A number of weeks ago I received an e-mail from my alma mater stating that one of my professors, Dr. Kyong Kim, was retiring. They were inviting all of his past students to attend a reception in his honor on campus. I had planned to make the trip back over to Ohio and see him one last time.
He taught a number of the communication classes I worked through in my pursuit of a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. He was a great teacher, extremely intelligent and very entertaining in class. He was a short little Korean guy, but oddly enough had a huge stature about him. He talked with a strong accent, which considering he was a communication professor always struck me as funny. There are a number of great stories about some of his phrases in class and statements that were made that didn’t come out quite right, but I’ll refrain from sharing them here. One of the odd challenges I had in his class was that for the first few weeks of the semester, I could NEVER stay awake. I’ve got pages of notes where my pen would trail off from a series of words into a then line across the page as I would nod off. However, after those first few weeks, for some reason I’d always perk up and be absolutely attentive the rest of the semester.
Getting back to the reason of this post, he responded back to me thanking me for the note to him and congratulations on his retirement. I had asked him what some of his plans were with all of his new free time, and in his letter back to me he stated he was pursuing the life of Grandma Moses and picking up painting. He attached some of his artwork, which I’m sharing below, and as you can see, I believe he’s got some great works ahead of him still.
All of these photos were taken by my son at our trip to the Indianapolis Zoo today. Not too bad I don’t think. It’s interesting to see his perspective on things. He would have taken more but the camera battery ran out of juice and the back-up battery was dead too. They’re both charging now so we’ll be prepared the next time.
A friend of mine recently shared the following article that she had read that lists a number of children’s bath products that have been proven to have cancer causing agents in them.
Baby & Children’s Consumer Products Disney Clean as Can Bee Hair & Body Wash (Water Jel Technologies)
Disney Pixar Cars Piston Cup Bubble Bath (MZB Personal Care)
Gerber Grins & Giggles Gentle & Mild Aloe Vera Baby Shampoo
Hello Kitty Bubble Bath (Kid Care)
Huggies Baby Wash Shea Butter
Huggies Natural Care Baby Wash Extra Gentle and Tear Free
Johnson’s Head-to-Toe Baby Wash (Johnson & Johnson)
Johnson’s Kids Tigger Bath Bubbles (Johnson & Johnson)
Johnson’s Kids Shampoo Watermelon Explosion (Johnson & Johnson)
Lil’ Bratz Mild Bubble Bath (Kid Care)
L’Oreal Kids Orange Mango Smoothie Shampoo
Mr. Bubble Bubble Bath Gentle Formula with Aloe
Rite-Aid Tearless Baby Shampoo
Scooby-Doo Mild Bubble Bath (Kid Care)
Sesame Street Wet Wild Watermelon Bubble Bath (The Village Company)
Adult Consumer Products Clairol Herbal Essences Rainforest Flowers Shampoo
Olay Complete Body Wash with Vitamins (normal skin)
Suave Naturals Passion Flower
Prior to my current job working as an independent consultant with another person, I was responsible for developing a new college recruiting program for a recruitment process outsourcing company. At the time I was hired, the company was named Princeton Solution, then we renamed and rebranded to HirePursuit (which I really like the name), and now they along with their parent and sibling companies are now called PrincetonOne.
Last week, they made a huge announcement in Indianapolis. They recently relocated and merged two offices into a single building downtown, very close to Conseco Fieldhouse. The announcement was that over the next five years they’ll be extending their hiring to another 200 or more positions in the city. These are high paying positions, so the impact to the economy should be pretty nice, therefore the Lt. Governor, Becky Skillman and Indianapolis Mayor Bart Petersen were part of the press conference. The article in the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) can be read here.
It’s exciting to see things going well for my old company. While I was working there, I was very excited about the future potential of the company and knew they’d be making news headlines and waves in the industry in the coming years. There’s a small part of me that wonders where’d I’d be if I stuck around, but the last year and months working with my current endeavors have taught me more than I could have dreamed and don’t regret a day of it.
The program I began setting up as a foundation is now called CampusConnect. I am curious as to how much of the structure I originally help develop and write-up are still a part of the existing structure. It was fun being a part of something like that.
Best of luck to my friends that are still there and doing a great job like Dave, Matt, Meggan, Ryan and Rebecca.
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