Name: Terri Batt
Job title: Custodian
Department: Facilities Services
How long have you worked at Whitworth? Ten years
What do you like best about your job? Serving and interacting with the students
In what ways do you feel your job fulfills your sense of vocation? My ability of hospitality to give the students a fun and clean environment.
Favorite book: The Bible
Favorite movie: “Dragonfly” – I’m a Kevin Costner fan
Favorite food: A good salad with all the trimmings
Favorite quote: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Favorite music: Jazz & Christian
Favorite animal: Dog
Guilty pleasure: Coconut cream pie
Hobbies: Hiking, fishing, scrapbooking, canning
Best vacation ever: Canada & Lake Louise
Birth place: Seattle, Wash.
We’d be surprised to know that…I like to fly fish.
I collect…inspirational quotes and CDs/DVDs with Christian messages (I love to share them!).
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Ireland and Scotland
If you could try anything and not fail, what dream would you attempt? Public speaking
What is your favorite sound? A babbling brook
What is your life motto? “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Favorite childhood TV show: “JP Patches”
Least favorite words: I can’t do it.
If you could go on a road trip with anyone (from the past or present), who would you choose and where would you go? The Redwood Forest in California with my husband
