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33 FALL 2020 ENRIQUE MENOCAL (d. 2017) Accounting His mission? To root out the real accountants. It's 1985 and in walks Professor Enrique Menocal. His voice booms and he tells us it's his job to find the real accountants in the room and send the rest of us back for a degree in business or some such silliness. He was right. After a tough semester, accounting majors decreased by about a third. He pushed us and cajoled us to work hard. He even threw erasers at you if you couldn't do the math in your head fast enough. "You can't use a calculator in the CPA exam so you better learn to do math in your head," he'd say. — Susan Drozdowski '86 EDWARD VOSKANIAN Mathematics and Statistics I make it easier to fully listen in class. Some students have trouble engaging in class while taking notes — I know that I did when I was in college. All that writing can make it hard to keep up, so I write clear lecture notes and post them online before class. Knowing the notes are available, they can just put their pencil down, engage, and get more out of the lecture. WARREN BUCKLEITNER Interactive Multimedia This student is back on track. And we still swap hats. One day in ULab — a meeting/study space that's a hangout for our department — I walked by a student wearing a sequined baseball cap while playing a video game. I was wearing a cowboy hat. I asked if I could try on his hat and I gave him mine. We both laughed — the hats represented such different cultures. And a few days later, we swapped hats again. A friendship started and I noticed he was missing classes. It turned out he was having trouble getting to campus due to childcare responsibilities and public transport schedules. Two faculty at the tutoring center stepped in to give him extra support — including access to a loaner laptop. Today, the student is getting back on track. And we still swap hats. Faculty talk continued on page 35 Faculty talk continued from page 31 BYRON STEELE (d. 2009) Music He let me be me. He had me singing the lead in Carmen and Musetta in La Bohème, and never tried to talk me out of singing with a rock band three nights a week. — Lisa Tomasulo Forrester '74

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