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1. What was your favorite toy as a kid?
DL: A snowman Christmas ornament named Hermie VanPelt.
MC: I had a chalkboard on wheels–my mom, who is a teacher, bought it for me when I was 4 or 5.
AM: My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures; I still collect newer versions today!
JM: The Star Wars Millennium Falcon from the early 80's. DR: Opening and closing jars
GS: LEGOS! I really enjoyed how they let me built any- thing my imagination could come up with.
KU: Big Wheel
NW: All the Legos, particularly the Amazon Jungle and UFO sets.
2. Can you play any instruments?
DL: Rock Band Guitar
MC: Voice, piano, guitar, ukulele
AM: I play lots of instruments that I've picked up along the way since middle school. My favorites are probably the trumpet, guitar and ukulele.
JM: My main instrument through school was the French horn. However, I compose music now and no time to play someone else's music. :)
DR:No
GS: Yes, many: calipers, micrometers, lathe, Bridgeport mill, TIG welder, carpenter's square, file, hacksaw, etc. KU: I was once in a steel pan band called the Pandemics. NW: When I was 13, I tried to play the sitar for a year. Now, I'm trying to learn the carnatic flute.
3. What is the oldest thing in your refrigerator? DL: Umeboshi paste?
MC: A small champagne bottle I bought when we moved into our new house four months ago.
AM: I think I have an old bottle of Vietnamese sweet-chili sauce that I haven't touched in a while...haha.
JM: The mustard.
DR: Mustard with olives and herbes de Provence.
GS: Cheese that I bought on a camping trip to beautiful and verdant Humboldt county.
KU: A coconut I brought back from Hawaii in August. NW: An old bottle of BBQ sauce.
4. What’s the strangest talent you have?
DL: I’m known as “The Baby Whisperer.”
MC: I can sing any song like Snow White. I spent many a party in the 1990's singing Salt N Pepa's "Shoop" as Snow White. Doesn't seem that funny now, though.
AM: A dimple forms on my chin when I flare my nostrils. JM: I build plastic scale models in my spare time.
DR: Interpretation of dreams (of others).
GS: All of my talents are totally normal and not strange at all. NW: I make a pretty kick-in-the-face chai.
5. What, or who, are you a “closet” fan of?
DL: The Bee Gees. Dancing With the Stars. Bollywood popcorn.
MC: Law and Order SVU. It's no secret, but it's just odd. I've seen every episode many times. I can watch it all day... and sometimes, I do!
AM: The Try Guys on Buzzfeed...I don't love admitting that they're funny...but they are.
JM: I am well known as a fan of all things Star Wars. Not many know that I am also a fan of Star Trek.
DR: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
GS: I'm really into thorium closed-loop nuclear fuel cycles. Ask me about them sometime!
KU: Jason Bourne
NW: Iron Chef Morimoto
6. What are three things still left on your bucket list?
DL: Tickets to Wimbledon. Meeting Colleen Patrick-Gou- dreau. Opening a vegan cooking school.
MC: Get married. Learn another language. Take my par- ents to Scotland.
AM: Learn to juggle. I still don't have any tattoos, but I'd like one. I want to sing one note onstage at the Metropol- itan Opera (even if it means sneaking in past the guards when no one is around).
JM: Not a whole lot.
DR: A road trip (East to the West coast). Read The In- finite Jest. Go through the Spiritual Exercises of Ignati- us de Loyola.
GS: Build a tiny house. Design and manufacture a product to be injection molded. Visit the Sonoran Desert.
New Kids on the Block
The 2016-17 school year welcomed eight new faculty members. To get to know our talented new faculty, we asked them to answer a few fun questions!
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