Hundreds of UI faculty and staff members may never take their telephones for granted again. All phones are operating now, but on Aug. 3, a large telecommunications cable was cut during a construction project that silenced the phones for a week.
Enology is the study of wines and winemaking.
He came to the UI last September from a job in the wine industry in Arizona. He and his wife, Sandra, live in Champaign. He and other workers have put in long shifts to complete the project in three weeks. The project also required replacing 2,000 square feet of the teak tiles, according to Jean Huddleston, Krannert Center business manager. Brownfield worked for the UI's Housing Division for 37 years, retiring as a housing administrator III in 1994.