Mary Ann Crocker
Mary Ann Crocker, senior administrative secretary at the Center for Student Success and First-Year Experience, has been selected as Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for April. To help us get to know her better, Crocker answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss.
IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss?
Crocker: Sixteen years and 3 months. I started work at Ole Miss on Jan. 11, 1999.
IOM: What is your hometown?
Crocker: Coffeeville, Mississippi
IOM: What is your favorite Ole Miss memory?
Crocker: There are so many good memories here at the university (that) it would be difficult to choose just one!
IOM: What do you enjoy most about your position or the department in which you work?
Crocker: Working at the Center for Student Success and First-Year Experience is very rewarding. We see students from all over campus, but mainly freshmen. Watching them mature from nervous freshmen to confidant graduates is most satisfying. The faculty and staff here are dedicated to the success of all students and it is a joy to work with these people.
IOM: What do you like to do when you are not at work?
Crocker: I enjoy reading books of all kinds.
IOM: What is one thing on your bucket list?
Crocker: I would like to take a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. That would be the thrill of a lifetime!
IOM: What is your favorite Ole Miss tradition?
Crocker: The football team walking through the Grove on game day is exciting and something each student, staff member and faculty member should enjoy at least once.
IOM: If you could have lunch with anyone alive or dead/fictional or real, who would it be and why?
Crocker: I would like to talk with Dr. Charles R. Gates, the first director of the Academic Support Center, and tell him how his dream (of a freshman center) has grown into reality as the Center for Student Success and First-Year Experience.
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.