[sdiy] Sad news

[J.D. McEachin]

At 11:07 AM 11/22/2010 +0000, lanterma at ece.gatech.edu wrote:

>My colleague Prof. Marshall Leach passed away yesterday. He was an
exemplary teacher, and a mentor to students and faculty alike. You would be
hard pressed to find faculty in my department who cared more about students
than Marshall. 

I'm very sorry to hear that.  He was one of the best professors I had at
Tech, a natural teacher whose classes everybody wanted to attend.  The man
loved Bode plots, and I can't tell you how many packs of log-ruled paper I
went through in his classes. :)

My favorite moment with Dr. Leach - one time, at the annual EE picnic, I
told him "you have a very interesting skull."  Dr. Leach replied, "I'm not
sure how to take that."  I said, "you should take it as it's intended - as
a complement!"  He then smiled.  Yes, I may have had a few beers at the
time.  ;)

Jeffrey