Mike Roos Retires After 39 Years
All UCBA students join me in wishing Professor Michael Roos a happy, and healthy retirement. He has served 39 years as an English professor here, and most of those years he was the Faculty Advisor of The Activist, our student newspaper.
His resume includes not only the outstanding job he’s done as a professor at UCBA, but he’s penned at least one book that I know of.
On an even more personal note, he’s easily the coolest white dude I have ever met. You have to have a certain level of cool to have a ponytail as a man in 2015.
All jokes aside, the two terms writing on his staff were truly joyful for me. I don’t care where I end up in life. I will remember this experience without question.
If you see him around campus, tell him thank you and wish him a happy retirement. He won’t be around much longer for us to appreciate.
(Faculty Advisor’s Note: This was not an assigned story! And the words are entirely Mack’s, for which this Advisor is deeply grateful. Mack did not need to say any of this to get a good grade for the course. He has been an excellent staff member all year long. But I have to admit, to be called “the coolest white dude I have ever met” by one of my students has to go down as one of the highest compliments I have ever received! Still, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of my retirement have been greatly exaggerated. I won’t be gone long! Following a brief hiatus fall semester, I shall return as an adjunct professor and Advisor to The Activist for the spring semester. See you then! Mike Roos)
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