HRD captures walking competition
-- DAS Employee Services, January 2005

More than 20,000 miles was the distance that DAS employees walked during the recent DAS Inter-Divisional Walking Competition.

The 198 employees participating in the four-week fall competition walked a total of 40,841,598 steps, which was the equivalent of walking about 20,420 miles.

The goal of each participant was to walk 280,000 steps, the approximate distance from Columbus to Mount Healthy, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

The Human Resources Division won the competition for achieving the highest percentage of the goal – 90.76 percent.

Placing second was the team from the Office of Information Technology's Investment and Governance Division. Third place went to OIT's Service Delivery Division.

The top individuals received prizes of cash generated from entry fees. The top overall individual winners and the percentage of the goal that they stepped were as follows: Joe Hietter of HRD, 232.46 percent; Connie Chan of HRD, 208.89; Vicki Curren of SDD, 208.79; Kevin Fowler of the General Services Division, 187.21; Mike Duco of the Office of Collective Bargaining, 159.14.

The top winners from each division, excluding the overall winners, were as follows: Administrative Support Division -- Robin Lynch, John Yoho and Rick Frank; Equal Opportunity Division -- Sylvia Singer, Pam Osborne and James Austin; GSD -- Amy Stanisovska, Mary Sen and Molly Staley; HRD -- Susan Myers, Jackie Masters and Brenda Oyer; IGD -- Roni Rowe, Jan Saik and Carolyn Chavanne; OCB -- John Kinkela, Barb Mattei-Smith and Amy Parmi; SDD -- Joe Kruithoff, Rod Owens and Ron Johnson.

The participants "reaching" Mount Healthy were as follows: ASD -- Lynch, Yoho, Frank, Jeff Frink, Margaret Anaba, Connie Alexander and Nikki Guilford; EOD – Singer; GSD -- Fowler, Stanisovska, Sen, Staley, Renee Keys, Carol Waugh and Jerry Rhodes; HRD – Hietter, Chan, Myers, Masters, Oyer, Janis Roederer, Clare Long, Charlotta Ross, Shelly Richardson, Janine Ashanin and Emily Oquendo; IGD -- Rowe, Saik, Chavanne, Jean Carter, Curtis Brooks, Martha Vohlers, Nadine Williams, Gus Maragos and Jencie McCloud; OCB -- Duco, Kinkela and Mattei-Smith; and SDD -- Curren, Kruithoff, Owens and Johnson.

The competition was sponsored by the DAS wellness team, which is a result of Governor Bob Taft's Healthy Ohioans initiative. The members of the team are Gary Allbright, ASD; James Austin, EOD; Nancy Brogle, OCB; Joseph Holliman, HRD; Jencie McCloud, IGD; Kathy Teeters and Angie Weis, both of SDD; and Dawn Wyne of GSD.