Sharon was the Director when I was being recruited to the SJMC. She worked so hard to bring me here and made me feel welcome and valued. Prior to that, I was able to observe the reverence that her grad students had for her through the eyes of my former student William Eveland, who always spoke of her in asbolutely glowing terms.

I will always remember Sharon as a calm voice of reason through the turbulent times. In this sense, she was so much like my doctoral advisor Phil Tichenor that I have always felt like they could have been brother and sister. When she retired, I had hoped that Sharon's voice would be part of the SJMC for years to come, but now that I think about it, it certainly will.