Big thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the end of the academic year and the retirement of three wonderful colleagues — Robyn Shanahan, our longtime graduate coordinator, Mary Fiorenza, associate director of English 100, and ESL faculty Mary Wang — and especially to those who organized the event, including scouting rentable outdoor campus locations and schlepping food. And a heartfelt thankyou to my amazing and amazingly generous colleagues, who sent me off into a sabbatical (officially beginning in 86 days) after three years as department chair with a lovely and spot-on assortment of “things Anja likes more than most people.” So good to see you all smiling and talking to each other in person!
