The Noble Foundation is pleased to announce two new employees have joined the Administrative Division staff. Pat Weaver-Meyers has taken the role of head librarian/director of library services, and Gayle Donica filled the new human resources manager post.

Pat Weaver-Meyers
Weaver-Meyers comes to the Foundation from Norman, Okla., where she was director of technical services at the University of Oklahoma libraries. Weaver-Myers began working with OU libraries in 1975 as an assistant reference librarian. After spending three years at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, she returned to OU in 1981 as a government documents librarian, eventually serving as the Access Services department head and acting director of Information Management and Delivery before being named director of technical services in 1998.

Weaver-Meyers earned a B.S. in zoology, a master of library science and a Ph.D. in education technology from OU. She is an active member of the American Library Association and the Oklahoma Library Association.

"I am excited about being at the Noble Foundation because of its mission," Weaver-Myers said. "The employees' attitudes and professionalism are wonderful."

Weaver-Myers sees her academic background as an advantage in her new job at the Foundation.

"Because I come from an academic setting, I can apply my expertise to helping the Foundation's researchers access the information and materials they need," she said. "One service I'd like to provide is an orientation on the library's electronic databases, some researchers may underutilize those services."

Weaver-Meyers husband, Ken Meyers, works at OU for the MESONET project. He services weather stations all over Oklahoma and works on two stations on Noble Foundation land. Her son, David, and daughter-in-law are both in school at the University of Oklahoma.

Gayle Donica
Gayle Donica comes to the Noble Foundation from Noble Energy, Inc., formerly Samedan Oil Corp. Donica had been with the company since 1989, starting out as a division order clerk and serving as personnel administrator and compensation and benefits supervisor before being named manager of human resource services in 2002.

Donica attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, completing a B.S. in personnel management with a minor in accounting.

She is a certified professional in human resources (PHR), and belongs to the Society of Human Resource Management and World at Work.

"I'm happy to still be a part of the Noble family of organizations with my move to the Noble Foundation," Donica said. "I hear nothing but positive things in the community about the Noble Foundation."

Donica's father, Warren Custer, was one of the Noble Foundation's first cooperating agricultural producers, and she remembers Foundation personnel visiting her family's ranch in Hugo, Okla. Donica and her family live on a ranch east of Ardmore, which her husband, Kent, manages. He enjoys and values his relationship with Foundation personnel as a cooperator.

"On a personal level, I've had a great relationship with the Noble Foundation, and now a work relationship, which is even a bigger plus."

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	Pat Weaver-Meyers	Gayle Donica

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (www.noble.org), headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a nonprofit organization conducting agricultural, forage improvement and plant biology research; providing grants to non-profit charitable, educational and health organizations; and assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs.