Current Employee Profile

Marge Tidball,
Executive Assitant to
Vice President for Development

How would you describe what you do?
An interesting bunch of tasks that are always changing and never boring. I look at myself as an enabler and try to solve problems and treat callers as I would like to be treated.

Length of service at the College:
My first day of work at COW was 6/13/77!!

Where did you work before coming to the College?
I was secretary to the plant manager at Buckeye Holmesville Mfg. Co. (Addressograph-Multigraph) in Holmesville for a year until our first child was born. Back home I was secretary to a V.P. at Owens-Illinois.

First Job:
As a child I picked berries for 10 cents a quart, and in my teens put price tags on merchandise at the Lion Store in Toledo and was a sales clerk there.

Educational Background:
I graduated from Perrysburg High School in Perrysburg OH (Wood Co.), suburb of Toledo, and from Capital U. in Columbus, OH.

Family members:
Older daughter: Debbie Harris, who is mother of my granddaughters Ashley, Amber, and Allyse Conner, and Hallie Harris.
Younger daughter: Lisa Gregory and her husband Denny with their foster child Waleili who is a year old. They are in the process of adopting her!

Favorite things outside of work:
Reading, singing, listening to music, playing the organ, and talking.

Favorite movie:  "The King and I", "South Pacific", "The Sound of Music", and "Gone with the Wind"

Favorite music (e.g., band, genre): They used to call it easy listening. Something pretty!

Complete this sentence: "People are surprised to learn that I ... "
play the organ for church and that I'm still here!

What three words best describe you?
I love people.