Well, actually, your question is a timely one. Denise, as you know, I retired on September 1st, and part of the ritual at Northwestern when you retire is you must clean out your office. So I spent a good portion of the summer cleaning out my office. And in doing that, I was amazed at how much material I had saved. It was overwhelming. And I must admit, there were times when I said to myself, "Why did you save that?" And I looked at a lot of the material and concluded number one, I am indeed a pack rat. Number two, even though I changed offices several times, I always took the path of least resistance which was to load everything into boxes and move it to wherever it was supposed to go before without making any decisions about whether it needs to be there. Well, this time, my wife told me that under no circumstances should I bring any of this stuff home. And so my strategy of just moving the mess somewhere else in the university wasn't going to work. So as I started going through this, the multitude of things I found were from various, almost like archeological digs of my past. So I could go back through and find things from high school and college and graduate school and throughout my career. This sort of refresh my memory of what I had done and who had influenced me along the way. So this is Mike Roloff's story, based upon the accumulated paper, the volume of accumulated paper, that existed in my office as I was getting ready to retire. My interest in communication started before I even thought about being a professor. I grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. I went to high school at a place where my father was a football coach and a social studies teacher. And like many I admired my father and thought perhaps I should play football for him and very quickly became evident that I didn't have any skills. And so I had to find something else to do because clearly seeking my father's approval in this area was not going to work. And it turns out I like to talk and so after I got there, I discovered that they did indeed have forensic activities. So I became very, very involved in debate. And so they had a teacher there, Ron Snell, who travelled around the state of Indiana with a whole bunch of debaters and other types of forensic people. And he had a big impact. It turns out that Ron later left the high school and got a PhD in communication and became a professor of communication. We lost complete track of each other for decades, until we kind of looked up and said, "Hey, I know who you are." But he sort of set off all of this stuff. And one of the things that that occurred is because in Terre Haute, Indiana, Indiana State is also there, they had a very active debate team, and they were looking for debaters. And so I got recruited to come to Indiana State as a debater, and I got a scholarship for doing that. And I worked with three individuals while I was there who had a big impact on me. One of them was Don Shields, who brought me in later was Ted Walwick, who replaced Don. And the third one was Karen Olson, who later became Karen Roloff. Much later, we got married, and all of them had a huge impact on me collectively, because through debate, I learned that you have to do research. I spent a lot of time in the library reading lots of different things. You had to figure out how to synthesize all of that into a set of arguments that you had to make for your particular case. You had to organize it in a way that someone could figure out what it is that you were arguing. And you had to be prepared to defend it, because other individuals are likely to disagree with what it is that you're concluding. And all those became important skills that I didn't realize I was going to use at some later time when I became a professor, so that you did those kinds of things before you did a study. And you certainly did it after you got reviews. I hate to see the publication process described as a debate, but I think most of us know that's what it really is. You're trying to anticipate what they're going to say bad about your article, and how you can possibly convince them it isn't that bad. Many people influenced me because I had wonderful colleagues in a lot of different areas. That probably, too, had big impacts on me right from the beginning. One was Chuck Berger. Chuck worked, obviously, in interpersonal communication. That was my area, our interest resonated. Even after he left, we remained close friends, we collaborated on a lot of different projects, and so forth. And he had a big influence. He was always big into theory construction. And I learned to appreciate that he was very rigorous and passionate about what a study. Initially he had a big impact because he was interested in social cognition, and I develop that interest as well. So when it comes to content areas, Chuck had a big impact. And the second one was David Zarefsky. David Zarefsky was chair of the department. I knew him from debate days, going way back to when I was a debater, I knew David Zaretsky. And David was the consummate administrator. I think he was extremely well organized. He knew about deadlines, he understood procedures, he was fair. He listened to all sides, he had a sense of where he wanted to go in terms of quality, and so forth. But the thing he probably had his biggest impact with me that really came back and influenced my career later is when we would sit down, and like many communication departments, the department didn't always get along with each other. And we would get into little fights and quibbles and stuff like that. One time, David said to me that one of the problems faculty members have is they get very myopic, they only see what's in front of them, and what other people are doing in other universities in their particular area. And he says what they lose sight of is they're working in a larger university with its own politics, and its culture, and control resources. And if you aren't aware of what's going on around you at the university, you may be incredibly successful in your field and suddenly look up someday, and you don't have anything, because the university culture, the administration, etc, has decided that something else is more important. And so he stressed upon me the importance of getting involved in service and other things in the university, if only to be aware of what the winds of change might look like, and being able to adapt to those things. And so even though I wouldn't say service ever came to me naturally, I learned to do the stuff that I thought I could do reasonably well, so that I could stay aware of what those various things were. I did learn, just as I think he was kind of intimating, there are some things that happen in your university that are unanticipated and completely beyond your control, in which case, you can't really direct what's going to happen. You can merely cope with it. But I think, one of the things hopefully you've gotten as I've talked about this, there have been a lot of people who've had an impact me, some of them probably didn't even know it. And some of them forgot me. And we had to renew after a period of time. But it always has been a collaborative process. I can't say that there's something that I would argue that I uniquely produced without the ample assistance of a whole lot of other people.