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20 S U M M E R 2 0 1 6 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I I was very happy to read the first two parts of this series, written by Devendra Cleary CAS, as mentorship has always been very important to me. When I was a grad student at USC, I was lucky that Tom Holman (CAS Career Achievement Award recipient and current Board mem- ber) began his teaching career there, and I was even luckier to be his teaching assis- tant the last year I was a student. After graduating, Bill Varney (former president of the CAS) hired me as a trainee at Universal. After that, I worked in transfer at Danetrax, learning from Dane Davis MPSE, and then onto a feature supervised by Chuck Campbell MPSE. All of these people had strong influences on me in the early part of my career, and I am forever indebted to them. As a professor at CU Denver and previously at USC, I try to give back to my students the same knowledge and guidance that had previously been passed on to me. For this issue, I chose to look at two other members of the current CAS Board of Directors. Peter Devlin CAS is one of the most experienced production sound mixers working today. He has been nominated for the Oscar four times, including Transformers, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Star Trek (2009) and Pearl Harbor, and for the CAS Award four times as well. I started the discussion with a question about how he got into audio and who his own mentors had been. Devlin left St Mary's Christian Brother's School in 1980 in Belfast and applied for an audio trainee assistant position at BBC Northern Ireland. Initially thinking he might move into the camera department, he quickly realized his true interest was in sound. To prepare for the interview, he spent his days in the local library reading as much about microphone principles, recording techniques, and filmmaking that he Peter Devlin CAS (left) and Phil Palmer CAS, together at the 50th Cinema Audio Society Awards. MENTORSHIP b y D a v i d B o n d e l e v i t c h C A S M P S E THE VALUE OF Part 3: Devlin/Palmer Peter Devlin CAS (left) and Phil Palmer CAS,

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