Richard Haynes

My dear advisor from Western Carolina University passed away last November. His name was Richard Haynes, Dr. Haynes as I always called him. I just found out yesterday.

He was so good to me and a great advisor. He is the one responsible for getting me into computers. When he met me he said: "Gudrun, or may I call you Goodie"? Then he continued:"I think you would be super in assisting people with computers." "Would you like to have an assistanceship here at the Grad school and work in the computer lab"? "Of course, I said". I liked computers a little but I didn´t know as much about computers as he thought. Then I started working in the computer lab in Killian Building, on campus, 20 hours a week. Got some money from that and LEARNED A LOT. Thank you so much for everything Dr. Haynes and leading me in the right direction. I love computers today. I have been working with computers ever since I graduated! Everyone who knows me, knows that. He also taught me one class, about World Class School. He asked to keep my final paper in that class. He liked it so much and wanted to keep it to show other students. I hope he got to use that. Here is a link to his Obituary. God bless him and his memory. He is hopefully in a better place now.

Going from one subject to another. We are going camping this weekend. This will be our first camping trip as a family. We once took Asdis camping overnight when she was two years old. It was fun but we have not gone since. We seem to always postpone it and not be the kind of outdorcy people... but I want to change that. We bought a trailer tent this spring and we plan to use that alot. It has nice mattresses and that is what I like the most about it. I do not like laying on the cold ground. It would kill my back. The weather is not so warm, at least compared to the heat overseas. I think it will be around 14°C during the day and 6°C during the night. So we have to make sure we won´t get cold :) We are Icelandic vikings and we are strong.

Have a good weekend everyone. Need to go home and start packing. Love, GSJ