During our class that meets on Mondays and Wednesdays, all of the students received an email regarding honors college professor of the year nominations. The email reads :
Dear Honors Students,
Thank you for your nominations for the 2015 Honors Professor of the Year. This award is meant to be a surprise, so please do not talk to the finalists about their nominations until after the recipient is announced and celebrated at Spring Convocation on Thursday, April 16 @ 11 am in Ed Landreth Auditorium. With that said, it is my honor to unveil the finalists that you’ve selected!
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Dr. Dan Williams – Honors Professor of Humanities and Director, TCU Press
Please use the following link to submit your vote by noon next Friday, March 27.
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Thanks again for your input and for keeping the finalists unaware of their nominations.
Sincerely,
Christopher “Taylor” White
John V. Roach Honors College
Cabinet President
The email was received at 4:19 PM local time and no later than 4:19 PM was Dr. Dan notified by one of his own honors students that he was nominated for the award. And no later than 4:19 PM did I feel obliged to quickly scan the email myself and find some interesting tidbits of information...in the second line of the email. "This award is meant to be a surprise, so please do not talk to the finalists about their nominations." I repeated this line aloud to the class to the dismay of the overly eager student, who seemed to miss this quite important line, and to the amusement of the rest of the class.
Michael,
ReplyDeleteI remember this day in class! I would have to say this was one of the funniest class periods we had. One thing I love about the topic for this class is how applicable to daily life it really is. The announcement of the email was in no way planned, but the laughter perfectly demonstrated the topic of our class and both the superiority and incongruity theories. I'm glad you read that last line aloud to the class. It made the moment priceless!
Mary Grekstas