Congratulations, Dr. Hawley on being promoted to course director and interim dept chair to replace Burlingham. You probably were not expecting it and just planned on teaching. But suddenly found yourself thrust into new and added responsibilities.

In behalf of former and future Micro students, WELCOME to Ross!!! Just putting someone else incharge of that department was already a huge step forward. But putting someone with your caliber and expertise is an even bigger bonus.

This being his last semester to teach (if you can call it that), we have one request though. Please do not let Burlingham submit any exam questions without you checking it first for: accuracy, brevity, completeness and yes...grammar and spelling.

A legitimate peer review of lectures and exam questions was hard to accomplish before when you had a volunteer teacher (his wife betty), volunteer lab staff (son thomas) working for the department chair and course director (byron).

Now, we shall see great things out of Micro dept. Welcome again, Dr. H!!!