Teaching old vets new tricks: Lorie Kennerly retires after 38 years in IT
Lorie Kennerly first walked through the doors of Magruder Hall as an Oregon State University employee in Dec. 1982 – six months before the first class of the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine received their veterinary degrees.
Kennerly, an information technology consultant, spent most of her career in IT, but “my position pre-dated the age of IT,” she said. In the early days, computers were barely used. “Early on, my job was to teach old veterinarians how to use a mouse,” she said. “What a hoot!”