My support of the Betty Lou Blumberg Endowed Chair of English is a token of my appreciation for all that she had done for me and no doubt countless other students who were lucky enough to have had her as a teacher. Betty Lou is one of those once-in-a-lifetime mentors who has such a profoundly positive influence on everyone she has taught. She always took the extra time to help me with English work and also took many hours of her personal time to help me with college and even medical school essays several years after I graduated. Her influence was one of the reasons I went onto minor in English in college, but I have to confess that I never came across another teacher with her passion for literature and unwavering love of teaching.