She was my role model and mentor.
She was head of the Economics Department. She was very powerful. She knew strategies, and psychologies, in addition to being an expert in her field. It just shocks me that someone who knew so much about power was overwhelmed and killed by it.
She knew how to play her politics and win. She managed to keep control of her department, and keep it in NY, when all other departments were split up. She managed to make her department the most revenue producing, and its students get the most productive jobs.
She was always there for me. Her advise and concern kept me in good standing. She even gave me advice on how to be goal oriented and make a decision to go for my Ph.D., and not go back to the business world. She would ask me statistical and mathematical questions that she needed for either class or some project she was working on. She respected my abilities.
We had talked the Wed before I went to Italy. I had told her that I was going to buy her a big gift for helping me.
She said to me...I know how you can repay me. I am writing an economics paper on the utility of cost of unemployment in an outsource country like India. She gave me the example, and said she needed someone to write the algorithm for her.
I said it would be my pleasure to do all the math for her, for as many papers as she needed.
I would be glad to do it for her as a present!
Now I will never be able to repay her.....................</b></font><br><br>
