Farewell Mr. Sanborn

Dear Mr. Sanborn,

When I first met you, my first impression of you was that you talk too much. Now that you are leaving, I still think you talk too much. The difference now is that I know how to listen to you. And besides the occasional meeting that you walk into knowing nothing about, there is a great message that you always tried to communicate. I'm thankful and blessed to have heard it.

So what is it that I heard you ask? Well, the first is actually more what you did rather than what you said. You empowered people through your faith and your trust. I have grown so much because you put me in a position where I had to be more than I was. I truly hope my performance was at the very least, satisfactory.

You also made me realize the importance of being to paint a story through presentation. Your words, your incredible knowledge and how cultured you are always made everyone and everything more than what it was. I will always be in awe of your conversational prowess and will strive to be more like that. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll be half as articulate as you.

Finally, the dedication you had to the company, the project and especially the people, and how you always took the road less traveled in hopes of bringing them all together, is truly awesome. I read a long time ago that "if you try to please everybody, you will please nobody." Working with you, I have to make an adjustment to that quote:

Do everything in your power to bring everyone together, and if things aren't perfect in the end, rest easy knowing that you nearly accomplished the impossible.

With deepest gratitude,
John L. Tso