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Angeline

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>Dear Cabinet Members:
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>I want you to know that I have appointed Joe Morgan as interim Chief
>Financial Officer effective March 1, 2006.
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>Gregg Lassen has served as our Chief Financial Officer for the past two
>and one-half years and has moved to Texas to be closer to family
>members.  I appreciate Gregg's leadership and his service to Southern Miss.
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>Joe Morgan has been at Southern Miss for 20 years and has been serving as
>the Director of Procurement Services, managing our purchasing and other
>financial matters.  I am pleased that Joe has stepped into this important
>role.  He brings continuity to the position and in-depth knowledge of our
>organization.
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>Please join me in congratulating Joe Morgan as our Chief Financial
>Officer, and I ask for your support as he serves in this important position.
>
>         Very truly yours,
>
>         Shelby F. Thames
>         President


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Stunned

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You mean, a regular long-time USM person? Not a business prof, as was predicted? Not a member of the henchcrew?

I'd stock up on essentials, it may be the end of the world.

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In the past

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Ask questions. Ask lots of questions.

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It ain't over yet

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I believe the key word was interim.  There is still time for a screw-up.

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Jenny

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Mr. Morgan was selected the other day when it was decided that Dr. Shadad would be needed to fill a different position in the near future.  He came highly recommended by some in the business college and in the business community.  He is "Interim" as well.

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Sports Fan

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In the past wrote:

Ask questions. Ask lots of questions.
I have a question.  Is this the same Joe Morgan who had a Hall of Fame career as a shortstop with the Cincinnati Reds back in the 70's?  I know Thames is a jock sniffer,  but why in the world would he hire a former major league baseball player as CFO?  Or, did Joe attend college after his retirement and study business,  or accounting,  or economic development?

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Rod_Sterling

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Sports Fan wrote:
In the past wrote:
Ask questions. Ask lots of questions.
I have a question.  Is this the same Joe Morgan who had a Hall of Fame career as a shortstop with the Cincinnati Reds back in the 70's?  I know Thames is a jock sniffer,  but why in the world would he hire a former major league baseball player as CFO?  Or, did Joe attend college after his retirement and study business,  or accounting,  or economic development?


He's the same guy....he pumps his elbow several times before signing each purchase order.

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Sports Fan

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Rod_Sterling wrote:




Sports Fan wrote: In the past wrote: Ask questions. Ask lots of questions. I have a question.  Is this the same Joe Morgan who had a Hall of Fame career as a shortstop with the Cincinnati Reds back in the 70's?  I know Thames is a jock sniffer,  but why in the world would he hire a former major league baseball player as CFO?  Or, did Joe attend college after his retirement and study business,  or accounting,  or economic development?


He's the same guy....he pumps his elbow several times before signing each purchase order.



Thanks Rod.  I remember him now.  He was one of the first PhD's minted by USM's wurl' famous Economic Development graduate program.  I think Dr.Dr. Dvorak even waived all the course and dissertation requirements so's he could complete his degree in 72 hours. Joe was a classmate of Lassen,  who reportedly put in a good word for him.

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Advocate

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Rod_Sterling wrote:

He's the same guy....he pumps his elbow several times before signing each purchase order.
So does SFT let him off to call ESPN baseball games?

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The Ump

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You all cannot make this a foul situation. Joe is as sweet as moleasses.

It could be strike. Shadad may strike because he was not appointed.

It could be a ball. Lassen is gone and the fun will continue. You know how we all like to have fun in our jobs.

Maybe a double play. Interim first and then permanent.

Where are my bifocals? I need to see the future.



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truth4usm/AH

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This Joe Morgan has nothing to do with baseball! Joe is a great pick...a native H'burger whose dad was a USM Business prof back in the good old days. Joe is a straight-shooter and a good guy. I hope that he can steer clear of the Thames-taint enough to keep his job after May 2007. If anyone can do this, he can.

Truth/Andrea

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coastliner

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truth4usm/AH wrote:
This Joe Morgan has nothing to do with baseball! Joe is a great pick...a native H'burger whose dad was a USM Business prof back in the good old days. Joe is a straight-shooter and a good guy. I hope that he can steer clear of the Thames-taint enough to keep his job after May 2007. If anyone can do this, he can.

Truth/Andrea
thanks andrea, I also remember his dad. He was a true professional and if apples do not fall far from the tree we have a good guy as interim CFO,

Maybe Shelby's talent is choosing persons for interim positions. Pat Joachim on the Gulf Coast is a good example. She is doing an excellent job under the most extraordinary circumstances that ANY administrator at USM has ever had to face.

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Cossack

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JJoe Morgan is one of the few people left in the support side of the University who has experience and is very competent. He will do fine as the CFO. Unfortunately, we have lost many good people from that side of the university just as we have on the academic side. The downside of his appointment is that he will have to do both jobs neither of which is easy

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Moneymaker, Shaken

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Does this mean that the entire Morgan family (and spouses) will now have employment at USM? I have heard a colleague say that the Morgan family are some of the few "tenured" staff members on campus.

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truth4usm/AH

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Moneymaker, Shaken wrote:
Does this mean that the entire Morgan family (and spouses) will now have employment at USM? I have heard a colleague say that the Morgan family are some of the few "tenured" staff members on campus.


What's your point here, Moneymaker?

Truth

PS--And just for the record, no, not all Morgan family members work at USM.

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Moneymaker, Shaken

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My point is that while he may be a competent person and a nice guy, the individual in question has played the nepotism game along with some of this board's most hated administrators.

Just a little truth in advertising.

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truth4usm/AH

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Moneymaker, Shaken wrote:
My point is that while he may be a competent person and a nice guy, the individual in question has played the nepotism game along with some of this board's most hated administrators.

Just a little truth in advertising.


Again, without details to back up your assertion, I fail to see your point here. Was Joe Morgan hired by his dad? No. Did he ever report to his dad? No. Unless you bring some concrete facts to the table (instead of innuendos), I fail to see why anything you say is of much value in this discussion.

Try again,

Truth

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Moneymaker, Shaken

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Truth,

You're showing your ignorance here. There are at least four other Morgan family members who currently work or have worked at USM in the past year. Three of them have been affiliated with the COB. I will not publish their names, but those who pay attention at USM know who they are.

It's strange how "nepotism" only applies to certain families. I'm not saying Morgan is a bad guy. What I'm saying is that nepotism is nepotism.

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Southern Justice

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I agree. Making a university a "family thing" ends up badly. Regardless of how good or bad an individual may be, hiring family members is a poor move. The CoB does have/has had several representatives of the Morgan family on payroll.

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green eye shade

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1.  The former CFO had no real training in accounting. 


2.  Anyone that watched his utterly pathetic "monopoly money" presentation really had to fear for the financial life of the university.  Either the fellow was really that much of an idiot and/or he had no itegrity whatsoever.


3.  Mr. Morgan is an accountant.  


4.  Maybe Mr. Morgan has more integrity than the former CFO. 


 5.  Conclusion, for now I'll take my chances with Mr. Morgan. 



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Little old lady

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People complaining about nepotism are out of touch with the employment realities of this area. Try Forrest General or Hattiesburg Clinic. Hiring relatives is the way it's done. It's just that most people honor the rule about not being the relative's supervisor.

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civil service reform

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Little old lady wrote:

People complaining about nepotism are out of touch with the employment realities of this area. Try Forrest General or Hattiesburg Clinic. Hiring relatives is the way it's done. It's just that most people honor the rule about not being the relative's supervisor.
Precisely.  Most of the complainers are "foreigners" who have seen civil services where nepotism and cronyism are not the norm.  This isn't the worst civil service environment I've ever seen (spent a year in Chicago), but it's not good.  I've been here 25 years and maybe it's just my imagination but things seemed to start improving in state government about 1985 and started backpedaling about 2000.

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Little old lady

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The two places I mentioned aren't civil service (they're just the next biggest employers and I know a lot of related people who work there.) It's the norm everywhere, private and public.

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Southern Justice

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So it's okay to practice nepotism because everyone else in Hattiesburg does it? Come on....

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constant confusion

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it is OK as long as it is my favorite uncle!


otherwise it is wrong.



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asdf

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One problem with Hattiesburg is that there are not many large employers where professionals can find work.  Once you move beyond USM and the hospitals, there is just not that much around.  Therefore, if you are an educated family and want to stay in Hattiesburg, there is a good probability that you might end up working at the same place.


http://www.theadp.com/economic%20development/environment/employers.html



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constant confusion

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One problem with Hattiesburg is that there are not many large employers where professionals can find work.  Once you move beyond USM and the hospitals, there is just not that much around.  Therefore, if you are an educated family and want to stay in Hattiesburg, there is a good probability that you might end up working at the same place.


 


 


very good point



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Maundy Maundy

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God forbid that somebody should ever have to leave Hattiesburg. I know people that would turn down a 50% raise in pay at the Coast just to stay in Hattiesburg. That's got to be some sort of mental illness.

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asdf

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Maundy Maundy wrote:

God forbid that somebody should ever have to leave Hattiesburg. I know people that would turn down a 50% raise in pay at the Coast just to stay in Hattiesburg. That's got to be some sort of mental illness.

Why should a person that wants to live in the same town as family and friends be called mentally ill?  Because you don't like Hattiesburg?  Because you moved away from where you grew up and therefore everyone should do the same?  There is more to life than money and good social support goes a long ways. 


The little things start to add up, like having an old friend that will lend you his truck, being able to drop the kids off at the grandparents, that old HS friend who is now a lawyer that will give you free legal advice, personally knowing the guy that can get a pot-hole in front of your house fixed...little things that when you put them all together help you realize that you enjoy life as it is and why would you want to move away to a town where you have no connection and few if any friends, just so you can make more money.  Different people have different priorities.  But just because a person does not share your priorities, does not make them mentally ill.



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Good Old Boy

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asdf wrote:

 personally knowing the guy that can get a pot-hole in front of your house fixed
County funds should be available on the basis of need and not on the basis of friendship.  

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