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I Feel A Connection!

By Tim Zinnecker

Many thanks to my six co-hosts for inviting me to the Lounge.  I have a connection to each of them. 

I am Kathy?s colleague at South Texas (and was on the appointments committee when she was hired).  I also was on the appointments committee when Al was at Oklahoma City and considering a lateral move (Al, you?re one that ?got away?).  Dan first came to my attention when I was a member of a chair search committee and he was at Alabama.  I invited him to apply, but he offered some excuse about moving to Philly to start a law school (which by any measure has been a smashing success). 

Calvin and Kevin?  Let me offer a less direct link:  Florida State.  When I visited at Florida State in Fall 2003, I met Mary Crossley and Aviva Abramovsky.  Mary is Calvin?s former colleague at Hastings, and Aviva currently teaches with Kevin at Syracuse.

Laura, you?re the challenge, but I?m up to it.  Former Washington law dean Frank Smith was on the faculty at BYU during my student days, and he was my commercial law professor.  Frank, along with two of his friends, are co-authors of a leading commercial law treatise.  One of his co-authors is Richard Hagedorn, your colleague at Willamette.

Six degrees of separation?  Don?t need that many, thanks anyway.  And I hope that I have just as easy a time ?connecting? with everyone else who visits the Lounge over the next few weeks.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).