Sheffler was aboard, making sure no one tripped over any wiring. The emoji’s grinning yellow faces beamed atop metal poles - looking like lollipops - as the float cruised down the street. Sheffler, along with some students, had the float finished in time for the November 27 holiday parade. The hospital cut Sheffler a check for $4,250 and sent him on his way.
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Sheffler said he had wanted the float to feature Minions, the Twinkie-esque creatures from the children’s movie series Despicable Me, but the hospital said no. He hashed out what the float would look like with a staff member of the local hospital, which was sponsoring the float. So Sheffler, who had just been promoted to full professor, got it done. In fact, a dean told him it was important to Concord’s president, Kendra Boggess, that it be done. And he’d have to do it all in the afternoons or on the weekends - when he wasn’t on the job as chairman of the fine-arts department at Concord University, a public institution in West Virginia.īut his university wanted him to do it. There would be trips to another town for materials, followed by the strapping down of wires and the stringing up of lights. Jack Sheffler had never built a parade float. Months later, he was fired for what the university alleged was the theft of $3,000 in funds for the float’s construction. Sheffler, chair of the fine-arts department at Concord U., in West Virginia, was told last year to build an emoji-themed float for a local parade. Jack Sheffler The float that sank Jack Sheffler’s tenure.
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