First week winners announced for Employee Vax Incentive Program

Eight Cincinnati State employees, including full-time and adjunct faculty members as well as staff members, received a $100 Queen City gift card in the initial prize drawing for the Employee Vaccination Incentive Program.

Queen City gift cards can be used at more than 100 participating restaurants and businesses in Cincinnati.

More than 160 College employees entered the first week of the Incentive Program by completing the Employee Vaccination Incentive eForm.

Details of the Employee Incentive program are available at https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/covid-19/cincinnati-state-employee-vaccination-incentive-program.

  • Prize drawings will continue each Monday of Fall Semester, with 8 winners each week.
     
  • Full-time and part-time employees (working during Fall Semester) who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have received the first dose of a 2-dose vaccine are eligible for weekly prizes.
     
  • Fully-vaccinated employees also are eligible for the $5,000 grand prize drawing that will take place Dec. 20.

The first week winners are:

  • Terry Doherty – Health & Public Safety Division – “I got vaccinated for my family.” (photo at right)
     
  • Patricia Edwards – Information Technology Services
     
     
  • Denise Gabrelski – Parenting Resource Center – “I got vaccinated so I could hug my mom again.” (photo at left)

     

  • Karen Groh – Health & Public Safety Division – “I wanted to live and allow others to live.”
     
  • Wayne Herbers – Engineering & Information Technologies Division
     
  • Kathryn Mitchell – Humanities & Sciences Division
     
  • Deborah Smalley – Humanities & Sciences Division
     
  • Peggy Rolfsen – Health & Public Safety Division – “I chose to receive the vaccine so that I could safely visit my young grandchildren again, after more than a year of not being able to do so.” (photo at right)