DALE ALAN HERBECK

I was a student and a member of the debate team at Boston College in the late 80s/early 90s. Dale was our teacher, coach and friend. I had lost touch with him over the years but I have fond memories of my time with him at BC and he will be greatly missed!

Shocked to read that we lost Dale! We were PhD students together at Iowa in the 1980's and we have been connecting at NCA and the Iowa Party at NCA for decades. What a class act! What a great teacher! What a great rhetorical scholar! What a consummate communication professional! What a great human being! Condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and former students.

I know Dale from his work chairing the department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Dale was a kind, smart, diplomatic, modest, and very knowledgeable colleague. He had an extraordinarily positive effect on the qualitative growth of our department. All of us who worked with Dale know what a good person he was and how effectively he led our unit. This is a terrible loss, I am sure, for all who had the good fortune to cross paths with Dale.

I knew Dale through the Freedom of Expression Division of The National Communication Association and enjoyed chatting with him at the NCA conventions. I have attended virtually the past few years, so I haven't seen him in a while. I use his COM law textbook and will think of him this summer as I teach that course. My condolences to his family.