As Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Mary Beth Snyder has one of the rare administrative offices located in the Oakland Center. Her office reflects just  a few of the accomplishments and memories  throughout her career.

1. Snyder pictured in her office. “I have felt very strongly in my tenure here that I wanted to be where the students are. I am most effective if I know the students and interact with them,” she said.

2. ”We’ve made a lot of progress on buildings for student life,” Snyder said of the groundbreaking ceremonies she has participated in.  She has a hard hat from the 2001 ceremony for the Student Housing Apartment Complex.

3. There is  an empty candy bowl on Snyder’s desk. “It used to be full of M&M’s, but I ate them all. If I have a weakness, it’s M&M’s,” she said.

4. One of Snyder’s favorite pictures is of her and swim coach Pete Hovland taken upon the arrival of The Grizz statue from Hungary in 2006. “One of the things I’m proudest of is when we got The Grizz. Pete Hovland and I worked really hard to get the statue here,” she said.  

5. Snyder keeps artwork entitled “The Graduation” on her  wall. “This print was left by my predecessor, Wilma Bledsoe. She was important in building the student affairs division here, and I love the picture,” Snyder said. 

6. Snyder took the first shot in the 1994 Gus Macker Basketball Tournament and keeps the signed ball in her office. “I’m not an athlete, but I got some air time. I was four inches off the ground,” she said. 

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