Who is Etta Hanahan?
Etta Hanahan has been an administrative assistant at Kettering College for the past four years, but she’s been a Kettering Health Network employee for more than 32 years. She has the unenviable task of keeping president Charles Scriven and chief business officer Jack Burdick organized.

How do you manage to keep two very busy administrators on schedule?
I love to work in the morning, so I come in around 7 a.m. I can accomplish so much before anyone gets in the office. I also work for two wonderful administrators. We are a great team.

What’s the best thing about your job?
I love to meet and work with people, and the college is like a great big family. Each year brings in new students to meet. I especially like the opportunity of meeting our graduation speakers each year. Each day is different; no two days are ever the same.

What’s the worst thing about your job?
Seeing students upset because of tests, etc., and not being able to help them.

What is the most amusing anecdote you can share about Dr. Scriven?
Chuck has given me strict instructions to deny that he ever stoops to frivolity. He wants me to think he’s all business.

What has been the most personally rewarding moment of your life, perhaps your greatest accomplishment?
My greatest accomplishment is raising two wonderful children. Kea, 27, is married to a wonderful young man and is working on her doctorate of physical therapy at the University of St. Augustine. Clint, 24, is a senior at the University of Cincinnati. He will be graduating next spring with a bachelor’s degree in finance and an associate’s in aviation science. He is engaged and will be married next year. I have many, many wonderful memories with my family. We continue to enjoy vacations at the lake together.

If you could go back and change anything about your life, what would it be?
I would have spent more time with my parents while they were alive and spent more time with my children while they were growing up.

What’s the most superstitious thing you believe?
I believe that our everyday life is affected by the moon. When the moon is full, I believe there are more babies born and people become more stressed.

How would someone else describe you?
Supportive, “a mother hen,” loyal, nurturing, down-to-earth, conservative, not afraid to get my hands dirty, persistent, unique and excitable. They would say I am “just Etta.”

What is your guilty pleasure?
Wow, I have so many guilty pleasures. I love to play the piano; I can play for hours. I tape several shows during the day. I have watched Days of our Lives since I was a child; the story line still has not changed, but I have to watch it. The View – they make me so mad, but I have to hear what they are saying. I also enjoy watching Jamie Kennedy Experiment videos – they make me laugh, and I love to laugh. I also love gardening; I have many beautiful, large plants in my sunroom.

What is the most romantic thing you and your husband have done, or that he has done for you?
Before we were married, my husband would write poetry for me. This continued until we started having children. Now, we love to spend weekends on our boat, Time Out II, on Dale Hollow Lake in Tennessee. We dock out in the open water. It gives us a chance to get caught up with each other and to reconnect with nature without interruptions.