To young inspectors, Mr. Gilliland was a mentor, quick with advice, even an embrace, a burly go-to type with 16 years under his belt.
Write a thank-you e-mail or give a quick call when your mentor has done you a favor.
And, as many mentors were quick to say, the bonus did not begin to compensate for the extra efforts they undertook.
But after he finished college, both his father and mentor died in quick succession.
Once your account is activated, go to "Manage Professional Network Profile" under the Quick Links and complete your mentor information there.
Quick to act as a mentor and generous beyond measure, he took personal responsibility for the success of his alma mater and its students.
Prominent universities — including the California Institute of Technology, Cornell, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley — have been quick to sign on, contributing mentors and publicizing the program to students.
Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo police and his retired mentor, Joe Leaphorn, are quick to pick up on the implications for a federal inquiry into some $40 billion in oil revenues that never made it into the Tribal Trust Fund.
Find mentors who can give you quick feedback when you are not sure whether something is important.
She referenced a maxim from her graduate school mentor: "Watch out for the quick fix".
Cultural leaders throughout Baltimore were quick to laud Lazarus as a friend, mentor and reliably straight talker.
