Richard “Dick” Weaver is a retired professor of speech communication after having taught more than 80,000 students at the University of Massachusetts and Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he was nominated for “Best Teacher of the Year.”  He earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Michigan and his doctor’s degree from Indiana University.  Because of sabbaticals, he has taught at the University of Hawaii and at five universities throughout Australia. He has written more than a half-dozen textbooks including his best-selling Understanding Interpersonal Communication, which went through seven editions and Communicating Effectively (McGraw-Hill, 2007) now in its eighth edition. He has written close to 100 articles, numerous chapters in books, more than a dozen published speeches, and as many published essays. He enjoys family activities and traveling and has been around the world, lived in Bangladesh, driven or camped in each of our 50 states, and traveled throughout Great Britain, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Also, he has taken numerous cruises throughout the Caribbean and Europe. He is married with four adult children and nine grandchildren, and has lived in Perrysburg, Ohio, for over 30 years.