Ron served as Assistant Dean for Teaching (1997-2003). As Professor, he taught for 30 years at Johns Hopkins (1976-2006), 11 years in the School of Education and 19 in the School of Nursing, where he mentored numerous faculty and hundreds of students, all of whom unfortunately are still in prison or on probation. Here are the “statistics” (Aren’t you excited?): he taught 170 courses in biostatistics, measurement, and research design, inflicting statistical pain on nearly 6000 students at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. He also served as the chair or a member of 96 doctoral dissertation committees in education, psychology, nursing, public health, and religion. Since retiring in 2006, he received the title Professor Emeritus.