AUN Staff Leaving

Posted at 12:40 AM, Monday, October 29, 2007

At the end of the last academic year, more faculty and administrative staff left AUN. Among these were Dr. David Huwiler (President), Dr. Banerjee (Economics instructor) and his wife Animita Roy (Registrar & Accounting instructor), Dr. Jennifer El-Mattrawy (Director Student Affairs), George Peterson (VP Finance) and his wife Paula Peterson (Faculty Club Manager), Svetlana (Logistics Director), Abubakr Buera (Management & other Business courses instructor), and Amy Greene (Writing instructor). I’m really going to miss them all cos I like them a lot. However, Dr. Banerjee did say he might come back after a while since his leave is only temporary.

Dr. Buera and Dr. Banerjee taught me, and I enjoyed their classes very much. I’m going to miss the funny (& sensible) things that Dr. Banerjee used to say. Like Dr. Banerjee, Dr. Buera was also really nice both in and out of class. Dr. Banerjee’s wife was also really nice. I still remember the times when we went home with her in the university bus at night. I can recall an excellent guessing/riddle-solving game we played with her and Dr. Evgeny. I'll definitly miss those times. Amy Green never taught me but she was a very lively and sweet person. I know I'm going to miss her too! I feel the same for Jennifer Mattrawy - I feel the university won't be the same without her. She made me feel very much at ease in discussing whatever issues I had. And Dr. Huwiler is one of the nicest persons I’ve ever met. Mom and Dad also liked him a lot. I pray that at least one or two of them attend our graduation ceremony. 

The first picture (on left) is Dr. Banerjee, the second is his wife Animita, and this third picture shows both of them and Cheryl Pavlik

First picture is Jennifer Mattrawy and Maria, second (left) is Svetlana, and third (right) is Amy Greene

First pitcture (from left-to-right) is George Peterson & Dr. Garofalo, second is Dr. Buera, third and fourth are Dr. Huwiler 

The new people occupying some of the empty positions are Dr. Smith (acting President), John Carroll (registrar and director of student affairs), Dr. Tarek (acting dean of arts and sciences - I’m happy for him), a few others that I can’t recall at the moment, and a few whom I don't know by name.

We also have some new faculty this semester - Dr. David Parker (my CMD 131 professor, a really nice person), Dr. Jonathan Muterera (my really exciting ACC 201 professor), Monday Datong (my STA 301 professor, also very friendly), Dr. Vladislav Scherbinin A. (another cool Russian professor!!!), Dr. Norman Wright – Dean of Business and Enterpreneurship (he’s totally cool), Dr. Bollou’s wife Artlet (just as nice as Dr. Bollou), and lots of others. I hope that that no one leaves at the end of this academic year, or at least not before I graduate. I know I’m being somewhat selfish cos I know that people leave only cos they have to. But I hope that most of them are still here when I graduate, God willing.

Look at the time! It’s 12:38am and I’m still not asleep. I don’t know why the pressure of exams is beginning to worry me. I have a CSC 384 midterm this coming Thursday. I only pray to God that this exams goes well. Can’t wait to see my scores on the History of Art exam . And by the way, I wasn’t feeling too well last week and that is why I didn’t post any entries. I didn’t even write the programming exam. I just needed time to revise, and since I wasn’t feeling well, I never got the chance . The exam was meant for selecting students that would participate in the programming competition. I just heard on Saturday that Nino, Hamman, and Faiza are selected for participating in the competition.  The venue is Abuja and the competition takes place around November 3rd, 2007. I was very glad for all three of them. God willing, one of the AUN representatives will win .

Anyways, I have to go and sleep now (yawn). Hope to post soon...........God bless you