Faculty
meetings can be dry affairs, sometimes more memorable for their length
than their content.
So
it was a refreshing last Thursday to hear a new voice, or bark actually.
It came during a report from President Roger Hull,
stopping him mid-sentence to remark jokingly to Prof. Weiner, ” Can you
keep it quiet, Terry?”
To which Byron Nichols added, “His bark is worse
than his bite.”
The
bark was that of Garth, a seven-year old clumber spaniel, who was killing
time with owner Steve Horton before a checkup at the vet. Seems that Garth
gets a little lonely in his master's office, so he came to the faculty
meeting where he issued a single bark to make his presence known.
“He
loves to meet people,” Horton said. “He got a little excited and
wanted to greet some people at the door.”
No word yet on whether bringing a pet to a faculty
meeting constitutes cruelty to animals.