He will be missed deeply by many!

Dr. Harry R. Faulk was the first person I met at CMU when I came to the university in May 1995. I had very limited language and communication skills at the time. When I met with him for the first time, he asked me to come back in two hours. He made an arrangement with another Turkish student and asked him to talk to me and determine all I needed from him. He took care of all the items my Turkish friend explained to him in a very short period of time. He did talk to three professors so that I could listen to courses during summer to be prepared for the first official term in fall 95.

I have another example of his dedication to international students that I never forgot. On a Sunday afternoon, he came to a my friend's house in Oakland with a fax message in hand. The fax was in Turkish and he did not understand what the message was about. He thought that it might have been an important document and he did not want to wait till Monday.

He will be missed deeply by many!

Posted on behalf of Naim Kapucu

Thanks, Mr. Faulk...

Posted on behalf of Hari Nugraha:

"Thanks Mr. Faulk.. 12 years ago, I met him at the airport of Pittsburgh. For almost 2 years he gave me support, it was like my father did for me, a student from Indonesia."

Harry was a wonderful man...

"Harry was a wonderful man, always had a moment to 'talk,' and was a huge asset to CMU."

Shared on behalf of Bob Fay

Harry R. Faulk - Innovative visionary spent life in education

The following excerpt is from the obituary printed on May 9, 2008 by Steve Twedt of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Harry R. Faulk left an imprint on Western Pennsylvania students and administrators that few educators can match.

From a community-based internship program he started for high school seniors in McKeesport, to helping Quaker Valley transform its curriculum into the computer age when he was in his 80s, Dr. Faulk is widely heralded as a visionary by those who worked with him.

"He was always an innovator, though you would never know it by his demeanor," said Jerry Longo, a University of Pittsburgh professor who was superintendent at Quaker Valley when Dr. Faulk worked with the district on its Digital School District project that assigned every student in grades three through 12 a laptop computer.

Though unassuming in his plain tie and blazer, Dr. Faulk "had the most creative mind," Dr. Longo said.

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