As a graduate of the Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers (EPSE) at University of California, San Diego a number of years ago, I was proud to learn in Natasha Josefowitz’s guest commentary (“My husband and me: 38 years on the same page,” Aug. 27 Beacon, page 6) that her husband, Herman Gadon, was the program’s original, award-winning director in 1983.  While I understand her “limp” for the rest of her life without Herman by her side, she needs to know that his program helped me to walk a little taller and with greater purpose during my 30-plus-year career in local manufacturing.