10 Things We Like About EOC

by EOC Founders, Norm Brust, Paul Koren & Dick Merians

1. Friendships with mentees that have lasted a decade.
2. Helping mentees through the interview process, and feeling their joy when they are offered a position.
3. Learning about mentees’ lives, their struggles and successes, and unbelievable will to succeed; trying to understand how mentees work full-time, carry a full class load and maintain high grade point averages.
4. The energy generated by the EOC mentors that flows through the entire organization.
5. Learning about today’s business environment from the perspective of a younger generation. Learning about new technologies and web-surfing opportunities from mentees along with being motivated to research many industries in order to provide sound advice to our mentees.
6. Friendships formed with other EOC members and renewing friendships with former colleagues in order to set up advice interviews with mentees.
7. The satisfaction of “giving back” to the school that provided me with a tuition-free education many years ago and truly transformed my life.
8. We can readily see the impact we have on the College’s students and we are energized by working with the student body.
9. We learn about the many cultures that study in this College of diversity and we get to work with a wonderful professional College faculty and staff.
10. We maintain the tradition, so many of us were mentored, so now we mentor.