"My thumb got me into this!" declares the new APPA President Mary Vosevich when asked how she entered the field of educational facilities management. It was 1984, and Vosevich, a Midwest native, was working at Monsanto in St. Louis as a research biologist, having earned her B.S. in horticulture/agriculture from the University of Missouri, Columbia. But she was looking for something else. As she was reading the want ads of a newspaper, she saw that her thumb was right on top of an ad for manager of campus landscaping operations at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. It was a perfect fit for her horticulture degree. Her career took off as she assumed more responsibilities--transportation, custodial services, special event management. After five years, she was promoted to manager, environmental services of the Facilities Services Department. One of her initiatives was to establish a facilities services preventive maintenance program. As it was the early 1990s, both technology and environmental issues were growing in importance, and she took initiatives there, too. She implemented a support services management software program and also initiated and carried out a campus environmental program that included recycling and composting, reducing by one-third the amount going into landfills. In this article, the author presents a profile of Vosevich.