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
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