Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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To daughter Sarah Heidelberg and other members of the immediate family and to the Morgan Family of Ms. Crystol Bernice Sills: I am deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our colleague and friend Crystol Bernice (Heidelberg) Sills, and I offer my sincere condolences to both families for our loss. She was a treasured member of the Morgan community for twenty-four years. I had the pleasure of working closely with her not long after she came to Morgan in 2000. When I edited a special issue of the “Academic Connection,” the annual publication of the Division of Academic Affairs, in 2008, she was Financial Manager for the School of Graduate Studies under Dean Maurice C. Taylor, and she contributed a well-written article, “Finance and Graduate Education,” to that issue of the publication. I was impressed by how methodical and precise she was in her work, giving special attention to details, and by how effective and eloquent she was in expressing herself. A proud alumna of Morgan, she contributed greatly to that issue of the journal and to the Tradition of Excellence at Morgan over the 24 years during which she was a member of the administration. It was my great pleasure and my honor to work with her and to call her colleague and friend, and Morgan is by far a greater institution for the contributions that she made and the legacy that she leaves behind. “Good night, sweet princess, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
Burney J. Hollis, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of English and Language Arts
Dean Emeritus, Gilliam College of Liberal Arts
