TCU Staff Assembly

Joyce Clay

Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001

Joyce Clay is a Human Resources Assistant for the Military Science Department and has been employed at TCU since 1996. She is pursuing a Bachelor of General Studies degree here at TCU. She is married with two sons and a daughter, and her daughter is also a student at TCU.

Although Clay is majoring in Business, she has taken several classes in Sign Language. She enjoys learning and communicating in sign language with friends.

Lynn Sites

Fall 2002

Lynn Sites was born and raised in Colorado, but moved to Texas in the fall of 1990. She graduated with an Associate of Arts degree from TCC in 1996 with a desire to finish her bachelor's degree at TCU.

As of 2002, Sites is the student supervisor for the Circulation Department of the Mary Couts Burnett Library. She has been employed there for 4 years and is privileged to work with close to 25 students each semester, many of whom are international students. She is a Spanish major and looks forward to traveling abroad. She will graduate in the Fall of 2005. And, most importantly, she is the mother of 3 wonderful children; Sara, 9th grade, David 7th grade and Lesa 5th grade, who all attend Crowley Schools.

Lorna Kay Runge

Fall 2002

Lorna Kay Runge is the administrative assistant for Graduate Studies in the School of Education and has worked at TCU just over one-year. She is a General Studies major with an emphasis in History and Women’s Studies and began her studies at TCU in the Summer 02 term. Runge moved to Ft. Worth in the fall of 2000 from Minneapolis, MN.

Learning about and exploring diversity has always been a passion of hers; so the atmosphere of TCU is a perfect setting for Lorna to interact with graduate students and while attending classes with undergraduates.

Virginia Dias

Spring 2001
Fall 2000
Spring 1999

Virginia Dias (IBR) was born in Peru and later moved to Canada with her husband and became a Canadian citizen. In 1994 her family moved to Fort Worth because of her husband’s transfer with Alcon Laboratories. In 1997 Dias began working at TCU in the Institute of Behavioral Research and provides translation of manuals to Spanish. She also translates Staff Assembly minutes.

Her son Augusto, Jr. graduated from TCU in Spring 2001 and Sandra Virginia (Sandy) is currently a sophomore here. They have encouraged Dias to finish her degree which began many years ago at the University of Pacific in Lima, Peru. She should be finished by Summer 2002 with a degree in International Communications.

Dias enjoys writing fiction for children in both English and Spanish, reading, and dancing.