Accountants are the salt of the earth

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Every so often the urge strikes me to look up a person I knew years ago. Last night I looked up an accounting professor that I met in a faculty-student program during my freshman year. My dorm was associated with a couple of professors or university employees who would organize student-faculty events. The most memorable one was an accounting professor, Allan Drebin. He organized and/or participated in a number of outings. He worked really hard to make the Faculty Associate program a good experience for us students. And he was a master punster who often had us in stitches. A couple of years later, I took his Accounting 101 course in the Northwestern business school. I also reached out maybe 20 years ago via email and to my surprise he not only responded, but even remembered an inside a joke that my roommate and I had with him. It involved wombats. Don't ask. I was stunned that he remembered me since by then some 25 years had passed since I last saw him.

There are a number of obits for him, but this one stood out because it was on the website of a business school in Thailand. I'm not surprised that he was able to finesse the situation about the Thai relic.

https://www.sasin.edu/content/news/in-loving-memory-of-professor-allan-r-drebin

Here’s more detail on his solution to the relic problem.

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kwo/sum09/brandnews/adrebin.htm

Elsewhere there was a video of the graveside services that were held for him in January. It was sad to know that he is gone, but a little comforting to say a virtual goodbye.

RIP Professor Drebin.