Issue date: 3/1/10 Section: News

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Hugh Daubek, a PUC marketing professor, made quite an impression on his colleagues during his time at the university.

"He was one of the kindest people I ever knew," Lori Feldman, the school of management department head, said. "He was always thinking of other people."

On Friday afternoon, Hugh Daubek died at the age of 73. It all began that morning during a school of management faculty research workshop, according to Casimir C. Barczyk, a professor at the school of management .

Daubek left the workshop and called his son to tell him he was not feeling well, according to Barczyk. Shortly after that, the University Police were called who then called an ambulance. Daubek was carried out of the building on a stretcher and died on the way to Community Hospital in Munster.

Many professors were shocked to hear of his death.

"To have someone be fine at 10 and then find out a few hours later that they're gone, you feel a great sense of shock," Barczyk said. "We lost one of our greatest colleagues."

Professor of f inance, Pat Obi, also felt a great sense of loss because they both came to PUC the same school year.

"Hugh came to the university at about the same time as me, 20 years ago," Obi said . "I'm just in a great sense of shock."

For Feldman , it was a mixture of a lot of emotions.

"[My initial reaction] was shock. Shock and fear about what would happen to my friend," Feldman said.

Feldman considered Daubek to be one of her closest friends.

"He was my mentor," she said. "He died doing what he loved best and he always said that he would be carried out of here feet first, so he fulfilled that prophecy ."

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