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December 2004, Vol. 1, No. 1| Back Issues of the MBL Monthly
Editor’s Note
You told us and we listened…
Thanks to everyone who responded to the communications office survey earlier this year, I’m pleased to welcome you to the revamped version of the MBL employee newsletter.
What’s different about it aside from its not so new name? The newsletter now features more human interest stories and more news and information about employee- and campus-related issues—all of which our survey respondents ranked as important elements of a staff news vehicle. We are also making the newsletter available both on paper and online, so you can choose how you'd like to read it.
I hope you enjoy the new employee newsletter and encourage you to keep your feedback coming. Your input is important and welcome anytime . . . even when we aren’t conducting a survey.
Here’s wishing you and your family a happy, healthy holiday season!
— Pam Hinkle, Director of Communications
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Meet Rob Loyot — IT Network Manager, 228 Lillie
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If you've had a computer virus, firewall troubles, email, or voicemail hassles, chances are you probably already know Rob Loyot, who joined the MBL last June as our Network Manager. What you may not know is that aside from his impressive technical talents, Rob is also an accomplished musician.
In fact, accomplished is an understatement. A saxophonist who also plays Afro-Cuban percussion, keyboards, and sings backup vocals, Rob has played with or opened for a veritable who's-who-in-pop-music list. Carly Simon, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Dave Mason, Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Meatloaf, and Cheap Trick are just some of folks on the long list of musicians he’s shared the stage with. He's been in numerous bands-from his high school days playing in his father's “Top 40 band” to a more recent stint with the popular Vineyard-based Entrain, and has worked as a studio musician on many occasions.
Rob, who has been playing music since age nine, has straddled the line between musician and technician since graduating from college with a B.S. in Computer Science - Engineering. During his less musical moments, he has worked as a software programmer and network engineer. His pre-MBL job was building “all of the technical systems” for the Cambridge-based Benjamin Banneker Charter School, a math and technology-based school for underprivileged children.
These days, when he’s not improving the MBL’s computer infrastructure or providing those of us who work and do research here with “access to the outside world,” Rob can be found in the place that combines his musical and technical talents: a recording studio called “Noise in the Attic” that he recently built at his Scituate home.
And if you'd rather talk to Rob about music than your computer problems, he suggests keeping your virus software up to date and resisting the urge to open email attachments from people you don't know.
The New Collecting Net is an employee newsletter published by the Communications Office. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Call (508) 289-7423 or e-mail us at
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