I need to give a little back story for one of my favorite memories. Everyone at Mason calls me Rebekah because of Becky. When I came to Mason in 2017, Becky had already been at Mason over a year and worked in the same small office I did under the same supervisor. When our supervisor asked me what I want to be called, I said Bekah (which for 55 years was what everyone called me) or Rebekah, whichever she preferred. She asked if I could please use Rebekah because if she had a Becky Hartley and Bekah Hersch in the same small office she would go crazy. Over the next 5 years Becky and I regularly received email meant for the other. It became a running joke between us. Then one day a couple of years ago, Becky came into my office and sheepishly admitted that after over four years, the ultimate mis-email happened…Becky sent an email to herself that she meant to send to me. There is no way I would have known, but Becky thought it was too funny not to share. It was at that point that we decided to use our middle names with each other and she was Suzanne to me and I was Kyle to her. It was our private joke.Â
