worker in the biology department from January through July 2011, was a campus mail student worker from October 2011 until June 2014, and have worked at Campus Mail full-time since June 2014, and have worked at Procurement since November 2014.
IOM: What is your hometown?
Sanford: Courtland/Batesville
IOM: What is your favorite Ole Miss memory?
Sanford: Walking across the stage as an Ole Miss accountancy graduate.
IOM: What do you enjoy most about your position or the department in which you work?
Sanford: I love the environment that I am around and love helping people across campus. I also love working with numbers and doing things right.
IOM: What do you like to do when you are not at work?
Sanford: I like to spend time at church or relaxing with family.
IOM: What is one thing on your bucket list?
Sanford: I’d like to go to the White House.
IOM: What is your favorite movie?
Sanford: I don’t spend too much time watching movies, so I’ll choose the last one I saw and that was “Furious 7.”
IOM: What are three words you would use to describe yourself?
Sanford: Honest, passionate, respectful
To nominate a colleague for the Staff Member of the Month, email staffcouncil@olemiss.edu with the name of the individual you’d like to nominate as well as why you feel he or she should be recognized.