Meet a Colleague: Vicki Pickle Vicki Pickle serves as financial aid coordinator.

W&L News Office
November 20, 2024

Q. How long have you worked at W&L?
I have been working at W&L for six months.

Q. What do you like most about working at W&L?
Seeing how much staff and faculty do to help students.

Q. Where is your favorite location on the W&L campus?
I don’t know that I have a favorite place, but I really enjoy taking a walk around campus at lunch.

Q. Where did you grow up?
I grew up right here in Rockbridge County.

Q. What advice do you have for students?
Never take for granted the amazing opportunities you have.

Q. What is the most adventurous thing that you have ever done?
Besides teaching two teenagers how to drive? I’ll have to keep you posted on this one.

Q. What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not working?
Saving recipes that I hope to fix one day. I also enjoy being at home and spending time with family.

Q. If you could live anywhere, where would you build your dream home?
I would build in North Carolina – somewhere close to the beach!

Q. Who most inspires you?
My kids.

Q. What music are you listening to these days?
I’m listening to 90’s alternative.

Q. What is the website you visit most often and why?
Amazon.com.

Q. If they made a movie about your life, who would play you?
If she was still alive, I’d say Lucille Ball.

Q. Which historical figure do you most identify with and why?
Benjamin Franklin. I use his quote “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” almost daily.

Q. If you could have coffee with one person, who would it be and why?
My granny Hickman. She made the best coffee, and we would have to play rummy and checkers.

Q. What is your desert island food?
That’s a toss up between something salty or something sweet.

Q. Tell us something most people don’t know about you.
I’m left-handed.