Worcester Economic Club: William J. Teuber Jr.

Group: Worcester Economic Club

Location: Hogan Campus Center College of the Holy Cross

Speaker: William J Teuber Jr

William J. Teuber Jr., the current Vice Chairman of EMC, joined an illustrious list of notable figures by addressing the membership of the Worcester Economic Club. He shared his insight and personal experiences working in the high paced world of technology. 

After the invocation and introduction by the President of Holy Cross College Father Burrows, William J Teuber Jr. started his lecture by talking about his experiences working for one of the largest technology firms in the world with 21.7 billion in revenues in 2012 and 60,000 employees worldwide. He started his career with EMC as an auditor at Coopers & Lybrand LLP assigned to audit the company. In 1995 he joined EMC as their corporate controller and a year later their CFO. While at EMC he has ridden the technology roller coaster before being appointed to his current position of Vice Chairman in 2006.

Please take the time to listen to this lecture. It is broken into four - 15 minute sections.

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Part 4 of 4

Task(54) – Make a Key Lime Pie from Scratch

(54) – Make a Key Lime Pie from Scratch

While I was at Market Basket getting fruit for some smoothies last weekend I found some real key limes. Having found real key limes made me crave a slice of key lime pie, so I picked up a bag and the rest of the ingredients to whip up my favorite dessert.

The recipe is super easy and it takes just a few ingredients. The shopping list is as follows:

1 (14 Ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
½ cup key lime juice
1 teaspoon grated lime zest
2 egg yolks
1 egg
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
2 egg whites
4 tablespoons white sugar

Step 1: In a medium bowl, blend together condensed milk, lime juice and zest. Mix in Egg yolks and whole egg. Pour mixture into crust, then cover and refrigerate.

Step 2: Preheat oven to 350˚ F 

Step 3: To make Meringue: In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add sugar, continuing to beat until whites form stiff peaks. Spread meringue over pie, covering completely.

Step 4: Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Chill before serving.

Sadly the pictures don’t show how good it tasted. In fact the whole pie is already gone. I did share it with my brother while he was over.

 

Task 64 - Create a Cookbook

While working on my family tree and attempting to compile some family history I knew I wasn’t capturing everything. There is always more to a person than the history books and records can collect. They don’t capture the essence or the personality of a person. Those details are often hard to remember and often forgotten from generation to generation. Sometimes the greatest gifts a person has isn’t something that is recognized as an inheritance because it isn’t monetary. I struggled for a way to try and piece some of those details together but the idea struck me as I sat down for dinner at my parents. 

My mom had made her amazingly delicious corn pudding. While it isn’t a fancy dish it is always included in every holiday meal or special event. I know I had asked my mother before for the recipe but it wasn’t until recently that I discovered its origin.

She hadn’t dreamed it up or adapted it from a cookbook as I had expected. Instead I learned that it was a side dish her mother had always made for her. While my grandmother passed away when I was only four and I don’t remember her I came to the realization that a little piece of her personality and spirit is on the table each and every time my mom makes that dish.

It was then I realized that like my mother I too had memories of meals that she made for me. Those meals where made with love and she has spent countless hours nurturing my body and mind with those delicious dished. 

I decided that before it was too late and those meals were lost or forgotten I would collect and combine those recipes into a family cookbook. I asked my mom for both of my grandmother’s cookbooks and learned that they too had written down recipes from past generations. 

I have digitized and printed a copy for myself, my mother, and my brother so that they those recipes will live on for more generations to come. Rather than have it bound I opted to go with 3 ring binders so that recipe’s can be added.