Hey, Hey, It’s True! There’s been another addition to the SLU ATEP!

By: Jennifer Baine

Hello everyone! I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Jennifer Baine and, as of July 22, I am the new ATEP administrative secretary. I have plenty of administrative experience, but I am new to SLU, so please bear with me as I settle in to the new position. I promise to give 110% to make things go efficiently and effectively for students and faculty. My goal is to have a program that runs as seamlessly as possible so that those within it are proud to be a part and those outside can see the cohesiveness of our program which makes it run so smoothly.

Please know that you can always contact me whatever you may need that falls within my realm-- setting up meetings with faculty, general questions I may be able to help with (or direct to the correct person), clothing orders, forms, etc… My door is always open to you…….as long as it is during normal business hours. 

Jennifer’s Bio:
Raised: North Judson, Indiana (nearest large town: Valparaiso, IN—Chicago, IL within a 2 hour drive)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Judson,_Indiana)

Family:
Married with two daughters. One daughter is currently entering her freshman year at Oklahoma Christian University (http://www.oc.edu/) and the other in her junior year in high school. We are a homeschool family. The one entering college graduated from homeschooling and the one in high school is still homeschooled. We use a DVD based curriculum, which allows her father and I to work during the day and I go home and grade papers and give tests/quizzes in the evening. It is a very good program and both of our kids have excelled in it.

Background:
After getting married almost right out of high school, I also got pregnant right away. So, my husband and I got a taste of the real world and how hard it is to make ends meet very early in life. It didn’t take long to see that we weren’t situated to earn what we needed to be a family. So, we turned to Uncle Sam. My husband enlisted and over the next five years we had 17 different addresses—including two in Germany-Frankfurt and Heidelberg (http://www.neuschwanstein.com/).

A few years later my husband was able to leave the military and now has a good job with potential for great advancement within the foreseeable future. It was a job offer that couldn’t be passed. Enter: St. Louis (13 years ago). I have either been working in the health care field or doing daycare most of my life. I’ve found that I had a love/hate relationship going on in both arenas. I was last working at a physician’s office where things didn’t work out and…presto—hello SLU. And, believe me, I feel blessed to be here.