Prof. Pat McDougal may have hoped that his 60th birthday would slip by quietly, but if that was his wish, he hadn’t reckoned with the alert staff in the Dean of the Faculty office. Mid-day Monday rolled around, and with it, a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday and an enormous plate of assorted cupcakes ranging from thick chocolate frosting to gluten-free.
Pat is retiring from the College at the end of the spring semester, but now he’s given us another basis for working “Advanced Pat”* into our conversations.
[*Students have referred to the Adv. Organic Synthesis/Chem 343 as Advanced Pat for some years. I don’t know how the name got started, but it makes sense: you take Beginning Pat/Chem 202 in the spring of your sophomore year and then follow that with Advanced Pat in the fall of your junior year. -AJS]